Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-06-24

them tipped the scales to the tune of 2Oa
pounds, another Is pounds, third IL
pounds, and so on.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
The Commencement exercises of the
Medical Department of the University of
Vermont, took place at City Hall in Bur-
ipgton, on Wednesday, and were attend
ed by large and cultivated audience.
The order of exercise was interpreted
with music and all went tremendously;
class of 81 was graduated.
-Dea. Sanderson, the Essex forger,
writes from Detroit to Constable Tuttle of
Essex, whom he eluded after arrest, that
il. will be of " no use to follow him, for be-
fore this letter reaches Essex he will be
many hundred miles away" He hopes
to return sometime and pay up all his
debts
The railroad depot at Williston, with
all its contents, was entirely consumed by
fire on Wednesday evening. Several
hundred dollars worth of property, be-
longing to individuals, were lost, and
about $500 in money belonging to the
company. The fire is suppose to have
caught from a passing engine.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
C. 3. w alker, Lyndonville, has con-
cluded to open his new hotel with
grand ball on Friday evening, the 2nd OF
July.
BY the death OF his father in New
| York, Robert Pettigrew, of Lyndon, be-
comes heir to an income of twenty thou
sand dollars. When his mother dies he
will have legacy of about three hundred
thousand dollars.
The people of st. Johnsbury, at a
special village meeting, have directed the
| village trustees to cause dissolution
of the injunction restraining the proprie-
tors of the Passumpsic House from max
ing proposed enlargement TO their no.
tel.
The Passumpsic Railroad Company
have built at their repair shops during
the year ending June 1st, sixty freight
cars, one baggage and smoking car, and
one freight locomotive, and have now in
process of construction twenty-six freight
cars, one passenger car, and one pasaen-
ger locomotive.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
/ Mr.. Alexander Fisher, of Fairfield,
has recently sold two of his grade Ayr
shire two year old heifers for 800 each.
! The Swanton soldiers monument will
be dedicated with imposing ceremonies on
the 4th day Of July next. 1t contains the
names Of 10 martyrs.
The amount of butter shipped from
st. Adams on the 18th, was about 900
tubs-10 tubs less than last week, Prices
ranged from SOC to 33jc, according to quail
ity
/ On Monday last, the stockholders Of
the National Trust Company made choice
Of the following directors Lawrence Brai-
nerd, Bradley Barlow, Horatio y. Barber,
G. Merrill, Edward A. Smith. Geo c.
Hunt, John w Newton. At meeting
of the directors, the folling day, the fol
lowing officers Were elected: President
Gyles Merrill Vice Presid cnt, Br tdlcy
/ Barlow, Treasurer, NJ. y. Seymour.
LANfoIIIE COUNTY.
Drifts of snow are still visible about
tho summit Of Camel's Hump.
Hon. John West, for many year, a
prominent and esteemed citizen of Nor
ristown. died on the 4th inst. aged about
IS years. lie was one of the early and
active anti->lavery men Of the State.
Hon John Waet nf Mnrri.tnwn. and
Hiram Wolcott of Gilmore. We're buried
on Sabbath OF last week. and on Monday
Levi Edgerton, Esq, of Hyde Park,
where he has resided for nearly sixty
years, was conveyed to his last resting
place.
Cambridge claims 10 be the banner
town of America for the production of
maple sugar. In the spring of 1868 there
were 1880 maple trees tapped, yielding
the amount of 2l1 80 pounds of sugar,
which at the current rates would give the
sugar makers of that town the sum of
I 500, SOC
The Lamoille Valley railiold has
again been heard froln. The engineers
are at work making permanent surveys
along the line, between Swanton and
Cambridge They will soon be at work
in the valley of Lamoile, where they viii
receive hearty welcome, even if they
should happen to disturb" the gras,,.
-Myron Clement, convicted of L. rceny
at the last term of the Lamoille c ounty
Court, and sentenced Ia pay fine Of Slt
and costs. and 70 stand committed unit
sentence should he complied with, made
his escape from the county Jail on Wed
nesday night Of last week, by saw ny of
two of the iron rods in the window, AS i.
supposed. with IA ease knife furnsl lcd by
some person outside, and bending them
up sufficiently to make hole large
enough To squeeze through. This II tn,
jailor's version, and probably the tr' Ie oce
through some of wags say he probably
fell ou,
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Alice, little daughter of Mr.. VIM
Ingerson, on jurnping out of carriage OF
Monday of last week, fell and broke boil
bones of the 70 re-arm.
One Osgo ID, stage driver, between
Sheffield and Lyndon, suddenly deca mpet
recently with $500 entrusted to him by
Mr.. Taylor of Wheelock. He was ar
rested in Ba rton and two hundred dollar
of the none recovered.
A. A. Webber, left Glover for tn,
West fe W years since. Arriving il