Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-07-27
Vermont News.

Bennington has purchased q steam
fire engine.
"A Good Templars' Lodge has been
organized at West Berkshire.
The public houses at Alburgh Springs
are rapidly filling up with guests.
Burlington received $4,000 feet oil
lumber for the week ending the 18th.
The State has now nineteen pupils at
the deaf mute asylum, Hartford, CT.
Parties are washing for gold in Lo'
Gust Creek in the town of Bethel, and
find little, it is said.
&C. J. Doughty of the University Of
Vermont is to take charge of the graded
school at Richmond the next school year
Wilton & Call of Perkinsville
manufacture from $4,000 to 10000 yards
of cotton per week in their cotton mill.
Rev. DR.. Lord of Montpelier will be-
gin his annual summer vacation next
week.
H. S. Foster has re-opened the River.
side House at East Berkshire, which had
been closed for some time past.
H. G. Eddy, the organist of Bethany
church, Montpelier, will leave for Ger
many on the 25th.
-Messrs. Frost, Derby s. Co. of Bel
lows Falls are filling orders for their
scythe snaths from California and South
America.
e. w. Stoughton of New York, and
Mile. Nilsson and party, are expected to
arrive at the Memphremagog House at
Newport, on Thursday.
Rev. J. L. Graves and family OF
Springfield, Mass, have a model summer
residence GA the Handle" at Whining
ton, Vt, and repaired thither one day last
week.
The recent rains will insure an
abundant grass crop in the State.
II. S. Estabrook has been appointed
postmaster at West Dover, vice W. T
Jones, resigned.
Asa Rhodes, Esq, prominent farm
err and influential citizen of Richmond
died on Monday, aged G8 years.
The Fall term of Essex Classical in
stitute begins wednesday, August 3O-A
E. Clark, principal.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Connecticut and Passump
sic Rivers Railroad will be held at the
Memphremagog House, Newport, July
Both.
The trustees of Green Mountain
Perkins Academy at South Woodstock,
have engaged as Principal Walter NJ.
Wright, of the yarmouth Glass of II.
"A salmon has been caught in the
village pond at Londonderry, it is thought
to be one of the lot Matched last summer
and placed in the river at Weston by
the fish Commissioner, DIR. Edmonds.
"A practical exemplar of "woman''
rights" exists in the person of Mrs. Bliss
Smith of Londonderry, who follows the
manly trade of shoe making, as she ha-
done for the past forty years.
The grounds selected for the County
Fair, at Essex junction, arc about a
fourth Of mile from the Junction House
on the Burlington road, and will include
thirty acres.
Samuel c. Fleming of Bellows Falls,
for long time one of the most genial
and popular conductors on the Conuecti-
cut River railroad, is to be clerk of the
new Fitch hotel at Northampton.
Wilmington laconics: A lecture by
James Herrick, the Williams college stu
dent at Wilmington, on India and the So
cial doing there. attracted good audi
ence, at the Congregational church on
Sunday evening last.
Mary, eldest child of Rev. C. c. Tor
rey of Georgia, VT, died at her fathers
residence, on Wednesday night, of fever,
after an illness of about three weeks.
The delicate young ladies of Groton.
Caledonia county, find it necessary to
play croquet under tents to protect them
from the sun. Their dear PaPas didn't
use to hoe potatoes in that way, though.
Albert Hunt was arrested at Iras-
burg on Tuesday, by United Stats officers
for smuggling. He is suspected Of being
the leader of gang of operators on the
Canada side.
There were sent from West Burke
station in the quarter ending July l, 252
full cars of freight, consisting chiefly OF
lumber, potatoes, wood, hops, etc.
The trustees of the Windham Provi-
dent Institution for Savings at Brattle-
boro, have just desclared their 49ih divi-
dend, amounting to $4,000. The total
amount held in trust by the bank July
9th, was 1858, 1887.
The Twentieth Annual Fair of the
Orange County Agricultural Society,
will be held at Bradford, Tuesday, We'd
nesday and Thursday, September Goth,
9th and 2Stb, 1871. The list of prem
iums, etc, is published.
The carriage road to the top of Mt
Equinox has been cleared out so that
parties can drive to the top of the noun
tain. The road vs far as the "notch" is
is fine condition, and said to better than
ever before.
Deacon Benjamin Bufum of Will
mington, who was incapacitated short
time since, in consequence of mental de-
is convalescing.
The Norwich University and ST..
Adams clubs had "small game" at st.
Adams, Monday afternoon. 1t resulted
in a victory for the st. Adams club As to