Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-02-27
Minor Items.


County Court commences next Tuesday.
To-day, February 9th, will be OBJ
served as day of prayer for schools,
colleges, and other seminaries of learn
ing.
In the United States Circuit Court,
at Burlington, yesterday, committee
of the bar was appointed to present reso-
buttons on the resignation of Judge Mel
son.
The making of maple sugar has
commenced; at least, we judge so, as
two persons have reported themselves as
sick from eating the new article.
Otis D. Smith, son of Hon Oliver
Smith, of New Haven, and graduate
of the University of Vermont, has been
appointed professor of applied mathe-
mates" at the Georgia Agricultural Col
lege, Auburn.
-Alonzo Gates has purchased the no
tel building and furniture of the Valley
Hotel, at Middlotown, and win take pos
StS>lOil vi inc IOill VI hdECH.
An exchange has discovered that pet
and other names may be utilized For
sports wife, Betty; for lawyers
wife, Sue for Transfers wife, Carrie :;
for a shoemakers wife, Peggy; for an
auctioneer's wife, Bid-dy; for a chem
lists wife, Ann Eliza; the wife of a
Credit Mobilier Congressman, Lie!
The Rondout Freeman says 'sMr
Samuel Williams, the oldest printer in
the country hereabouts, walked into our
office on Monday, as spry as a cricket,
and set /, 600 ems for the Greeley monu-
ment. He is eighty-four years old and
started the Bennington Ne1os Letter in
1919, and after serving on the Albany
Argus for five years, started the Orange
Farmer. He set his /, 900 ems in two
hours, which is doing well for man of
his age"
The Middlebury Register says: eve
have had venison and buffalo meat and
grasshopperS and other luxuries of the
season. but the latest acquisition to our
/ cabinet are butterflies, with the snow
three feet deep, Mrs. Rice of Middle
bury, and Mr.. p. B. Rice, of Cornwall,
have them in quantities to suit"
A horse trot and dog fight upon
Monkton pond, formed the amusement
for three or four hundred citizens of
that vicinity, one day last week. 1t is
believed that the crowd didn't 90 en-
tircly dry on that interesting occasion.
Any city or village containing a
population of twenty thousand or more
may now have letter carriers.
The mixtcd train between Keene
and Bellows Falls, Friday, was some
fifteen hours in going twenty-five miles
Vermont and Canada railroad stock
is selling at sixty cents.
Rutland railroad scrip sold in Bos-
ton, Tuesday, for eighty-seven and a
half cents.
The switch engine clarendon" is
off the track on the draw-bridge at Bur
lington. 1t lays on its side and trains
are compelled to carry by" A wreck
train went from here last night, with n.
l.. Davis, the master mechanic of the
division, to remove it.
The serious charge is brought against
a San Francisco schoolmaster that he
caryes his lunch with pocket knife and
eats Jelly with his fingers. The people
want to know if man who conjugates
his food in that way is fit to be principal
of grammar school.
Tuesday nights express train from
Boston. over the Rutland railroad, ar
/ rived here about eleven o'clock yester-
! day morning, some ten hours behind
time
The bonds of which Vice President
Colfax was robbed in Washington, Sat
urday, were recovered in Baltimore.
A new convert to teetotalism. in
this State, offers to give up the liquor
business if his fellow citizens will as
sumo part of the loss.
Yesterday, being Ash Wednesday,
was observed with appropriate religious
services IN the Episcopal and Catholic
/ churches.
john Campbell and George Knights,
| conductors on the Rensselaer, g. Sarato-
ga railroad, have rendered their resigna-
tions. The new administration cannot
supply their places with better men, and
their absence viii be felt by the travel
ing public.
The Rutland & Washington mail
train was an hour late yesterday after
noon.