Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-10

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day, Monday Nov. 2, 1870, for the pur-
pose of establishing uniform standard
for the examination and approval of
teachers.
Mr.. Cary of Stowe, recently had al
barn, nearly new, filled with hay aud
straw, wholly demolished by the wind.
On the same day, Elisha Town went
out into his wood to fall tree which
lodged against another, breaking, it fas-
tened him under it and seriously iniuring
him.
i There are sixty-seVen scholars attend
/ ing the graded school at Cambridge.
Seven persons received baptism by
immersion at East Cambridge on the Odd
of October.
Last Saturday while G. w. Holmes
was removing the staging from the rosf OF
Mr.. T. Edwards barn in Cambridge, it
gave away, and he fell to the ground a
distance of % feet, with no serious injury
except bruised limb and shoulder.
j. Williams, who has engaged in
building piece of railroad in Wolcott,
states that he removed seventy-five yards
of rock at one single blast.
DIR. Nichols of Boston has been hold
ing series of meetings in Stowe for the
past few weeks, aided by Rev. ]. d. Bee
man and Rev. -. Perkins. Much good
has been done.
| ORANGE COUNTY.
There have been some five or six dogs
poisoned within a few days in Bradford
village, and some of them valuable.
"A match game of base ball was
played, Saturday, October 30, at COrinth
Centre, by Eagle Club of Bradford, and
Green Mountain Club of Corinth Centre.
The game resulted in tie. A return
game is to be played at Bradford on Sat-
urday, the 18th.
On Thursday night of a week ago
Foster Fuller aud Amos l.. Pierce of
Brookfeld stole black mare from John
Mudgett, brown horse from G. p. Full
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Ter, and buffalo robe and quilt from L
A Flint, in Brookfeld, and started off
with their plumber. One of them was
captured the next Sunday evening, and
} the other on Wednesday last. The horses
were driven nearly 100 miles the first
night, without feeding. They were found
in the woods at East Haverhill, with
blankets on and feed boxes before them
Fuller is an old rogue was pardoned out
of State Prison short time since by Gov.
Hendee, and it seems as though he was
anxious to get back to his old quarters.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
The first Union Sunday School Con-
vention of Orleans County will be holden
in the Methodist church in Newport,
Tuesday and Wednesday of the present
week.
On Friday, the 28th ult., 3Ir. Charles
P. Preston, formerly of Newport, while at
work at the locomotive works at Manches-
ter, n. H, a piece of iron fell on one Of
his legs and broke it below the knee.
The Confraternal Ministerial Associ-
alton TOR Orleans and Stanstead counties
will be postponed one month, and will
therefore meet with Rev. Mr.. Thompkins
at Stanstead on the first Monday in De-
cember.
Schuyler Corey, OF Craftsbury, has q
pair of calves (steers) well matched, lit
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feet and nine inches.
Some thief or thieves visited the
horse sheds near the Methodist church at
Newport Centre, few nights since, and
carried off the cave spouts.
Rev. Joseph II. Cox is to be ordained
at the Freewill Baptist church in Albany,
Nov. 10Th.
oliver Boodwsy. Jr., of Charleston,
on Friday evening, the 28th ult, while
riding on the forward axletree of a lum-
Der wagon, over very rough road, caught
his leg between a stump and the wagon.
breaking both bones just above the ankle.
Mrs. A. f. Clark, of Glover, YVES
thrown from a wagon, few days since,
and broke her left shoulder. The accident
was cauied by the whiffietree becoming
detached from the wagon and falling
against the horses heels.
When Frank Graham of Greensboro,
went to gather his apples this fall, be
found that some one had gathered them
for him, and had forgot to leave them at
his house. About the same time j. Young
trees gathered in the same way.
Ed. and Charles White of Eden Mills
have worked up nearly 5000 bushels of
potatoes this season in their starch factory,
and have some five or six hundred bush
els more. The other mill in Eden does
not run this season.
Allen Adams of Eden caught trout,
on the 10th, in Ritter Bush Pond weigh
ing 5-S lbs. in the same pond three
years ago be caught one weighing 3.4
lbs. In the month of September, near
the same pond, he trapped cub bear of
40 pounds weight, and by showing little
bruins paw was presented with S15 in
greenbaoks, called bounty, good pay. Mr. |
A. has also trapped several mink and
sable.
The agricultural society of Orleans
county propose to pay fifty cents on the
dollar of the amount $3.50 of premiums
awarded at their late county fair.
In this county the society and Fair
Ground Company offered some $1,000 by
way of premiums and nearly this amount
was awarded and has been, or will be,
paid in full on demand.
"A wicked and disgraceful affair took
place at Harry Cheney's in Westmore, a
few Sundays since. A dog had got