Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-11
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

20. r. Gage, Esq, of Addison, died or
Thursday, April Goth, and his remain.
were buried with Masonic honors.
j The Ferrisburg Good Templars are
prospecting finely, and now have one hnn'
dred and nineteen active members.
Lightning recently struck valuable
pine tree which stood near the plank road
on the Buckley Farm, not far from Yer.
gennes, and split it so as to destroy it.
Mr.. J. G.. Robbins of Hancock, has
been a continuous subscriber to the Mid
dlebury Register and it's predecessors I'm.
der different names, for more than forty
years.
Col. E. s. Stowell has presented the
editor of the Middlebury Register with a
2 by 9 turkeys egg.
"A large dog snapped at Bridport
merchant the other day, and his trowsers
suffered severely.
Two servant girls, at Middlebury, had
little unpleasantness on the street We'd
nesday evening, one of them receiving a
swollen face. Next day she entered COM
plant to the Grand Juror, and her assail.
ant was brought up and fined 81 and
costs.
Mr.. o. D. Towner of Bridport, killed
yearling on the first day of April, which
dressed $50 lbs. During the last summer
he had only half pailful of sour milk
per day, and in the winter only two quarts
of oats and what hay he wanted. He was
just thirteen months old when slaughter
ed. With such keeping this animal was
certainly of remarkable size.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Dwight Taylor of East Rupert keeps
seventy-six cows, twenty two-year olds,
nine horses and colts, one hundred and
fifty sheep, two yokes of oxen, and eleven
hogs. He cuts about eight hundred tons
of hay. He raised last season seven hun.
dred bushels of corn, four hundred bush
els of oats, five hundred bushels of pota-
toes, seven hundred bushels of apples,
and made twenty-five barrels of cider.
"A little son of Geo. Witherell, about
six years of age, went into Field Marble
Company's mill recently, and for amuse-
ment commenced turning the crank of
the hosting tmachinery of one lof the
gangs. The gang suddenly lowered and
the crank struck Tommy in the stomach
with the force of several hundred pounds,
throwing him twelve feet, inficting very
serious injuries. His recovery is very
doubtful.
Willis Phelps of East Dorset has sold
his farm to his son George for $4,000,
and expects soon to move on to a small
farm of his, formerly owned by E. Dan
forth, situated just south of jerks hotel.
Rev. Adney Newton of Bondville lis
building new mill with improved ma
chinery, with saws suitable to getting out
Grecian chair stuff. Charles Livermore
of the same town, is getting ready saw
mill and chair works.
d. H. Hewes of Winhall has made
thirty-six hundred pounds of sugar this
season in less than forty days. He caught
twenty-one pals full of sap from three
trees in thirty hours. He has caught
three hundred and forty-one barrels of
sap which have yielded little over ten
pounds of sugar to the barrel
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The following are the school Stats
tics of Barnet for the year 1870: Total
expense of schools in Barnet for the past
year, including $436 expended in repair
ing school houses, was $3479 08, of which
$153S30 was paid for teachers wages.
The amount OF money rai-ed on the
Grand List for all school purposes was
$2267.S3 whole number of scholars be-
tween four and eighteen in town, SIT
whole number in school, winter, 435 !; sg-
gregat? average attendance, 1922; number
weeks school taught, 49,; number of
families in town, 1923. The largest dis
trict in town is that at Barnet (Stearns)
village 1t las 95 families and 176 chill
uEeu uuGeE 80 years VI hSS'
The school registers of Hardwick
show the following facts: Number of dis
triots, 70; number of weeks of school,
1856; number of different teachers en-
ployed, 81; amount expended for teach
ers' wages, exclusive of board, $l659.O7 Il
greatest number Of scholars attending
school any one term, 22O; aggregate
attendance for the year, 27,9O6; number
of children in town between the ages of
5 and 90 years, 1868.
There are five hundred cords of bark
in Gro,on, and large lot of lumber,
which was not delivered because the
sleighiug went off 30 soon.
West Groton is laboring under Mil
lerite excitement. Meetings have been
held there frequently of lac. and the
inhabitants are ciphering out the precise
time of the final great smash-up So
says the Union.
Some five years ago, Judge L n. Hall
& Son of Groton purchased from the
Burnham estate 100 acres Of woodland
and the timber on thirty acres more.
They have taken from the 30 acre lot
about $4,000 worth of tim Der, and sold a
third interest in the 100 acres to n. II.
Kicker for $500
A. NJ. Carpenter of Waterford has
deed in bis possession from Joseph Car
penter and William Carpenter, Senior, to
Stephen Arnold, dated 1874. 1t is on
heavy parchment, and, we believe, is the
oldest deed in the county. But he has a
still older paper, petition from the in
habitants of Rehoboth to the Court of
Plymouth, dated 1912.
Ezra Halett of st. Johnsbury Center,
has a theep which recently produced three
lambs, all alive and doing well.
in old times, public officers did not