Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-06
Vermont Items.
ADDISON COUNTY.

The salary of tie postmaster at Shore
ham is $40.
The Congregational Church at Or
well was organized July Is, 1885.
There are 13 Congregational Churches
in Addison county.
Addison county was incorporated
February 27, 1888.
E. N. Briggs, Vile Lawrence, Har-
vey Bell. were Senator's from Addison
county in 1887. Messrs. Briggs and Bell
were Senators the previous year.
The Baptist Church was organized in
1914
There are Baptist Churches in Ad-
olson county.
Lemon Fair River rises in Orwell
| and runs into Otter Creek, at Wey bridge.
Addison county is watered by Otter
Creek, and its branches and the land along
its course is uncommonly fertile.
The superintendent of schools in the
town of Addison reports that the old
practice of teachers boarding around is
in the main adhered to in that town.
Mr.. d. Howe, aud A.. Hamblin, of
Bridport, two old veteran trappers, have
caught 40 muslirats this spring.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The salary of the postmaster at Ar
lington is $40.
The salary of the postmaster at Ben
nington Center is $500.
The Salisbury Baptist Association
anniversary was held in Salisbury, June
II, 1871.
The Baptist church in Manchester
was organized in l7Sl,
The second session of the Vermont
Legislature was held at Bennington, com
mencing June 4, 11,S, closing June Is,
after session of fifteen days.
-OEsamus c. Merrill "a former MEM
Der Of Congress- and Winslow C. Watson
now Of Port Kent, n Y, were the first
Senators from Bennington County, in
1886.
There are ten Congregational church.
es III Bennington County.
The Congregational church in Dorset
was organized in 1874
Mount Anthony, in Bennington, is
2,505 feet above the soean.
Some of tho head branches of West
River are formed in Bennington County,
and flow casterly into the Connecticut.
The Superintendent of schools in
Arlington, in hls report, says: We
have had too many iIlcpmpetent teachers
in our schools the past year
"A young lady Of Bennington, mar
ried but a short time 10 Pownal man,
eloped last Saturday with another dear
charmar." and brought mp in Albany,
where she was found by the deserted hus-
band and compelled to return to the resi-
dence Of her parents in Bennington. She
avows her intentions not to return TO the
home of her husband, and says she has
the best of reasons for her singular con-
duct Though found at the Stanwix
Hall, Albany, the injured husband .
thought it best not to re-enact the Cole .
Hiscock tragedy, and her paramour was
allowed to escape with ne further injury
tn the loss Of a coat and hat.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The salary of the postmaster at Lyn-
don is $40.
The salary of the postmaster at Nc
lndoes Falls is $3.50.
The Second Congregational church
in St. Johnsbury has in fifty years con-
tributed S13,577s0 to the Vermont Do
mostio Missionary Society
-Caledonia county has thirteen Con-
churches.
Alexander Harvey was the first Rep
resentative from Barnet, III 1888. He
was also Representative in 1891, 1892,
! 1913 and 1894; also in lsO2-3.
The population of Caledonia county
in 1901 was only 2,l61.
The Baptist church in Passumpsic
was organized in 1911.
The Superintendent of Schools in
Hardwick reports that the schools of
that town for the year 1867 may be gen
orally regarded as successful yet some
failures have occurred, and dissatisfac-
ton in some quarters prevailed, traceable
directly to either inefficient teachers or to
the perversity of citizens who failed to
fully comprehend their own duties or
the value of the services rem
dered.
Frank Carleton, of East st. Johns
bury was struck by board on a revolw-
ing saw, recently, in a saw mill, and
hurled through II hole in the floor, sixteen
feet down into the water. He will re-
cover, although badly hurt.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Fairfield held meeting on May LIST
to see if she would change the conditions
Of her r. R. bonds.
The directors of the Franklin County
and Mechanical Society hold
a meeting at Sheldon May 5.
-Messrs. Smith and Carpenter, of
Montgomery, have started rake factory.
IN. B. Payne has sold his farm in
Fairfield to Smith Sturges for $4,000 and
w. Wakeman, his house and lot in the
same place, to A. A. Farrand, for $4,000.
Several of the mechanics intending
TO leave st. Adams for California have
changed their minds, letters from those
who had preceded them not giving very
accounts of the prospects
there.
Mr.. S. A. Grice, of Franklin, has pur-
chased of Edward Powers the west-half