Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-10-27
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

ADDISON COUNTY.
Apples are so plenty in some sections
of Addison county that many will be lett
to rot on the ground because barrels cam
not be had to hold the cider made from
them.
The Catholic Fair, which was held
in the Town Hall during the entire week.
proved one of the most successful under
takirgs of that character that we remem-
Der to have ever been projected In Yer
gennes.
Mr.. Luther Purinton Of Starksboro
lost valuable COW on the 14th inst, by
being choked to death with an apple.
Fruitless efforts were made to extract the
apple with the hand.
The cabbage worm by its ravages this
season has utterly destroyed that vegeta-
BILE in Vergennes. There are no cabbages
in market, nor in the gardens. The
leaves are stripped clean, and no heads
were allowed TO form by this destructive
worm pest.
The friends of Wright Tappan, son
of J. S. Tappan, Esq, of Panton, will be
glad to learn that his health is improving.
He came home from East Saginaw, Mich,
some time since, for the benefit of his
health.
The Curlew had rough time of it
Tuesday. Capt. Crane says the boat be-
haved admirably. The wood awning
made steering pretty heavy work in such
gale, but size fetched through without
danger, making her regular trips, getting
in at the usual time, while the line boats
were an hour behind. Such a gale has
not been experienced for 10 years.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
-Landgrove has 67 dwelling houses,
81 families, 302 inhabitants, as follows
156 white males 146 females. and 50 legal
voters Number of horses n, number of
oxen CA, number of cows 246, other cattle
228, number of sheep PA.
There are in Winhall So persons Of
foreign birth in Peru A, and in Land
grove s.
-Winhall has increased in Inhabitants
since 1860, 101. Peru has lost 43, and
Landgrove Is.
james, only child of Samuel Carpen-
ter, of Readsboro, wss drowned in the
fish pond of Willard Carpenter, his uncle
Wednesday of last week. He went out
on the pond on a raft, with lad named
W illisms. snd while there one of their
hats blew off. Attempting to recover this
caused their raft to separate, and let them
beth into the water, drowning young Car
penter on his nth birthday.
CALEDONIA COUNTY
"A little child some year and half
old, of Mr.. A. III. Parmenter of Hardwick
fell into pail of hot water, the 10th inst.
aud died the next day.
Monday of last week a son of Marcus
Parmenter, of Hardwick, aged two years,
was terribly scalded by setting down in
pail of boiling hot water, which had just
been taken from the stove. Medical aid
was at once had, but the little fellow died
the next morning.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Farmers In Chelsea are getting a
large yield of potatoes, especially those or
the hills, some gathering as many a. 1000
bushels.
Chelsea can boast OF some large po-
tatoes, ]. V. Fox having dug many thai
will weigh from 1 to 1 2 lbs. each, the
8 2 Id. one being piuk-eye; and the
largest of some common red ones that
Isaac Merrill dug weighed lbs.
They seem to be death on wood |
ohurks over IL Chelsea. During the season
of 1870 Isaac Merrill has caught % ia q. !
steel trap, CarIey, son of NJ rtin Keye-.
has trapped %. and Charley Preston. At
work for Joel Osborne. has shot 30, all IL
one nei2hborhood, on West Hill.
"A fine monument is to be erected in
Newbnry to the memory of Col. Thomas
Johnson, an early settler of the State. II
is carved to represent the trunk of an elm.
1t is 10 feet high, and at the top the three
principal limbs are represented as being
broken off. The whole was designed and
executed by George F. White of Rutland.
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Christopher Dwin-ll of Marshfeld
had his pocket book stolen while passing
through Floral Hall, at the recent Wash
ington County Fair, there being over $40
in it.
The house of Daniel Moody, of Wa
terbury Center, was entered on recent
Sunday night. and his pocket book stolen =
from his pantaloons pocket, in it being
$53 in money.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
"A horse and wagon belonging to VI.
P. Cooper of Dover collided with Main
street bridge at Wilmington, on Friday
last. The wagon was upset and thor ;
oughly demolished, though the horse es-
capped uninjured.
L. Richardson, a farmer of Wesfmin- /
ster, about thirty years of age, in getting I
over q fence, CeplehlDeI ~1th' atciuehb9ily
discharged gun he had in his hand, and 3
the shot entered his forehead, causing his
death in an hour. q
WINDSOR COUNTY.
DIR. P: F. Wiley, of Bridgewater, ]
aad a leg amputated last week. He in r
ured it several years ago, from which he :
never fully recovered, and recent injury .
rendered amputation necessary. Il
Clothes thieves are again at work in