Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-26
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.e= GENERAL.
"A session of the Legislature was held
at Westminster in 1880, commencing on
March 8, and closing March 16, after
session of 9 days.
The entire deductions made on the
grand list of the State in 1859 was S1260.
The number of male members con-
neeted with Congregational churches in
Vermont is 6,101. -.. .......
If dam at the head of the Fifteen
Mile Falls" in Lunenburgh, VT, and Dali
ton, n. H, were made of similar height,
large lake would be formed, extending
true that the lower lands in the river
towns in Essex county, Vt, and Coos
county, N. H, are within the bed of an
ancient lake. Hills or mountains now ex-
ist on each side of the Wirooski and Mis-
sisquoi rivers, in some instances more than
a thousand feet in height, through which
channel has been formed by which an
cient lakes have been drained.
ADDISON COUNTY.
j. L. Strong of Starksboro recently
broke both bones of his right leg near the
ankle joint.
-J.'Warren Barnes, Esq, is spoken of
for Judge of Probate in the New Haven
district.
Tho steamer Curlew is making daily
trips between Vergennos and Port Henry.
The spring term of Bristol Academy
closes on Friday, May 9th. On Satur-
day, the 28th, the people of Bristol have
school reunion and picnic, under the
auspices of Bristol Academy. Rev. DR..
Kitehel viii deliver an address.
=4-A special meeting of the Addison
County Temperance Society IS to be held
at New Haven, May Both.
Mrs. A. c. Hobbs of Waltham died
on the Goth ult., at the age of 80 years.
John Clogsdon, while at work in the
peg factory in East Middlebury, was
badly sawed in the left hand, on Friday,
the 18th.
--Pliny White Lodge of Weybridge
numbers about ninety members, and is
prospering finely.
1t has been decided to encase the
walls of the Middlebury Jail with heavy
boiler iron.
Levi o. Birchard was Town Clerk in
Shoreham for 25 years.
The falls on the Otter Greek which
passes through Vergennes furnish the
best water power in the State.
One per cent. of the grand list of
Addison county is $78,646.35.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The Manchester Journd5 wants the
next Republican State Convention at that
place.
! The Court Calendar for the June
Term Of tho Bennington County Court
contains 226 cases.
The bones of humsn skeleton were
recently dug mp in a lot on the outskirts
of Manchester village.
-Pownal had two delegates in the
Dorset Convention of 1776-Capt. Ssmu-
Ell Wright and DR.. Obadiah Dunham.
The list for State taxes in Benning
ton County is $62, ,s9393.
In 1860. the population of Glasten-
| 51s,o -, tho ton,
preceding years.
The whole average of the congrega-
tions in attendance on the Congregations
al churches in Bennington county is 1865.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Star gives the names of 10 per-
sons in one district in Danville, whose
united ages amount to 1877 years and
eight days.
William Johnson, who recently de-
ceased in Ryegate, had lived on one farm
over seventy years.
The appraisal of personal estate in
Caledonia County is S1,95S,561,3S.
John Shaw, Esq, was Town Clerk of
Barnet for 26 years.
-Lyford's Pond, in Walden, is 1892
feet above the ocean.
The Congregational Church in Dan
vile was organized in 1899.
The population of Caledonia County
in 1900 was 1866, an increase in ten years
of 1896
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
George M. Duncan has been elected
w. @. t. and Mrs. Ellen Morse w. V. T.
of Lincoln Lodge of Good Templars at
Winooski.
The Trustees of the village of Wi
nooski are considering the matter of pro-
lection against fire.
The Post Office in Richmond in 1923
was kept by Sally Brownsons and the sal
ary was $1296 per year.
-Messrs. Dow s. Martin, of the Hines
burgh Woolen Mill, have manufactured
about $4,000 pounds of wool since they re-
built their mill last September, which has
exceeded their expectations.
/ A nawTpn;y;fo~r, coccpouv has been