Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-07-13
Vermont News.

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| grounds has been completed.
| Walter B. Cobb, a successful merchant and
bank director, died at Derby Line, June Goth.
About $4,000 of bonds of the Woodstock rail
road, the Standard says, have been taken,
| Rev. D. A. Mack, Of Royaltop, has collected
or obtained pledges for $lO, 90 to endow an or
pbans' home
| B. F. Paine ofJay, was injured quite severely
recently by being hit with a clapboard heart
while helping to load hogs.
A daughter Of Samuel B. Clark of Cady's
Falls, caught her dress on fire recently, and was
fatally burned.
The new banking house and Masonic hall in
Harlow & Whites block, Windsor, are said to
possess much architectural beauty.
Mrs. Rufus E. TowDshend, of Woodstock
formerly of South Burlingtonl has put down
$1,000 to help through the Woodstock railroad.
| The father of Chan les Eddy, a leading citizen
of Troy, N. Y, Die at West Randolph, on
Thursday, at the advanced age of ninety-three
| years.
Frost. Derby & Co. of Bellows Falls, have
received an order for six hundred Of their scgthe
snaths for California, and also several hundred
for South America.
The selectmen of Cam bridge refuse to furnish
the agent appointed by Col. Boynton, E. N. Bur
net, with liquors, so the town has no agency. We
understand the liquor agen cy in Rutland to be in
a similar condition.
-Messrs. a. & VIM. Felt of Andover, who re-
Gently lost their mills by fire. are going to rebuild
imme diately. The citizens have subscribed sew
eral hundred dollars to aid in rebuilding, and
more will be added.
Joseph Burton, an employe of Colby Brothers
& Co., while running plsneing machine, had the
four fingers of his left hand, up TO the second
Joint, shaved into very small pieces
john Shipman, of North Springfield, died re-
Gently at the advanced age of 100 years less days
He voted for Washington the second ii me he was
President.
The number of teachers who recently met at
the Association at Stowe, was 90, who in the ag-
gregate had taught 264 terms, an average of and
3-29. The next meeting of the Society is to be at
Hydepark.
Cambridge must be quite prosper
GUS town. 1t has rs acres of land 10 each
family, aud last year made 237 ,636 pounds
of butter, worth over $1,000 and 263-
1872 pounds of sugar, valued at nearly
$4,000.
A monster bird of freedom" whose
wings measured : feet 2 inches from tip
tip, was caught in a trap at Coventry, a
few days ago. His love for spring lamb
led an Indignant farmer to thus plot for
his capture.
The International Telegraph Com
pany is putting up new line from
Swanton, along the line of the Portland
and Ogdensburg Railroad to the New
Hampshire boundary. The wires will be
up from Swanton to st. Johnsbury in
thirty days.
The travel to jay Peak has com
menced briskly and parties are daily Wis
iting il. Its notoriety will soon COM
mand sou.ething more than log house,
and it is the intention of the Mountain
Road Company to erect a suitable build
| ing near the summit
Fifty persons were present at a
gathering in honor of the seventeen
birthday Of Lyman Hawley of Birch
Hollow. DIR. Sidney Hawley of Aurora,
Ill, pre- ented his aged father with q
substlutiat walking stick, and another
son, Dr. Curtis Hawley of Fairfax, made
the pift Of pair of goldmounted Brazil
lial pebble spsctaelss. Brief remarks by
the sons accompanied the gifts, to which
Squire Hawley responded, and the oc-
= ,aY,ch int t,, the
assembled relatives and friends
Mr.. William D. Smith # Addison,
sheared, within four hours, twenty-five
sheep. and did the work thoroughly.
-Anson E. Parmelee, formerly of 81
tol, is proprietor of the Wilder House,
| Fort Scott. Kansas.
Hon. Pierpoint Ishsm has donated
five hundred dollars for an organ for the
new Congregational church at Munches-
ter.
The season at Manchester il now
fairly opened and guests are arriving
daily. The Equinox House opened on
the 10Th ult., and will soon be full.
H. B. Bottom of Shaftsbury, has two
million, twelve hundred thousand, TWEEN
ty.one hundred and seven score Of honey
bees
H. d Snow Of Bennington has in
vented a water wheel governor, also a
most perfect and extensively used steam
governor, which is rapidly supersediDg
| all other governors for steam power.
Late Buenos Ayres. advices speak in
the highest terms of DR.. J. M. Aver, late
Of Danville, as a successful and dilligent
minister to the sfaicted during the late
terrible visitation of the yellow fever,
both before and after his own attack.
The Franklin House, Higbgate
Springs, is one of the best places to spend
the summer months, in Vermont; situated
far enough north to be always cool. and
amid some of the finest scenery in the
State, it is always filled with visitors
The Highgate Spring, which lies but g
short distance from the house, is a sulphur
and iron spring of great value. The
water has decidedly sulphurous taste
and smell. The ho&se is kept by Messrs
l. s. & J. L. Scott, who take great pains
to make their guests comfortable AND
happy.
Tie farmers in Essex county and il
the northern part of Coos county, New
Hampshire, have organized new agri
cultural society, electing J. II. Dudley
president.
d. W. Hobbs, of Island Pond, in at
tempting to get on his van at Northum
berland, n. H., when the train was il
motion, got thrown down on the sleeper
{ and dragged some distance and received
bad cut in his knee and several bruises
so he is confined to his bed. His hand
were oily and one of them slipped from
the railing which caused his fall.