Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1865-04-27
Local and State Items,

Is now Division surgeon ON Gen. Shefl-
dams staff. He is Il young man Of fine
talents, and is every way worthy Of, the
position.
The widow of the late Col, Charles
Cummings has disposed of her residence
in Brattlrhoro, and is about to remove
to Boston.
Capt. James H. Platt, Jr, late of
the 4th Vt, Regiment and formerly of
Burlington, is now landlord of Jar
rett's Hotel, Petersburg, Va,
Hon, Norman F, Wood, State Sena-
tor from Franklin County, died at his
residence in Bakersfield on Friday last.
Mr., Wood was a young man. Of excellent
character and requirements; was States
Attorney for his county in 1861, was
last year elected to the State Senate, and
was a useful and prominent member of
that body He had been a sufferer from
i'll health which had been an obstacle to
the successful prosecution of his pro
fession.
The ATTEMPTED MURDER IN VERGENNEs.
The man who fired at Mr., Thompson
in Nergennes, expected to rob him of a
large amount of money. lie had forged
an order from a depositor in the bank,
requesting cashier Horton to bring home
with him that night twenty thousand
dollars. Mr.. II. did not get the note
until the next morning and then as
certained that it was a forgery
Thompson was probably mistaken for
Horton.
A DETACHMENT Of thirty-tve men left
Sloan Hospital, Montpelier, Friday
morning, for the front, in charge Of
Sergeant Bliss, who takes them as far as
Bedloe's Island, New York Harbor,
where they will probably remain several
days
TIRED OF LIFR.-Austin NJ. Green of
Sheffield, being tired of life, undertook
to shuttle off this mortal coil some days
ago, with the aid of a cup of cold poi
son. The poison did not do its work,
and few days later, he tried what vir-
tue there is in check rein, with moose
at one end. He put his neck in hitched
the other end over head and stepped off
q box on to the floor. This arrange
ment brought him up standing'-on
his tip-toes; the drIU was not sufficient
to break his neck, but was just right to
choke him terribly and render him in
sensible, While in this state his friends
found him and cut him down, with
enough breath left to warrant a length
Of life usually allotted to mankind.
EXTENSIVE Box FACTORY. A new
company has been formed in IrasbHrgn
for manufacturing boxes for kerosene
cans, which are made for shipment to
! Europe. The company is now making
boxes for a firm which used $4,000
worth last year. and which VIII this year
! SGT It's IuII supply from the Irasburgh
mills. The company has purchased 500
acres of timbered land and the lumber
on 800 acres more. Some 5000 to 5000
feet of lumber are cut daily. and an az
erage of about 500 boxes are turned out
and sent off in the same time.
EAST WALL1NGFoRD.-Eaitoy Rutland
| HeraM. The citizens of East Walling-
ford assembled at the Baptist meeting
house on the Goth inst, in view of the
calamity that has fallen upon our ma
ton by the death Of the Chief Magis-
trate.
An appropriate sermon was preached
by Rev. 7, H. Archibald of Mount Holly.
His theme was the lessons to be learned
by the death Of Abraham Lincoln,
drawn from Psalm SO, IS. Stirring re-
marks were made by Judge Ainsworth
and others, and the enclosed resolutions
were adopted.
The scene was made doubly sad by
the news reaching us at the time of the
meeting that Sergt. G. J. Howard had
fallen in battle. The meeting will not
soon be forgotten.
In behalf Of the committee,
| Z. Coon, Chairman.
East Wallingford, April %, 1865.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolrcd That the sudden removal of
the Chief Executive of this nation nv
the hand of the assassin calls for a de-
| Vout recognition of the hand of AL
mighty God, and for deep humiliation
| before Him.
Reso!ped That all the circumstances
that gather about this event prove it to |
be not the act Of one man or of a few
men, but the plot of a multitude who |
hoped by the assassination of President |
Lincoln and the other chief executive
officers Of state to involve the whole ma
ton in anarchy and ruin.
Resolre3, That this atrocious deed is in
perfect harmony with the many diaboIi-
cal acts of this rebellion which have
preceded it, and, if it was rot promptpd
by the rebel leaders, is at least the fit
ting climax Of their infamous treason
and tiendish cruelty.
Re'olOea, That all tie laws Of GOOD
government, the safety Of the state the
honor OF magistracy and the plainest