Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-09-23

016sa11oo0nGoys oasso0sy -
Laynsn Han Of Willansbown, Gny q
Pownal, BcovnaA Of No Povnal Downs
and lockwood Of Bsaningtoa, Phillips Of
East Arlington and Chaadlss = KEN.
Next meeting ct Nanshsstsc.
Vermont Items.
ADDISON COUNTY.
Goal Is selling IN vergennes 1t $40
and $1,000.
Scarlet isversprevsils 10 oonsidsrabls
extent in Wsybridge, and tho day school
at the monument has been broken up by
it.
Mr.. James Oonkey, Of Orwell, raised
from an EARLY Rose potato, the present
season, ssventy-two and one-half pounds
Of potatoes.
Tho commission appointed BY the
Court 70 assess land damages on the line
of the now railroad to the marble quarries
from Belden's Falls, are; II. O. CLIFFORD,
U. D. Twitchell and Henry Lane.
Jesse Ellsworth, lad Of seven sum-
mers, SON of A. +. Ellsworth, Esq, Of
Whiting, ON Wednesday last, caught .
pickeral in Otter Creek which weighed
over eight pounds and measured 30 inches
in length.
DIR. e. d. Warner Of New Haven, de-
livered lecture ON the mysteries Of
Good Templarism in Bristol, on Monday
evening. Throughout tho whole State
tho cause Of Good Templarism is being
espoused ably and diligently, and almost
every lodge is increasing in numbers.
cHITTENDEN COUNTY.
-Underhill Academy begins its fall
term with ninety-seven pupils, and has
tho prospect Of quite an addition to this
number. The classical department il
well filed, some six or eight young men
beinglon tho last year Of their prepara-
tory course for college.
Tho number Of arrivals at the Amer
lean Hotel, Burlington, the past week,
was 878. This includes only those who
were registered, hundreds of others hav-
ing been fed there during the rush to the
State Fair.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The residence of Sumner Warner, on
Fairfield street, st. Adams, was burned
on Friday morning. Amount of loss not
stated. Insured for one thousand dol
lars.
Oscar D. Scott, graduate of Mid
dlebury College, and who has been read
ing law for some time past in the Office of
Hill s. Stafford, at st. Adams, was ad-
mitted Ito the Franklin County bar ON
Thursday.
"A reception was given Hon. A. o.
Adds, by Hon. Romeo II. Hoyt, at his
house, in st, Adams, on Thursday even
ing, at which many members of the
Franklin County bar were present. Judge
Adds soon returns to France.
The annual Fair Of the Franklin
County Union Agricultural Society took
place on tho Island Course in Richford on
the 14th and 18th inst. There was
very poor show Of the agricultural pro-
ducts OF tho towns composing tho society,
though tho stock, while small in number,
was remarkably good in quality. Floral
Hall presented a better appearance than
at any former Fair. The trials Of speed
were fairly conducted, and brought out
good time. The annual address was de-
livered by Mr.. Kelton, Of Montgomery,
and is said to have been an excellent
production, highly appropriate to tho oc-
sion.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
The season for visitors is ended, and
the Mansfield House, at Stowe, closed on
Wednesday last. Mr.. Bingham has gone
West on pleasure trip, and the manager
Mr.. Gale, returns to Lake George, from
whence he wsht to Stowe last spring.
"A scrvaat girl named Kempton, in
the employ of J. G. Noyes, Morristown,
took bed bug poison, on Wednesday, the
9Th inst, and died from the effects of the
same on the Sunday following. 1t is sup
posed she took the poison by design, as she
had been informed by Mrs. Noyes of the
contents of the bottle, which were cor
rosive sublimate and liquor. The deceas
ed was the daughter of respectable
parents, and no cause is known, or sus.
pected, for her strange conduct, except
that she was in responding frame of
mind.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Charlie Sargent and Lee Tinkham Of
Randolph, caught, few days since, in q
steel trap, large blue crane, measuring,
from tip to tip of wing, six feet and four
inches, and it stood five feet high
Mr.. F. A. Clater, conductor and engi-
neer on the gravel train of the Vt. Cen
trail r. r. Co., was the recipient of a bsau-
tiful gold watch chain, valued at $50,
presented to him by the employees of his
train, on Saturday, Sept. 11th.
NJ. Alvin Wires, of Randolph, has q
18th day Of August and weighed on that
day 245 pounds On the 18th inst. he
was again weighed, when it WAS found he
had gained 30 pounds - weighing 1856
pounds
The Tunbridgo Agricultural Society
holds it's third annual Fair OH Thursday,
the 23d Of Sept.
The editor Of the Randolph Eagle
says lie has read letter from Lyman
Durkee to his wife in Randolph, dated at
Geneva. Wis, Sept. 18th, in which he
says that he never saw such corn fields I;
he can buy corn for 80 cents per bushel
and which would cost 81 in Randolph.
Flour was selling for $40 in Randolph
when he left, he can get it delivered at