Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-04-28

and perverse violation OF duty, and Is
sufficient cause for his removal. Query:
Has not the mail as good right to attend
church on Fast Day as any other man ?
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
-Four hundred tons of freight were
left at the st. Johnsbury depot in one
week.
= Rev. P. N. Granger, of Lyndon, has
been elected County Commissioner for
Caledonia county.
The Caledonia County Agricultural
Society is to hold its annual fair on Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursday, Septem-
Der 81, % and 20. $50
The Messrs Fairbanks, st. Johnsbury,
are engaged in completing new shop be-
gun last fall, and are also engaged in rails
ing up and enclosing with brick the
southerly portion of the old scale shop.
Joseph Sherburn, of Lyndonville, re-
Gently caught his coat sleeve on shaft
revolving at the rate of 1900 times min
ute. 1t took the sleeve off and wrenched
his arm severely, and was a narrow escape
from horrible death.
| Savanna Pond in Sutton is 1910 feet
| above the ocean.
One per cent of the Grand List of
Caledonia county is S6S S,014.16. .
--Archelaus Sias was town clerk in
Danville for thirty-two years.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
"A little child, about eighteen months
old, the daughter of Lewis Baraby of
Winooski, came to a sudden and painful
death on Tuesday night week. Mrs.
Baraby was engaged preparing supper
and had placed a dish of scalding tea on
the table and the child reached up and
tipped it into her face and neck. She
lived only few hours.
Mayor Linsley of Burlington proposes
to have his 5000 salary turned over to the
chief of police on the ground that his SER
vices are worth much more than that or
nothing at all. He is willing to take his
entire pay in honor as do the aldermen.
George K Brown of Richmond has
sold his farm for $4,000, to Blossom
| Goodiate.
Ira Allen of Colchester, was mem
Der of the Governors Council nine years,
from ITS to 1856.
The appraisal of real estate in Chit
tenden county is 5000, ,4O5.
-Winooski Falls is 203 feet above the
ocean.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Hon. Herman R. Beardsley,
Hon. Heman S. Royce and Col. Reuben
G. Benton of st. Aibans, have been ap-
pointed by the Judges of the Court,
special Committee to examine and report
in writing to the court what additions
and notifications to existing rules gov
erning the practice at the Franklin coun-
ty Bar were desirable.
When the train from Montreal for
| st. Adams reached La Prairie Junction,
Friday evening, on the Grand Trunk
road, the switchman discovered that
horse had broken through the floor of a
car and was in imminent danger of being
drawn under the trucks. When the
train was stopped the poor animal was
fnnnd with his launches upon the axle
tree, which had worn into his flesh some
six inches and one or both of his hind
legs had been drawn under the wheels
and smashed to jelly. He was taken out
and killed. He belonged to a Colonel of
the volunteers and was in transit to ST.
Armand. He was a valuable English
racer and was said to be the same that
ran in the hurdle race in Burlington in
the fall of '68, and threw his rider
Thursday night Fairfax was very
much excited by the appearance of armed
men in the streets, supposed to be Fe-
mans, marching towards Fairfield. They
proved, however, to be ten or fifteen mis-
chievous boys, who conceived the idea of
giving the people good scare, and they
did it.
The citizens of Highgate have in
fALtu luG NOIbitIH GIUOub muslcGl AS
sociation to hold convention in that
town next June, and the invitation has
been accepted. The convention will be
directed by Prof. l.. o. Emerson of Bos-
ton.
The population of Bakersfield In 1860
was 1,451, loss of seventy-two in ten
years.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Mr.. E. Horner of Hydepark, had his
sugar house and contents consumed by
fire recently. Loss $400.
The editor of the Chateaugay IN. Y
Herald is expected to make his home in |
Jacksonville, and publish paper called
the Vermont Register. So says the NeaoS-
dealer.
j. p Slark & Co, of Milton, are now
running down" the Lamoile River be-
tween thirty and and forty thousand logs
which have been cut the past winter in
johnson and Eden.
Not over two-thirds the amount of |
maple sugar will be made in this county
that were made during the years 1868 and
1869.
Isaac Cheesman of Jacksonville, had |
a barn and three cows burned, Wednss-
day last.
-Cambridge Boro has Cornet Band |
of ten pieces, lately organized and
equipped" with Willis c. Wait as leader
The population in the county of
Lamoille has rapidly increased in popula-
tion and wealth during the last ten years.
The number of taxable heads in
Lamoille county is 1885.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
That was narrow escape OF ii. Q.
Bugbee and his SOD, aged ten, on the Bar