Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-07-20
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price for potatoes, and if this weather
holds they will get it.
The town of Hancock contains.a pop
ulation of some four hundred inhabitants.
of which number about one hundred are
voters, mostly good and truly republicans,
some few democrats, and two copperheads
of the J. D. stripe.
Samuel Harlow of Hancock has Just
started his large and commodious new
mill with circular saw for saving lum-
Der, two clap-board saws, planning machine
and will soon have shingla saw in ope-
ration.
John Holdsworth shot himself through
the hand by the premature discharge of a
revolver with which be was practising,
on Wednesday.
The horse barn belonging to L. H.
and S. H. Covell, OF Berlin, was struck by
lightning one week ago last Sunday. The
electric fluid went for the weather vane,
cutting off its top, and then passed along
the ridge pole of the barn and down the
posts, shattering them considerably and
ploughing through the solid hay, but for
tunately the barn was not set on fire, and
the damage was not serious.
Frost, Derby & Co, of Bellows Falls,
have received an order for six hundred of
their scythe snaths for California, and al
so several hundred for South America.
Henry Rice of Grafton, has been
held to bail in the sum of $4,000 for his
appearance at the county court, on the
charge of adultery.
-Messrs. A. & W. Felt of Andover,
who recently lost their mills by fire, are
going to rebuild Immediately. The citi-
zens have subscribed several hundred dol
lars to aid in rebuilding, and more will
be added.
Rev. D. A. Mack, of Royalton, has
collected or obtained pledges for $4,000
to endow an orphans home.
John Shipman of North Springfield,
died recently at the advanced age of one
hundred years less four days. He voted
for Washington the second time he was
President.
Last Saturday while Gardner Bnzzell
of Newport Center, was assisting Mr.
Colburn to raise his barn, one of the
boards broke, when Buzzell fell distance
of twenty feet. He was badly bruised,
but no bones were broken.
The milk house of Erastus Cook of
Newport Center, was entered last Thurs
day night by some persons who carried
off about dozen milk pans.
Potato bugs are plenty and very de-
structive on the farms of Horace and
Henry Crandall of Salem. A curiosity is
that they will not attack the top of the
Davis Seedling-at least while the other
varieties are not fully destroyed.
"A. ]. Calkins had his hand badly cut
while at work on the edger in Mr. Fuller's
mill in Morgan, last Wednesday.
David Clifford cut an ugly cash IN
his ankle, with an adze, while working en-
the barn of E. H. Robinson, at Charles
ton, few days since.
There is a disorder round among
cows in Barton. Ten have died at
Bloomington and seven at the Landing.
On the 26th ult, as ]. II. Musgrove
of Enosburgh, was descending hill in
Newport Center, his harness girth broke
letting the wagon against the horse. The
horse starting to run, Mr.. Musgrove
jumped from the wagon, breaking his leg
below the knee, and otherwise bruising
him.
The dwelling house of Lester Cleve-
land in Newport Center, narrowly escap-
ed destruction by fire, on Friday the Both |
ult, about half-psst twelve P. m. Water
could not be obtained in season to quench
the fire, consequently Mr.. Cleveland and
bis boys stripped the shingles from the
house with their hoes, extinguishing the !
fire.
The frosts on the nights of the Goth
and Both ult., did considerable damage
throughout Orleans county. Which some
sections escaped altogether, in other local
ities corn, potatoes and vines were cut to
the ground, greatly damaging If not
entirely running the crops.
THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMIssION.-l
The Cival Service Commission has ad-
journed till the nth of October. Mr..
Curtis was assigned the duty of present
ing to the President the communication
which the Commission desires the At
torney General should take into consider
alton. 1t is not known that any member
Of the Commission is committed against
the validity of the constitutional points
raised, and it is agreed on all sides that
they are of the utmost importance in
their bearing upon the machinery here
tofore relied on to bring about reform.
A FIVE PER CENT. LOAN Secretary
Boutwell, is credited with the intention of
calling in twenty millions of the 5,20s
Of 1862 and replacing them, where the
owners desire, with the new five per cents |