Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-03-10
THE RUTLAND WEEKLY HERALD. THURSDAY MARCH 10, $50

while the owner dragged him off into the
lots. When the man went to the barn
again, imagine his surprise at finding the
old horse standing at the stable door live
| ly as usual.
tanning about twenty families, there has
been ten deaths the past season.
Mr.. Charles P. Allen, son of the late
Ira Allen of Irasburg, is making tour of
the Pacific Railroads and California.
20. G. Miller Of Troy has bought 1000
logs in Coventry and has some twenty
teams engaged in drawing them.
-Artemas B. Larabee caught recently
horned owl in steel trap, which meas
ured five feet and eight inches from tip to-
tip of wings, and weighed five and one
fourth pounds. 1t few over a five foot
fence and carried the trap with it. Its
horns were three inches long.
"A short time since VIM. Cargill was
crossing Echo Pond in Morgan, with a
load of logs, and drove out one side of
the road for the purpose of Strengthening
it when his horses broke through the ice.
He was oberved by some men, who came
to his assistance, and after much exertion
managed to get them out.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Geo. W. Scott, Esq, of Montpelier,
has been chosen County Commissioner in
Washington county.
The spring term of the conference
Seminary" at Montpelier has begun under
extremely favorable auspices, 40 students
having already arrived.
The Green Mountain Seminary at the
Centre is said to be receiving fair degree
of patronage present number of
scholars exceeding that of the winter
term about thirty, though not SO large as
the fall term. A still greater increase is
anticipated. ...f..
james A. L. Whittier, librarian of
Harvard Law School, has been appointed
non resident lecturer on law in Norwich
University,
There are thirteen ponds in the town
of Woodbury., some of them very large
and we'll stocked with fish.
Five families, eighteen persons, mi
grated from Worcester. Washington
county, to Nebraska within one year.
Cabot has 1900 inhabitants, who
take III copies of newspapers and peri.
odicals. OF these 56S are published in
other towns, and the Cabot AdcertiSerI
ciroulates 203 copies in the town.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
The screw mandatory of A. B.
Medbery, of Wilmington, was recently
destroyed by fire estimated loss, $4,000.
The young men of Brattleboro have
invited six of the Amherst college pro-
fessors to deliver course of lectures in
that place.
MIR. Lewis NJ. Burditt of Bellows
Falls, died Sunday morning after a brief
illness. He had resided in Bellows Falls
about 30 years, and was very much es-
teemed. He was prominent Odd Eel
low, and was buried with the honors of
the order.
The Bellows Falls Times says that
fox was killed in that vicinity recently,
that measured ten feet and six inches
that is, he measured five feet and three
inches from the end of his nose to the tip
of his tail, and FIVE feet and three inches
from the tip of his tail to the end of his
nose.
Adam Loveland of Rockingham,
being animated with anger towards a
neighbor named Philips, took fine roost-
err from Philips hen roost one night, and
killed his dog. Afterwards Adams moth
erin law got mad at Adam and "blowod"
on him the result was his arrest, and
being carried to Bellows Falls, where he |
owned up, and was muIcted SEQ, making
it rather an expensive revenge for Adam.
wINAsoR COUNTY.
The eagle for the soldiers monument
in Rochester, has been placed upon the
top of the monument
"A recent fire in Windsor damaged |
Edminste & Co, furniture dealers, about
$4,000; Bateman d Stocker, tinsmiths,
about 5000; Rev. +, Hutchison, from
$500 to 81 900, on furniture.
Mrs Woodward, of Woodstock, Vt, |
sues a youth named Walter for $4,000
damage to her character.
--Tu fourteen households at Barnard
there are fifty persons, the oldest being
ninety-fve aud the average age being
forty-five years.
The Windsor Company of Windsor,
are just completing an order for $4,000
worth of milling and screw machines, to
be shipped 10 Edinburgh, Scotland.
Last Friday five men from Broad
Brook turned out to hunt a strange
animal, described rs of kind of brownish
color. The men followed with dog
about twenty miles, and once oornered
the animal in sort of gorge or gulf, but
it got away again, not, however, without
being wounded.
PERSONALLY Lawrence Roche, who
has been for long time connected with
the HERALD as its local editor, has retired
from that position.
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