Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-03-11

years old, died on the poor farm in New
bury, recently.
Stephen G. Reed, died in Kappa, Ill,
on the 7th inst, aged seventy years. dc
was formerly resident of Wells river
ORLEANS COUNTY.
The Craftsbury Farmers Club close
their winter sessions, ON the 9th instant
with q festival in which the farmers
wives and daughters participate.
j. J. Burdick & Co.'s store was burned
ON the night Of the 18th, at Lowell II
is supposed the fire took from the stove
pipe.
Albert Hunt, of Barton, had five gal
Ions of brandy, twenty gallons of whisky
and his team, seized on Thursday last, fol
smuggling.
Five hundred and seventeen cars Of
lumber were shipped from Newport sta
ton during the year 1868, being an in
crease of ia cars over the business Of
1867.
During the last storm, two feet o.
snow fell at Newport, and the full depth
on the level is at least FIVE feet.
j. F. Davis, of South Troy, has sold
his house and shoe shop to Louis Boss, o.
Perkinsville, for 81 800.
A horse barn and shed belonging to c
R Drown, at Newport Center, fell in on the
22d ult., from the weight of snow on the
buildings. Mr. browns daughters
twelve and fifteen yeas old. were in the
building feeding a lamb when it fell, but
miraculously escaped unhurt. Part O.
the boards were stripped off, and the two
girls extricated.
Widow Blake, of West Charleston
whose husband died in the army, leaving
her with five small children, was pleas
antly surprised, the other evening, by re
ceiving at her house, about eighty oil
ninety of her friends and neighbors, ole
and young, and being presented with {
Wilcox & Gibbs $50 sewing machine.
sabbath morning found the people o
Derby Center completely blocked in by
the snow. There were no services at any
of the houses of worship except at tht
| Baptist in the afternoon. The public
spirited portion of the community turned
out with an eight horse team and brok,
roads nearly all day, SO that Sunday nigh
/ the roads in all directions were quite pass
able
While crossing the river at BartoI
Landing, on the 21st, valuable yount
horse, owned by Lewis Dudley, stepped
into crevice in the ice and broke hi
leg.
H p Colburn has sold his farm il
| Albany to Luther c. Dow for $4,000
I taking a team of horses valued at $500 II
| part payment.
Last week Tuesday, Orson Cate, al
employe in Campbell's mill, East Charles
/ ton, came near losing his life. He wa
turning clapboard log, which, becoming
! detached from the lathe, struck him wit
such violence as to throw him some dis
lance from the machine, nearly breaking
in his face, and otherwise bruising him
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Snow is six feet deep in Moretown.
The March term of the Washington
County court commences at Montpelier o.
the 9th inst The number of causes Sc
down for trial by jury is 122.
"A Good Templars' Lodge was inst
tuted in Moretown, February 9th, wit
the title Of Mount Carmel, No. 81.
Rev Elisha Brown delivers lectur
next Friday evening before the Goo
Templars of Montpelier. Subject: 9Th
obligations of Templar."
| Rev. f. II. Chaplin, ID. d., lectures a
Montpelier, March 10, on columbus"
George Carpenter and Charles Hutch
ins, of Waterbury, were recently arraigne'
before Justice Smith. charged with burg
! larry in entering the mill of Randall an
+ Cooley, and carrying away quantity G
meal and other property. Their gull
being proven they were held to bail for az
pearance at the County court, the forme
in the sum of $500 and the latter $500
failing to recognize in which they wer
committed. George w. Prescott, for re
ceiving the above goods was held to bal
in the sum of 800, which he furnished.
wINDUAM COTSTY
AT an adjourned meeting of the Con
necticut River Valley Agricultural Asso
( citation, held at White River Junction o
the 18th, it was decided to hold the mex
fair at Brattleboro, some time in Septem
Der.
4 Sickness prevails quite extensively il