Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-04-10
Minor E1cnaS.
Jamaica, April 4.

C. d. Spooner, of Rutland, has sold
his black horse Med" to a New York
gentleman for upwards of $1,000.
The mail train from the east ran
over and killed a COW just north of the
fair ground crossing in Rutland, on
Saturday. The COW belonged to Michael
Stevenson.
A respectable citizen of Rutland
being told by his medical adviser that he
must wear thicker boots, replied that
when a fellow has to walk through so
much water, pumps would be more APP
propriate.
Anna E. Dickinson, SO well known
and appreciated by the lecture goers of
Rutland, is advertised to lecture in
Georgia as ''Col. Anna Dickinson.
Rev. E. NJ. Haynes, formerly chap
lain of the Tenth Vermont Volunteers, a
son-in-law of David f. Nicholson, of
Rutland. who in the winter resigned his
paStorato of the First Baptist church in
Lewiston, Maine, on he last Sabbath
morning in March, renewed his resigna-
ton, though earnestly requested by the
parish to withdraw it.
The auction sale of building lots
advertised to come off in Rutland on
Saturday was, on account of the weather,
postponed after the sale of fifteen lots,
to Saturday, April 10. The lots sold
averaged a little over 5000 each.
ID. Doolittle, of New York, win
open the Montvert House, at Middle
ton Springs, VT, June LIST, for summer
guests.
Col. n. 7. Sprague, of Brandon, will
expend about fifty thousand dollars in
enlarging the present extensive works of
the Brandon Scale Company, and adding
new machinery. The works are driven
to their capacity Orders from Cali
fornia, Japan, and distant countries are
on their books, which help increase the
widespread reputation and sale OF these
popular scales.
Rev. James L. Slason, of Ticonder-
oga, formerly of Rutland, will retire
from the ministry at the next session of
the Troy Conference. He has bought
an interest in the hardware store. Dur
ing the past winter he has been made
the recipient of two or three liberal do
nations, besides present of SO, 900 from
his father
We have been shown real wonder
provoking curiosity. Mr. Clark, of
Walpole, N. H., gathered some apples
together one day last fall, and night
coming on, had to leave the pile till
next morning. In the morning they
were covered with snow, and thinking
them worthless, Mr.. Clark left them. ]
Now, after having laid ont all winter, it
proves that they are in excellent condi-
ton, not being frozen or having rotted
at all. This may suggest way for
keeping the fruit.
yesterdays sunshine would give one
the cheering hope that springs ETHEREAL
and all that had really come.
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been disappointed time or two.
DR. E. S. Fitch, who was injured so
seriously in the Shushan accident, is
of Congress Hall, the noted
hotel, located at Sheldon, this
State. We learn that he is improving
rapidly.
The engine jay Could which
drew the Inflated train on the Rutland
and Washington railroad, Saturday
night, March 80, appears to be an UNI
fortunate machine. About the beginning
of her career she made headlong plunge
into the Hudson, off the long bridge at
Troy when the draw was open The
number of men killed by this engine
cannot be remembered by any one man.
Conductor e. S. Mcclure, it proves,
was injured somewhat at the railroad
accident at Bennington. 1t is reported
to US that he vomited considerable blood
the night after the accident. but was
better yesterday.