Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-17
Minor Items.

HCAt tIIS b1'5ehNS SOA.AA~N
ers are to be Gen. Stephen Thomas,
Montpelier Col, John w. Newton, st.
Adams; Gen. w. Y. w. Ripley, Rut-
land; Gen. w. w. Henry, Burlington,
and Gen. T. o. Seaver, Woodstock.
Everything points to grand rally OF the
soldiery of Vermont, and with the hearty
cooperation of all, this can easily be ac-
complished.
The St. Adams Messenger and
number of other State papers, have pub
lished in their columns the State debt as
amounting to 1882, 500. The Massa-
chusetts, New York and other papers
have caught up this item, and the State
debt is quoted throughout the country
as equal to the above amount. We
would refer all of these papers to the ar
ticle in our issue of July Sd, headed,
''The Financial Condition of Vermont, )"
in which we show that our State debt
amounts to but $515, 500.
The views of the late Horace Gree
lev on life insurance are printed in an
other column in an advertisement of Mr..
Granger, agent of the Mutual Life In
surance company of New York. 1t
seems that Mr.. Greeley held policy in
this great and successful company, a
statement of which is given.
Mr.. Cole, from Boston, General
Agent of the London Royal Fire Insu-
rance Company, is spending the sum
mer with his family at the Clarendon
House, Clarendon Springs. ~M
The Green Mountain House, Claren-
don Springs, under the new manage
ment of F. w. Pierce, is prospecting.
The house now has twenty-five board
erS.
Patrick Comerford, for long time
a faithful baggage-mast', with Conduc-
tor weatherley, and erwards a con-
ductor on a mixed r. a between Salem
and Rutland, has p :, we are pleased
to state, promoted a a nov is running a
passenger trair b.tween Troy and
Whitehall. Gse .ne 81 for him.
A hen own q Mr.. Cooper, of
Mechanicsyille. s,& an egg this week
measuring over six inches round the
short circumference and nine round the
large circumference. This hen must be
a relative of the hen that laid the goose
eggs on the editorial table Of the
HERALD some time ago.
1t is our painful duty to announce
the death of John L. Eddy. He died
on Saturday morning. His funeral will
be attended at his late residence Monday
at one o'clock p. m. Mr.. Eddy was the
only brother of w. S. Eddy, Esq, of
Whitehall. He has been a resident and
engaged in business in Rutland for over
twenty years He had many friends
and will be missed in this community.
Hiram L. Cheney, Esq, had fit
Monday morning, and his friends were
seriously alarmed about him, but we are
glad to learn that last evening he was
much improved.
Prof. F. c. Hathaway, principal of
the Morrisville Graded School, and a
member of the State Board of Educa-
ton, died on Sunday afternoon, at his
home in Hardwick.
-Rev. George G. Davis of the North
ern New York NJ E. Conference preach
ed at the Methodist church yesterday,
with great acceptability to The people.
Rev. Mr.. Davis was formerly fellow
student and intimate friend of the pas
tor.
We have received an anonymous
communication signed "Angler," com
menting at length on an editorial in the
Rutland Globe of Friday last, headed
GLOW can we Settle it. The writer,
we think, is a stakeholder in the con-
Germ, but he is reminded that our invari-
able rule is to have the name of con-
tributors, otherwise communications are
not published.
The highway surveyors of the West
Rutland districts have already honored
themselves by repairing the roads in West
Rutland to a great degree. But we
would respectfully call their attention to
the little bridge at the foot of ''Dug
Hill" and recommend that it be i'm
mediately repaired.
The tents for the Soldiers Reunion
arrived in town Saturday, and were sent
~, - +l,o no ~, crroundc
A telegram from DR.. S. w. Smyth
gives notice that he viii not be able to
get back to Rutland to attend to his bus
mess here until Wednesday next, July
23d.
We would call attention to the adj
vertisement of Burr and Burton Seminary
in another column. The Fall term of
this institution, under the management
of H. FL. Shaw as principal, will com
mence August Goth. We commend this
school to our readers.
The principal of one of the leading
schools in the State, in recent letter to
the publishers of THE HERALD, says
'sYour paper is the best advertising me-
dunn in Vermont, and l notice you adj
vertise quite number of the best
schools" This is the experience of
all advertisers who use our columns.
His Excellenoy Julius Converse,
Governor of Vermont; Maj. General
Joseph p. Hawley, Member of Congress
from Connecticut, and the ablest orator
in America; Rev. II. Clay Trumbull,
the gallant and celebrated chaplain of
the old 10th Connecticut Volunteers
Maj General S. G. Griffin, the COM
mander of the brigade in which the nth
Vermont served, and Maj. General John
G.. Foster, who commanded in North
Carolina while the 9th Vermont was
serving in that department, have sever
ally accepted invitations to be present
and make addresses at the encampment
of tho Reunion forces in RI1fIand on the