Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-01-07
Minor Items.


Eighteen hundred and seventy-five
rhymes with strive, and drive, and wive,
and thrive 1T will be good year to do
all of them, if you have not already.
-Four young men, of Burlington,
who had a barouche, made one hundred
and fifty calls on New Years day, one
of the most surprising feats of the kind
on record in this part of the country.
The steamer Champlain made her
last trip for the season, on Saturday
morning, going only to Port Kent, and
on her return in the afternoon, went
into winter quarters.
Charles Atwood and wife, living in
the west part of Bethel, went to spend
the evening of Tuesday, the 28th ult., at
a neighbours. After being gone from
home about an hour and a half, in look
ing out of the window they discovered
their house to be in flames. The house
together with its entire contents were
destroyed.
"A stranger stopping in Bennington,
drew up Il plan for advertisements to
hang in depots and other public places,
and went around to the merchants and
manufacturers and got their money in
advance for inserting their advertise
meni Before he had a chance to leave
the place he was caught in his own trap
and confessed. He said he was out of
money, and wanted to get where he
lived-down in Pennsylvania.
"A justice of the peace living in an
other county, was recently called on by
a couple from Barton who desired to be
married, but two weeks after the cere-
mOny he remembered that the marriage
was illegal, as being made out of the
county where the couple belonged, so
he married them again. Some time af-
ter, he recOllected that he had not been
qualified for office in their county, and
taking the oath, he again performed the
ceremony.
The express freight over the Central
Vermont which left St. Adams at one
p. m. on Wednesday, was thrown from
the track between Randolph and Bethel,
at about nine o'clock Wednesday night,
the accident being caused by broken
rail. The engine and eight freight cars
swent over the embankment, and al old
Jan who was Stealing . ride m d flour
~. ,ensiasratlg. ia5ured, tllef'sirfs 500
-
: Horace Fairbanks, President Of the
Vermont division Of the Portland and
Ogdensburg railroad, says that this di-
vision will be done, including the branch
to Burlington and FIVE mile branch to
the Canada line, next season. The east
ern division is done 10 the Crawford
House, in New Hampshire, and from
there to the Connecticut river at Dalton,
NH, Che track of the Boston, Concord
and NIontreal road will be temporarily
used ......s ........ .s.
.-.-The Haywood Hoteb the Methodist
and Congregational. churches, the house
OF Frank Deal and two tenements own
ed by c. c. Barton at st. Albans Bay, a
village three miles west of ST. Adams,
We're burned, early Friday morning.
The Hoses were as follows Hayward !
house, IS, 200; Methodist and Congrega-
tional churches, So, 900 each Mr.. Deals 1
house, 81 500 the tenainent houses, |
$500 each. There was probably no. ip-
surance, except upon the hotel, which |
had $4,000 in the Vermont Mutual
The late Isaac Buttertield, of Bos-.
ton, bequeafhed.to the East Parish of
the town.of Westminster, $40, 600, for |
the purchase or erection of a building
for q free public library, and $4,000
for the purchase of books for the same.
The trustees of the parish are also made
the residuary iegatees, the property
coming into their hands TO. be invested
by them in some reliable securities, and
the income from tito be used yearly for
the purpose Of purchasing books, and
the necessary expenses OF, earrying on
the business of said library" ---.s g..
A San Francisco correspondent
raises the question, Did King Kalalsaua
oyer eat a missionary? and proceeds to
give considerable circumstaptial evil |
dence against himS The supposed eat
ny took place in October, 1857, and the
victim was a French Jesuit priest nam
I'd Father Michael. The bones were
to the French authorities,
badly charred, and some of them sawn
part The natives claimed that the
riost, while 'botanizing on, the volcano
sauna Loa, had fallen into the crater
.ad been CONSUMED. Father Michael is
as, a fat, handsome, ford
Gentleman, such an one as the connois-
ours in. s.long pig would make their
.fst choice for festival. OF course if
le was. eaten, who knows but Prince
David, then a youth, with doubtless a
trong appetite, had a hand in /? = +,