Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-02-16
vermont News.
GENERAL ITEMS.

| The number of acres in the uuorgan-
| lied towns and cores in Vermont is $780,
s34.
The public acts passed at the last
session of the Legislature number $50
miscellaneous acts, 100; acts of inoerpora-
ton, 1873. @
The lakes and ponds Of Vermont
next to it's mountains--are the most in
teresting objects.
The 10th session of the Legislature
was held at Windsor, commencing April
4, 1881, and closing April 26, after SEES.
sion of 13 days at cost of ST. ,377.48.
Whisky smuggling from Canada con.
tinues active, and one man who has follow
ed the business for a dozen years is more
successful this winter than ever. The
government seems powerless to stop it.
Rev. DR.. Sunderland of Washington
thinks Brigham Young to be the wicked
est man living. If he should be asked
how such man as Brigham Young
could have come from Vermont, he could
only bow his head and say that Satan was
once an inmate of Heaven. ...
ADDISON COUNTY.
On Monday last, $50 lbs. of butter,
1866 lbs. of poultry, and 500 lbs. of pork
and tallow were shipped from Vergennes.
On Thursday and Friday evenings, Feb.
10th and 18th, the "Vergennes Dramatic
Club" will present Bulwer's comedy Of
"Money"
The fat men of Addison county meet
at Toby's, in Monkton, on Wednesday
evening, February 10Th. Arrangements
for a rich time are in progress.
The Good Templars of Panton give
an Oyster Supper on Tuesday evening,
February IA.
A festival in honor of the patron
Saint of the Young People, st. Valentine,
is to be given at the Lake Dunmore
House on Tuesday evening, the 14th,
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
"A fox was run down and killed by a
dog on the green in front of the church in
West Arlington.
The grand neck tie sociable of Man.
chester, on Friday evening. was perfect
success. Over two hundred and fifty per-
sons were present.
The German population celebrated
the fall of Paris on the 31st at East Ar
lington. The German flag was unfurled,
cannon fred and considerable of the ma
tional beverage consumed.
Denis Bushee, of Manchester, while
returning from Sandgate in a sulky, Sat-
urday evening, was grappled by two IN
known persons, but he proved to be too
much for his would. be robbers.
BY a monster blast in the Hollister
quarry, Dorset, on the 2Sth of January, a
block of marble forty feet long, thirty feet
wide and eighteen feet deep, and esti-
mated to weigh more than two thousand
tons, was thrown more than thirty feet
and hrnLAn into a -~;Il;nr rianas- SAven-
teen kegs of powder did the work.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Last week, the friends and PENSIONERS
of Rev. G. w. Thompson, of Danville,
made him visit, leaving over one hun
dred dollars.
A Barnet man has received letter
which neither be nor anybody else can
read He believes it to be an order from
Bismarck for army horses.
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Quite little lumber business is done
in Bolton. About year ago the Fields
Brothers removed their portable steam
mill from Roxbury, and located it on the
bank of the river on Bishops meadow,
near Bolton Station. They have had in
their employ about thirty men, cutting
logs on the mountain, saving, and get
ting out about car load of lumber day.
Another steam mill is building within a
few rods of theirs, by Messrs. Shnrtleff
& Edgerton, who purchased 100 acres
1i IhDu OH ING soush SLUG "a tuS iisci'
Stevens s. Horton have a saw and clap
board mill on the Joiner Brook, near at
hand, and there is another mill little
above that, owned by the Atkins boys.
Albert Mott has been installed W. @.
T., and Sarah Brown, w. v. T., of Cres-
sent Lodge No. SO of Good Templars at
Essex.
The Good Templars of Chittenden
county meet at Essex Junction, February
18th, to organize county union Of
lodges. .s. ST. ..-..
ESSEX COUNTY.
Lunenburgh was visited with severe
gale on the evening of Feb. ID. Men in
The streets were blown out of the road
against the fences. Limbs were twisted
from trees bare of foliage, and in some
places many trees were broken down.
The next day the thermometer fell to $50
below zero-making the toughest day to
% out Of doors on record. Before the
gale the barometer fell IA inch in two
lUuEs, stdiuiIS USioW 30 luCuSs.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Mr. Jared Dee and wife, of Georgia,
celebrated their crystal wedding on the
asst day of January. There was happy
gathering of neighbors and friends.
A Canadian who wanted to get free
ide to st. Adams, from Montreal, secreted
himself in hay car, one day last week,
vas locked in, trundled along to st. Al
'ans, and the car left four days without
'pening. When they found him he was
Ilmost famished, and very much dis
,usted with the dead-head system.
The Champlain District Union of Good
remplars met at Swanton, on the 9Th.
Dr.. George G. Briggs, of Swanton. pre-