Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-03
Minor Items.
49, Rain again last night.
rnn davs more Of Lent.

49, Rain again last ulBnl'
Ten days more of Lent.
A dark, unpleasant day yesterday,
The Springfield Republican says:
CONGRESSMAN Willard, of Vermont, like
tho honest man and level-headed poll
tician every one knows him to be, re-
fn.as to soil his fingers with stolen
money. No back pay" for him, he
says.
Charles Randall, mail agent, Rut-
ropd. c. II. Mccoy, Salem, and M.
stevens. Shushan, were on board the
Inflated train at the Shushan accident,
oai il has been reported to US, worked
like heroes in aiding the injured and
caring for the dead.
1t Will be seen by an advertisement
IN another column that p. S. Ryan has
taken into partnership with himself his
son. John Q. Ryan, and the business
heretofore conducted by the father, will
now be continued by father and son,
under the firm name of Ryan & Son.
We wish the new firm abundant success.
-Saloouitics and bumme"a generally
are around the corners and sunny spots
in full force now a-days They have at
last come forth from their alternating
winter quarters-around the stoves in
hotels and saloons. Now is just the
time I'd 20 Wet
A contemporary says cit is astonish-
ng TO note the exhiirating influence of
genuine day of sunshine All creation
smiles. and even mankind seem in har-
mouv with nature" Nobody has been
"astonishrd' much about here yct.
A woman, who leaped upward to
hang an article of clothing upon a hook
in the ceiling of the kitchen, caught a
ring on one of her fingers in the hook
anil hung there, her feet not touching
the floor, till her very piercing screams
brought assistance. If you are short
person, don't wear rings.
The thinncat thing these days is the
India rubber ovcrshoe. The soles are
like common hlottiug paper soaked with
coal FAR. Their average wear is one
week If they are kept carefully out of
the sun aud water In the language of
the q7uin they are "too thin"
The Delaware and Hudson Canal
Cnmu1nv viii soon erect large foun-
,l-y on Grnan Island for the purpose of
m4kieg the rpsti1es used in manufacture
inc -tacl< for the Rensselaer, and Sara
togt railroad company.
Six new express cars have been or
dcred hy the National Express Company,
TO rru from New York to Montreal,
with passenger trains
Hon Charles Reed, of Montpelier,
ms' before his death, came into posses
Sion of q rare book, it being an account
of the trial and conviction of Matthew
Lyon. in 1895, for "disloyalty,N under
the alien and sedition law, and his i'm
prisoomcnt in the jail at Vergcnnes.
This copy is supposed to be the only
one of this book eXtant
A city contemporary says; "Ver-
mont forgets all the hardships of the
past winter in iublation over its maple
sugar season, and cheerfully asks, what's
the odds so long as it's sappy ?" Never
thelcss it hasn't been very "sappy' even
this late. ...
We commiserate our Whitehall
friends. The water in the creek has
risen some three feet, and fears are en-
tertained of heavy freshet, which may
be liable to do considerable damage in
the hirbor, the ice in the creek being un-
usually thick.
The CooIzville Slate Mill. in Hyde
Vile, is being rebuilt.
The storm of Saturday having
swelled the streams and endangered rail
road bridges. Superintendent Frank G..
White sent a pilot engine over the Har-
lem Extension from Bennington to
Chatham early Sunday morning to test
the track before the milk train passed
over the road. This is an excellent idea
and should be universally put into prac-
tice.
The Brattleboro Spiritualist who is
finishing Edwin brood gives out that
the great novelist cleared $225,000 du-
ring his last visit to this country.