Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-10-15
Vermont Items.

eoiycd tho appointment Of Register of
Probate for the New Haven District,
The crops about Barnet and vicinity
all yielded very well this year, Potatoes
are much better than people expected,
The oats are not weighing SO much as last
year,
There are eighty-seven subordinate
lodges Of Good Templar. in Vermont.
"A party went coon hunting the other
night from Bellows Falls TO Walpole, and
brought home coon weighing seventeen
pounds.
Tho annual meeting of the stock
holders Of the Vermont and Canada rail-
road will be held at the Welden House,
in St. Albans, ON the 18th, for the election
of Directors, and such other business as
may legally be brought before the meet
ing.
The receipts of the Derby Line Gus
tom House for September, up to Wednes-
day morning last, for duties, amount to
SS,2S2 ~. OF this amount, SI3Sl.l9 are
duties on cattle,
Tho Butler" Masonic Lodge in
Mont ntsomcry, was organized the other
day.
Bear. are troubling sheep and calves
in Salisbury.
-Smugeled butter to the extent Of GA
tubs was seized at St Adams last Mon
day,
In Fairfax. October End, the barn
ot Mr. H. Weaver took fire by the upsctt-
ing of kerosene lantern. and was con-
Surnryl with It it. 1t tefteTst-. Less, $40; no
insurance.
Mrs. Sarah Stiles, Of Peru, died on
Tuesday OF last week, at the age of One
Hundred and Two Years, Five Months
and Twenty-Five days.
About forty dollars was realized Tor
the benefit OF the Congregational Church,
Sept. 30th. from the tableaux. a rainy
evening WAS he cause OF but moderate
at,eudau,c
C. b. Hitchcock has killed, in Sand
gate, in thirty-two days, this season, 404
wooduhucks, During four days in Sept
ember, he brought to an untimely end
l02 of the varmints.
DR., Il. +, Hamilton OF Sutton Flat
I. u while at work on the roof oi Ms hi'
house. last friday fcn 70 the ground
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- Harvey Carr, Of East Montpelier,
raise" 'he p'9l season - ouShcl' oi corn
IN tne ear 10 % rods oi Iahd' ooih3 "o'"'
NV ""S''''S 10 inc acre
In the family OF stephen herricK, OF
hlddieSeN' there are three mothers two
gFandmo'herS' one great grandmother
three daughters two granddaughterS, one
great S'H'uu"u8 LVe'' TWO WIVES ol' wiz
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-lhe receipts OF the Lamollle County
Agricultural Society, at their late fair,
We're Sl,l2o.
A horse belonging to DER. l.. Flagg,
of Cambridge, while trying to scratch his
head with one of his hind feet, recently,
caught the shoe on the buckle of the
throat latch and chokod himself to death.
Mr.. y. II. Fletcher Esq, of Barton,
has COW that has yielded him daily
most OF the past summer, three and half
ten quart palltulls OF rich milk.
j. W. Rice, of Greensboro has
plucked from his barley field fifty-four
heads OF barley, the product of one kernel.
lie counted several of the heads and they
average fitty-two kernels each, all plump
anu sound Inns gives a total OF 2ooS
Aor'iolS from the one planted