Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-01

Wednesday Of this week. The delegate
from the Weybridge Association are Re,
L. Q. Partridge, F. H.Stewart and Cap,
w. B. Hurlburt.
-Shoreham cheese factory opened 70
making cheese May 1st.
| Newton Academy Union School 81
lists no longer. The majority of the tai
payers thinking the old way the best, viz
supporting school for common Englisl
branches, and those wishing for anything
higher, are at liberty to get it "if the.
can" fr. ~
Quarterly meeting at Panton May q
and 20. Sabbath service at 3 p. m.
DIR. o. Nimblet, of Monkton, gave
temperance lecture at Vergennes OF
Wednesday evening. .a
The County Commissioner has licen
sed J. T. Barlow in Bristol, to sell liquo
for medical purposes.
William Hines, of Bristol, had I
calf that came into his enclosure which
weighed III pounds at birth.
Quarterly meeting at West Addison
on the 9th and 28th instant. Presiding
elder Gregg will be present both at thu
Conference and the Sabbath Service.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
-Herndon's Opera House Company ex
hibit at Bennington next week.
Col. J. II. Walbridge is the orator
Decoration Day, at North Bennington.
Judge Homer E. Royce will hold the
June term of Bennington County Court,
commencing at Manchester, Tuesday,
June 9th.
Some scamps at Bennington Centre
recently attempted to destroy the horse
sheds of the Congregational church by
saving off some of the beams and bracee.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Last week the Messrs Fairbanks OF
st. Johnsbury, completed land sealed ten
hundred and thirty-nine scales, and melt
ed one hundred and five tons of iron for
scale castings.
The Wells River railroad enterprise
is moving along surely. A new board
ing house has been built about three
miles from Kinnev's mills, on the sum-
nit of the road in Groton, we believe, and
ia designed to accommodate employees
and visitors.
Hon. Moses Kittridge has decided his
homestead on Prospect street, st. Johns
bury, to Father Danielou, the Catholic
priest, for $1,000.
The first semi.annual session of the
Caledonia Teachers Association was held
at the academy in st. Johnsbury last
week.
Archie S. Babbitt of Danville, re-
turned from Lowell, some two weeks ago
and was attacked with the small pox and
died, at the age of q.
Martha ]. Wells, aged about 10
years, daughter of Arad Wells, of North
Danville, 'died suddenly recently. She
had been healthy girl, and was as usual
up to Tuesday evening. except that she
complained of violent headache. She
was taken with vomiting and died almost
Immediately A physician was sent for,
who gave the opinion that blood vessel
had burst.
The Caledonia Medical society meets
at Lyndonville June 18th.
The Lyndon Union says that fifty
Calves were shipped from that place re-
Gently They cost six dollars and seven
ty-fve cents head, and in market are
not worth over FIVE dollars each. About
ten of them were not fit for market.
There are more skim milk calves this
year than usual.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
The body of Mr.. Tassie, who WAS
drowned some weeks ago, has not yet
been recovered. They consulted "Sleep-
ing Lucy" and she told them the body
was in the bay, near F. ]. Hazen's. The
bay has teen thoroughly dragged for the
past ten days, but in vain.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Asa Avery, residing near Peth, in
the town of Braintree, was recently com.
mitted to Jail at Chelsea, having plead
guilty to stealing q saw. mill saw, worth
about ten dollars. .
-Chas Hubbard, of West Randolph,
was seriously injured on the afternoon of
the 10Th inst, at Salisbury Co.'S steam
mill, by board being thrown from cir
cular saw in motion, hitting him in the
head.
The next Convention of the White
River Valley Musical Association, and
the last of the season, will be held at
South Royslton. on Tuesday and Wed
nesday, May Both and 3lst, closing Fri
day. June LIST, under the direction of T. Fl.
Hereafter the examination for grsan-
alton at the Normal School, in Randolph,
will occur at the end of the Spring and
Fall terms, instead of at the middle of the
terms, as formally. The school year will
consist of two terms of twenty weeks
each, beginning the forth Wednesday in
August, and the second Wednesday in
February In accordance with recent
ly adopted rule of the Board of Educa-
ton, no person can graduate until they
have been members of the school for a
year or more.