Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-14
Minor Items.

Sun sets tonight at 7:O2; rises to-
morrow morning at 5:07
-Nickwackett came out for practice
last night. The boys made the Old
"mrrhinp' hum, and proved that both
can DO good work. We expect them to
dra.a rnjzr al Bennington, Saturday
They threw 200 feet and inches last
Might wr hear.
Mr. j. II. Remington advertised
house to rent, some little time ago, in
the HERALD. After be had let it to a
person who had seen the advertisement,
he was applied to by over twenty other
HERALD readers, several of them calling
u1on him in the morning before he was
up. He had to order the notice out, so
that he might get some sleep.
The Ninth Annual Fair of Crown
Point and Bridport Farmers and Me
cbanics Association, will be held at
Crown Point, N. Y, Wednesday and
Thursday, Sept II and IS, 1878.
Two hundred and twenty boxes of
cheese were shipped from Shoreham
yesterday morning. How is that for "a
country where they raise nothing but
sberp,'
There are many ways CT shaking
hands, and most of them are disagree
able ones. There is the fishy way, the
snuhbing way, the pumping way, and
the hearty way. A great many deem
the hearty way the preferable one; it
may be so-we hope it is; and yet we
must say that when a friend is so glad
to see you that he brushes your hand in
his Joy, and renders you incapable of
manual labor for eleven years, it is near
ly time that friendship should become a
lost sentiment.
Mrs. r. r. Kinsman, of this village,
sent into the HERALD office, yesterday,
two ripe figs, grown on her premises on
Chestnut avenue, and not under glass.
We have never noticed this before in our
observations in this climate.
The Catholics of WaIlingford will
have a picnic at that place on Friday of
this week, for the benefit of the church.
The Rutland brass band will he in at
tendance and good time is expected.
Among the attractions at Benning-
ton to-day will be a match game of ball
between nine half-grown Modocs of
Bennington and nine "big iniuns" from
this town We hope the boys won't get
"modoccd, for they come home looking
so shccpish after they have been beaten
There will be ''social hop at the
village hall this evening. The floor man
ayers will be appointed by the audience.
The order of dances is an attractive list
and a good time is anticipated. The
Rutland quadrille band furnishes the
music and a onc-dollar greenback pays
for the ticket.
An irate man of POultuey, who was
disappointed in his boots, threatened to
eat up the shoemaker, but compromised
by drinking a cobbler.
Some one calls the time of squeezing
the girls hands ''the palmy season of
life Would that these pal,1y seasons
Of life would come oftener, and in great
cr abundance.
The building adjoining the new
Catholic church is being enlarged and
remodeled, with view to making it
pastoral residence. The old church, on
Meadow street, just vacated, is being
made over into a school, to supply the
place of the one transformed into a
priests house. The house now occupied by
Rev. Father Boylan will probably be
occupied by the sisters of charity, who
are coming here from Brooklyn to teach
in the schools attached to st. Peters
church.
-Aman, who may be numbered among
the oldest inhabitants" of Rutland,
went home fom saloon after twelve
o'clock the other night, trying to sing,
"Ill never kiss my love again, behind
the kitchen door" His singing was sad
y interrupted upon his arrival home, as
his love met him at the kitchen door,
and kissed him with the poker for few
minutes. The philosophical question as
to the comparative hardness of the cram
ium and poker was settled in favor of
the poker. This Individual viii not sing
about kissing his love behind the kitch-
en- door, for some considerable time.
An exchange says that five printers
On the St. Louis Times won $400 in the
Louisville lottery. Such circumstance
Is without parallel in history. Five
printers with four hss,adred dollars 1t
sounds like tale in the days of ro-
nance.
An excursion and picnic was in
dulged in yesterday by the Sabbath
schools from Brandon and Whiting. An
extra train, In charge of Conductor Geo.
Knight, so favorably known on the Adj
olson road, took the party to Ticonder-
oga, where they spent the day in ex-
ploring the historic grounds of the sold
Tort" INDUCING in variety of innocent
amusements, and enjoying themselves