Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-04-23

April llth, lSiN
- Local aud state Iicms.
/ COUNTY Corr An adjourned term
.pf the County Court for Rutland County
'tlo,ed yesterday, Judge Prout presiding
we simply give expression To the unani-
nous opinion OF the member, Of the bar
in'this county, and Of all who have had
business in the Court, when We SAY that
Judge rrout presided a, the late term Of
this court with distinguished ability, i'm
Partially and urhauity; and that he has
inspired a we'll grounded belief in Iii, ca
pacity to fiji the office 10 the satisfaction
Of the tar and the people OF the State
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! HrDwLLE-Tbo following gentlemen
were unanimously elected yestrymcn OF
st. James church, Hydcyillc, on Easter
Monday; Israel Dycy, Pitt W. Hyde,
Samuel Wood, James Wood, T. l.. Drake,
| Charles Langdon, John Downing.
The newly elected vcStry immediately
met, when the following election was
made.
/ Senior Warden Israel Dayey.
/ Junior arden-Pitt W Hyde.
/ Seeretary-E. L. Drake.
/ Treasurer Pitt W. Hyde
Delegates TO Diocesan Conycnticn--Is-
raj Davey, Pitt w. Hyde, ..
! ANOTHER AEREST-A young man nam
ed Patrick Murphy was arrested on We'd
nesday last, charged with being an accom-
plice in the firing of the machine shop OF
Mansfield II Stimson on Sunday last, He
was confined in the County Jail. and, we
believe is TO have an examination to-day.
STATE FAE.-The Montpelier journal
says:
! There was a sharp contest between
/ Burlington and Rutland but by offering
to reit their grounds at an expense Of
about $4,000, it wigs finally decided in
/ favor of the former.
The Burlington Times adds:
This is not quite true, as Rutland
offered $500 more than Burlington
| Yes, Rutland offered not only $500
more, but that sum yearly for three years
making 5000
TIN WEDDNG.-Mr and Mrs. W. II
Northrop Of Castlcton, celebrated, We'd
nesday evening, the 10Th anniversary Of
their marriage. There were present Il
goodly number of friends and everything
went merry as a marriage bell" The
donations of tin-warc were liberal
i. INFORMATION WANrEp.-The st. Al
bans Messenger gives the following; A
very respectable but utterly destitute
Irish woman came to st. Adams on Nor
day night, seeking her husband, and he is
not to be found. Her apparently truth
tul story is that she received in ireland
letters from her husband John Morrison.
dated at st. Adams, Nt.,-thc first written
about six months ago. the second, about
! two months ago and enclosing money for
! the purpose--urging her to come to him,
at this place where he was in the employ
of the Railroad that some three weeks
since She left Ireland with her four child
rtn and landed in New York, where lack
Of money compelled her to leave the chill
dren and set out alone to join her husband.
Arriving here She is unable IL find her
husband or any trace of him. Can any
one furnish the desired information
! SLATE QCARRTfs or NoEriuIELD.-
/ Among the varied forms of Industry by
which Ncrmonters are employed and the
State enriched may be mentioned the
1 quarrying and sending TO market roof
/ stating in the town of Mortified. There
are, in all, eight quarries, viz: The Adams,
the Union, the King Farm, the Mortified,
besides two at the South Village, whose
distinctive designations we do not know
the Governor Paine and the Boston and
Mortified. The two latter have suspended
operations, but the rest are all worked
and yield an average of about sixteen
hundred square of roofngslate annually.
A squire Of slate being technical term
denoting quantity of slate sufficient to
cover one hundred square feet of roof, and
is equivalent to thousand shingles of the
ordinary width The slate is cut accord
ing to the size Of the stone, and with due
regard to economy of the irregularly
shaped masses as they come from the
quarry into thirty different sizes, the
| largest being 81 l6 inches, eighty-fve
pieces making a square, and the smallest
32x6 inches, five hundred and fifty pieces
making square. The usual price of slate
is $3.50 per square delivered at the depot.
The Adams quarry employs about twenty
four men constantly, and therefore there
are one hundred and forty or one hundred
and fifty men employed at present in all
the quarries, to whom are paid prices
from $1,75 to $3.50 per day for their
labor. The skaters receive $50, and the
quarrymen an average of 500 per day.
I'-Reposioyy.
/ DoRsET.-A Dorset CORES pendent to
the Manchester Journal SAYS: There has
been, for a week or two past, bear ON
our Mountains, creating no little excite
ment in town by killing sheep for some of
our farmers. Since first seen by one Asa
Lamphere, he has been hunted most every