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

Tuesday evening last. Refreshments were
I served in the lecture room of the Metho-
dist church The donation was liberal
one.
| The valuation of the personal pro-
perty in the town of Benson in 1870, was
I$s1,990.
| Mrs. spooner, of Brandon, died last
week from taking spoonful of the oil of
cedar.
The friends of the highly esteemed
pastor of the Baptist Church in Brandon,
Rev. G. A. Thomas, d. D., have made
him the liberal donation of 1926.
Tho real estate of the late John
| Doyle, near the pencil mill in Castleton,
has been sold for $2500 to John Brown.
The list for State taxes in Castleton
is S9,65O.72.
The whole expenses for the support
of the poor in the town of Clarendon for
the years 1s69-70 was $6O7 Al, Ten per-
sons have been supported.
| The total liabilities of the town of
Clarendon to be provided for is $3,610,46.
1t required a sixty cent tax on the dollar
of the grand list to pay the Indebtedness
of the town.
The town OF Chittenden has only Al
dogs,
-Chittenden had 1913 inhabitants in
1891.
The appraisal of real estate in the
town of Dandy for 1870 was $327610.
The town of Dandy was organized
March Ia, 1859.
The panther excitement in Fairhaven
has subsidized
The sale of Aliens kerosene oil safes
during the month of February was double
that of the same month last year.
The number of taxable acres in the
town of Hnbbardton is 1898.
The first town clerk of Hubbardton
was David Hickok
One per cent of the grand list of Ira
is.$1, 1900
| The first constable elected in Ira was
Nathaniel Mallory.
The first seleotmen elected in Men
don were Benjamin Farmer, Johnson
Richardson and Daniel Bradish.
AT the last session of the Legislature
the name of Lemuel Paro of Mendon was
changed to Lemuel Davis, and he was
constituted heir at law of Henry and
Sarah Ann Davis.
L. B. Adams of Middletown, offers
his farm for sale, valued at $4,000.
Lovers Rock. in MiddletowD, is
favorite place of resort.
The town debt of Mt Holly to be
provided for is ST ,25205.
The receipt for sales Of liquors il
Mt. Holly for the last year was $88O41.
The total gain from liquor agency, $237.-
60; Agents salary, $75.
Gideon Tabor, senior, was town
clerk in Mt. Tabor for 30 years.
The town of Mt Tabor has never had
a county senator.
-Mrs. Eleazer Gilman of West Paw
let, Vt, left her homo about 5 o'olok on
Friday afternoon, attired simply in her
night clothes. All traces of her were lost,
and about one hundred of the residents
were out searching for her. AT night
when the family and neighbors were
about disheartened and discouraged, Mrs
Gilman walked into the house, and when
asked where she was, said she had been
lying under the woodshed floor. Yester-
day she was taken to the Brattlebora In
sane Asylum.
-Pawlet River affords several eligible
mill sites. 1t rises in Dorset, runs north
westerly across Rupert, diagonally across
Pawlet and unites with Wood Greek in
the town of Ft. Ann, N. Y.
The first child born in town of Pitts
field was Anna Hodgkins, April Is, 1881.
Wilcox Peak is the most important
elevation in the mountainous part of the
town of Pittsfcld.
1t seems that our statement recently |
published that Alfred Buck was the first |
person born in Pittsford is disputed. DR..
Caverly, the town historian writes us !:
"The first child of European origin born
in Pittsford, was daughter of Felix Pow
ell. Mr.. Powell was one of the first set
tiers of Dorset in 1868, but removed to
Pittsford in 1770, and in the fall of that
year, (the day not given a daughter was
born to him bat died in infancy. Alfred
Buck was the first male child born in
Pittsford.
In the eastern part of Pittsford is
deep cavern in which ice may be common
ly found in the months of July and Au-
gust
Hon. Samuel S. Beaman of Mime
sofa, son of Rev. DR. Beaman, formerly
of Troy, n. Y, has been visiting his
friends in Pou1tney and Hampton, after
many years absence.
Two meetings have been held in
Poultney for the purpose of organizing a
company for the manufacture of boots
and shoes.
Since the organization of the Rutland
Savings Bank, in 1850, there have been
58l9 dapositors, who have deposited with
in that time 81 1,442,374.
The General Assembly at its last
session incorporated the Smithtown
Cheese Factory at West Rutland, naming
as corporators Andrew j. Mead, David
Wing, Chaunoy T. Gorham, Joseph Chap
man, o. D. Young, Elijah ". Smith.
The capital stock to be not less than
$4,000, nor more than $4,000.
-Sherburne is in latitude 43 degrees