Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-09
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

Vermont News.
i ADDISON COUNTY.
Pasture land near Middlebury sell
at $50 an acre-eighty acres were sold a
that rate last week.
Mr.. A. E. Stanley of Leicester
breaches once in four weeks to the Liber
alists; Mr.. Bond Methodist, every Sunda.
afternoon.
The Ladies' Sabbath School Aid So
oiety of East Middlebury, had an Oyste'
Supper at A. P. Tupper's Hall, Jan. IL
for the benefit of the Sabbath School Ii
brary.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
John Garrett, who lived up toward
Woodford, was rendered houseless, ont
day last week, by having too hot fire
1t took from pipe, not Johnny's, but thu
stove pipe.
The Barnum Richardson Company
of Canaan, Conn, are using twelve char
coal cars, thirty feet long and foe
higher than ordinary freight cars, sir
which to bring their coal ifrom Manehes
ter.
The February term of the Supreme
Court will commence at Manchester or
Tuesday of this week. Twenty-six easei
are set for trial. Seven of these are di
vorce cases, the parties desiring to throw
off the CALLING chains of matrimony anc
return to single blessedness.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
"A necktie party given by the ladies
of the Congregational Society of Lyndon
recently, was a complete success fnanci
ally.
"A petition is being circulated to es,
tablish stage route from Lyndon to E
Hardwick, with a postoffce at Stannard
and South Wheelock.
"A stone weighing 1870 lbs, was
thrown from blast last Wednesday, into
the pattern shop of the scale wosks. II
didn't hit any one.
The first month after the completion
of the P. & o. r. r. track from the Pas.
sumpsic track to Fairbanks village, the
Messrs. Fairbanks received one hundred
and one loaded cars of inward freight
besides a few car loads, of coal which
were left at the Passumpsic station.
-Silas Eastman of Lyndon, recently
caught several coons, found in hollow
log, by inserting split stick into the
nest, and dawing it out with a coon at
tached, which he dispatched; he secured
three in this way.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Two boy ? - Victory, M Ill Ingra-
ham and Eugel.- Clement, lead guilty
of disturbing a religious meeting, and
were fined $3.50 each, and costs.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
AT the Franklin County Temperance
Convention held at Georgia, Henry M.
Olofbus, 11S4' Oi ~. hlOabs, W 40 AOliiiuoe-
ed for County Commissioner.
Last week over thirty tons of beef
and mutton passed through st. Albans
over the Vermont Central Railroad for
Boston. Some of the carcasses of mutton
weighed over 220 pounds, and in flesh
were equal to the best Southdowns Of
England.
st. Adams fine hotel, the Weldon
House, has "broke" another landlord, Mr.
sublett, and the proprietors have engaged
in his place Mr.. Thomas Lavender, who
has been for two or three years one of the
managers of the Mount Mansfield Hotel
at stowo. cIuUe November, however, he
has been railroading at the West.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
In Alburgh the mercury fell to %
degrees below zero, Monday morning,
23d ult.
The Masons of Columbus Lodge, No
II, held Masonic Sociable in their hall,
Thursday evening, Jan. Goth.
The dock company at Alburgh
Springs have bought storehouse-40x6O
at Peelhead Bay, and moved it to the
Springs on the ice, q distance of about 8
miles. They intend using it as freight
house.
Mr.. Fl. G. Fiske has sold his quarry
at Isle La Motto to two gentlemen from
New York, who intend the stone for
building in that city. 1t was from this
quarry that most of the stone were got
that were used in building the Victoria
bridge, over the st. Lawrence.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
Col. N. P. Keller, prince of landlords,
has been engaged to manage the Mt.
Mansfield Hotel this coming season.
"A cattle disease has broken out in one
of the herds in Stowe, similar to that re-
ported in Massachusetts. No deaths as yet
do we hear Of So says the Montpelier
Waterman.
ORANGE COUNTY.
"A Frenohman, of Bradford, was bad
ly frozen on the night of Jan. 21st, in at
tempting to go to Piermont, N. H, on &C.
count OF being SO full of liquor that he
had to lie down on the way.
The lumbermen on Braintree noun
tain are quite nonplussed by the heavy
thaw, as it has stopped their business till
the roads are passable for teams again.
Since Shedding, the mountain roads here
presented quite lively appearance, and
lumber has been constantly passing to the