Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1868-01-23

-AnaoVer mas population of $50.
-Chittendcn county has l6 towns and
"a postofIes.
The Second Vermont Regiment was
in 81 battles
There was raised in Vermont in 1866
iifty-nine thousand pounds of tobacco.
The amount allowed by the general
government on the third installment claim
for money expended for raising troops,
&c, during the war was SAL ,067,50.
- Chittenden county has furnished
thIee Governors: Thomas Chittenden,
Martin Chittenden. c. p. Van Mass
The annual meeting of the Caledonia
County Wool Growers Association meets
at st. Johnsbury, Jan. 81.
AT the mass Christian Convention for
Washington county, held at Mortified,
January It'll, there were 20 churches rep
resented, with membership of l,S4O, Of
which number only 1876 were young men
/ under 40 years. The Sunday Schools had
an average attendance of 2,l32 scholars.
The Central Vermont Musical Asso-
citation holds convention at Montpelier
the first week in February:
! Prof Quimby of Dartmouth College
! Interested the Classical School and citi-
zcns of Norwich ON Tuesday evening, 1th
1 inst, by lecture on Measures.
The Universalist Church in Bethel
celebrated its fftieth anniversary on sun
day evening. Dec Goth. An historical
discourse was delivered by the Pastor. Rev
:. A. Parker.
The receipts of the festival given by
the ladies of the First Liberal Christian
Society in Castleton, ON New Years even
ing, amounted to $2l2.
The pamphlet laws of Vermont of
1861 are published. The pamphlet con-
tains 40S pages, 60 more than last year,
and is the largest volume of the session
laws ever printed in this State. The laws
/ Of the special session, the civil govern
ment Of the State, and the grand list ar,
included in this pamphlet.
/ A large elm was lately cut down on
! the premises of Seymour W. Pierce III
Hinesburgh, measuring five feet at the
butt and being tiftytwo feet in length be
fore reaching a limb At its topit meas
urcd three feet and nine inches inside tn,
bark. 1t is to be worked into rims fol
cheese boxes
p. Hatch Of East Corntii, has invent
ed a saw fling machine which files all Tia,
teeth at one time.
1t is said the Vt. Central Railroad
wants to build the Woodstock Railroad
running it to No. Hartland. The Ag
says if this is allowed, the through rout
to Rutland will be killed.
The wife Of Geo. Farnham of 81
Johnsbury, tried to kill herself lately b.
taking opium. Her husbands habitua
drunkenness was the cause of it all.
The Newport Express says: Fou
fair sized families passed through Islam
Pond recently on their way to some c
: our manufacturing towns for employ
ment. Besides the eight parents ther
: were fifty-six children-two families {
sixteen each and two of twelve each, i
: all sixty-four souls Some America
town has no doubt ere this been please
with this sudden and respectable additio
{ to its number
Col Cyrus Eaton of Barton, on h
e I'D birthday made string of five success
n i've shots with rifle, firing seventy rod
: and twice coming within an inch of tn
: centre of the mark, while three inchl
was the farthest that he came from i
t How many men Of his age can show equi
e kaenness Of sight and steadiness of nerve