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

Movements are starting up, not only
in Vermont but in other parts of the
country, that indicate a revival of the
temperance interest.
Seventeen pound babies are scored in
Vermont, which are by no means what
the prize ring men would style slight
weights"
The number of our colleges is argued
to be great good, by encouraging per.
sons of limited means and humble cir.
cumstances to struggle for an education,
which they would never have done had
nothing but distant and expensive uni
versity offered itself for their gratifoa-
ton.
ADDISON COUNTY.
r. Flint is appointed Postmaster at
Hancock, vice S. McAllister and B. Ben
oft at North Danville, vice D. w. Bachel-
der.
AT North Ferrisburgh there will be a
Good Templar's Union on Wednesday,
Feb. Sth.
The Addison County Temperance So
ciety meets at Middlebury, next Wednes-
day, at the vestry of the Congregational
Church.
They have robins every wet day in
Vergennes-rebins not chickens, though
there's some of these Mondays.
On the 18th there is to be gathering
of "fat men" at Toby's Hall in Monkton.
No man of less than 200 lbs. to be allowed
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The selectmen of Manchester have
assessed the State tax upon the old ap-
praisal of 1866, instead of the new one Of
1870. The blunder renders the tax void.
About seven o'clock Thursday even.
ing, brisk snow squat passed over Ben
ington and Salisbury, accompanied by
thunder and lightning. It was of brief
duration, coming out of moon-lit sky,
and leaving the heavens as bright as be-
fore. A gentleman who was at North
Bennington at the time, reports that a
house was struck there. Lightning in
winter is sufficiently rare, when accom-
panied with rain, but thunder and lightH-
ing in the midst of snow storm we do
not remember to have experienced before.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
H. w. Fleetwood has been re-appoint-
cd postmaster at st. Johnsbury.
Great quantities of potatoes are be-
ing shipped from Lyndon to Boston, at
from so to So cents per bushel.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
There is good crossing on the ice be-
tween Charlotte and Essex, n. Y.
&C. D. Carpenter on the Both inst,
killed hog Is months old which weighed
665 lbs his girth vase feet and one inch /;
length from root of tail to end of nose, 6
feet one inch.
The legal voters of Charlotte met at
the Town House in that town February
Let, to consider the recent State "equsl-
ization" of the grand list, and by vote in
structed the selectmen to retain the State
and county tax bills in their hands until
the next annual March meeting.
j. NJ. Chadwick, of Cambridge Centre,
formerly of st. James Hotel, Washington,
D. c., has leased the Function House"
near the depot at Essex Junction. and
will take possession on the 18th of March.
rr,4.4,4sII1, ooUNII.
Railroad ties are being placed upon
the line of the Lamoille Valley Railroad
in Fairfield.
AT the funeral of the lac Mrs. Tier
ney in Fairfield, the procession numbered
144 teams by count.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
David Randall has bought the "Vil-
lage Hotel" in Hydepark, for $500.
The Lamoille County Good Templars'
Union, will be held at Watervil1e, Feb.
14th.
The vetrsn landlord n. P. Keller,
has been hired to run the big house at
Stowe the coming summer.
&C. P. Brown of Eden, ''publishes"-
not his wife, ut-two men who stole sol
bushels of potatoes, two others who drove
off one of his sheep, and a third who car
ried off load of cornstalks from his barn.
Quite "raid" on Brown And he wants
them to settle for it, Immediately.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Geo. W. Weeks, who has wife and
child in Bloomington, Vt, was arrested
last week for living in an unlawful man
ner with young woman named Hannah
Dyer. He plead guilty and was commit
ed to Jail in default of $500 bonds.
"A grand trot is to take place on the
lee on Lake Memphremagog, Feb. Is and
1G. Among the purses is one of $500,
open to all trotting horses; $3.50 to first,
$50 to second mile heats, best 3 in 8. As
these races occur just before those adver.
tised in Montreal, where over $1,000 are
offered in purses, several fast horses on
their way from New Hampshire and Mas
are expected to stop and COM
pete.
The "Ladies Church Aid Society" of
Newport, which has been very successful
in raising money for one of the churches
there, is in considerable commotion, aris-
ing from the circumstance that at one of
the recent sociables a jug of cider was
brought by some one, into which some
body else mt some whisky and which
had free circulation with the natural con-
till the managers discovered
that the drink was something stronger
than apple juice, and added salt enough to
spoil it as beverage. The Newport En-
press has nearly two columns of cores
pondenoe and editorial on the subject, and
In fha onnrsn Of tho latter nnfs tho aun.