Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-10-29
Local and: state Items.

on Wednesday and Thursday of the pres
ent week. The meeting was we'll attend
ed, harmonious and spirited. The Hon.
Thomas +. Powers, one of the earliest
members and officers Of the Order in this
State, was present and manifested una
bated interest in the cause.
The following officers We're chosen for
the ensuing year;
WA. Burnett, Rutland, G. w. P.
I Conner, Shelbune. G w A. ~
g l. Arlington, Ludlow, q S. 1sNa
NJ Kidder, Woodstock, G Chaplain.
w Boyce, Woodstock, G T.
w R sherman, South Woodstock, G Q.
j Il FORREST, Wnooski. q Sentinel
Among other resolutions that were
passed, was one expressing unqualified OPP
position TO the repeal of the Prohibitory
Law. 2pf gial
SPORTING. Horace c. Clark, Esq, of
our village, returned home on Saturday
from a weeks sporting excursion into the
northeastern part OF the state of New
York, and brought with him as trophies
two deer, weighing about 200 pounds
each, and large quantity Of trout.
Both We're very fine, as we have reason to
know. He killed six deer in four days
hunting, and caught S4 pounds of trout in
one days fishing.
| The SECOND CRoP. Rutland is fully
up to, if not beyond Burlington and Mont
pelier, in the production of second crops
this year. A party Of ladies in this vii
lage spent the afternoon of Wednesday of
last week in pcnc-ing in Proctor's grove,
and brought home with them several va
rieties Of spring flowers in full bloom, full
grown wild strawberries, strawberry vines
in blossom, &c. tits evident that the soil
Of New England don't care if it is "teft
out IN the cold"
| A STRANGE BIRD. A beautiful aquat-
ic fowl was shot in Calais on Tuesday,
which was exhibited in our streets yester-
day, exciting considerable curiosity. It's
weight was two pounds ten ounces, length
from the tip of the beak to extremity Of
the tail, two feet and two iDches-from
extremities of the wings, four feet and
eight inches ~ web footed, with rather
short legs and small feet-long and hook
ed beak-large head and neck-color
white except some dark specks on the toy
of the neck, and light dove color ovel
all the back and wings, except the edge
of the wings, which are white, and thu
extremity of the tail black 1t is proba
bly, species of Gull. 1t was purchased
for preservation in the cabinet of tn
. Young Mems Geological and Debating
Seciety.-F1eemdn.
IL ALLOTTED PAy,-Asslgnees and other
holding orders for allotted pay of tn
Ninth Regiment, are hereby notified tina
!, returns have been received for July an
r August, and that this Office is prepared
! pay the sums received IN the usual way
The settlement Of the clothing account c
n the Ninth Regiment will explain the frac
8 tional amounts received for members (
the regiment.
: JOHN B. PAGE, State Treasurer.
Rutland, October s, 1863.
FREIGHT ITEMS. 1t is stated on goo
: authority, that more flour is imported int
: Rutland county every year, than is pre-
n duced in the whole State of Vermont.
One hundred and sixteen loaded cal
came into Rutland last Tuesday night, {
! which twenty were loaded with potatoe
!, probably about eight thousand bushels
The potatoes came on the Rutland an
n Washington road, and principally frol
d the towns of Pawlet and Granville. The
are going to Boston. ~
al INDEBTED. We are indebted to Majt
Thos. H. Halsey, Paymaster U. S. A., fl
. late numbers of "The New South" an
d 1.-THE Free South" published respectivel
IS at Port Royal and Beaufort, S. G. aaq'
= DEATHS OF VERMONT SOLDIERS. III
following soldiers, all belonging to the 81
fl Vermont regiment, have died at the Ches
Is apeake Hospital, near Fortress Monroe
g, Sllas Nichols, Oct 9; G II Isham, Oct |.
If Curtis Spencer, Oct ID; G Fl Hubbard
1t Oct. II.
'e SHEEP. N. Burgess, -Jr., OF Hoosi'
q has purchased of John Butof,
,e Middlebury, four yearling sheep and tw
= lambs for the sum Of $1,000.
y JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. In joir
lie assembly on Tuesday afternoon, the 70
s lowing justices were elected to fill vacar
Of cies. a,,es l
leI Gardner Merrill OF Bloomfield, @
!. Walter of East Haven, Asa Lee Of vi,
! tor, John Barney of Swanton, Simes
n Gideon of Waterville, VIM Billings ,
Z West Haven. Simeon Adams Of Marlbor,
3 C Ward of Newfane, Ashley Palmer an
e I 0 Brown Of Westford. ssos grF
L & i
X The PROPOSED RAILRoAD. The pc,
2 pie Of Woodstock are considerably excl
|. ed at spresent on the, subject Of the pr,
y posed branch railroad connecting tn,
= town with some point on the Vermol
9 Central. Weunderstand gentleman h
. offered to build the read and stock it Il
. one hundred thousand dollars. l5
= Another project contemplates a railroa
a from Windsor, running from that plac
! through Felclivllle and Perkinsville, t
J, Gassett's Station, thereby connecting II
Is two great railroads that pass throue
y Vermont. This would probably prov
: great public convenience.