Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-02

: George V. FAIR Of Brandon recently
lost valuable horse by over driving and
want of care after his arrival home.
The loans and discounts of the Bran.
don National Bank, according to its last
report was $200,53130.
John Hines of Rutland, has pur-
chased the ]. FL. Remington farm, on the
Hubbardton road, north of Castleton, of
James Everson, for the sum of $500.
ON the first Sabbath in the year the
contribution for the poor of The Congre.
gational church amounted to $25.H.
The Teachers Institute for Rutland
county commences on Monday next, Feb.
9th.
Winter fishing is all the rage in
Chittenden now.
John Cowee was town clerk in Chit
tenden from 1898 to 1918, twenty years.
"A very interesting cave exists in
Clarendon. The descent into it is through
passage about two and half feet in
width, and thirty -one in length, leading
into room twenty feet high and nearly
thirteen wide. From this room a SINH
lar passage leads into room thirty feet
long and twenty wide. This room is
sometimes filled with water.
The first town meeting on record in
| Clarendon was in ITS.
| The farm of the late Ira Edmunds in
Dandy, was sold at auction on the 18th,
with large stock of cows, hay, etc., to
Edwin Staples, for the sum of $l1,O 900.
There still exists in Dandy much
trouble from a scarcity of water in wells
and rivers.
Eight dogs and one man were killed
in Fairhaven last week by strychnine.
The slate prospects in Fairhaven for
the coming season are encouraging.
-Hubbardton was oharted by New
Hampshire, June IA, 1884, to Isaac Searle
and sixty-six others, containing seventy
two shares.
The first Representative of Hubbard
ton was David Hickok, in 1856.
The inhabitants in Ira increased
twenty-five from 1850 to 1860.
Ira is the most peculiar shaped town,
not only in Vermont, but in the United
States, if not in the world, running from
point to about two miles wide, and is
| fourteen miles in length.
"A temperance revival is going on in
Mendon, and weekly meetings are held.
-Pico Peak in Mendon is 3,9l7 feet
above the ocean.
"A new organ has been placed in the
Congregational Church in Middletown. at
q cost of $500.
The people of Middletown are agi-
tating the subject of the building Of the
Middletown Springs Railroad.
The town of Mt. Holly was not emu
merated in the census of 1901 but in 1900
had 65S inhabitants.
Mountains, is 1415 feet above the ocean.
The manufacture of butter tubs and
cheese boxes in Mt. Tabor is to be large
ly increased.
The liquor agency at Mt. Tabor is
closed.
A daily stage transporting the mail
runs to Granville, n. Y, and Manchester.
-Pawlet possess many valuable facili-
ties for manufacturing that ought to be
improved. 1t was formerly the busiest
manufacturing town in the country.
-Alonzo Lackey, of Pawlet, while fell.
ing lodged tree, on Saturday last, had
his leg broken in two places. He WAS at
tended by DR.. Sargent, and Is doing we'll
-Pittsfeld has daily stage to Bethel.
Thomas Hodgkins was the first re-
pre- sentative of Pittsfeld in 1896.
Recently three school boys in Pitts
ford tried to whip the teacher. She
makes it warm for them with a red hot
poker, and two of them have gone into
dry dock for repairs.
The present year Is the hundreth
since it's first settlement, 1t should be
celebrated.
-Poultney had 1866 inhabitants in
1920, just fifty more than it had in 1910.
"A good many people in Rutland
"walked in slippery places" on Wednes-
day and a good many people neglected
to clear their side walks of ice, uotwith-
standing the thaw that gave them an OK
cellent opportunity to do 80.
Blind Tom, the celebrated negro
musician is to perform in Rutland, on
Friday and Saturday evening next.
The first Justice of the Peace in Sher-
burne, was John Anthony, in 1895.
Richard Estabrook was the delegate
to the constitutional convention in 1843.
A Grand Oddfellows Festival comes off
at Todd's Hotel on Thursday evening,
Feb. 9th
The recent excitement in school af-
fairs in Shrewsbury has somewhat sub
sided,
Sudbury has tive most excellent ho-
tells.
1T is not positively known when or
where Sudbury was first known.
An extensive revival of religion is
prevailing in Tinmouth, under the preach
ing of Rev. n III. Learnard of Rutland.
1t is reported that the marble quar-
ries in Tinmouth are to be worked again
in the spring
The ancient name of what is called
Wallingford Pond, was Lake Hiram. or
Spectacle Pond,
South Wallingford is 729 feet above