Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-05-22
Minor Items
Ascension Day to-day.

Ascension Ddy to-uay'
Cloudy and rainy weather to-day.
Sun sets tonight at 7:21 ; rises to-
morrow morning at ABB.
The Continental Ferrotype Gallery,
OIL Center street, Rutland, is selling
oictnre frames and ferrotypes at low
rates, See advertisement in another
column.
We print this morning the first OF
series of letters, over the signature
anglo" written by Rev. Mr.. Mills,
from Europe.
-Fortv-five thousand seven hundred |
and ciahtv-one balances, great and small,
were manufactured by the Fairbanks
Scale Company last year.
House flies have made their appear
spce. despite the chilly weather,
Rutland Railroad scrip No. sold
IN Boston, Tuesday, for ninety-sevcn
and a-balf cents; No. for ninety-fve
and a-half, and No for ninety-two and
a-half cents.
A large fire was raging, through the
d,v Yesterday, and last night, on the
mountain northeast of this village.
MIR. James G. Smith, the prgsentSu-
norintendent of the Franklin Telegraph
Co.. has been appointed General Super
iptendcnt of the entire consolidated op
nosition wires from Boston to San Fran
cisco.
An ingenious farmer in this county
has utilized the destructive, and bent the
scratching power Of hens to the aid OF
agriculture He places hen, with
chickens, in "A long, narrow cage, Just
yiJ, enough to fit in between two rows
If uotafocs. wherein she scratches to
her hearts content. The cage is moved
along the space between the rows until
rhcrromd has been thoroughIyscratched
over, and the potatoes nicely hoed, and
ali the bugs eaten.
Under the new law all assessors
ceased to exist officially yesterday, and
from this date collectors only administer
Internal revenue matters. In few
cases. where the bonds of the new col
Inctors are not accepted, the present col
Irctors continue.
A vessel has just made its first tril
from Ticonderoga to Whitehall propelled
NV an immense stern wheel. The vince
is in appearance like the old oversize
,yotcrwheel. and is attached to the stern
Of the boat by frame work OF timber
standing above the water about eigh
feet and worked by the engine.
Tile Congregational parsonage, a
Pawlet stands empty, which has no
been the case for number of years.
minister will be hired in a few weeks
so there will be signs Of life again in tn
parsonage grounds.
-Barnum's great Worlds Fair wi
exhibit in Rutland on June IA. MIR.
A. Tinkham, the advance agent is
Town. and is engaged in an active scare
for ground large enough to put up II
Iarne number of tents necessary to a
commodate the show.
Five men were arrested, yesterda.
for intoxication and breach OF the peace
three of them We're found guilty al
fined. one was discharged, and the hea
ing in the other case continued for tv
weeks.
DIR. S. w. Smyth has performed
successful operation on John McMann'
this place, for strabismus or cross ey
of several years standing, caused
smallpox.
As man named Patrick Tracy w
crossing the track of the Lake Chan
plain and Moriah railroad, at Mineyil
Tuesday, with bundle of hay on
back, his foot slipped and he fell in gu
a manner that the locomotive j.
Brainsmaid, which was approachlr
ran over one leg, cutting off the 10"
portion.