Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-01-29

Auditor,
Henry Hayward, Clarendon
Board Of Managers,
| Benson-L Howard kei iogg.
/ Bran on-N ard M. Lincoln.
Castleton-J. S. Benedict.
Chttenden Asa Collins. ...
Carendon-ErastI Kelley.
Dandy William Otis.
Fairhaven Otis Hamilton.
Hubbardton-M. NJ. Dickerman.
Ira ra-Bradley Fish. ...-. ...
Mendon- Ezra Edison.
Middletown Al pheus Haynes.
Mt Holly-Wm. 5illings.
Mt Tabor. P. Howe.
Plttsford--Ihomas q. Hall.
Plttsield Lyman tiibbs.
/ Pawlet-L. N. Car enter.
Pou}tney-N. G. Hyde.
| Rutland-l rankin Billings.
Sudbury-Fayette Holmes.
Snerbun- Benz. MaNham.
! Shrewsbury--H. G. Gleason
Tinmouth--Judah Rounds.
alEngford--Joseph Doty.
Wells-John Burden.
West Haven-Nathaniel Fish
The following resolution was unanimously
| adopted:
ResoEUed, That the thanks of the Rutland
| County Agricul ural Society are eminentiy
| due to the Hon. Zimri Howe, o! Castleton, for
! his faithful labors as Treasurer of this Society
and that we tender him our best wishes that
health and happiness may follow him in his re-
| tirement from the position he has so long and
honorably occupied
Henry W. Lester, H. II. Dyer and Henry
Clark were appointed a committee to audit
and settle the accounts of the late Treasurer
On motion of Mr.. Dyer, the Society ad-
iourned sine die.
HENRY CLARK, .Sec'y.
Rutland, Jan. q, 1863.
a RUTLAND Man DROWNED The San
Francisco (tal.) Egening Bulletin, of Dec.
Il, says: g The name of the man who YVES
lost from the Moses Taylor, during the late
storm, was Royal Nelson, native of Rutland,
Vermont, latterly in the employ of Frederick
Warner of Solano county. He was steer
age passenger. 1t is said that he had consid-
erable money with him. He caught hold of
| the boat suspended over the deck to steady
himself, while the steamer rolled. Suddenly
wave struck her, lifted him from his feet. and
he dropped over the side This is the state
ment of E. G. Chamberlain, who was ON board,
and AYERS that he knew Mr.. Nelson we'll"
US. SANITARY CoMmIssIoN.-Thes special
agent of the Sanitary Commission, at Mont
peer, under date of the Goth inst, acknowl-
edges the following receipts, in addition to
contributions before mentioned
From Mrs. G. G. Loomis, Burlington, 81
Derby, SIG; Wardsboro, Sl5 Barnet Sl6,l5
Pawlet, S24 Metuodist Society at Lynden,
SIC, ,55; North Craftsbury, $1,000
HEADLEY's History OF TH& REBELLION.
MIR. Alden, who was here recently obtaining
subscriptions for this work, has received the
books (frst volume) and will be here in a few
days TO deliver them. 1t contains one hundred
more pages and two more steel engravings than
the prospectus promised. The subscribers
will have no reason, therefore, to complain and
will be ready with the subscription price when
the agent calls.
FALL FIsHING.-Two men were fishing
for longe in Maidstone Lake, and setting their
hooks at night where the water was twelve
feet deep, they returned in the morning and
found they had caught an otter that weighed
sixteen pounds, and the skin measured five
feet from the end of the nose to the tip of the
TAIL We consider this the greatest fish story
on record Caledonian.
Hop Notwithstanding to the report
of Charles Carter, Inspector General of Hops
for the State of Massachusetts, IN 1860 New
York grew 9,655 $40 pounds out of total in
the United States that year Of 10,676,704.
The next largest producer was the State of
Vermont, 63l GAL pounds.
RECRUITING Commander J. B.
Creighton and Surgeon BENJAMIN Vreeand Of
the United States Navy, have opened recruit
ing office for seamen, in Burlington.
To BE BUILT.-We understand that pro
ject is on foot for the erection of a furnace
at South SALISBURY, for the manufacture of
iron.
PRoMorED.-Lieut Albert Buxton, of the
Sd Company of W. Sharp Shooters, has been
promoted to the captarncv of his company
He went from Bellows Fails.
BANK DIvIDEsDs.- The Passum sic Bank
St. Iohnsbury, has declare SO nj annual
dividend Of five per ce.t. an the Bank Of
Gale lonia, Dansllle, one of four per cent.
On the lst Of Janua-v the ST. Aloans Bank
decllred dividend of S < per cent.
Tn .e 18th the stockholders of the Frank
lin COUNTY Bank held their annual meeting.
and elected the old board Of officers. A divi-
dend of eight per cent. was declared
The Otaqueechee Savings Bank has deslared
semi-annusl dividend Of two and one-hs If
per cent.
The Windsor Savings Bank has declared its
usual semi annual dividend of two and th,,e-
fourths per cent, and an extra dividend of one
per cent. on all deposits that have been in the
Bank one year or more; making the inter est
OF the last live years average over SIX and one
half per cent.
The Burlington Savings Bank has declared
Its usual semi-annual dividend Of two and 4
half per cent, payable to depositors on and
after the lst of January inst, and also an en-
ira dividend, averaging for the ast Eve years
llncludlng the semi annual an interest o: six
aud one-haH per cent, and it retains. also. al
amount OF surplus earnings sufficient to nro-
tect itsef against any contingency which will
be likely 70 arise in its affairs
PAIEnIs TO vrRMosrrRa.-The follow
ing patents were issued to Vermonters fro "a
thd Y. >. Pateut Ofics, in the week endinc
JanuaEy II Samuel B. spauldinr. Of fs Bran.
don, Vt, for imProysmsnt IL stoves 4 ior boil oil
ing sap; Howell Wilbur, Of PUNE, ~ ',r sor
Improvement IN brake MECHANISM a. = car =.
ragss.