Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-31
Minor Items.

Eoeo cool Just at present-if you
can.
The ladies find fault with the new
.,st,, cards because there isn't room
IN them for a postscript.
The favorite amusement will soon
consist in eating watemelons while some
sns reads aloud a romantic treatise on
cholera.
Nearly all who have place to put
3, and ,be necessary amount of filthy
Incra to pay for it, are laying in their
winter supply of coal just now.
We have no reason to disbelieve the
-ooort that tonight the sun will set at
-.5o. contrary to the wishes of great
,,orv thoroughly warmed people, he
will appear again tomorrow morning at
A52.
If your errand boy takes an unusu-
.r.v long time to bring your morning
mil from the post office, don't reprove
him for being slow until you find out
nov many postal cards he had to read
-Wrvish that the railroad compa-
mics would either improve and beautify
with trees, foliage, etc, the parks in
front of the depot, or else present the
same to the town for the purpose of such
Improvement. With the planting of
trees. the erection of a platform for
hand of music, and the placing of seats
IN these parks, most desirable and
oleasant-in lieu of better-place
would be furnished for assembling in
the cool of the evening. Such improve
ments as these cost but little, yet add
much to the appearance and attractive
ness of our village.
We hope that those naughty boys
whoara at present engaged in planning
midnight expeditions against their neigh
lor, melon-patches, will reflect first,
upon the awful sin of stealing, and sec
ondly, on the prevalence of that dread
disease, cholera, in the country. Good
little boys, and big ones, too, who don't
steal melons, will not catch the cholera
if il is not around.
A party of about twenty persons
from Rutland visited Lake Bomoseen,
Castleton, Yesterday. Most of the party
were from General Baxters-members
of his family and friends stopping with
him.
We regret to learn that our friend,
Hon. James NJ. Sladc, of Niddlebury,
has been quite i'll.
We earnestly wish that some of
tn sc newspaper men, who are continu-
ally startling us with terrible accounts
Of the monster who at present is ''sum-
mering" in Lake Champlain, would be-
come Good Templars. We have known
men who have seen snakes before, but
the Lake Champlain sea-serpent is lit
tie ahead of anything we have ever
heard Of. The accounts of this ''sar-
pint are sad comments on the terrible
alcoholic substance that is in vogue on the
banks of Lake Champlain. However,
we may be mistaken about this snake,
and if so, must beg the pardon of our
brethren of the lake The latest report
is that this jolly serpent made an excur-
sion on shore in the vicinity of Platts-
burgh, to farm yard, where the farmer
was milking, and then and there, accord
ing to the worthy farmers account. did
swallow two or three cows, one bull,
five pigs, three pitch forks, one horse
rake, and then, as he returned toward
the lake, did accuse the farmer of being
amean rascal, for not supplying him
with more eatables. This worthy tiller
of the soil either lied, was intoxicated, or
told the truth. We will not accuse him
Of the two former, and we dare not as
sert the latter. We hope that serpent
will disappear by spontaneous combus-
ton ere long, or else take trip to Eu-
rope. He has such peculiar traits of
character, and has, withal, such healthy
appetite, that his absence must be more
desirable than his presence.