Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-09

leg in jumping from beam in the barn.
and has since died from fever caused by
the accident.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
John Mosely, an old and valued citi.
zen of Mortified, died on the 10Th of Feb.
after an illness of two years
&C. A. Beaman, one Of the dry goods
merchants of Mortified, is about to re-
move 70 more advantageous locality for
the transaction of business.
j. s. J. w. Gould Of Gouldsville
Mortified, has purchased stationary en-.
CINE, not desiring to longer be dependent
on the capricious bounty of the clouds
to propel their manufacturing establish.
ment.
Mr.. G. G. Cove Of Middlebury Col
lege has just closed successful term Of
school at Marshfeld.
Don P. Carpenter Of Middlesex, has
been nominated for County Commission.
er. George w. Scott of Mortified, is
also in the field. They have requested to
have all the liquors sold in the county
analysed.
The wife of the suspected Waterbury
Bank robber has deposited the amount OF
his bail in one of the Montpelier banks
and he has been set at liberty.
One of the bitterly cold days of the
first week in February, George Edwards
and wife of Mortified, got stuck in a
snow drift. Mr.. Edwards, being unable
to extrioate his sleigh, wherein was his
wife, went for assistance. When he re-
turned Mrs. Edwards was so near frozen
that she could not speak, and in conse.
quence of the exposure is very i'll with
typhoid fever. If she RECEIVERS it is thought
that amputation of one arm will be ne.
cessary.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
The freight depot at Brattleboro was
set on fire the other night, by some pre-.
pared lime.
Horse thieves are Troublesome in
Newfane. Stephen Higgins lost 5000
horse last week.
Thomas Manning, an old man, walk
ing on the railroad below the freight
house at Brattleboro, on Monday, just
ahead of the incoming Boston train, was
struck by the engine, and his back,
shoulder and leg broken, causing his
death in the evening.
Mr.. Harding, Jamiaca teamster fell
off from his heavily laden wagon, while
trying to stop his six-horse team, was run
over, the wheels breaking one ankle and
the bones of the other foot, and in spite of
all, got up and ran forty rods after the
team.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
There are in the town of Springfield.
ninety persons between the ages of seven
ty and eighty years; and forty-two be-
tween eighty and one hundred. OF the
latter,the average age is over eighty-four.
The oldest person is ninety-nine years AID
nine months.
j. B. Farusworth, Esq, is librarian of
Atheneum Library, and the
books are kept in room in the L. s.
court house.
Frederick Billings, Esq, of Wood
stock, having resigned as President of the
County Agricultural Society,
Hon. N. B. Stafford, of White River juno
ton, has been elected in his stead.
LELAND D. Horton, of Bethel, has
been nominated for county commissioner
in Windsor county. The Standard COM
planned of lack of interest by the friends
Of temperance i'll the Convention, but says
the nomination is entirely satisfactory.
"A youngster sliding down hill in
Woodstock on Sunday, got a broken leg.
S. G. Clapp of Bethel, took as he sup
posed dose of salts, but found he had
aiken dose of saltpetre. He then took
L quart of milk, six eggs and an emetic,
and survived the whole.
"A Frenchman named Turell, from
canada, applied to a clergyman in Bethel
o be married to his niece, but the minis
,er refused to tie the knot They left
and it is understood that they have since
,ohabited as husband and wife.
Mrs. Frank NJ Robinson of Dubuque,
Iowa, a daughter of Allen Spaulding for.
nerly of South Reading, writes occasion
lily for both the New York Tribune and
Herald and one of the Dubuque papers.
)ne of her recent articles is on the Fran
'o-Prussian war.
While two brothers in Woodstock,
famed Clafin, were coasting, last Sunday,
he youngest, about 10 years old, ran
lgainst tree, throwing him off and
breaking the thigh.
WOODSTOCK. - Your correspondent
'eing in Woodstock last Sabbath, had the
pleasure of attending services held by
Rev. A. B. Dascomb, the present pastor of