Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-08-21
Minor Items.

morrow morning AT Ola.
A question of privilege-Asking to
90 home with a girl.
A strong alum water is a sure death |
IN bugs of any descriptions.
Rev. E. NJ. Haynes will preach at
np Chapel, North Clarendon, next Sab
hath. at o'clock p. m.
The Press says that "a shrewd Gun
marricd) Troy damsel invariably car
rias dummy baby with her while tray
pIinr on the cars, so as to get a
.Yf No matter how crowded the car
,o,y hr. compassion for the sawdust ba-
ny does it," We saw her but moment
at the depot yesterday.
The new time table on the Addison
rirr,aI does not work well, we judge,
.,nc Port Henry HeraM says the run
ming time is actually longer than it takes
TO haul goods with teams. The HeraJd
also saws it is suggested to have the cow
ctrlrr, put ON the rear of the train, as
hpr, il more danger that the cows will
RIM over the cars than that the cars will
run Deer them.
Tile Danbury Ne1rs says that ''the
majority of women care but little about
suffrage. If the back of the car-seats
could only be followed SO as to admit of
their lustl,s tapping over. the ballot
might go to thunder for all they care
How true.
"C. Z. Stones Oyster House is the
new sign that appears upon the window
of the store lately occupied by DR.. Han
rahan
The Brandon Lecture Association
have been very fortunate in securing
the engagement of John B. Cough to
lecture in their course, during the com
ing lecture season.
The ninth annual fair of Crown
Point and Bridport, Farmers and Me
cHanics Association will be held at
Crown Point, n. y, Wednesday and
Thursday, September nth and 18th,
1873.
E. c. Gallar, late of st. Adams, and
formerly of Rutland, has moved again,
and has opened meat market at Ma
lone, N. Y. When will Ed. settle
down?
Early to bed and aarly to rise was
never intended for editors and printers,
and some other folks we "knows on. -
Considerable lumber is being
brought over from Rochester, and ship
ped at Brandon.
"A Drummer much addicted to snor-
ing remarked to his bedfellow, yester-
day morning, at the Bates House, that
he slept like a top" 81 know it, y
said the other, "lke a humming-top
We examined yesterday one of Sim
mons Safety Lamp-FillIng Attachments
for kerosene lamps, that appears to be
one of the real improvements of the age.
1t was a small attachment to the burner,
that allowed it to be raised and the lamp
flied without detachiug the burner 81
chimney and also had attached a collar,
that caught the oil that in the ordinary
lamp runs down over the outside ct tho
lamp.
After the death of the Whitehall
Times editors snake (not the one in his
boots, the Port Henry Herald revives
our fears thusly: con Friday night Of
last week. about nine o'clock, a quce
looking object came from the direction
If Bulwagga Bay, and went toward
r. ,wn Point at q good rate of speed. !
,r,s .. >en by several from the shore, n
,bo moon was shining bright at the time
and thew de- 'cribed it as looking like
Iii, 1ar ohor, the length of a good
sized heat # W, a also seen by seVera
who , vo,,,' ~, tho w" l.. ke at the time in
boat"
The Boston Post man thinks this
a joke: "A Vermont COW T, 'ons'y r 9 ~,
for $500 in England. She " 10 Low
Yale, of Putney." Rather fiat.
Lots of folks started for Spl VI
Grove camp meeting last night
MIR. A. D. Blanchard, the famous
Burlington checker player, was in
town yesterday, and waxed some OF
our good ones.
Coy. Smith and T. w. Park were
in town Yesterday, and the two, with
Gen. Baxter, were in consultation con
corning the location of the new depot.
Whether they took any definate action,
and if so, what that action contemplates,
we have been unable to learn.
-Rev. w. H. fl. Murray has engaged
to deliver the address at the State Fair.
Murray always gets off something good
ndwill undoubtedly draw crowd. Thu
society could not have made better
selection.
The Addison County Agriculture
Society have concluded not to hold
Fair this year.
The well known trotting horse o
c. B. Pease, of Port Henry, valued d
$1,000, is dead.
A number of Japanese gentlemen
are spending the summer in Middlebury
The Register says these young men ar
Of the first families in Japan, and ar
sent to this country by their government
10 learn our language and receive al
education
CUTTING AFFAIR AT CROWN PoINr.-
On Saturday last, two or three men, saiC
to be miners, made their appearance il
the above village, heavily benzined, anC
bound to get into row with somebody
if possible. Failing, however, to accom-
plish their object here, they went to tina