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

MECHANICsvILLE.-T deep drifts of
snow which have INSTRUCTED travel for the
past few weeks have nearly all disap-
peared, and the roads are now in passable
condition.
Tho barns on what is known as the
Dea. Cole farm, owned by Willard Graves
and William Roberts, were destroyed by
fire on Wednesday April 27th. Loss five
hundred dollars; no insurance, The loss
falls heavily on Mr.. Graves, as by the fire
he had hay, harnesses and nearly all his
farming tools burned.
ST. ALBANs.-The trial of Ryan for
murder is now going on in the Franklin
county court, at ST. Adams.
Abel Houghton, Esq, father of Mr..
George F. Houghton, completed his 80th
birthday on Thursday last. He has been
resident of st. Adams since 1897.
An important hearing commenced in
the United States Court at Burlington, on
Tuesday, before Judge VIM: D. Shipman,
of Connecticut, in the matter of A. M.
Clark, bankrupt.
Prof. Travener is lecturing on elocu-
ton at st. Adams.
Hon. L. S. Huntington, Member of
the Dominion Parliament, and leader of
the movement for Canadian independence,
is stopping at ST. Adams.
The Pittsburgh Republican, says that
the new steamer Curlow," being built
at Marks Bay down the lake, is designed
to run between St. Adams Bay and
Pittsburgh. Her length is one hundred
and fourteen feet. She will be completed
and ready for business about the first of
June.
Personal W Simpson, of East
| Craftsbury, was awarded first prize as
one of the contestants in the prize debate
OF the Alex tndrine society of Amherst
College, on the Goth of April. He is
son of Hon james W. Simpson and is a
promising young man, standing in the
| first rank IN his class and in college.
Hon Robert S. Hale, who has been
nominated "a one of the Republican can
/ didates for Judge of the Supreme Court
of New York, is a native of Chelsea, Yer
mont, son of the late Hon. Harry Hale,
and brother of Rev. John Gardiner
Hale, of Chelsea, Hon. Matthew Hale, of
/ Albany, n Y, and Thomas Hale, Esq,
who was for a time connected with the
i HERALD. He graduated at the Universe
ty of Vermont in 1842 in the class with
@. F. Davey, John A Kasson, T. NJ Van
Sicklen, Rev Jason T. Walker and Rev.
Francis B. Wheeler. OF the students in
college with him, six subsequently became
Members of Congress, which is three-ffths
of all the graduates that have been Mem
bers of Congress- They were Hon. VIM.
Highly, Henry J. Raymond, Frederick &.
Woodbridge, John A. Kasson and Worth
ing G. Smith.
He was member Of the 38th Congress
and took good rank, and has since been
counsel for the Treasury Department in
prominent candidate for the United States
Circuit Judgeship which is now occupied
by Judge Woodruff, of New York. Judge
Hale has an eminently discriminating ju-
dicial mind is man of irreproachable in
tegrity and substantial character, and his
large circle of warm friends in Vermont
will feel gratifed to learn of his elevation
to one of the most honorable positions in
the Empire State.
Mr. Joseph U. Orvis, the founder of
the Ninth National Bank, and late of the
National Insurance Company of the Uni
ted States, has established, under the Free
Banking law of New York, I" The Securi-
ty Bank of the City of New York." with
a capital of 100000, of which 25 per
cent has been called in, and with a
wealthy Board of Directors, the Bank
commenced business Monday morning,
Broadway and Pearl street, in new
banking house erected on the grounds of
the New York Hospital. Col. B. H.
Dewey, late of Vermont, is made cashier.