Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-03-27
Minor Items.

The first rail was rolled in the new
iron and steel rolling mills at St. Adams
on Friday afternoon.
-Ex-street car conductor George q.
Dyer has been appointed station and
ticket agent at West Troy for the Rens-
selaer & Saratoga railroad company,
"A correspondent writes to know
'swhat has been done with Fairyguts
statue" We never knew that fairies
had such things.
Sheriff Bacon of Blackstone, Mass,
received a purse of two hundred and
fifty dollars from the owners Of the
horses stolen by Carter, the Vermont
horse thief whom he arrested.
1t is remarkable that every day in
the week is by different nations devoted
to the public celebration of religious
services. Sunday by the Christians,
Monday by the Greeks, Tuesday by the
Persians, Wednesday by the Assyrians,
Thursday by the Egyptians, Friday by
the Turks, and Saturday by the Jews.
The office of II. c. Smith, the new
Superintendent of the Rensselaer, 4 Sa-
ratoga division of the Delaware q Hud-
son Canal Company, as we announced
Yesterday, will be located at Troy. For
wears he was connected with the Erie
railroad as assistant Superintendent at
Elmira. The Troy Times says that 'he
comes to this new position with high
reputation for successful performance
elsewhere in his business as a thorough,
practical and energetic officer and an
estimable citizen. y
The body of Foster was taken from
the Tombs, Friday night, to the resi-
dence of Mrs. Foster, his widow, IN East
Twenty-fourth street. The remains
were inferred Sunday.
T. O. Seaver is about to remove
from Proctorsville to Woodstock, where
he will continue the practice OF law.
George Follett, of Brooklyn, n l..
formerly of Burlington, has been made
a director in the Land Department OF
the Northern Pacific railroad.
The editor of the Courier has beer
interviewing" one Christopher Carter
aims Albert Stone, now in jail in Add
son county for horse stealing lie ao
mitted. so the Courier says, that he stol'
the horse of Mr.. Cain as also that o
Seneca NJ. Dorr. The horse OF tn
former died of horse distemper, Will
that of the latter "backed out OF an opel
door and broke his neck" The buggle
are in the possession of a deputy sherIi
in Massachusetts,.
Col Charles Dillingham;, a Vel
mouter, son of Ex-Governor Paul Dl
bingham, has been renominated as SUI
vevor of the port of New Orleans.
5 We learn that the annual fair of tll
Vermont State Agricultural Society
definitely located at Rutland, for I'll
next three years.
Quill pens, which few years az
were despised as being of the old fog
4 order. are coming into favor again. Tn
is partly owing to the very inferi
;, quality of many of the kinds of ste
pens now in the market; partly to tt
= fact that most writers like to show tn
they are ''sound upon the goose. "
IS An editor of many years experien
said not long since that the man was
l. unborn who could write local item a
:, be perfectly sure that nobody would
offended. People are so sensitive, y
le know! Even if one sounds the pral'
of his Maker, the devil is offended.
lie The latest anniversary out is
er "Sugar Wedding" which couple do
as in Vernon celebrated recently. 1t dou
" less follows close upon the Hon
no Moon"
es An exchange says Brighter d'
Sc are coming. Just think of it. b
h. birds. dandelions, caravans, artiehoR
81 and hand organs, will soon sing, shi
70 scent and shrek that spring has CON
he h. With the present prospects the frient
rs our elbow is justified in exclaim
"When?'
he r o4.o,,nt 70 ren,ove the ice
he Nv yrr,.:. ;o,., :,
i'm the ConhecCicul anu
of dualin has been abandoned, and all
rms ties have fallen back upon Providel
IN rather than expend $4,000 and all
- haps to no purpose. The ''dualin
,aI wonderful substance" nevertheless
tcy ice jam remains at the junction,
eed channels are not cleared, and the
ned has not gone on its way to the sea,
''ng it will not go, until a power far gre
than ''duelin," is brought to bear |
it.
g We invite attention to the advel
the ment in another column OF Me
orv' Flagg. King s. Brakeman, OF l
of Ny. They are extensive and rel
he dealers in carpets, oil cloths and
I u tains.
ard WEIGH and Newcomb's Minis
aged play in Rutland, at the Opera Ill
e at on Monday and Tuesday evenings
he Newcomb is veteran in the mil
3 ba business.
'alti- The Selectmen of Rutland will
7nsa- at their office in the Town Hall TO
y II, TRANSACTION ol ooo,n0''' - Vt,
tain. the forenoon, on the second Thurs
the every month during the year.
,,ond Frederick A. Sharpe, once 0
time Troy's leading merchants and a
mean nent politician, but of late reside
RS on New York city, is now an inmate
oeclal Marshall Infrrnary, having become
lessly insane.