Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-07-22

Butter is selling in the Ner4ennes
market at from 30 to 80 cents per pound
"A w. Crane, well known and re-
spected citizen of Nergennes, died in that
city ON Wednesday last, aged 81.
At Middlebury ard North Ferrisburg
the Rutland Railroad c ompany is putting
up new waad,heds for the better accom-
modation OF the road The one at North
Ferrisburg, is to be two hundred feet
long,
REMINGTON COUNTY.
-Amasa Campbell of Pownal, aged
saventy-aisht years, was SO badly stune
bybecs on the I'll inst, that lie died in "a
few hours.
The Battenkil National Bank OF
Manchester has declared semi-annual
dividend Of five per cent free OF govern
ment tax
Two brother, named Durritt recently
xii ed lynx in Sunderland, ;.oh was .
feet long, 20 inches high and weighed
23l pounds.
Inc 1'enssel' or and Saratoga Rail
road Comp'ny are about to put an exten.
son Of. ~ feet in length on their wooo
shed the Rupert Depot Grounds.
Were il not for the surrounding tos1ns
they who live in Pownal would sajoy
the millennium There is not pl-AJa il
town where Intoxicating liquors are
sold
Mrs. Poor, widow, aged about fifty
years, and residing with her son il
Arlington, hung herself in the Glebe
woods near the railroad in that town OF
Sunday, the It'll inst. She had been foi
some time low spirited and partially de
ranged.
-Brownell Niles of Center SALISBURY
went home drunk on the afternoon Of
July 9th. and insisted that his VIII,
should drink some whisky from bottl'
| which he had with him. She declined,
when he seized their babe and poured 3
quantity of spirits down its throat, nearly
,tranglng it, This done he took a butch
| er knife and avowed his intention to cut
| his wife's throat He gave her a severe
cut on the hand, when she ran out, anc
neighbors coming up, Niles took TO hi
| hcels and remained out OF sight several
d4ys. He has since returned, and upon
promising better fashions in future, his
wife consented to forgive the matter, a.
did also the officers of the law.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The hotel keeper at Danville, having
been indicted for selling liquor, shut VI
his house on great crowd on the 3rd inst.
Unless he can drink them he don't intend
to eat them.
The Caledonia County Medical So,
eiety held a meeting at Walker hotel, III
; Lyndonyille, few days since, at which
most OF the physicians in the county were
; present,
A few weeks ago one Wheeler, o.
Wells River, went to Groton and engaged
board for himself and wife-of Mr.
Kicker. The woman went at the tim'
; agreed upon, with babe two weeks cid
In a few days Wheelers true wife, WIZ
lives at Wells River with three children
entered a complaint to the Grand jury
The guilty pair were brought before
magistrate aud committed to await tria
in the County Court
ESSEN ooU:STY.
On the 18th inst, IS Mrs. Michae
Baker and her son, OF West Concord
II were riding to church the holdbacks c
the harness broke, letting the WACO
: against the horse. The animal ran, thre'
!. the occupants out, inilicting serious il
iuries ON Mrs. b., fr ON which it Is though
doubtful ii she RECEIVERS.
:, A new house, owned by Thoma
: Gram Of Island Pond, was struck b
light ming and wholly consumed on tn
morning OF the 10Th inst. 1t had bee
, insured, but the policy did not go int
effect until about ten hours after it Wa
burned
The mother of the child recent
found dead at Island Pond, has been a
certained to be a girl from Canada, WI
> had worked at Lowell Mass, and Wa
2 trying to find employment at Islam
Pond. She gave birth to the child in til
bushes, rolled stone upon it and crust
ed it to death, al ID then took the cars fc
Canada.
L LAMoILLE COUNTY.
There are N ore strangers residing
| Cor k. hot OF nj
previous year.
j, The Music al Convention, held
s. johnson last W, eek, commencing on Tue
day and closing on Friday night with
= grand concert, was very pleasant ar
IN successful aff4 ir Prof. Wyman was
ce rector
Some sn' SAX thief entered the barn
It, o. III. finder, of Hyde Park on Thursdi
e. night last aud stole 81 turkeys. N
o. Tinker, just ly incensed, offers a reward
in twenty-five dollars for the return of t
( prop erty and the detection of the thief.
u ORLEANS COUNTY.
ne Last Saturday, Sidney SWEET of Ne
10 port, while peeling hemlock bark, sp
ID open one foot with an ak. He was SOL
n. distance from the house, and the woul
Is bled SO prof usely as to plainly mark !
course. He came near bleeding to dea
before medic al assistance could be p,
re cured.
~ Last Tue sday, as Dea. Horace Port
+ was filing in at one end of the bridge
lie North Troy, he backed his load too ne
the edge of tho bank, and Load, cart q