Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-03-26


"A Merchants Union express office has
been opened in Bellows Falls
A man in Ludlow has been fined q
Ion cruelty to his horse,
Rev, Pliny n, Granger has been elect
ed County Commissioner for Caledonia
county,
r., NJ, Bill has been elected County
Commissioner for Orange county for the
ensuing year
e, J, Woodbury. has been elected
County Commissioner for Essex county,
without opposition,
Hon, Luther Baker Of Newport lost
nice horse Monday morning last, valued
at $500,
The st. Adams Musical Association
has elected Mr., III. l.. Proctor musical
director, in place OF Mr., +, ?, Phillips,
resigned,
"A ferry is projected between St. Al
bans and plattsburgh, \. u, and measures
are ON foot TO form stock company To-
run it,
There are. as appears by late CEN
sus, 929 inhabitants resident within the
corporate limits Of the village Of Lud-
low.
Roy. James Upham, DID, former
President of the New Hampton Institu-
ton, has sold his residence in Fairfax for
$500.
Clyde lodge No. 8, Of Good Templars
was recently organized at Dandy by Rev.
Pliny Ii. White of Coventry.
The shipments of produce from St
Adams on Wednesday, rIa the VT c. r,
r., consisted of one car load Of cheese
and 20 tubs Of butter.
The Twenty-ffth Annual Fair Of the
Addison County Agricultural Society will
be held at the society's grounds at Mid
dlebury, on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, Oct 9th, eth and sth.
Rev. f. A. Titus has been elected
Superintendent of Schools for St. Johns
bury, and the town has voted to pay him
800 in addition to his legal compensa-
ton.
District clerks are remindcdahat the
annual school meeting occurs March 3lst,
and should issue their warnings in due
time.
George W. Hendee of Morrisyille Is
to speak in Greensboro, in behalf of the
Lamoille Valley Railroad, Wednesday
evening.
The food of accumulated ice rushing
down the Missisquoi, has done 5000
damage at Swanton, carrying away por-
ton of saw-mill dam and 80 feet of the
bridge with one pier,
Mr. Ambrose II. Burgess of Grafton
was severely injured last week while
UiUrTIrrI- m l-i-- a=lannin.
nearly severed his leg just above the ankle
joint.
Several ladies of Chester gave their
gentlemen ride recently, and entertained
them at the Mountain House in Perkins
vile, in good style.
The Second Annual Fair of the Or
leans County Agricultural Society will be
held at Barton Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sept. 10Th and 10th
There is considerable excitement in
Charleston, Vt, on the Temperance ques-
ton, and heated discussions take place
almost daily A. J. Morrill, has been
threatened with prosecution, and has con-
sequently closed his hotel.
"A Mr.. Merrill was MORALLY injured
at Island Pond a few days since, being
crushed by the falling of a tree. He died
on the ears the following day, before
reaching his family in Portland, Me.
Mr. Charles NJ Halt Of Montpelier
has a sheep, which in the last twenty-five
months has given birth to nine lambs, and
all, with one exception, are alive and -four
ishing Who beats this;
The Advent Society propose to build
Theological Seminary at Waterbury.
Leading men from Boston and Providence
will be at Waterbury next week to look
the ground over.
Wesley Hammond of North Troy, Vt,
has improved the good shedding of the
present winter, and has drawn up for his
own use neat little wood pile of 800
cords, which he thinks will last him about
eight years.
In the catalogue of medical students
connected with Harvard College, we find
the names of five Vermonters,- William
H. Hills of Westminster, Lewis H. Har-
vey of Barnet, Simeon P. Dresser of Graf
ton, David Morrill, Of Peacham and Fran
els F. Parker of Springfield.
A boy named Bowers, who had been
hcurishing round some days with pocket
pistol, in Montpelier, had his sport sud-
denly checked the other day by discharg-
ing a bullet through his hand
Prof Henri Erni, chief chemist in
the Agricultural and Patent Office De-
partments, and late Professor in the Uni
versity of Vermont, of Nashville, and at
Yale, is about to return to his native city
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