Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-04-22
Vermont Items.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.

Snow is four feet deep, and no roads
at Searsburgh.
The salary Of the postmaster at Dor
set, is 5000, and at East Dorset S210.
The salary of the postmaster at Fac
tory Point, is $340.
Prospect Mountain, in Woodford, is
1890 feet above the ocean.
The Hoosic, Battenkill and Pawlst
rivers have their source in Bennington
county, and runs westerly, while Otter
Creek runs northerly.
Uranus c. Merrill, former member
of Congress from this district, and Hon.
Winslow c. Watson, now of Port Kent,
n. Y, were the first Senators from the
county of Bennington in 1886
In February, a179, the Legislature
passed an act in defiance of New York,
dividing Vermont into two counties, Ben
nington on the west, and Cumberland on
the east of the Green Mountains, and di-
vided each county into two shires each,
W anu ~NcN Cii ehS N$i'tf
and Bennington and Rutland on the west
This division run until February, 1871,
when the county of Rutland was incorpo-
rated from Benningt on.
The fortieth annual session of the
Vermont State Baptist Convention was
held at Brattleboro, in 1860. Hon. T. NJ.
Hotchkiss, Moderator; Rev. II, ID.
Hodge, preacher. The baptism in the
State, the previous year, were 2l9, Mem
bership, 1890.
The house of worship of the first
Baptist Church. in SALISBURY, stood
about three-fourths of a mile from the
present village of North Bennington.
This church was called the West Church
for many years, and was afterward
known as Elder Matteson's Church, as
he was its pastor from 1904 to ls44.
- The Bennington Congregational
Association has 10 churches, with mem
bership Of nine hundred and sixty-six,
and received by profession forty-three,
during the year ending june 3lst, 1868.
The first Congregational Church in
Bennington, was organized in 1862.
Tire are three Episcopal Churches
III Bennington County, st. James at
Arlington, Rev. Francis W Smith,
Rector; ST. Peters, Bennington, Rev.
Myron \. Johnson, Rector; lions
Church, MAnchest r,Rey Gormont Graves,
Rector
The Board of Land Agents of the
Episcopal church in this State appropri-
ated 500 To st, james church, Arlington,
in 1865
The Superintendent OF Schools III
Searsburgh, in his report to the Secretary
os the Board of Education, said: The
school houses in this town are wholly
unfit for schools; and it is disgrace to
any town or school district to allow chill
drcn to attend school in such places; but
i'll school meeting | have heard such ex-
presSions as, %, we can have our schools
in summer and fall early, SO the scholars
can get along on account of the cold,
until we can better afford to build new
school house
Thomas O. Mobiles has purchased /"
building lot on Church street, Pownal, on
which the intends to erect a dwelling
house the coming summer.
-Silas Knapp, Of Arlington, died on
the It'll inst, at the age OF eighty-three
years. He was buried on the 9th, by the
Masonic fraternity, of which he has been
a member over half century.
The Reuben Andrew farm. in the
south part of Arlington, has been sold to
Dorman Andrew, Esq, for $500. 1t is
to be occupied by n. l.. Andrew, formerly
of the Nth regiment.
The snow is more than four feet deep
on the level in the woods in Woodford,
while III the clearings it is all the way
from four to twelve feet deep The roads
are in terrible condition.
The ruins of the court house at Ben
nington, brick and other material, has
been sold at auction for 800
Rev Cook has purchased the house
formerly occupied by the late John III.
Kelley, at Pownal.
AT the town meeting in Searsburgh,
on tie last Thursday in March, tax Of
four hundred cents on the dollar was
voted.
Leonard Smith, Of Troy, N. Y, who
owned the bedstead factory at Searsburgh,
left an estate valued at 100000 The
business is to be continued by his sons.
The North Bennington boot and shoe
company, at North Bennington, is the
largest establishment of the kind in the
State. They employ one hundred and
fifty men and manufacture $500 worth of
work day.
On Saturday last, Mr.. Isaac Lille,
of Pownal, trapped blue eagle measur-
ing 8 feet from tip to tip of wings. A
few days before he had seen tracks Of a
Wildcat on the mountain, and having a
sheep die, carried tie carcass to the spot
and left it, thinking the varmint might
perhaps return and devour the dainty
morsel, when Mr.. calculated he could
make arrangements for his capture. A
few days afterwards he visited the spot,
and deserted his eagleship, who flew
away over his head, SO near to him that
he could almost touch him with the whip
which he carried in his hand. He then
went from four-footed to two-footed game,
and on Saturday found the proud bird in
the trap he had set caught by one toe,
and uninjured. When taken from the
trap he did not show much fight.
| Dickens has been threatened with Z
libel suit by the proprietors Of the Al
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