Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-05-20

was elected w. p. O. B. and Fsyett
Shepherd W. G. b.
The Dorset Hotel Is in readiness fc
the reception of summer boarders.
"A County Convention or Benningto
County Union of Good Templars was he'll
at Pownal on the 2Sth and Goth of Apri
From the Lodge reports it appears tina
during the last quarterly there was an in
crease of 500 members, making in all 40
Good Templars in the county. Four ne,
Lodges have also been instituted.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Hon. L. P. Poland and family hav
returned from Washington to their hom
in st. Johnsbury.
WIN. F. Ruggles Of Lyndon the othe
day was fined 1920 and costs for ~ viola
tions of the prohibitory law.
Harvey Dunn of Ryegate made tel
pounds of sugar from the sap of mapl
tree which he tapped April 18th.
Newell Stoker of Danville lost va
liable new mich cow. The animal wa
found dead in his water shed, having beer
gored or fatally injured by one of tn,
oxen.
A man named Chamberlain died sud
denly in Lyndon on the 1st instant. III,
was at work the day before his death, and
it is thought he was poisoned by the che
meals which he used in his trade, that o.
silver-plating.
j. w. Howard last fall took from &c
swarms of bees $50 lbs. Of box honey. He
also informs us that Mr.. J. ID. Goodrich OF
Hardwick the same time took 2040 lbs OF
honey from 46 swarms. Both used the
Langstroth hive.
The locating survey party common
ced work on the Portland and Ogdens.
burgh Railroad between St. Johnsbury
and the White Mountains on Monday,
and as soon as that survey is completed il
is expected that they will come over into
the Lamoille Valley.
Hay very scarce in Walden, and
worth a dollar hundred.
May Bird and 4th, snow fell to the
depth of foot in Walden.
Jonah French died in Sheffield, May
Bird, aged eighty-one, and James Chase,
the oldest man in Wheelock, May 4tb,
aged %.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
The damages done to the water power
at Winooski, caused by the late freshet
have been thoroughly repaired, and again
the works Of Messrs. Edwards * Stevens
and their contemporaries are in running
order.
S. l.. Williams has been installed w
c. L. of Diamond Lodge of Good Tenn
plars at Westford, and Miss Nettie Rice
w. V. I.
AT the quarterly election Of Good
Samaritan Lodge No. 50 of Good TEN.
pldiS Ut hlllol aAA1, W. - Il ulItT har
elected w. C. T., and Mrs. Amy Coon w
V. T
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A new hotel is being erected at East
Berkshire by Mr. Wade.
DIR Wilbur has sold his farm and
mill near Montgomery Center, to b. Lom-
bra for $3.50.
Sneak thieves are troublesome in St
Adams. Canadians, who come ont in the
crowd, are suspected.
The Montreal Telegraph Company is
extending its lines from Frelighsburgh
via West Berkshire, TO Richford.
-Swanton Center has dispensed with
its church, and the building recently
used for religious purposes has had it
steeple removed and been converted into q
barn.
"A large amount - L.:lli..x - going
on in Sheldon and Highgate, and i'm.
proyements and additions TO hotels, for
the accommodation of summer guests, are
the order of the day.
Hon. Horace Greeley has accepted an
invitation to deliver the address before
the Franklin County Agricultural Society
at its annual fair to be held in September
next.
The River Road, leading from High
gate to Swanton Falls, has been narrowed
down, in several places, to about a rod
wide, the late rise in the river having
washed it away.
A new railroad bridge has been built
other short way from Smiths lime kiln
The Central folks are bound not To have
any hazardous bridges on their line.
A cow owned By CassiuS Buck, OF
Fairfax, being apparently sick few days
since, was given medicine. when she vom-
tied ny a lizard which measured 1 inches
iii length, and alIout - inches thick. Ii
liz supposed that she must have swallowed
the lizard when il was small, and that il
lived and grew.
The officers and directors of the
Franklin County Agricultural and Mech
anical Society, met in Sheldon on the 9th
inst, Hon. Gregory Smith. the President
If the Society, in the chair. The Society
voted to hold the next Fair on the 22d,
23d and 2ith of September, 1869; APP
pointed building committee 10 remove
the buildings from where they now stand
To- the west side of the track, adding
thereto another 50xi0 voted to erect
seats for the accommodation of 200 peo-
pie, and to thoroughly repair and improve
the track.
The second regular meeting of the
Champlain District Union of Good Temp
lars, was held at the lodge room of Beacon
Lodge, Fairfax, on Tuesday, May 18th. A
pleasant and profitable occasion was en-
joyed. The next meeting is to be held at
on the second Thursday OF