Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-02-28
STATE ITEMS.

Nearly 5000 have been raised in st Adams
for the relief of the Kansas sufferers
Hon. Joshua r. Giddings lectured before
the Young Mems Association of Arlington on
the 9th inst
Mr. Bliss of Nottingham lately lost steer
which, although but year old, weighed 700
hounds. liz got cast in the stall during the
night, and was found dead the next mo rning.
Mrs. HubbelI, wife of the cashier of the Mis-
sisauoi Bank, and only daughter of the late Judge
Follett OF Burlington, died a Sheldon on the 9th
inst.
"A horse belonging to G H. Hilton of Ches-
ter was recently kicked by another So badly that
it was rendered necessary TO kill him. Ii was
valued at $500.
The hophouse of Ed. Towle in Hyde Park
was burned on the 9Th inst, together with about
40 bushels of corn. The fire originated from hot
ashes in wooden vessel.
Levi. F. Hartshorne of Lunenburg, OF Essex
county, Vermont killed two years old heifer
the oath of January thar weighed, after being
dressed ready for marketing, 727 lbs.
Miss Kate p Dodge of Barre raised the past
season four balls of cottoa from single stalk.
The cotton is as nice, apparently, as any of
southern growth.
Three girls in Jacksonville braided thirty SIR
full sized mems palm leaf hats in fifteen hours,
one day last week. They completed three in
forty .fUe minutes.
The old bell on the Baptist Church in Ches.
ter was cracked during the late cold snap A
new and larger one will take its place in the
spring.
Hon. Charles Adams. an aged, respected
and influential citizen of Burlington, died at that
place on the 18th inst He was the father OF j.
S. Adams. Secretary of the Vermont Board OF
Education, and was 70 years of age.
"A printer at Brattleboro' named Kelley
recently deserted his wife at that place for 9
transient female calling herself Miss o. Flint,
leaving his wife minus Of her purse, watch and
jewelry.
MIR James Shaw of Barnet has just received
the sad intelligence of the death of his son, VIM
D. Shaw, who was killed by the Indians on the
plains of Kansas in January last, while on q
buualo nnnt
AT the dinner and ball given at Gaysville or
the 5ih inst, on the Opening" of the new factory
built by Mr.. Thomas Greenbush in place of the
one burned some months ago, there were three
bands of music and $50 couples in attendance.
"A correspondent from Barnet says thai
| Aaron Morse's barn, in Copenhagen, caved in bI
| the pressure of snow, few days since, when
Samuel Stevens, who was hay at the time, wa:
badly injured.
MIR. L. II. Sumner of Bennington lately
slaughtered three pigs, eight months and twenty
| five days old, which weighed follows: 44s
lbs, 43o lbs, 420 lbs; total 1893 lbs. They are
| of the Chester PA breed
In Woodstock in the "cold term" three week:
ago, the mercury fell so deg. in eighteen hours
| from 40 above to 40 below zero In Ludlow the
mercury stood at 3s deg. below zero during tht
whole of Friday
| -Mr.J. A. Ferguson of Eden missed young
colt recently and found it three days after in tn
| wheel pit of his sawmill, having evidently faleI
from plank IL feet above. The colt Yves 90
ont and showed no lack of spirit from its lon:
fast and confinement
The statement that about $4,000 expens
had been saddled upon the town Of WoodstocI
| by the recent decision in pauper case in Orang
| County Court is pronounced erroneous by th
Woodstock Standard. The case is not fully de
cided yet
The officers Of the ChampIain Valley Agri
cultural Society for the year ensuing are Presi
dent, D. d. Middlebrook; Vice Presidents, An
drew Holmes, G. C.. Brownell, Secretary, c. ii
Fisher Assistant Secretary, X. Chapman
Treasurer, {. a. Booth.
L. Haskins of Dover was nearly killed b
the fall of a tree two or three weeks since n
thought he could get his team BY before the ire
came down, but was not quick enough, and b
was crushed into the snow. One of his oxe
was killed outright
"A young man about Is years of age name
| John Martelle, while at work on the 18th ms
cutting and clearing ice from E. n. Spaulding'
mill in Granville, was precipitated over the dar
by the breaking of the cake on which be wa
standing, and killed He was crushed 10 deaf
by the ice falling upon him.