Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-02-13
state Notes.

A''i ANHit AANN a l'IA4aAA'AA VI AH'''
Caledonia county has los Justices Of
the Peace
The Seventeenth Vermont regiment
was in three battles
Tho salary of Hon, Asa o. Adds of
st. Adams, consul at Nice, consists of
fees taken.
Mrs. Phabe Sowles has been APP
pointed z. NJ at West Alburgh.
The Vermont House at Island Pond
was burned Sunday morning.
DR.. Isaac L. Hays, the Arctic Ex-
plorer," is to lecture before the Young
Mems Association at Burlington, on
Wednesday evening, February Goth
A reader Of the New England Far
mer in North Bernardston trusted in that
journals accommodation of a mixture
Of whale and kerosene oils for safety, and
tried it in his barn lantern. Result, an
explosion, a shattered lantern, and ruined
faith in the farmer.
The ice in Cumberland Bay at Platts-
burgh, through its entire extent is frozen
- to - inches in thickness; and from
there to Burlington and over the whole
surface of Lake Champlain is of greater
thickness than ever known before.
On Friday night, young French wo-
man, about 1, years of age, named Green
| ough, who was watching with sick per.
son in Burlington, upset Kerosene lamp
and the flames catching her clothing, She
was so dreadfully burned that her life is
dispaired of.
The Caledonia County Agricultural
Society have appointed committee tc
test by chemical analysis the commercia
fertalizers offered for sale and report
through the pres rs early As April /.
A meeting of the farmers Of Chitten-
den County is called to meet at Burling'
ton, Feb. 18th, for the formation OF a new
Agricultural Society
Charles Harris of West Brattleboro
lately cut a maple tree on his farm which
Welded IS! cords OF wood. 1t was con
,idered the largest tree in town. 1t stood
in the open field, and had long been noted
for its great yield of sap.
AT a recent distribution Of prizes il
the Sabbath School, at Westminster West
/ William Dawson, a rolored youth, tool
the first prize. handsome bound Bible
for committing 10 memory the largest
number of verses in the Bible within q
given time When William went there
FIVE years ago, he scarcely knew the
alphabet but 10y attending school three
months each winter and diligently apply
ing himself to his books, has acquired ;
fair common school education.
Emerson Watts OF Whiting, j. man
ufacturer OF wooden pumps, In nine
years, ending in December, 1861, he bored
and built % miles of aqueduct, and mad,
pumps for the same. Allowing 300 day,
OF actual labor per year. he must have
averaged - 40 feet per day, of aqucduc'
bored and built. The man also lost som'
time necessarily,
The Thirteenth Vermont Regimen
was in only one battle.-RWlnDa Hgra'd
Zone good deed is worth thousand
years of prayer" and this one battle wa,
Gettysburg, an ordeal trying enough t.
make reputation equal to all the &c
cumulated glory of score of ordinary
fights burlington Times.
We learn that II. d. Moore has beer
appointed postmaster at Plymouth, and
the office is to be moved TO the Notch,
where it used to be many years.
At the annual meeting of the stock
, holders of the Mortified National Banl
/ 'erley Belknap, Alvin Braley, John Lynde
John Lamson and j. c. Gallop were elect
ed irectors, and subsequently Hon. Alvin
Bralc was elected President by the boart
Of dire 'ctors.