Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-10
Minor Items.
Fast Day tomorrow.
Man advertises, then realizes.
To-day Is Maundy Thursday

The County Court, yesterday ana
.c,.slay was occupied with the ordi-
n,r, routine court business.
Cantain Cornelius H. Forbes, of
p,,Iqpd. an officer of the Fifth Vermont
vo,npteers, was elected member of the
.Fy.Odicers Association " at Troy,
Tuesday evening.
The Hudson River RailrC ad Com
many have reduced their tariff on freight
to summer rates.
-Iohn D. Smith, now and for many
wears town clerk of Waterbury, was
iognd dead in his bed, Monday night.
-R,y. Edwin Wheeler, pastor of the
CONGREGATIONAL Church at Cambridge,
for the past twenty years, is soon to
Lovr FOR California in pursuit of better
health.
Stopping advertising in dull times is
N,, tearing out a dam because the water
is low.
Leicester claim one hundred and
twrntv-,ix days of good sleighing during
The past winter
John D. Stanley, for many years
eoo4, ,ctor on the Western Vermont
rsirr.ad, and latterly on the Rensselaer,
onJ S,rsfoga railroad, has resigned his
nosition. and has opened in Rutland
new branch Of business for our town
that is. the manufacturing and bottling
or soda and sarsaparilla water. We
hone he will succeed See his.adyer-
tls.mcnt in another column.
Five car loads of sheep were shipped
from Leicester Junction, recently, by
Mcssrs. Dyer, Holmes, Parker and
Ellsworth. They were full blood Meri-
nos. carefully selected from some of the
st Aocks in Addison county. This
shipment was destined for the Pacific
coast.
-Hitchcock's wholesale fruit office
has been moved to the basement room OF
-, National Bank of Rutland building,
a,,,o. 'to the depot.
D., nd Railroad scrip sold In Bos-
,., r, ,',," for eighty.four cents,
,tnoo% 70 lay, the committee OF
five bar viii WIFI re nv . the County Court
the action of the bar on VIC ' e,'aa, y.
Hon Ebenezer N. Briggs. u Is 5
ed that appropriate addre. Ses VIII be
made.
Under law, passed at the last SEES
sion of the Legislature, the State treas
urrr has prepared and printed tabu-
lar statement showing the amount due
from the State of Vermont to soldiers in
the late war for the suppression of the
rebellion" This statement can be found
at the several town and county clerks
Offices in the State, where it is " to be
kept by such officer "to be referred to
by any person. ="
1t is said that a company has leased
OF the New York Central and Hudson
River railroad the exclusive privilege of
the depots for the purpose of conveying
the baggage of passengers to and from
the cars.
Miss Emma Call, the first female
graduate of Michigan University, has
been offered 5000 a year and her'ex-
penscs to tell what she knows in a Japan
scho0l-house.
The mistake of a druggist has
killed a man in Portland, Maine, and the
Maine State Press says it suppresses
names, as the public interest does not
seem to demand their publication"
When that laundering druggist has
killed three or four more men the State
Press may begin to realize that the pub
lie, after all, does have some interest In
knowing who he is.
The Augusta (Ga) ConstitaSttonaIist
Dem does not agree with the Chicago
Tribune that the Democratic party, "the
great party of the people" is defunct.
There are quite number of other Demo
cratic papers, some of them in Vermont,
that have expressed themselves in the
same way. But it has been an axiom,
in politics, for quarter of century,
that the Democratic party could not
learn anything.
"A. s. Cook, of Brandon, has been
appointed chief marshal for the next
annual fair of the Vermont State Agri-
cultural society.
4 railroad between Lake George
srdIo,,o 0hamplain will be built the
coming summer. -,
Royal Houghton, an old New York
merchant, formerly conn, @c'eu w" 'i'e
banking and brokerage bushes IL 4No"
York city, died of diphtheria at :. Au-
justine, Fla, on the 22d ult. He ,~as
born at Guilford, in this State, February
u, 1893, and took up his residence in
New York in 1888.
The Kansas City Ne,os reports that
a man is now wandering about the
streets Of that city, ragged, dirty and
pennilcss, subsisting on free lunches and
the charity of gamblers, who during the
war was one of the most dashing cavalry
officers of the Union army, and at its
close held the rank of brevet Major
General. He conceals his identity under
an assumed name, and his present
Indebtedness has been brought about by
intemperance.
A crowd of young lads took posses
sion of the Fourth Ward school house,
in Troy, Sunday, where they amused
themselves playing cards. An officer,
hearing noise in the building, went in,
and the boys made their escape through
various windows, leaving the cards be-
hind them, which were duly captured by
the officer.
Hiram Skeels of Highgate, has re-
ceived the appointment of United States
Consular Agent at Stanbridge, P. @