Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-04-11
Minor Items.

Gen. ii. Henry baxter mas bech
spending a few days in town. He IS
cordially greeted by hosts of friends,
whenever he appears ON our streets.
Col Geo. A. Merrill and family
have returned and are again settled in
their old home. much to the qualification
of their large circle of friends.
One of the great wants of Rutland
is a public library,
The olden times Fast Day was
the day for the initiation of the foot ball
season, and contestants were plentj.
Fewer fish than usual have been
caught this winter on account of the Sc
verify of the weather.
Sheriff Perry of Portland, Maine,
has notified the keeper of every rum
shop, ale and cider store hotel and
apothecary in the city that the liquor
law would be impartially and fearlessly
enforced. The liquor dealers pretend
to be satisfied with with the situation
I provided no partiality be shown.
William Dean Howells, editor of the
AtIantih Magazine, married a daughter
Of the late Hon. Larkin G.. Mead of
Brattleboro, and a sister of the sculptor
Mead.
The Hartford item stating that the
Vermont Central railroad use 400,0 900
feet of Connecticut chestnut lumber in
making fiat bottomed cars, is slightly
incorrect, inasmuch as the said company
only use ten thousand feet per month,
and none of that Is ever put into flat
bottom car or brought from Copnecti-
cut.
The mean temperature of the month
of March, as reported by the observer
of the United States signal service at
Burlington was 1878 The fall of the
month was Is, and the prevailing wind
south.
Springfield, Mass, has become the
great eastern market for the sale of
Western horses. Six car loads have al
ready been received this sp,ing Prices
vary from $3.50 to 5000 and 81, 900 ac-
cording to the grade of the animals.
Visitors at the Masonic Temple at
Troy, on Tuesday, were much amused
/ at the spectacle of two large goats in a
wooden cage which were placed in an
upper room for inspection. Everybody
had previously enquired for the goats, "
and to satisfy the enquiry the animals
were placed on exhibition.
Vermont has 1850 Welsh inhabi-
tants.
Some sections are seriously suffer
ing from horse thieves.
Navigation will be resumed on the
/ Delaware and Hudson on the 8th of
April.
The Hudson River Railroad have re-
duced the tariff on freight to summer
rates. t. .-.
The Saratoga Sam is published by
A. S. Pease, and the CohOes Cataract
is published by William Bean.
/ Gen. Edward H. Ripley has re-
turned from his extended Western tour.
1t costs fifteen dollars to beat a
horse in Brooklyn. 1t ought to cost
man in Rutland more than that who
beat his horse, on Thursday, because
the horse could not draw out a large
load of wood stuck fast in mud hole
Butter making associations are be
ing inaugurated in western New York
Some folks talk as if they expected
a regular Noah's flood this spring.
Farmers don't think much of THU
as maple sugar weather.
Through the generosity OF Rev. "
H. H. Murray, their former townsman
the farmers of Guilford, Conn. are t
have course of lectures on agriculture
, the first of which was given by DIR. Geo
B. Loring, President of the New En-
gland Agricultural Society.