Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
THE RUTLAND HERALD,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 80. 1875.
Local Notes

I.
General Ripley left on Saturday TO
Colorado. ........i,...::.
-Drunkards drink more water thar
sober men.
We regret to learn that Mr.. Ben K
Chase has been compelled to file petit.
ton in bankruptcy.
The new week has dawned with no
especial change in the presidential ques-
ton.
The wag of hundred-dollar dogs
tail is not an uncommon sight in Rut-
land.
Col. Proctor has nearly completed
new marble mill at Sutherland T alls.
Rev. DR.. Seaver left, Saturday, for
the west, to be gone few weeks.
MIR. F. NJ. Davis is singing with the
Congregational choir now.
Any girl who hasn't time to work
slippers for Christmas presents to all the
fellows she is engaged to, can buy at the
shoe stores very pretty and subtle imita-
tions of the hand-worked article.
DIR. Cochran has fifty boarders at
the poor house and one hundred and tif-
ty more would like to come if he only
had room for them. This shows the
benefit of advertising.
The winter term of Burr and Bur-
ton seminary, at Manchester, commences
December 9th. For further particulars
see advertiser ent.
"A large shipment of government
headstones, comprising about 10000
pieces, are being made from Sheldons &
Slasson's mills and the sand blast works
at West Rutland, to Marietta, Georgia.
I'm the House Saturday evening
bill for paying Rutland 1,104.59 to-
wards a reward for the apprehension of
Phair was passed, but the bill providing
Rutland county with new Jail was re-
committed.
With the approach of Christmas the
Sunday schools are showing a wonderful
numerical increase. Many youngster,
after passing through season of relig-
ious inactivity has become aroused, and
Is now living in the hope of blessed
Christmas tree.
III. E.Adams advertises this morning
new line of cloth He also has added
new line of work, namely the cutting
and making of ladies' cicaks. Persons
in want of clothing would do well to
call and see his goods and prices.
1t is expected that Miss Smiley will
return TO Rutland, from Montreal next
week Wednesday, and preach series of
discourses in the Congregational church,
similar to the one just concluded at the
Methodist church.
The rumseller who formerly eluded
the vigilance of the Rutland police so
successfully by selling liquor from
patent reservoir which he carried under
his vest, has been discounted by female
member of the profession in Lew ston.
Me-, who had her pannier divided up |
INTO piia- Gaming Il bottle.
Miss Smiley preached Sunday at
the Methodist church in the afternoon
ana evening. AS these were her last ais.
courses here the attendance was v4rj
large. In the evening the church was
-..@a before the -hour, and many went
away unable even to find standing room
within the church Mrs Emila4ss.a'-s--
course the eveniun p~sss9rgile OF great
interest and beauty and held.the indlVldu-
l attention of all present.
MIR. M. w. Curtis, subscriber to
le HERALD, al Castleton, is the owner
useful and intelligent dog. The
aper is thrown from the car every !
lorning as the train passes by. The
rack is some distance from the house
nd the dog, after the train has gone by z
Pill go to the track, pick up the paper
earehing for it till he finds it if it har< -
ems get lost-and carry it to the Iouse :
nth the utmost care. The perform
nee is frequently watched by strangers, :,
nth much interest. =,
About this time the small boy be- CT
ins to polish up his skates, the prudent al
nan dwelling near pond to collect his vi
opes and ladders, the hardware man to VI
rider fresh supply of graphing hooks, Ell
ghile the undertaken, with grim smile p
skes the measure of the cheerful lad as W
Q goes skipping past the shop-door with N
Is beloved skates dangling from his ''
m the fond mother, with an anxious g
ce, watches for the return of her ST
mping boys after schools, and the re-
,rter keeps his weather eye peeled for
fatalities.
Among the many entertainments v
ffered cur citizens and the public this d.
inter, will be the presentation of the sc
oeretta, "Red Riding Hoods Rescue;" il
e old story of Red Riding Hood in tt
ing, by the younger portion of Mrs. L. y,
oward Chatterton's music class, and ri
lder her direction. II
In England the people still keep up CT
le practice of quoting old saws on the hi
lbiect of the weather. The Noting fl
amshire country folk have two sayings
lating to the appearance of severe
Gather at this time of the year:
there's ice in November that will bear | n
q duck,
lere'n be nothing after but sludge and 1t
muck. N
the ice bear man before Christmas, it o.
? win not bear mouse after. ~
There is proverb of similar charac- u
II attached TO Halloween, Nov. 1, N. !"
, or the evening before All Saints "
ay: .e
If ducks do slide at Hollantide, -
At Christmas they will swim; te
II ducks do swim at Hollantide, 70
At Christmas they will slide. "a
Counterfeit $40 bills on the Lafa g. "a
tie bank, of Lafayette, Indiana, are in "
regulation. They are of light color a
I'd the names of the cashier and pre,si- Z