Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-18

town clerk of johnson for thirty years.
-Lamoille County contains 400 square
miles.
-Burrill S. Miner was Senator from
Lamoille County in 1916 and 1S47.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Last Monday Jerry Drew CARED fif-
teen horses at North Derby station-$6,-
600 worth-and L. A. Whitaker nine. all
for the Boston market.
The Irasburgh National Bank has in
dividual deposits to the amount of &c.
S9942.
Decoration Day, May 80, is to be OBJ
served at Troy, Vt. o. S. Dorman of
Newport, orator.
Parker s. Bros, of Lowell, with one
saw in one hour cut 600 feet of boards.
The Baptist Church in Lowell have
sold the slips for sufficient to pay the in
debtednsss on the house.
There are eighteen widows living in
one school district in Derby.
In one school district in Browning
ton there are eight families and twenty.
six individuals. Forty-six hundred lbs.
of sugar were made in the district, which
gives 1T lbs. to each person.
A few days since, while John Stowell
of Newport Centre, was digging in his
cellar where he is building his new store,
he found two gallon jug full of good
port wine. 1t was about six inches under
the bottom of the cellar.
A farmer, near Newport, recently
found cable chain that had been missing
for five years. 1t was found by the aid
of neighbours dream, under a stump.
Strange to relate, the chain was not rasty.
"A Canadian mail agent has been put
upon the Massawippi Railroad, and we
now have direct and easy mail communi-
cation with Canada. The post Office at
Newport has been made a distributing
office from the 1st of May.
Rev. A. J. Wilcox of Hamilton, is to
supply the Baptist church at Newport
for year.
Judge Hastings of Craftsbury has
COW from which he has made $50 pounds
of butter in eleven months the p' ST. year,
besides supplying his family with milk.
The Good Templar. are doing good
service in Derby.
The friends of Rev. S. Goodenough
at Derby Line have preented him with
nice silver tea service which, no doubt
was very agreeable surprise.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Few villages of like size, on the Con-
necticut river are blest with more active
enterprising business talents, than Brad
ford contain s.
The Bradford Opinion has been sold
by Mr.. Cobb to 3 publishing company,
consisting chiefly Of his creditors, who
are ready TO sell again to some enterpris-
ing printer with little capital
West Randolph boasts of having the
stingiest man living. List year his cows
calf had no tail, this year it had no tail
and only one eye. The neighbors expect
that next year the COW will be allowed no
calf at all.
Asa Avery of Braintree had dispute
with the saw in his saw mill the other
day, in the course of which his clothing
was torn into shreds, bis person severely
bruised, and one shoulder dislocated. He
intends to keep out of the way of the in
strument while it is motion, in the flu
ture.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Fires are burning on the hills between
Waterbury AID Middlesex and have al
ready run over many acres.
The restaurant at Essex Junction has
changed hands aud is now under the man
agement of Mr.. Williams, the station
agent.
We hear that one of the boys under sem
tence at the Reform School ran away last
week Friday, having stolen six hundred
dollars in money and some clothes.
Norwich University has been fur
nished by the United States government
with arms and equipments to the value of
FIVE thousand five hundred dellsrs, includ-
ing one Kindred and fifty cadet rife mus
kets, manufactured for the University at
Springfield, Mass.
The body of one of the Thorndike
BOYS, drowned at Waterbury few weeks
ago, was found in the river at louisville,
twelve miles below the scene of the dis
aster.
During the year 1870, ffty-seven
marriages were registered in the town
clerks Office at Montpelier. OF the par
ties married, one hundred and one were
native and thirteen foreign born, ninety
eight were first, fifteen s.cnud and onc
third marriages.
"A man in Waterbury, u short time
since broke into cellar, stole pal fsll
of whisky, and made swill pail of him
self trying to hold it all after which he
came in contact with some 10th amend.
ment females who engraved the stars and
stripes on his face and divested him of
his watch and money for their trouble,
after which he fell into a manure hole,
from which he was fishad out and taken
home nastier if not a better man.
WINDHAN COUNTY.
"A little girl in Jamaica, on recent
windy day, was blown off bridge into a
stream, and fell fifteen feet, narrowly es.
Gaping death on the rocks.
"A horned toad, from the swamps of
Nevada, came through the mail distance