Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-09


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Vermont Items.
IL ADDISON COUNTY.
, Tho Republicans of Hiddlebury
meet next Monday evening, to nominate
} Town Representative and Justices Of
! the Peace.
: Tho Rutland and Darlington Rail-
road Company are building . new rail-
road bridge over the New Haven River at
Brooksvifle,
OHITTENDEN COUNTY
"A barn belonging to H. A. Post, of
Hinesburg, was struck by lightning Fri
day morning. the Goth, and burned with
Is tons Of hay in it
b. F. Van Vliet. OF Shslburn, has, We
are informed. sold the crop of spples rsis-
ed BY him the present season, TO G. L.
Hart and Ami +. Stone, of Burlington, for
the sum Of $14 90.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Tho corner stone of the Lyndon Idt-
erary Institute was laid With appropriate
ceremonies ON Friday last. Rev. @. B.
Re0khsn, Of Derby, delivered the oration,
which was IN able production. and was
well received. Other gentlsmen offered
WORDS Of encouragement and good cheer.
The Lyndonville baAd were in attend.
ance. The weather was hne and the st-
tendance large.
One day last woek Ans yoke Of cat
tie belonging to Mr.. Stephen RiohArdsos,
who lives in the edge of Waterford, vas
found dead in the pasture. Cause Of
death unknown.
"A fund Of sone $500 has already
been raised in dollar subscriptions from
old papils toward erecting . nonumsnt
~ the late James X. Colby, Of g. Johns-
bury. All former studeats Of hk vho,
have not already done 20 are invitsd to
send their mite 10 aid in this worthy pro.
jeot, TO Rev. Edward L. Fairbanks, st.
Johnsbury Center, Vt.
ESSEX.
-E. T. Page of Lunenburg, has .
large printed volume The exposition Of
the Book of job" which 10 two hundred
and nineteea years old. His grandfather
was Gen. Washington's barber during the
Revolutionary war, and he has the razor
in his possession with which he shaved
" the father of his country" during the
winter he was encanped at Valley Forge. |
He has also the razor formerly owned and |
used BY Gen. Stark.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
Major G. 8. Page is the Republican |
candidate for town representative from
Hyde Park.
Tho damages of the recent food in
Morristown are fast being repaired
Buildings, bridges and roads are being re-
built as fast ss possible.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Application is to be made to the next
Legislature for making Bradford and West
Randolph half shires of Orange County.
Henry Keys, Of Newbury, president
Of the Pasumsic Railroad. has been elect
ed president of the Atchison, Topeka and
Santa Fe Railroad.
"A young man by the name of Spauld-
ing. living on the East Hill, in Chelsea,
received serious wound in his side BY
accidentally falling on . scythe on the
Oath ult-
Recently Freedman who was at
work for the Pasumsic railroad company,
repairing fences, was drowned in the Con-
necticut River, n ear the south line Of
Thetford, while bathing with others.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The two covered bridges in Fairfax
village, which were damaged by the
freshets iu the spring, are now being re-
paired.
The Missi-quoi Spring House at Shell
don, we arc informed, closes with the
present week for the season.
Mr.. /. l. Olmstead Of Fairfax has
sold 1875 acres of bis farm to bis son, A.
Sanford Olmstead, for about $6.25O, and
the latter is building q new residence on
his purchase.
Capt. Stephen F. Brown, late Of the
18th and 18th Vt. Vols, who lost his left
arm at the Wilderness, and IL now . suc-
cessful lawyer in Chicaoo, 10 at his f.
Tiers in Swanton on brief visit
Mr.. F. Hull, Of Bakers6eld. has In
his garden . raspberry bush which has +,
three sprouts measuring - follow: one 8
feet and 3 inches. one feet, and the
other 10 feet and 10 inches, and there are
ripe berries from this years growth. This
equals even tropical vegststioa. II Il h
beaten in Vermont, We shall Be glad 10 ,
know it.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Potatoes arc rotting badly at Ifas-
burgh for 20 early in the sssson. II
w. B. Flanders Of Coventry, killed .
hedgehog recently which neasured 288
inches In lsngM. III
Tho kanksr rash u still prsvailiasI
extensively In Coventry. In one family Il
there srs Avs dck with Il. In anoth~ +
eight have been, In another four, and n 1
others less. II
"A petition for . chartsR has bssa pse- {
pare for railroad running ho4 Llana
Pond through Charlsseoa, Dcov1inGboa ID
Barton, Glover, and uoensstiAg vitA - u
LAncls Valley .oad in 0psasbesA II
Mr.. John Lsst Of Isasbmgh, ~ -. 4