Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1861-02-21
STATE ITEMS.
The Post Office al woodford has been dis

continued
Samuel Smell of St. Johns bury was frozen
! TO death, during the intense cold on Thursday
night, 7th.
Rev. NJ A Herrck, of St james church
in Woodstock. has received and accepted call
| to Sanbornton Bridge, N. Fl.
Seth Lawrence who escaped from Benning
ton Jail has been re-captured When taken he
was chopping wood in Salem,
| Thomas White register of the late Judge
| Blackmer, is acting Judge of Probate in Ben
nington district
In the 5th school district in Dover there are
| fifteen farmers who raised last year $40 bushels
OF wheat-an average OF Sc bushels each.
Rev. Mr. Longstreet of Hyde Park, is CON-
| PEELED by falling health to leave for tme his
present field of labor.
According to the Banner there are f,urteen
old bachelors at Bennington Centre The old
fellows are either deserving of pity or contempt,
| or both-it does not yet appear which.
The Green Mountain Guards of Bellows
Falls held meeting last week, and all present
but four voted to respond TO the call of the gov
| eminent.
| The st. Adams Messenger denies the re-
port that an attempt has been made TO start a
Republican paper in Sheldon. 1t says that
there has been some talk of establishing neu-
trail paper, but believes that the project has been
abanuoneu'
Conductor Pierce and car load of passen-
gers On the Vermont Central Railroad, were
| taken back all of a sudden" recently. Seeing
French child sick, the conductor asked what
allied it, and the mother informed him cody il
had got the small pox.
Some of The citizens of Springfield have vo
ted to Immediately enroll volunteer compan Y
| to hold themselves in readiness to act for the
defense of the Constitution and the Union.
"A F. French has in operation at w inooski
| a shingle machine patented recently by him,
which will cut shingle every second, in per-
feet manner, and waste very little of the block
The machine is simple and easily kept in order.
The second number of the Vermont Histor-
icaI Magazine IS In press. 1t contains Ben
nington County, with portrait of Gov. Hiland
Hall, and large number OF biographical notices
as well as history Of each town in Bennington
County.
"A train from Rouses Point for Ogdeusburg
on the 9TH, got stuck in a snow bank, and was
compelled to remain there all night and till the
next afternoon, notwithstanding two locomo-
tives were attached 10 it. The train was three
days in making trip usually run in four or five
hours.
Samuel Hillhouse's barn, in Reedsboro, was
set on fire by Dwight Cannedy on Sunday night
week, and span of horses, yoke of oxen and
a COW and calf burned up. Cannedy's wife from
l.
he use, and jealousy inshgated the deed
The center building and the six wings OF
| the Vermont asylum at Brattleboro, are 10 be
enlarged by the addition OF another story during
the coming season. The roofs will be raised
and the additional story constructed atop of the
others, and the center building will be ornamen
ted by the addition of dome.
Geo. 5. Randall, of Springfield has in his
| possession copy Of the Bible, Imprinted in
| London 1GQS - II tain
commencing in 1855. The great age of th i.
book, 262 years with the peculiar style of spell l.
ing, printing and binding, which it exhibits rem
ders it quite curiosity.
Emma j. Cooper, girl IA years old, and
weighing but 80 lbs, died at Dover few day,
since, Of emacaton The amount of food she
was able TO eat began 10 diminish when she was
years of age, and for three months previou,
to her death she lived on two spoonsful of but
termilk or whey per day.
AT the meeting of the New England His
toric Genealogical Society, on Wednesday, the
9th inst, Henry Clark, Esq, Of PonItney, one O
The Vice Presidents of the Society. read a nsner
on the life and services of the late Hon. Roilir
c Mallory, of Vermont.
The case o. Thos. OHeir vs.. Lewis he
Groesbriand, argued in the Franklin Couptv
Court one year ago-being an action for res
pass for tearing pews out of a church. and IN
| yolying the rights of pew owners in a Catholic
church in Hghgate, was decided in favor of tbe
plaintiff o Heir. This opinion will be ouotei
probably IN future in cases where persons o,T
pews in churches belonging to associations.
The officers Of the Ransom Qua rds. At ST
Adams. having resigned an election was recent.
| ~ held, Col Stannard presiding. aud the vscan.
cies were filed as follows Capt. Geo G Hunt
ist Lieutenant DIR. l. Gilman 2d Lieutenant
Freeman h Bell, 81 Lieutenant, Geo. W Rob
! Inson A resolution declaring the readiness OF
the company to 20 10 the relief Of Mai. Ander.
son passed unanimously.
Geo. Wheatley. Esq. of BroomfeId i the
owner OF powder horn that has been in the
Wheatley family over q century. The horn has
sAiilu' representations OF forts, villages, Sc. on
the Hudson river, and was presented by an In.
dian Chet, as II ow is, to Capt. John Wheat
ley, great grandfather of the present possessor !
who was then in the English army Engraved
around the lower end OF the horn are the words
Capt John ~ heatley, Crown Point. Ger. We "a
1889"
Three or four cars of freight train. with q
passenger ear attached, were thrown from the
track on the Vermont Central road Thursday
afternoon, by the breaking of a truck. The mas
>enger car was dragged five or six rods and
then tum6led down an embankment turning
over twice IN the process, and getting literslIv
dashed TO pieces About a dozen bassanf-er -
were IL the car, and remarkable to relate. ONLY
two received any severe injury one had an arm
broken and another cut on the cheek
The Age says that at the village nee,ino j.
Woodstock, on the evening of the | tb inst :;
was voted TO raise S4OO, for the purpose of h.,
ing new hose and to repair the large engire
The meeting then resolved itself INTO A Rei;et
Committee for suffering Kansas, and some sea
were raised on the spot. The subscrin,;ons
have since been increased to about SI3O. win a
wide margin still left for further exhibitions %
active charity.
The Woodstock Light Infantry met nm tho
evening of the 9th inst, in compliance with tbe
order OF Capt Washburn, TO answer the follow
ing question will you comply with the mr.
der OF the COMMANDMENT. Chief made nnon ou,,
requisition of the President of the United states
TO aid IN the maintenance of the laws and the
peace of the Union 2" Forty eight men ansuyer.
ed in the affirmative. The company was f,Ii
and the best feeling prevailed.
The Brattleboro Phoenix has the following
owl story Edward L Pratt of JacksonvilIee
shot an owl on the 10th inst that measured a
feet ? inches from tip to tip of bis winos
and weighed pounds. His owiship had heen
making sad havoc in the poultry ward of 7 r
Chase, killing one hen turkey that weighed I6
pounds and nearly killing another about the
same size, AT length he was caught in a s,aeI
trap, but not liking such close quarters he aa W
with the trap, which weighed 2 /. 2 ponnds n
the woods, about half a mile distant ,vbera he
was discovered and shot
POPULATION OF THE UNITED
STATES.