Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-12-30

ADDmoM COUNTY.

5aa vegnene Ies0s a
ADDmoM COUNTY.
-Eranklin White a 1raaktou, has sold
H inzn of 100 asrss. to Woloott Mead fos
1880.
M. II. = eevsrsacs Of lliddlsbury
Collags h tsaahhg In Orwell with good
-. 4. Oook a New York city, hal
sold his rsstdsaes h DEidport village
occupied By d.. Joseph Warner, 70 Malta,
Cane Of Poultnsy.
-Jonathan Russell who works fol-
Uxsisl Haniltoa Of Bridport. shot him.
self through the wrist last Thursday,
with pistol which he took to shoot q cat
The Good Tsmplars in Bristol are re-
ceiving large accessions to their numbers
and from . class that berpeaks work
Earnest and persistent labor is needed
not for q day nor week, but for lifetime
II need b. It b not with men alone that
We have to contsnd, but . morbid sppe
tite for wine On the one hand and avarics
for moosyr on the other. To successfully
combat the monster In all its forms or
gsnixation il needed and efficient organi
alton.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Scarlet fever is prevailing extensively
in Pownal, and several schools have beer
closed in consequence.
The wife Of Nathan Wilcox of North
Pownal committed suicide not long since
BY hanging herself to the bed-post in bel
chamber.
Commodore Vanderbilt wants to gel
possession of the Bennington md Rutland
aud the Lebanon Springs Railroads, and
will very likely succeed.
The Burden iron mines 1t Benning.
ton have been leased by the Empire Car
Wheel Co. of Troy, N. Y. aid the work
of bailiny out the shaft has .lready com.
menced.
"A meeting If tho Directors Of the
Bennington & Rutland Railroad Com.
pany is advertised to be holden at North
Bennington on the 4th of January.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Abel Giles of Walden, has been ar.
rested charged with violating the internal
revenue law, and held in $500 to appear
at the T. s. court in Burlington next
February.
The house Of George Parker, in Dan.
vile, was burned on Thursday of last
week. The furniture was mostly saved
There was an insurance of $500 on the
building.
The wooden mill at Waterville is to
undergo extensive repairs, and will be
put in operation next spring.
Asa Ladd Of Sutton, has killed pig
about 8. months. which dressed nearly
1926 lbs.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The lumbermen in the vicinity OF
Island Pond, are making preparations for
extensive operations, this winter they are
waiting for snow.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
GOOD hard wood, well seas med, sells
slowly at ~ per cord in st. Adams
Mr. Byron Wetherby. Of Fletcher,
made a visit last fall to Lowell, Mass,
and was somewhat surprised on the morn
ing after his arrival to be visited by u
tame dove Of his which he had left at
home.
Mr.. Sesriou- Is building at the V. &.
r. r. Car Shops in st. tAlbans, sample
car for the National Car Co. This COM
pany have now two hundred cars built
expressly for Western freight in transi,
through Canada. They are 80 constructed
that thoy can be changed from broad to
narrow gauge without transhipment.
An effort will soon be made to secure
the nee, s.ary stock subscriptions for the
building Of the Fairfax K. X from Geor.
gia Depot to Jacksonville, 10 there con
meet with the Lamoille Valley r. X.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
| 1T is reported that the Mansfield
Hotel Co" at Stowe, VI, sunk ten thous
and dollars the past summer.
-Dea. Samuel Montague. aged s.
years, and his wife aged 80. celebrated
the Goth anniversary Of their married lift
at their house in Cambridge, Monday
the Goth Of December.
/ ORANGE COUNTY.
"A passenger train on the P4ssumpsit
ran into team loaded with copper the
other day ut Fairlee, causing the fatal in
/ jury Of two horses, and slight damage t.
the engine.
The barn Of Enos Fetch Of Topshan
was burned on the 4th with COW, two
calves and yoke OF oxen. Loss 5000 anc
no insurance. Asa Magoon, Felch's son.
in-law. was arrested on suspicion of set.
ting the fire.
A town pauper Of Top.ham, named
Chamb berlin. cut his throat on Sunday
morning the 10Th He was abont 81
years old.
Que OF the workm.n III the Paper
Mill ut Wells River was badly burned, q
few days since, accidentally putting hi,
hand upon the hot cylinder tor pressing
and drying paper.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
| "A daughter Of Luther Dow OF A lbany
was burned to death, q, few days since, b,
her clothes taking fire from the stove.
Twenty Ave pairs Of large oxen hav.
been sold in Charleston recently, to 90 t.
the numbering swamps III other States.
- Mr.. G.. w. Bridgman Of Barton, had
leg broke few days ago. He was chop