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

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beech nuts, fell, on tho Sd inst, n walk
ing on his sutchsa snd brohs II sgain In
the same place.
Curtis Bean and Mr.. Mod II Iras-
gureA,vMy .sesently getting O. sleW
WITH pair q oxsh hat they had hizea
Sor that purposa,whsn . legilid four or i've
let and struck one OK On The leg, break
ing II. They killed and dressed the or
and soM the bsef They did not loss
much.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Good Templars Of Roxbury are
TO have ieatiyal, January 4th; literary
entertainments at the church supper at
Good Templar's hall.
The Montpelier Argus says that vii
lage l. in most excellent financial con-
dition as a corporation. There is money
enough left from the comparatively light
tax raised last year, taken with the re-
ceipts for rents of the Village Hall, to
pay the estimated current expenses Of
this year, so that there is no village tax
for 1870.
AT town meeting held in Cabot ON
the 18th Of December, the town voted to
raise one thousand dollars to pay for re-
pairing damages done to the highways by
freshets during the season.
The new building called Union
Block, in Cabot, built by stock COM
pany, is nearly completed, and several
parties have already moved in. The build
ing will cost over 5000.
-Orman Hoyt of Cabot recently at
trcmpted TO fill barrel of cider at the
bung hole, while the spile was out He
didn't get ahead very fast, and, after
turning in 80 gallons, gave up the job.
He lost horse last week, which fell and
broke his leg, and was afterwards killed.
james blanchard of Cabot died very
suddenly of heart disease last week. He
and his wife had just returned from q
visit, and his wife was holding q lantern
for him while putting up his horse. After
little murmur about it being too much
for him, he dropped dead. He was n
years cid, and an old resident Of the
town.
Last week, young man named N
than Peabody of Cabot, had his arm twice
broken, and his hand crushed to atoms in
threshing machine. He was Canadian,
o-J - ,ro-l~ g., Erooc,a r. Kponr
A. J. Brown of Montpelier has been
fined $50 and costs for liquor selling and
John Rock fined $50 and sentenced to
three months imprisonment for similar
offence, he to stand committed until the
fine is paid.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
The roof of the railroad bridge across
Milestone creek at Brattleboro caught
fire, Wednesday evening, and general
alarm was given, but the fire was put out
with slight damage.
Mr.. G.. +. ellison of Cambridge port,
has an old Bible in his collection, printed
at Lyons, France, in 1915. 1t is printed
in Gothic text and is in good state Of
preservation.
Jacob Frost Of Vernon, although
more than so years old, occasionally walk,
three miles TO visit his daughter and her
sons. One Of them, Sergeant George Hub
bard, was standard bsarer for Vermont
battalion in the Army Of the Potomac.
AT the annual town meeting in Pat
ney the town voted to raise 100 cents on
tho dollar Of the grand list, TO defray the
expenses Of the town for the ensuing year.
AT town meeting held in Whiting
ham the town voted to raise $l.l6 ON the
dollar Of the grand list, to defray the cur
rent expenses Of the town.
Prof J. II. Seeley of Amherst col
lege delivered a very instructive and en-
Pertaining lecture on the sun, on Wsdnes-
day evening, in the course given by the
Young Mems Christian Association OF
Brattleboro, supplying the place of Rev.
s. H. Tying, jr., who was prevented from
meeting his engagement
"A gentleman of Westminster was re-
Gently preparing to shoot a cat, when the
pistol went off, the ball passing through
one Of his fingers. and indefinitely post
poning the cat shoot.
j. A. Harrisof Halifax has sold his
farm near Harris's Mills to his brothers,
and is about to remove tS Charlotte,
where be is going into the dairy business
At special town meeting of Rock.
| ingham, held at Bellows Falls, tax OF
35 cents onsa ,:cllar of the Grand List
was voted for tie repair of highways and
blidges, to be collected ON or before the
1st day of February next.
| AT special town meeting held AT
Wilmington. on Saturday night Of las'
week, a tax Of 81 80 on the dollar wa.
voted, to defray the current expenses 81
the town
The Westminster Thief detecting
society held its annual meeting the
9th inst, and chose officers. They have q
board of pursuers, and money III tn.
1 VI anu hAc WdlthhR AoI . Coso-
A meeting of the directors of the old
Windham County Mutual Life Insurance
Company was held on Thursday, Dec. 10
The report Of the late Secretary and
Treasurer, L. G. Mead, was accepted. and
the organization of the company forrnslly
dissolved.
p. d. Reyes has sold his farm, in Pat.
ney, containing 300 acres of land, to
Henry Winslow for $500; pea -eseion
given April LIST, 1870.
Measures are being taken which it il
hoped will result in securing a free L vidgs
across the Connecticut at Walpole.
/ The history of all the towns in Wiiad.
ham County is ready for Miss Hemme,,-