Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-30
State Items.
ADDISON COUNTY.

ADDISON COUNTY.
a French paper called The Il Union
/ Cdnodienne, is issued from the Yer
GENES Termonter office.
Dorchester Lodge No. /, +. and A. NJ,
Nergennes, are fitting up new ledge
room.
DR.. Aldace Walker, of Wallingford,
has received call from the Congrega-
tional Society of Middlebury.
Hervey Taber, from Farnham. L. O.,
Canada, has been giving lectures in
Lincoln, Starksboro, Monkton, Ferris
burgh and Charlotte.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Thursday, January 21st, Job and
Mary Stuart, Of Hardwick, celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary Of their mar
riage with golden wedding.
Caledonia Lodge No. 6, I. O. OF O. F.,
has renewed its charter, and is in q
flourishing condition.
Mr.. Francis Drew, of 81. Johnsbury,
recently sold pair Of oxen weighing
400 pounds, to r. Rockway, Of Pas
sumpsic, for $3G2.4O
Rev Sumner G. Clapp, formerly OF
this County, died in Boston on the
Goth of January.
AT the late meeting of the Caledonia
County Agricultural Society, the fol-
lowing resolution was referred to the
Executive committee -
| Resolved, That it is desirable for this
Society to encourage the growth and
| preservation of forest trees in the
country that the committee on pre-
miums be instructed to include this
subject in their awards for the ensuing
year.
CUITTENDEN COUNTY
Mr.. {. ID. Robinson is to give public
reading in Burlington, on Wednesday
| evening next.
Last Friday freight car loaded with
several tubs of lard, boxes OF soap. to-
bacco, flour and other articles, was set of
| by Conductor Foy, Of the freight train
at the Cline Kiln" Station, in Col
chester. On the following morning the
car was found to have been brok en- into
and its contents stolen. The Conductor
has since been discharged.
J. B.Chase, of Wesford, has sold his farm
to Messrs. George Cobb and Albert
Drake s11 900. Mr.. Chase since pur-
chased farm Of Mr.. Briggs, Of Hartford
Wi DIS or Coz for 81 900
RUTLAND COUNTY.
Johnston's Dramatic Company are
giving entertainments in Rutland.
The recent Catholic Fair at Rutland
for the benefit of their Il CIV church, net
ted s., 44O.
Mr.. G. l.. Mussey, on going to his
barn Thursday morning, found one of
his team horses dead. 1t is supposed
that the meal which he eat the evening
previous bloated him and caused hi.
death, for when last unhitched from
the sleigh he appeared we'll and full of
antics. He was valued at about 5000.
The Herald of Friday says: John
Kennedy, of West Rutland, a young
man about Is years Of age, desi ing to
return home, by mistake stepped on
board Conductor Ruggle's train, bound
north, about two o'clock this morning,
and in attempting to get off after the
train had started, slipped and fell upon
the track, the cars assing over both
legs above the knees, and causing prob
ably fatal injuries.
WINDHAM COUNTY.
Weston, the pedestrian, passed
through Bellows Falls on Wednesday.
The Houghton family held a meeting
on the Goth, to see about their property
in England.
n. A. Bixby, Esq, has been appoin-
ted postmaster at Graham, in place of
n. S. Weeks, resigned.
Willard Cobleigh has sold his house
to Mrs. TOwle, who is to take posses
sion on the LIST of April. Price, 81 800.
Ezra Fisher has sold to his partner
his interest in the firm Of Henkel &
Fisher.
A very pleasant joke was perpetrated