Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-05-28

John Stafford Of Nottingham walked
10 North Adams, a distance Of % miles,
on his S0th birthday,
Rev. Mr. Bishop ot ReadshoFo has
applied for patent for an invention by
which passenger cars may he heated by
steam taken from ia, engine boiler Of the
train,
- Eight thousand posts that were
thrown into the l-amoillc river at East
Greensboro, las, June, have Just reached
their destination in Fairfax,
The losses of the Vermont Mutual
Fire Insurance Company were $4,000 in
April, being greater sum than the
losses Of any other month since It's organ
ixation.
A Frenchman named Girarl snapped
horses in Montpelier the other day, went
at night and stole the horse he cNehang-
ed, took il 10 Canada, sold il, came back,
was arrested for the theft at ST. Albans,
and is now in Washington County Jail,
The eommandery Of Knights TEN,
plars at New Haven, CT, and the one at
Burlington, VI, have voted TO attend the
Masonic celebration in Springfield, Mass,
on St, Johns day June -. The Green
field knights have arranged ior sump-
tuous dinner at Haynes, on the same
day
A weather table kept 10y \, b, Mills
OF New Haven, Vt, shows that there
were forty-sovrn falls OF snow last winter
at that place, making a total depth of II
feet ! l-a inches. Eleven inches was the
greatest depth a, one fall
A little son Of W, Gage of Crafts
bury, was chokei To death ON the 10Th
inst Some members of the family wa,
picking over peas and the little fellow
got one into his throat So rs 10 prevent
respiration and died instantly.
j. Whitney Chandler, Of WaitsGeld
caught seventeen full-grown hcigehogs
in his sugar house this spring, in steel
traps, Though not as large as the one
killed in Essex county, the number will
make it equivalent.
The members Of Memphremagoq
Lodge, No 81 of New York. are to have a
Masonic excursion ON the new steamer
Lady of the Lake. on ST. Johns, June 2ith
A Masonic celebration is to be held
at Duuham, Canada, ON St Johns day,
June 9Th. The frontier lodges in Yer.
mont have been invited to attend.
The 2lst scmi-annual meeting Of the
Chittcndcn County Teachers Association
is to be held at Huntington June 9Th
and 9Th.
THE RAILROAD MEETING AT Ply
MoUTH-The Ludlow Gazette contains
the following account of the recent rAil,
road meeting at Plymouth, and the re.
port of the engineers
ALL 4. -. .,,
-, ''' p,, os.e VI May - i9oN' the
by choosing Daniel r. Wndor chairman.
\. n. Earf Secretary. Adoptol the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolced, That committee of five Lo
appointed a. solicit subscriptions, ool,v,,
funds and pay out the same for the pur-
pose of an actual survey Of railroad
~ II
route through the town OF Plymouth in
the best place that can be found for The
same, so as 10 connect with any Other
railroad route That may he surveyed tC
the lines OF sand town' ~
thomas Moore John W. Stickney. JAS
;. brown, Charles \ Scott, Lorlng BemlS,
Commissioners Loring Bemis, Treasurer,
and Thomas Moore, Collector. Voted to
aisSoNe>the heetihg ana ieaNe IL WIN th'
commissioners 10 '"l' " ihee''i'@ Ut any
iuIufe tliil'' a..
May o'h' '9oN'
REPORT or EEGINEEkS.
Thomas Moore. and others. Gentlemen
According To your reanast we have mad
- r,ry rareful examination and martha
survey for a proposed railroad from TN
valley Of the pnrerhv near West Br;dge
water. IN connect with the Rutland an,
Bnrlinoton railroad
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