Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-04
County Mention.
As the remains of John Q. Dickinson

" III oIauoou 10 YO1c,oA1'
"A boy in Brandon threw some pow
der in bonfire few evenings since and
hasn't played on the square since.
AT the last session of the Legislature
the Vermont Slate and Alum Company
was incorporated, with James Adams,
Douglas r. Ssterlee, Hiram 0. Brown OF
Castleton, Gregory Saterlee and Fred W.
saterlee of New York, as corporators.
The Congregational Church in Cas-.
Teton was organized in 1884.
The northwestern part of Chittenden
is watered by Philadelphia river which
falls into the Otter Greek at Pittsford.
There were 1876 horses in Chittenden
in 1910.
Clarendon is in latitude 43 degrees,
81 minutes, and longitude 3 degrees g
minutes.
The first settlers of Clarendon were
mostly from Rhode Island.
L. P. Howe has the agency for Dan
by and Mt. Tabor for the sale of Taylor's
patent grain and hay rake, which rakes,
and gathers your grain and hay without
dust or scratching the ground.
No less than 100000 pounds of cheese,
and butter in proportion, have been car
ried from Dandy to market in one year.
"A mans wife died in Fairhaven
about three months ago, very suddenly,
and now the widower has married SER
want girl who lived in the family before
the frat wife's death. Upon these facts
the village gossips have fabricated vol
umes.
The list for State taxes in Fairhaven
lie $7,14693.
The town of Hubbardton now con-
tains about $4,000 acres of land less than
the usual amount in the other towns of
the State, because the towns IN the south
part of the State being surveyed first, and
most of them being surveyed larger than
the charter limits Several of the towns
in the vicinity of Hubbardton were con-
sequently contracted to less than their
charters allowed.
-Hubbardtou derived its name from
Thomas Hubbard, a large proprietor in
the town.
Ira has only eighty-one taxable heads.
Ira Brook rises in the south part of
the town, runs northeasterly, and joins
Furnace Brook in Clarendon.
-Melzer Shippee lost valuable cow
about two weeks since. He found her
dead in the morning. The stage driver
knowing the cause Of her death, informed
him the next day that young man, a
passenger, discharged a pistol at the cow
az he was passing. He di>enterred the
COW and found the statement of the stage
driver 10 be correct.
The young man is known and viii be
called upon to pay for the animal, which
will prove a useful lesson to him, and
cause him 10 he careful how be aims in
future.
--Mendon has 55 dogs.
Rev. Nelson Stutsou, an able min
lister Of the Methodist Church, who spent
some time at Middlebury last year in an
effort 10 re gain bis health, died in Spring
field, Mass, on the 18th of April.
-Mi1dletown has 12,O80 taxable acres.
THE appraisal of real estate in Mt.
Holly is 1894, SIS.
Fossil leather is found in Mt. Holly.
Lincoln & Mattocks are doing large
business at their tannery in Mt. Tabor,
and are purchasing a large quantity of
hides.
Warren Vaughan is increasing the
business and population of Mt. Tabor, he
has brought into town two or three famil-
les from Dorset, partly for farming and
partly for mechanical purposes.
We regret to learn of the illness of
our venerable friend G. FL. Rounds, Esq,
at the residence of his son-in-law L. z.
Howe Esq in Mt. Tabor.
Martin V. B. Leach has been elected
first Constable and Collector of Pawlet in
place of Daniel f. Cushman, deceased.
D W. Bromley has reftted and re-
repaired the Franklin House at Pawlet,
and has opened it to the public. Mr..
Bromley has the reputation of keeping an
excellent hotel.
Rev S. w. Segur, formerly of Pitts
field, but for the past nine years pastor of |
the Congrega tional Church of Talmadge, |
Ohio, has accepted call from the Con-
gregational Church in Gloucester, Mass.
The appraisal of personal estate in
Pittsfield is $31,727.
One per cent. of the grand list of
p;t+ofo ID is $8,964,2O.
Tbors a,~a two ponds in Pittsford, one
IN tina soutbeast.>rn part covering about
fftv acres. and the OF er in the northeast
cru covering about thirty NoieS'
There is quite contest over the To-
cation of a new school bnilding in vest
Poultney. After several unsuccessful at
tempts to fix a location IN school meet
ings, the matter has been referred to the
selectmen.
Elder Clark Kendrick was the first
settled minister of the Baptist Church in
Poultney He was ordained in loO2, and
died in March, 1924, after successful
pastorate Of twenty-five years.
-Rutland has Is school districts with |
about two thousand scholars.
The length of the north line of Rut-
land is seven and half miles, that of the
east line five and a half, the south line
six and three-quarters and the west five
and half miles.
-Sherburne had 625 head of cattle in |
1910.