Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-05
THURSDAY, JUNE 8, 1878.
Minor Items.
C,oor weather to-day.

Clear weather to-day.
SIM sets tonight at 1888; rises to-
arrow morning at 4;24.
'n''' Ahout July, a new postal car ser
-. will be established between Bur
r,rtor and Boston, over the Vermont
la9 This, doubtless, has reference
.he nroposed new arrangement for the
,,to, cars over the Rutland line. The
PTarmont Central line proper already has
the postal cars
The committee of arrangements for
Ala coming celebration and Inauguration
f,be Ethan Allen statue, at Burlington,
- the Fourth of July next, have ap-
W. ,ainted Gen. Geo. P, Foster, U. 5. Mar
rE,I Of Vermont, as Marshal in Chief of
the Day.
The worst features of the present
GUNNER styles is the amount of material
.,nt into toilet. The skirt is long, the
Ppaol, often trimmed with fiounces to the
',,aist the sides are filed in with long
.,bs or sashes, and the front breadths
Mass Of side plaitings laid lengthwise, or
LONGITUDINAL pufings. No designs can be
nonceiyed better adapted to use up
Quantities of costly material and deprive
tbe wearer of all claim to sense or taste.
A grand opening festival is to be
,,iven At the Bomoseen House this even
;,c The many friends of Mr.. Collins
i, this vicinity will be there in great
,rmbers. Williams cornet band fur
isbes music for the occasion, and Jerry
lewis furnishes the ice cream, and has
General charge of the dining room. A
nlpssant time is anticipated.
A leather satchel was found floating
IN the river at Albany Sunday. 1t con-
tanned several letters from ''Boston Cor
hatt.o the soldier who shot J. Wilkes
Rooth. These letters were from White
Creek. Washington county, Ballston
soa. aud other points. The police, after
CAREFUL Investigation found the owner OF
,bp property at Rose Dexters, on South
Ferry street. She is a woman about
tsr,v wears old. The Albany Knjcd
..vs 'hcr conduct is remarkable, anc
-l- .gould be looked after"
"A gauug man driving a milk Wagon
along a Rutland street, yesterday, morn
ing saw what he thought was an empty
.arr,l in the road, and he ran his wager
over il to hear the crash. The barre
5.,,p,nrd to be full of cement, and hi
.Nagon went over, he went out, the cans
followed, the horse ran away, and thu
manages will amount to two weeks sal
airy.
Dark streets, rowdyism and disgust
ed citizens are the most plentiful thing
IN he net with in Rutland now-a-nights
After July 1st new postage stamp
come in, bearing profles and color
thus. cent, Franklin, blue; 2 cent
rolGson, brown; 3 cent, Washington
groor g cent, Lincoln, red 2 cent
Sror,o, ~u!lion; 10 cent, jefferson
chocolate. u c@ut, Clay, purple l
cent. Webster, orange "a cent scout 0
50 cent, Hamilton, black /; W CENT rei
ry, carmiue.
A Chittenden farmer scouts the lue
of taking a newspaper at two whole do.
lars and half a year, and posts a motto
ga the school house that so hoggs he
.strade or bin stoolen" from him
A postal card was received by
Rutland young man yesterday, inform
ing him that his "churt was dun" an
"he Good cum and git it," bit "shudder
cum thout 10 cints, as she did the la:
time" He thinks the tendency of pos
taI cards is to reveal the privacies {
domestic affairs to too wide a circle. II
Cont feel so bad, however, as the ma
whose wife got one from the post Office
reading thus
DEAR -:-Must come tonight
there will be a fuss. Don't forget wis
Won were directed to bring. Your To-
my curly-headed n.
lie hasn't been enjoying domestic te
icity since that day and is rapidly grow
'ng bald
We saw at the Berwick Hotel, la
ri,bt . ring of trout that would mai
the mouth o,f any epicurean waite
They numbered y~enty-six' and Welgn'
twelve pounds! This eXcep''onally L,
catch of fish was taken W, S'e'"%y W =
Bruce and Boushee, of the Io'' " l.
Good fishermen, they.
Last week three-year-old child,
sing on Factory street, Cohoes, wit
seeming deliberation, cut his throat wit
a sharp piece of tin. The cash wa
wide and deep, but the child will IT
cover.
There was marble-dealer in tow
yesterday from Texas, purchasinga SUI
ply of Rutland marble.
Hon. E. Rosekrans, of Glens Fall
has Just complated sale of one und
yided quarter of his iron mine in Essf
county, N. Y, to VIM. Butcher, OF She
field, Eng, for $25O,oOO.
Captain Morris Dean, of the can
boat Arabia, of Whitehall, while pollil
his boat, Tuesday afternoon, in the lit
basin at Albany, missed his footing al
fell overheard, and narrowly escap
drowning. He was rescued by Jol
Shields, who jumped overheard aft
him.
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