Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-08-19
ADDISON COUNTY.

treasury.
! ADDISON COUNTY.
Hon. J. w Strong, well-known and
respected citizen of West Addison, died
on Monday last, aged 60 years.
The following items are from the Auto
graph and Remarker:
There are in Huntington one family
named Haskins, three Of whom are trip
LETT, born in 1861. Their names are
Abraham Lincoln, Simon Cameron, and
Gideon Wslles. A sister Of their mother
has had four at one birth, but none sur
vivcd.
There is. or was recently, in Hunt
ington, real dwarf, French boy by the
name of Johnny Charles, twenty-five or
twenty-three years of age, who is scarcely
three feet in hight, but hoavy-built other
wise.
Mr.. William Forbes. Of Hancock, has
undertaken to carry the mail across the
mountain, from Middlebury to Hancock,
for S400 per year, and has already taken
the place OF Mr.. Wilson.
Mr.. J. Erving Crane has the largest
apiary in Bridport. 1t contains at pres
ent over l3O swarms, many of the italian
species.
"A select school, commencing August
23, ending November z, will be opened at
the Academy in Ticonderoga, \. Y, un-
der the superintendent Of Miss Hattie
Millington, of Shoreham.
The large and elegant block on Main
street, Bristol, owned by William L. Dun
shee, Esq, is nearly finished. 1t will
form one of the finest business blocks in
the county. 1t is three stories high, will
have two large stores on the first floor;
second floor, offices and residences third
floor, hall and daguerrean saloon.
The Register gives the following:
Mr.. Freeman James, living in the verge of Bris-
tol adjoining this town, met with acci-
dent fe~ days since while in Charlotte, whittier
he had gone FOR ferrier for a sick horse. Going
into the stab of the premises where he was stop
ping to get out his horse he received kick from
the animal ON the right breast that besides caus-
ing 1t to turn purple also made him raise little
be conveyed home his recovery if ever it takes
place must be slow. What may not be improper
to add in connection with the foregoing is. that
the conduct fthe horse on the occasion, which Ii
not usually vicious, was caused by parcel of
young puppies running in round him, whose an
tics, he not being accustomed to them, irritated
him into giving the kicks which Mr.. J. rues as
the sufferer
STARRTBoRo, ARC. 'GG. T. l.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The Democrats of Bennington coun-
ty will hold mass county convention at
Bennington, August 14th, at 10 o'clock
q. m.
"A lad named Prentice, was expert
menting on q locomotive which was
standing in the engine house at Benning-
ton, and pulled lever, which the engine
understood to be q marching order"
and accordingly went through the side of
the building, making an ugly hole. The
engineer was on duty elsewhere, and the
fireman was cleaning the enine. They
don't want any more 'prentices.
Owing to the dullness Of the Leather
market, the curriers' at A. G.. Clark g. Cos
tannery at Factory Point, will work on
half time for the present.
The boom Of Messrs- Hswley s. Hol-
ley's derrick at the depot at Manchester,
oams down again Saturday. A block
weighing about nix tons was being hoist |
cd The fall was occasioaed BY the break |
ing Of . small pin that connected sone Of ]