Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-01-09
Minor Items.

-"Nasby" delivers the next lecture
OF the Middlebury course, on Monday
evening, Jan. 18th. Subject, Hannah
Jane"
Teams and stages crossed Lake
Champlain from Burlington to Platts-
burgh, distance of twenty-three miles,
on the Goth day of December. The
''oldest inhabitant" of those parts does
not remember of such crossing before in
the month of December.
The number of deaths in the village
ofaBellows Falls, the past year, was I'M
usually large, being 81, and larger than
any previous time for at least sixteen
years, and exceeded only in 1857, when
it reached 35, at which time the scarlet
fever proved fatal among so many chill
dren.
The vacancy in the national House
of Representative caused by the resig-
nation of Mr.. Mercur, of Pennsylvania,
was filled, Thursday, by the election of
the Hon. Mr. Dunnell, Republican.
On the night of December gath, the
thermometer at Port Henry indicated
twenty-five degrees below zero; at
Mineville thirty below, and at Crown
Point thirty-five below.
The firm of Ross & Forbes, Lincoln
Iron Works, has been dissolved, and the
business will be, hereafter, carried on by
Mr.. Ross alone.
Several of the ladies of Trinity
Church presented the wife of their rec
tor, Rev. DR.. Harris, with a pleasant re-
hinder of New Years Day.
The mail train from the east, over
the Rutland railroad was again some
three hours late, yesterday afternoon.
There are only t1oo liberal republi-
cans in the new Massachusetts Legisla-
ture. Verify, the influence of Sumner,
Banks & Co., was overwhelming in that
State.
The freight office of the Rensselaer,
and Saratoga railroad will be transferred
to Albany during the present week. The
general office will be located in Troy for
about a month longer in order to close
up the December business, after which
it will also be permanently removed to
Albany.
The SarutQgja1t states that Com
mencing with January list, the wages of
the trackmen on the Rensselaer, and Sar-
atoga railroad were reduced from $3.50
to $1.374 per day, and the consequence
is that large numbers of them south of
here have struck and suspended labor,
while those north are still at work
The Troy Post says: Eugene Brown
hid himself in the entrance of the Odd
Fellows lodge room at West Hebron
washington county, n. - last week
Friday night, with the intention Of spy
ing out the secrets of the order. Before
the exercises were opened he was dis
covered, and was Immediately Initiated
into the mysteries of the descent Of
man down three flights of stairs. Brown
says the ceremony was very touching
The Hatchnta,e and RcHector thinks
that the premium ''chromo' business is
in fair way to be oyrrdonc, BY the
advertisements aud prospvctusrs now
put forth by papers of all classes, one
would judge that the publication Of pic
lures rather than the issuing Of paper
was the main idea, the chief business.
Let us suggest a change. Let our news
paper publishers call for subscriptions to
their cdroH10s and throw in their paper
as a premium This would DO in all
cases save where the paper would not be
considered as an extra inducement for
the chrome.
The New York Tyjb1ne, of Satur-
day, pronounces the statement of the
Brooklyn Uujot, that Jay Gould had
controlling interest in the Trjjule, false
in every respect, and says that Could
has no interest in the Tribune The
Brooklyn Union is called upon to re-
tract within twenty-fou, hours or take
the consequences.