Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-10-28
Vermont Item 5.
ADDISON COUNTY.

| hand, some 2,UUO pounds, at the price OF
IL cents per pound.
The Addison Association of Congre
gational Ministers will meet with Rev
w. w. Winchester, at Bridport, on We'd
nesday of this week. Public services will
be held at the church on Wednesday
evening at Z o'clock Sermon by Rev
w. Magill of Cornwall.
The ladies of the Vermont Baptist
Society will hold "a festival at the Town
Hall on Friday evening.
Mrs Field, wife of Mr.. Benjamin S.
FIELD Of Cornwall. and daughter of
Jesse Ellsworth, Esq, died on Sunday af-
ternoon.
! CALEDONIA COUNTY.
| A peddler named Rothschild h "a his
cart broken open in Dauville the other
day and quite quantity of dry goods and
furs carried off
An eight years old son of J. P Car
land of Paddocksville. mad leg broken
the other day, while jumping. at school.
The lodge of Odd Fellows at 81.
Johnsbury is said to be in holfrishing
condition. 1t has now moved into !. new
and commodious hall
Arthur Wood Of Dlnvlle, last week
slid from the roof OF two-story house.
and only escaped severe and perhaps fatal
consequences by having the fall broken
by the limb of "a shade tree
Luther Bradley of St. Johushury,
had his right arm drawn into threshing
machine on Tuesday morning last, mang
ling the flesh and breaking the bones in a
shocking manner Amputation was per-
formed near the shoulder, and the patient
is doing as we'll as could be expected.
-Nehemiah Page OF Danville, wa,
severely injured last week by the falling
Of some heavy timber " bile he was taking
down the frame of a shed
On Wednesday morning Of last week,
Loren Hale Of Waterford, slipped on the
frosty grass. breaking hi- right arm above
the wrist, and getting Otherwise badly
bruised
Mr.. Levi McIWyre, late Of Brohkfeld,
died in Danville, U.'t. 30. --a co ,.a-~.
Mrs. Sally Stewart, OF Ryegate, died Oct.
5, eyed So Mrs. Reuben Spalding, OF
Lyndon, died Oct. 10, aged II.
About f.pr o'clack la-t Friday alter
noon, ss two young men named Charles
Houghton and Charles Nichols were driv-
ing near Lyndon Corner. they were
stopped BY George NJ. Downs and james
Howard, one OF whom took the horse by
the bride, and the other. displaying re-
volver, dem 4uded what little money they
had The boys claimed that they were
in fun but the authorities could not
see it in that light, and they are now III
jail awaiting examination.
ORANGE COUNTY
\ lthauiI B,il,y Of Newh4ry, had a 7
horse worth $500 killed in Bath, \. II /,
on Tuesday He was driving III buggy
aud met u man driving the other way.
Mr.. Bailey turned out, but the other man
ran against him, one shaft penetrating
the breast of the horse, sklliin4 him almost
instantly.
Mr. Josiah Prescott Of Ver-hirc, died
Oct 10, aged 50
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Tho man Daussctt, who 50 badly
injured at the slate quarry in Nnrthtield
several days siuce, has since die3
--Benjanin Durant, formerly of Wal
den, died in Calais on the All inst, aged
SIG years.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
One of the most affecting incidents
of the late flood in Vermont, occurred at
inst before Frederick, who
was lost, went over the dam and falls
two of his little children on the
bank aud saw their father on the fatal
raft of lumber. Too young to under
stand the danger to which be was ex-
posed. each in childish innocence hailed
and cried to their father but an instant
before he went down-"good bye, papa"
A ferry will soon be established be-
tween Brattleboro and Hinsdale, n. H.,
in place of the bridge swept away by the
flood.
j. Estey & Co. of Brattleboro, have
bought the Dickinson property on Birge
street in that village, and will immedi-
ately erect a melodeon mandatory on it.
Joseph Steen of Brattleboro has been
in the bookselling and publishing bust
ness forty years, the longest of any firm
in New England except Croker Il Brews-
,er of Boston.
Daniel Smith of Wilmington, elected
rom his windpipe, the other day, an iron
peg about an inch long, which he swal-
owed last February, and which has kept
lin coughing most of the time since.
The Windham County Court, lately
n session at Newfane, sentenced James
Kerfee to twenty years in the State Prison
or rape; Mary L. Phillips, six years for
lttempt to kill A. L. Wilder; Ebenezer
ten years for manslaughter
md Charles G. Fiske to pay $242 fine and
,osts for obtaining money by falsely re-
himself to be an agent OF the
Little Wanderers Home at Boston. +,
WINDSOR COUNTY.
The town Of Woodstock has voted to
,uild an iron bridge, to replace one the I
lood destroyed in the village.
Two young ladies, Misses Swain and
Hatch, left Woodstock ON the 18th inst,