Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-10-29

" 'Aeao TOOLS amongst our Selves" and
ask for new election, or for the retention
OF the commissions Of Jonathan Hunt. as
high sheriff, and others, in order that
they, ,the petitioners may have an oppor.
tunity "to Enter a proper Impeachment,
and prove that Said persons are Not onely
Disqualified for holding any public Sta
ton, BY their own bad Conduct, but Can
not be freeman Of the State OF Vermont
by the Constitution thereof" Similar
IremonstrnceS We're presented by the
inhabitants Of other towns, but COM
mission was issued TO Jonathan Hunt as
Sheriff, and subsequently to all of the
other officers.
In the discharge ofhis duties as Sheriff,
Mr. Hunt was called upon TO arrest Tim.
othy Church, prominent Yorker" and
at that time claiming to DO the sheriff Of
Cumberland County, under the authority
Of New York Church successfully re-
sisted the attempt TO arrest him and il
became necessary TO call out the militia
TO enforce the warrant lie was subsc-
quently arrested by military force un-
der command OF Ethan Allen, When
committed TO jail by Hunt, he declared
that he was Sheriff OF Cumberland Coun-
/ ty and had the right TO command the Jail
f" You have used us well, said Church,
'-and expect soon to have you confined,
and will treat you likewise, Tomorrow
morning, by nine or ten o'clock, you shall
/ be here in our stead, and we will be walk
/ ing about" Church, however, soon dis
covered that New York had ceased 10
/ have even the shadow OF authority over
/ Vermont-and that Hunt, and not him
self, commanded the Jail.
/ In 1888 he was chosen a Representative
from Vernon to the General Assembly of
Vermont and was reelected in 1854 and
again in lS02. In 1891 he was member
from Vernon, of the Convention that
adopted the Constitution of the United
States, and was also a member of the
constitutional Convention Of 1898.
Ile was in lis6, elected member OF
the Governors Council, and held this
Office for eight years, receiving nine cleo
tious, being annually reelected. down to
and including the year 1914. At this
election, 1,9i there was no choice OF
/ Lieutenant Governor, by the people, and
on the second day Of the session of the
Legislature Ills Excellcncy the Govern
or, Council and houso,of Representatives,
Joined in Graud-Committee, for the pur-
pose of clectiug Lieutenant Governor,
for the year ensuing, and the Honorable
Jonathan Hunt, Esquire was declared
elected" He thercupon resigned his office
is Councillor He was reelected Lieu
tenant Governor, hy the people, in 1875.
lie was a member Of the frst Council OF
Censor, which assembled in l,S5, and was
again a member Of the Council of Cen,ors
of 1899.
In 1900. Jonathan Hunt Elijah Dewey.
Roswell Hopkins and William Chamber
lain were elected, by the Legislature, Pres
ideutial Electors. They cast the four
votes Of Vermont for John Adams, OF
Massachusetts,, for President, and for
Charles Cote-worth Pinckney, Of South
/ Carolina. for Vice President.
/ Governor Hunt died at Vernon. ola, TIE
l-t day of june l~23. in the eighty-sixth
year OF his age
MEs-R~. FAIRBANKS or ST. JoHNsBURY
Among the powers for good in the
State Of Vermont. is the well-known firm
Of the Fairbanks They'll have built up
village. .il,d in the construction OF rail-
roads, -rectcd churches. established
schools. >aut boys to college, been liberal
10 benevolent associations, and benefited
IN numlerles, ways the entire population
fCaIoloaia County.
! The original firm has somewhat chan
Eed by the death Of Gov Fairbanks, and
we believe brother. Younger members
Of the family, Horace, and others. have
filled the vacant places and the work and
enterprise still 20 on.
According to the Caledonian, whose
editor has family alliance with the
Fairbanks family, the following Stats
ties represents in some measure the
amount Of business transacted by the
| firm:
Hands employed, 415, with d monthly
pay roll of over 100000, whole number
| employed at home and abroad, over GOO:
freight to and from, ovey 10000 tons per
year, 1900 tons Lehigh and Cumberland
coal, -, O0G bushels Of charcoal 40 aons
Of cast steel, 30 tons Of copper, 100000
feet Of lumber are yearly consumed. Al
50 pig iron and bar iron in large quanti-
ties; 5000 gross Of screws, 650 dozen of
| files, Dc. Last week they packed for
shipment iOS portable platform scales,
md lOl hay scales. besides a large num-
Der Of SIN .ller scales Their weekly pro-
duct varies from 500 TO 1000 scales.
Since the first Of May last they have
manufactured only A." to order = one hun
dred and ten railroad depot and track
scales, with platforms varying from u to
! ll2 feet in length, and if built in one
continuou, platform it would extend
nearly three tourths of a mile. They are
now constructing for railroad in Penn
| ,ylvania two scales, each to be ll2 feet
long, with capacity of 1875 tons. The
scales 20 to and are adadted for use in all
countries on the face Of the earth.
|
Pooh BLAIR. - The journal which
lately spent several weeks in inventng
distortions of the name Of the next Pres
ident of the United States has begun on
a new subject.
| This time it is Blair.
On Thursday last democratic authority