Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-11
Minor Items.

Shortest days of the year.
-shoyels are not trumps now.
Only few days more of 1878.
The present" time is in the near
future.
This years product of tobacco falls
A only six per cent Potatoes, how
.cer suffer a diminution of fifteen per
,snt,-which is censoling to those of
n, who can better spare our necessities
than our Injuries. 49,.
The working force in the Port Hen
~ iron mines has been reduced from
ts00 to 800 employees.
A Burlington man, with new boots,
who accepted an invitation to remain all
ojgbt at the house of his inamorata, was
obliged to steal out of the place at an
c,rIy hour next morning and pick his
oay over an extremely muddy road in
his stockinged feet, carrying his boots
uadar his arm.
The fact that 1874 is near ut hand is
IMPRESSED on us by the presentation of
Na,,rs. futile 81 Co.'s calendar for the
coming year. 1t is handsomely printed
No i've colors and in gold, on heavy
board, and altogether presents a very
neat appearance.
Francis Fem & Co., have, among
other things in their Christmas stock,
curious piece of mechanism, like unto
small bear, who goes through an enter
tanning variety of motions, when melted
thereto by winding him up with key.
Like A. Wards bear, he is an "amoozin'
little kuss, and it will pay to call and
.rt him.
Fifteen pounds of dried apples is
Me minimum charge of the Randolph
Glgt tor a frst-class marriage notice.
oao with poetry costs more.
The next annual meeting of the
Vermont State Temperance Society will
ehcld ut Waterbury, on Wednesday,
December II, 1878.
From the New Haven market was
shipped last week 4, 200 pounds of but
ter, 2,215 pounds of poultry, 10 barrels
Of beans. The price of butter was
from 90 to 30 cents, and poultry 10 cents
per pound.
Batter sold at Richmond on Mon
LAY at 2O@25c for fair; 28@30c for
good; 30@33c for choice. Cheese
Skim milk cheese, G@8c; farm diaries,
lOallc; Mason factory chedder, 1850;
Mason factory plain, t4c.
The State Board of Agriculture will
hold a meeting at East Charlotte (Bap-
list Corners, on the 9th and 7th of Jan
Uary 1874. Farmers of the adjoining
towns are invited TO attend.
The lowest temperature we see re-
ported in this State, for the late cold
Monday in November, was at Lyndon,
where the mercury stood at 33 degrees
below zero. 1t was lower yet at Ian
caster, N. III.
A meeting of New England patent
ees, patent owners, and all persons in
lsrested in business done under patents,
viii be held in Mechanics Hall, Boston,
December 10, 1878, at - m. The OBJ
jet of the meeting will be to form an
association to protect the interests of in
yentors, and those engaged in developing
patents.
AT Justice Court, holden at Claren-
don Flats, on Tuesday last, before Justice
B. w. Marshall, of Rutland, four young
men named Taylor, Tower, Eddy and
Stafford, were fined 1894 each for dis
turbing a religious meeting at West
Clarendon, recently. Two of the young
men have been fined before for this
same thing.
A young lady in New Haven has
the initials, Y. NJ. G. A, engraved on
one corner of her visiting cards, which
she hands to certain gentlemen visitors.
At first they suppose she belongs to the
Young Mems Christian Association, but
it is not long before they rightly con-
strue the letters to mean "You May
Come Again"
The Etna Life Insurance Company,
through Harry w. Nye, agent, paid on
last week Wednesday, to Mrs. John L.
Eddy of this village, $1,000, being the
amount of an insurance policy on the
life of her deceased husband.
We regret to learn that the wife of
Col. NJ. S. Colburn, of Factory Point, is
quite sick.
Assistant Surgeon James W. Buell.,
of Vermont, writes from his ship, the
Wyoming, which has gone to Santiago,
that the war fever runs high in the
navy, nobody else so highly approaching
the protecting power of the flag and the
necessity for its inviolability as those
who sail the high seas.
F. /. Jones, of Hubbardton, Vt,
the young man who mysteriouslY disap-
peared from Schaghticoke some time
ago, has been found. He went to New
York Oct 25, stopped at the Libby
Hotel, and in the morning was found
dead, having shot himself. He has been
identified. He was buried in the Potter's
field until exhumed by request of Q. F.
Hurlbut, of Middlebury, vt.
John Plumley, the man who was
injured by the kick of horse a few
days ago, died yesterday NOR ming at his
residence ON Washington street. The
physician could not account for his sud
den death unless he was injured intern
ally, although Inflammation had set in
and would probably eventually have
carried him off. The surgeon did his
work skilfullY, andIshad the jaw set so
That the man could articulate quite dis
unctly. He was watching the case with
much interest, as it was very peculiar
one. He expected that, if the man had
lived, the bone of the jaw would knit
together and orou info shave o~a;