Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-05
Vermont News.
GENERAL ITEMS.

was 2l7, 1871, an increase of 63, 522 in tor
years.
The number of families connected
with the Congregational church in Yer
mont is 10,707.
If a dam, only one thousand feet
high were made across Winooski River
where it passes through the mountains, Q
large part of Washington county would
be covered with water, and would be {
Lake. 1t is very probable that there wal
time when this was true.
ADDISON COUNTY.
Complaint has been entered against
the Second Advents of Granville for keep
ing their store and boot and shoe shop
open on Sunday.
The water on Saturday was nearly
as high in Otter Creek as one year ago.
The banks were all overflown through Lei
cester and Salisbury.
In a village not hundred miles from
Middlebury, groceryman recently ex-
cused himself from paying for the support
of his minister with the novel plea that
the minister was temperance man and
favored the prohibitory law.
The city of Vergennes has but a
small territory, being 4S0 rods in length
by 400 in breadth, and conta ming 1900
acres of land.
The List of The county of Addison
for State taxes is $S9,27735.
The number of families connected
with the Congregational Churches in Ad-
olson county is 944.
Roswell Bottum has been town clerk
in Orwell for thirty seven years
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
bennington has a scandal case, in
which married and single Of both sexes
are implicated. A Mormon elder has
been up there, and hence the little son.
pleasantness." Rich developments are
expected.
The Rose Cheese Factory, of West
Rupert, commenced making cheese on the
18th inst, and are now working up about
1900 lbs. of milk daily. The prospects OF
the Factory the coming season are very
good. They retain the cheese maker that
they have had the past three years, there
by ipsuring good article of cheese to be
made.
-Heman Morse was Town Clerk in
Dorset sixteen years.
The average congregations in attend
ance on the Congregational Church in
bennington county is 100.
The appraisal of personal estate in
Bennington county is $982,S
Stamford is 1140 feet above the ocean.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
From some unknown cause, large
number of valuable COWS have died in the
vicinity of Danville this spring.
The Congregational church and soci-
ETY. at Lyndon Corner have raised 5000,
and secured the services of Rev. M. II.
Wells for another year.
MIR. Joseph Trudell of st. Johnsbury,
his luhth u my LIOuslli uOlldI CDhlId
of grading, on the new railroad between
that place and West Danville.
"A school district in Passumpsic has
recovered damages in suit brought
against two citizens for injuries done to
the school house by their children.
Col. Frederic Fletcher, now of st.
Johnsbury, has purchased the old CaJedo.
MAN building in that place; which, per-
haps, has some connection with the fact
that Mr.. i. f. Fletcher of Irasburgh, son
of Col. Fletcher, is expecting to go into
business in st. Johnsbury the coming
summer.
--Caledonia County has 365,695 taxa
BILE acres of real estate.
Daniel Wooster was town clerk of
Walden thirty years
The Congregational church in Burke
was organized March /, 1907.
--Winooski Pond, in Peaoham, is 1410|
feet above the ocean.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
"A. II. Chesmore has been elected w.
G. L. of Green Mountain Lodge, No. 1873,
l. o. of G. T. of Huntington and Mrs. G.
]. Mott, w. V. T.
-Amasa Bryant was town clerk of the
town of Essex for % years.
The Congregational church in Char
lotte was organized January Sd, 1892.
One per cent. of the grand list of
Chittenden county is $40, $4,000.
The population of Hinesburgh in
1860 was 1902, decrease of 132 in the
previous ten years.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
"A row occurred in Swanton a few
days since, in which, according TO the
Messenger, William Deavi t, who is a sub
contractor on the Lamoille Valley Rail
road, undertook to pick a quarrel with
VIM. Trogan. foreman for King, Fuller
& Co., railroad builders. The result of
the matter was that Deavitt had bloody
nose. Whep the officers attempted to ar
rest him for disorderly conduct, he re-
sisted them. The law was too strong for
him, however, and he paid, in costs and
fine, $27 16 for his "lttle affair"
Rev. III. G. Riggs, of st. Adams, is
absent on short vacation, and, during
the time his pulpit will he supplied by
Rev. Prof. M. Fl. Buekham, of Burling-
ton.
The List for State taxes in Franklin
county is S71,93937.
The land in the eastern part of
Franklin county is high and broken in
the western part it is more level, and the
farmer reaps abundant harvests of grass,
corn and grain.
&C. II. Blake, of Swanton, has hen of
the Black Spanish breed that has deposit
ed an egg that measured II by 81 inches
in circumference and weighed four ounces
and a half
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