Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-12-25
Minor Items.

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Orleans County Sunday School Union at
Irasburg, was largely attended, over 700.
persons being present. 81: =
Samuel Hayward has purchased one
half interest in Mr.. G. P. Wings drug
store. ~
A late Washington paper says that
Mrs. Senator Edmunds, owing to
being in mourning, will not receive this
winter on Thursdays, as USUAL
MIR. John Barden, of Wells, called on
us yesterday and, while paying his sub
scription, mentioned that this was his
forty-seyenth year as a continuous sub
scriber. ..t.z..
The monthly union service at Bran
don will recur next Sunday evening and
the sermon win be preached by the Rev.
Franklin Tuxbury in the Congregational
church. His subject will be, Thoughts
for the Close of the Year"
r The steamer A. Williams got out of
Port Henry on Monday morning by
breaking the ice which had formed to a
considerable thickness. She returned
to Burlington, and the season of nayiga-
ton may pc considered closed. Passen-
gers from the north can make up their
minds to go hereafter by way of the
Addison road, if they wish to cross the
lake.
The first lecture in the Castleton free
course was given last evening, by the
Rev. Franklin Tuxbury, of Brandon,
upon ''The Pilgrims of the Maytlower. "
1t was pronounced by those who attend
ed, scholarly effort, and worthy the
author.
The same gentleman also plowed
a field on the 9TH of December, which
seems slightly out of season in this eli
mate.
Few things so vex and annoy a
youngster as~to find coal ashes strewn
on his favorite sidewalk for sliding, and
yet that person is a public benefactor
who puts the ashes there. Ashes are
better than our village officials for they
cause the ordinance against coasting on
the sidewalks to be observed. But boys
and ashes don't agree at all.
The steamer A. Williams, Capt. Corbin,
attempted last Sunday morning to force
passage from Port Henry south, but found
the ice so strong at Chimney Point that
she was unable to proceed further and
returned to her dock--RuTLAND HERALD.
Size didn't do any such thing. She
neve- left the wharf. Port Henry
Herald.
Ourinformant insists that the Williams
did put out about 10 o'clock a. M, and
that he stood on the dock and watched
her. We believe him, and submit that
Mr.. Morris is not responsible for any
statement he may make concerning
things that happen before noon. Had
he been up he would doubtless have seen
the attempt for himself.
Gentle Anna Dickinson denounces
war with Spain. Thousands may clamor
for it, but, so long as she has her own
way, not one of them is going to Have
Anna.
There was quiet in that Topsham
farmers home for four days, and Won
deringly he pondered what was the mat
ter, till he happened to notice that his
wife was missing. But when she was
helped out of the well, though feeble
from fasting, she made it lively again
Whereabouts.
"A wealthy and withal eccentric cit
izen was approached the other day and
asked to contribute to charitable OBJ
iect. Hearing the story of the canvasser,
he took out his pocket-book and placed
in his hands bill or two, with the re-
mark, 'Well, take this it isn't enough
Il ought to give more. l am able to
give great deal more than do for
worthy charitable objects but the truth
is, I'd rather a thousand times receive
than givel"
Albany had street fight the
other day which was participated in by
two white women, one negro woman,
two goats and three dogs.