Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-09-24
Vermont Items.


offered to raise $4,000 for hotel
--Benjmnin Hancock, Of Glover, recent.
ly sent to market hog weighing 7e0
pounds,
East Saginaw, Michigan, fired fifty
guns in honor Of the Vermont election.
"A panther has recently been seen in
Craitsbury.
! -Ticonderoga, \, Y, has lodge Of
Good Templars Of ls2 members,
The recent Ladies' Fair, at the Court
House, Manchester, melted about 500,
The burning out of chimney in the
Manchester House, last week Sunday,
caused great excitement for a while,
Louis Dippcr, Of Vergennos, lost his
pocket book and 500 between that place
and Burlington, on Wednesday; supposed
TO have been stolen,
Hon, w. C, Smith has procured an
analysis Of the residuary matter in maple
sugar. II is mostly tartaratc Of lime,
having its origin in the sap, and is always
present 10 greater or less extent.
Mrs Frances D, Burroughs, wife Of
Scion Burroughs, formerly of Vcrgcnncs.
died OF consumption, in st, Paul, MINI, /
sept, lit.
The Boston Journal says: \ Yer
mont contemporary in an obituary notice .
OF a very worthy citizen, says "Hc killed F.
most Of the officers in the gilt Of the
town" OF course the blunder is typo
graphical one
The Black River Musical Ass5ria.
ton met at lrasburgh last Friday.
The editor Of the Calcdouiau has
raised =. pounds Of early Rose potatoes
from pound Of seed.
-Massrs Hart Il Whitcof Burlington,
with their screen churn," turned cream
into butter inside Of two minutes, at tho
State Fair.
The late Nh, T. 7 Gray, Of Milton.
hcquea'hcd $4,000 to the American Mis-
-iouAry Association, and $4,000 to the
Congregational Society at Milton Falls.
\ minister was thrown from horse,
a f.w days since, in Boston, and that is
what the local paper calls spreading the
gospel in - bcnightcl region
Tho custom house at Island Pond, in
July, received $l1,9i573, and in August.
Sla,d3S0l, in gold, l3t ,i2S pound, OF
wool being among the inspirations for
the two months.
Lewis Allbcc, of Holland, had
horse stolen on Saturday night, the 9gth ,
ult., and Carlos Morcau lost a wagon and
harness the same night
While two boys, Peter Lujtcr and
Benjamin Gaguon, OF Island Pond, were
getting gum from a pile of slccpers, the
pile fell, instantly killing Luttcr, five I
years old, and 50 iniuring Gagnon that !
his recovery Is doubtful.
A Republican handed a prominent !
Democrat. of Burlington, two wads of /
'otton batting, on Tuesday, with the dry i
Put them in your ears, Doctor, \
heres going to bcP,pS fired presently" \
And there has been
The season" at Mcnphremagog con- !
inucs !
The new town of Stannard was unan- i
mously Republican in the recent election,
md the brave Major General may well be !,
proud of the town that bears his name '
Six Robinson brothers in thcyicinity of !
Glover never have drank any intoxicating
liquor or have used tobacco in amy form.
A congregation were. somewhat star
lied, last Sunday afternoon in Newport, =
BY the sudden settling of the church floor
It only settled few inches and the SER
vice went on.
-Eigar J., son of. A. Prouty, Of New
port, was instantly killed, last Friday, in ,
steam mill at that place by the falling
Of a stick OF timber
John Jenncss, of Craftsbury, owns ,
pair of cart wheels that were made during
the revolutionary war-all oak and quite
sound yet, being made, probably, on the
principle OF Holmes lone horse shay"
A section Of light artillery has been
organized at Eownshcnd and furnished by
The state with Il pair of l2-pounder brass
guns ana the usual equipments and uni
forms provided 10y the State militia law.
Henry A. Scott is lieutenant command
ing.
Tho proposed railroad to connect the
Pass'imrsic Railroad with the Grand
Trunk viii he put under contfaet in a
lev days to be completed iii July, 1870
II viii be 132 miles long, running from
north Derby TO Lenoxyile. This will
make direct connection with Quebec, 20
mules shorter than other route,
A little daughter of Jud.on Bentley,
two years of age, while On u recent visit
TO relatives in SYNDICATE, fell into well
twenty feet deep. Help was soon at
hand and she was rescued from q watery
grave.
"A Lad named Jos. HARDWOOD, living i'm
Manchester, aged fourteen years, and an
apt apprentice Of the devil, was recently
arrested On complaint OF Supt White, Of
the b. and Il. Il. X He has been en-
gagged in attempts to throw the trains Of
the track, as hc says-"just for the fun
Of seeing a smc.sh =
Sheriff Sorlle, of St Adams, recently
secured one OF three Heckeys that had
been engaged in robbery and desired to
get the'other two, the father and brother