Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-11-09
Vermont News.
GENERAL.

GENERAL.
"A Vermont girl who sued false low
err for breach of promise, laid the damage
at forty dollars. In court, in answer to
the inquiry why that particular sum had
been named, she answered, that counting
the time she had spent 'sitting up" with
him as worth at the rate of nine shillings
per week, she had figured up the hours
passed in his company, and adding the
value of candles and wood consumed, she
had found that was the amount due.
There was no doubt in the mind of the
Judge that her claim Yves an honest one,
and verdict was rendered accordingly.
The Grand Duchy of Baden is a mar
row strip of territory about two hundred
miles long and so wide, extending along
the eastern bank of the Rhine. The face
of the country, as well as the outlines and
size OF the State, compares something with
that of Vermont, There are 20 mineral
springs within its limits, and is therefore
d great resort for health and pleasure
seekers from all over Europe.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Butter sold at Rchford, on Saturday,
at prices ranging from twenty-five to
thirty cents.
The blasting and grading on the Mis-
sisquoi Road is completed to the Stevens
Lv;l,o - E,oeb,-rb
Luther L. Davis has been appointed
U. S. Consul at Sutton, P. Q, and will be
located at either Sutton Flat or Aber
corn.
Since the trains commenced running
on the Missisquoi R. R., Montgomery gets
daily mail, instead of tri,weekly one.
as formerly.
The Franklin County Agricultural
and Mechanical Society have relocated
their annual fairs at Sheldon.
A large Ovarian Tumor weighing
over sixty pounds was removed from the
person of Miss Ella Northrup, of Fair
field, on Friday last, by Dr.. Burnam, OF
Lowell, Mass, assisted by Drs. r. Sher-
wood, of Fairfield. and S. S. Clark, of St.
Adams Miss Northrup is doing well,
and strong hopes of her final recovery
are entertained.
"A new Lodge of Good Templars l.
now in progress under the direction Of
Mr.. Underwood, pastor of the M. E
church at Fairf4x.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
Rev. Fl. c. E-tes. lectures at the
Normal School. in Johnson, Nov. 1Oth,
on the Poet Burns
Friday afternoon, the 9th inst, the
nearly completed mill-d4m of the Buck
Brothers, northeast of the village OF
johnson, was swept away taking with it
the bridge which crosses from the new
street Just below; also doing some dam
age TO the mill which is in process of
erection.
"A four hundred pound bruin unwise-
" put his foot in trap set by Curtis
Brown, at Belvidere, VT, few days ago
He was a connoisseur in sheep.
Ira Potter of Belvidere, in jumping
from his wagon the other day, alighted on
the end of a broom handle, which entered
his body near the groin, and passed up
ward till it strnck a rib. which it broke.
The broomstick was also broken but he
was able 70 pu'l the end IF it ont of bis
body before help reached him. His iniu-
ries were serious but not fatal and he is
now reported az doing we'll
-Captsin Noses MrFarl nj has sold
the sash, door and blind mandatory,
and the two dwellings connected with if
at Wstervilla. to George Mann, formerly
Of East Frorkiin. who. in company with
his father, Mr.. Hiram Mann, intends tc
establish a business of m tnufaoturine
axes and hoes. The sash and blind manu-
fury will be run as before.
There are one hundred and five man.
nfacturipg Embellishments in Lamoille
county, with a capital of 1926. IT'S en-.
ploving two hundred and thirty. five
males and fifteen females Paying S44,.
$50 per annnm for wages, $251, 134 for
material ard producing goods amounting
TO $403 825.