Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-03-25

wINDHAM COUNTY.

The Spiritualists held q festival ana
dance at Union Hall, Londonderry, OF
Thursday evening, the 4th inst, realizing
about $50, to be used toward supporting
lecturers the coming season.
Londonderry voted tax of 70 cent
on a dollar.
| The town of Londonderry refused t.
pay its assessment for building the "Notcl
Road" from Peru to Dorset
-Saxton's River has its head branches
in Windham, and flows little south O.
east into the Connecticut at Westminis
ter. A Mr.. Saxton was drowned near the
mouth, from which event it takes it.
name. 1t is from ten to fifteen miles il
length.
Rockingham is the second town il
wealth and population in Windhan
county.
The quarter century anniversary o.
the Vermont State Baptist Convention
was holden in Townshend, in 1850, Rev
Elijah Hutchinson, Moderator, Rev. Mar
vim G. Hodge, Preacher The baptism.
during the previous year were 80. The
membership of the churches at that time
was 1904
| FELTON, Il Cheney, booksellers in Brat
tleboro, have dissolved partnership, Mr.
| FELTON, having sold his interest to Mr.
Cheney. A new firm has been formed
under the name of Cheney q Clapp.
-Guilford Mineral Springs are attract
ing so much attention, and are so eagerly
sought for, that large bottling house i,
to be erected at Guilford Center.
The Westminster Farmers Club are
to give a sugar party on the 18th Of
| March
y. t. Nining, Spiritualist, and
claiming to have the power of healing
diseases by the laying on of hands, gave
a lecture in the Universalist church, al
jacksonville, on Sunday, March eth.
| The town resources of the town oi
| Wardsboro for the year were S1,452 ~
liabilities, sl,3555l poor expenses, $3.50
Austin Bissell of Wardsboro, has
purchased small farm in Vershire
Orange county, where he is going to re.
side
At the annual meeting of the vii
mington Savings Bank, Hon. w. H.
Jones, of Dover, was elected president
Z. l.. Waterman was appointed treasurer
a position long held by the late Hon S
p. Flagg
Henry kimball, of Strafford. com.
mitted suicide at the Brattleboro insane
asylum, not long since.
Fayetteville has refused to bond itself
to aid in the construction of the West
/ River railroad
The first class in the school in dis.
trict No. s. in Dummerston, Il members
spelled $500 words during the term, only
one trial was made ON word Ten OF
the class missed l04 words, two u, and
five lsS. leaving s,20G words spelled cor
rectly,
Wilmington has velocipede
A lady in Wilmington braided
twenty-four palm leaf hats one day last
week.
Snow is four feet deep in Whining
ton
Mrs. u. f. Brown, teacher Of the
High Street Primary School. Brattle ooro,
was presented with an elegant silver cake
basket, Thursday, March 4th, the gift of
the pupils Of her first class
WINDSOR COUNTY.
plymouth votes town tax of seven
ty-tive cents on the dollar
The people Of the town of Reading
are to have a library. There are already
one hundred members in the society. The
society intends to hold levee at Down
ers' in April, to raise additional funds
A very bad distemper, in the form of
colds, Is prevailing in the town of West
Windsor, Weathersfeld, Reading and
CaVendish, and many are very sick
-Messrs Stearns & Rice are TO build
chair factory at Felchville,on the site for
merly occupied by Hon. Prosper Merrilrs
wooden mills.
ten. Thomas c. Searcr, of Cavcndish.
is Register Of Probate for the district of
Windsor
Bella Rice, OF WeAthersiieid. recently
found in u mill log which he was saving,
steel hoe Embedded in the wood about
four inches from the surface He learned,
upon inquirng, that it had been driven
into he tree some thirty years pre-
vious. and the wood had grown over it as
stated
An exchange says Barnard, the
town " hose people have been reported TO
have such confirmed habit of longevity
that when they get tired of life they have
to move out to die, had 80 births and 16
deaths in 1865, being the proportion of
one III % of the inhabitants"
Moses Cheney once said that in Barn
ard the people never die. and when they
get tired of life they have to move out
On Monday, Of last week, Mr.. Fred
y. Locke, of Springfield, lost a finger
while at work on shaping machine at
the Weston Hoop Factory.
The new jail at Woodstock, is COM
pleted. flat roof. two stories high, com
pact, well proportional, and indented, so
to speak, piazza in the front center-the
prison being on one end, and the County
Clerks office and the home of the Jail
keeper on the other end of the, building.
Lyman Austin, OF Rochester, sold re-
Gently, yoke OF six year old working
oxen, whit 4 o20 pounds Tor 1923, they
'd - 4rnin III any kind. Who beats
this