Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1869-11-04

CAvENDIsH.-The late Judge Fletcher
of Boston, gave by his will his private Ii
brary. valued at six thousand dollarS,
with two thousand dollars more to be in
vested, and the income thereon accruing.
to be appropriated for the purchase OF
new books. yearly to be added to the Ii
brary, and to keep the same a free library,
accessible 10 all "without money and
without price, on condition that the
town should vote to accept of and pro-
vide a suitable place for the same, and
establish a. library under the provisions of
the statutes of this State. Last week,
the town at meeting called for that pur-
pose, voted to accept the same. by adopt
ing appropriate resolutions introduced by
john L. Deane, Egg. Remarks were
made by Mr.. Dean, Ex-Gov. Fletcher, a
brother of the judge q II rh-r"".~'
Amasa Proctor, Gen. Davis and others.
The library is to be called the Fletcher
Library of Cavendish,' and ample provis-
ions are to be made, that the public shall
be invited 20 a perusal of these valuable
books. The donor was especially DESTROYS
that the young men of his native State
should be reading men, and that the
cause Of popular education should be fos-
tered and encouraged. Had Cavendish
not accepted the gift on the terms made,
the executors were directed to offer the
books to the town OF Townshend on the
same terms. Townsheud is the residence
of another brother of the Judge, the
Rev DR. Horace Fletcher; and if Towns
bend had declined the bequest, it was to
be offered TO any other town in the State
that his brother might select, on the same
terms.
-Caven1ish, in town meeting, has
voted to raise u cash tax Of seventy-fye
cents on the dollar of the grand li-t-to
be collected by the 18th Of December next
to defriyt the expenses of repairs on
highways and bridges. This will bring
into the town treasury about S1OOO.OO,
and it j. believed will make the town
traverseable till the next spring freshet.
Some of the roads, however, will be
abandoned till warmer weather. The
neighbors of James Mallory. at Proctors-
vile. by subscription have raised and paid
over h him over 800 in cash-to make
up his loss 10y the recent deluge. The
river washed away half an acre of his
garden. his barn and woodshed, together
with all bis hay-and ten cords of wood
nicely fitted for the stove, and leaves his
house almost overhanging the rivers
banks, and liable to wash still more at
the least rise. of Black river
Among the liberal contributors for
the benefit OF the honest Irishman," We
noticed. - we always do in all good
works, the names of EK-Gov. Fletcher
and his son II. 4. Fletcher, Esq, than
whom none are more esteemed by their
fellow townsmen.
The bridge across Black river, near
Watkins factory, is nearly repaired, and
the break in Balcorn's factory dam is
mended, and the dams ON Twenty-mile
Stream are again assuming shape and
promise of reconstruction. Indeed, in
all parts of the town, the various high
way. surveyors and the contractors, I'M
der direction Of the town fathers, are
busy as bees in refacing ths surface OF
mother Earth, ere she shall be subjected
to another, fourth autumnal washing.
The food has put perfect quietus on
the new county project for this year, and
the twenty thousand dollars pledged by
the town of Chester towards the erection
of county buildings, we are told, will be
laid out in repairing the bad and irregu-
lar rays Of that goodly town.
Among the noticeable effects of the
October floods of 1869 10 the disarrange-
ment of several auction sales Of "vslu-
able and personal estate" Some, adver-
tised in all the conspicuousness which the
deciples of Faust are able to throw into
their work, are abandoned entirely, and
some, like cases in court Of chancery,
stand CONTINUED" TO "a more convenient
season"
Residents of the southern States, who
have been passing The summer with
friends here, at the approach Of winter,
like wise birds Of the cir, pask their
trunks and start fog Tlorida- AAone
them We note the departure Of 1r. O.
Oak and Lady and llr. Dewitt; Mr.. Oak,
Lady and child. an iornssly Of this stats,