The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1868-04-17
State Items.

The town of Cambridge with a Grand
List Of a little over six thousand foui
hundred, and a population of seventeen
hundred, with little over three hun
dred voters, claims to have fifty men
worth from Sl0.0 900 to a SI00. 900.
THE Caicdoaiaa learns that Mr. Cliff
ford, on the Danville road, made one
thousand pounds Of sugar from the sap
Of 300 trees, in six days.
Mr.. c. L. STEVENS, Of North Danville.
has pair Of bronze TURKEYS that weighed
when Is months old 53I lbs-the gobbler
weighs 32l and the hen 2l}
THE citizens of Castleton are raising
subscription sufficient to build a Court
House and Jail, to be donated to the
county Of Rutland, provided the county
will locate them ia that town and make
it the shire town.
THE Caledonia National Bank of Dam
Vile has declared "A semi-annual divi-
dend of four per cent, payable April lst
PROF. KELLoG, Of Middlebury Col
lege, assist Secretary Rankin at the
Teachers Institutes heis now holding in
the State He delivers lectures on Flo
cution, which are said to be of a high
character.
4. Y. X. WILSON has been appoint
ed master Of Rutland Lodge, L. D., vice
J. d. Green, resigned
STATE Treasurer Page is in funds so
that he proposes to redeem 500, O00 of
the outstanding bonds OF the State.
I. N. McINDoE, of the Windsor Jour
nal, has purchased the Springfield edi-
ton of the Brattleboro Record, and will
hereafter date portion of his edition of
it for that town.
THE name Of the post Office at "Quee-
ehy" has been changed by the depart
ment to "Quechee," in accordance with
the accepted spelling of the name.
THE Lyndon Union says, we are in
the habit of stealing much of our Orleans
County news from the Newport Express,
which is a most excellent local paper.
Last week we took the item that a horse
belonging to Rev. G. II. Bailey fell over
and broke his neck. This week the En-
press says it was rocking horse and
cody reminds US that last week was
about the first Of ApriI0.
MAJOR JOHN PErrEs, Of Windsor
who was L. :. Marshal of Vermont
twenty years ago, died in Windsor, on
the oath ult., aged .. He had lived in
that village IS years. Three sons and
a daughter survive him.
Col W. G. VEAzY and Capt w. c. /
Dmton of Rutland have formed a CO.
partnership in the law business.
Two distinct attempts have been made |
in Rutland since the last great fire to set /
fire to a building connected with Mans
field and Stimson's Machine shop. In
each case the fire was fortunately dis
covered in time to prevent serious dam
age.
f. A. FULLER, of Pomfret, has sold
his four years old Merino buck, Green
Mountain" to J. w. Judkins, of Mex
leo, Mo-, for 5000.
GEO. NJ. JOHNSON has been appointed !
pos- master at Huntington, in place of J.
NJ. johnson deceased.
NOAH HoYT, Esq, who recently died
at CastletOn, was born in that town in
1894, studied law with Hon. Chauncy |
Langdon, and was admitted TO the bar |
at the March term Of the Rutland COun
ty Court in 1916, and retired after one
life to agricultural pursuits.
S. b. ROCKWELL, of Middlebury, Of
fers sS5 in premiums to parties who shall
set out the largest nd,thriftiest and larg-
est elms in that village, and SIS to who
ever viii cut down the most of the I'M
slightly willows in the place.
THE Otter Creek Marble Company's
quarry, one and one-half miles south of |
Brandon Station on the Rutland and |
Burlington Railroad, was discovered in
June, 1866, and bonded by the Rutland
firm, Baxter d Dean, and DR.. Prime, of |
Brandon, for $50, 900, and passed into the
hands of Boston capitalists in the Sep
TENDER following, who placed the sum
of $3.50 900 in the hands of their Treasur-
er, Mr.. Chs. F. Joy, for the purpose of
developing. The agent has contracted
with responsible parties to raise and saw
ten thousand feet month, commenc-
ing with July next.
J. ]. MoNAHAN, Esq, has enlisted a
Militia company in Burlington, 36 out
of his 81 men being old soldiers.
DURING the absence from home of
Rev. A. S. Cooper of Milton last week,
with his family, some one entered his
house with false-keys, and stole several
promissory notes amounting toover $l7-
90, and certificate of deposit for $1,000.
Nothing else in the house was stolen |
and nothing disturbed, showing that |
the theft must have had knowledge of |
Mr.. Cooper's having the property in the |
house and where it was placed.
THE citizens of East Middlebury are |
vigorous preparations for build
ing during the present season.