Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-01-12
Vermont News,
GENERAL.

dnCe agents mas DiOsSoueu OuI IeCeAeiy
into full petaled public delight, as an
instructor on medical statistics" in the
rural districts of southern Vermont 1t
is said that his address was so excessive
and impressive that he will henceforth
devote large proportion of his leisure to
the cultivation of his oratoric talent.
The Baraum- Richardson Company Of
Canaan, Conn, are using twelve charcoal
ears, 30 feet long and foot higher than
ordinary freight cars, and are bringing
the coal from Manchester, Vt.
The newspapers, both in and out OF
the State, are full to overfowing with a.
counts of Christmas gatherings, festivals,
presentations, ETC., etc.
ADDISON COUNTY.
H. Booth of Ferrisburgh, was kicked
out of the stall by one Of his horses, Dec.
23rd, and badly bruised. e--
George Smith had finger taken off
in the spool mill at Salisbury, Saturday,
by circular saw, and three others badly
mangled. ..-a .. ..
Mrs. Daniel Shaw of Weybridge, on
Monday tumbled over her pet cat, and
broke her arm. But she escaped better at
that, than from fall four years ago, when
she fractured her leg, dislocated her wrist
and fractured her arm.
An old lady of so years, named Lew
is, in Middlebury, fell down stairs without
seriously injuring herself. Next day an
other lady of 70, Mrs. Turner, fell in a
similar manuer, but no bones were broken.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The new car shops in Arlington are
progressing rapidly. One building is
nearly finished.
A lynx of large size was trapped and
| killed last Saturday on mountain east
of Bennington.
"A boy nam@d Barber IF Pownal, cut
terrible cash in his abdomen, by the
knife's slipp ng as he made cut toward
him.
The Baptist Society, at Factory
Point have purchased of Mr.. Jonathan
Taylor the house and lot owned and for
merly occupied by him, for parsonage
Price 81, 900. .........=
Eugene Foleau of Rupert was arrest
ed Christmas Day for maltreating his
family when drunk. Folesu armed him
,skI Ia. IL
but that officer managed to handcuff him
before he could do any harm, and lodged
hin, in Jail al Manchester
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Marvin Drown had two fingers taken
Of, aud his thumb almost, by circular
saw in Stoddard'a mill in Newars,. Dec.
| l2tst
William Savage of Barnet raised the
past season, forty-two bright yellow
pumpkins from one vine.
A J. Bean of Kirby, got too much
liquor last week, Thursday night, went
home drunk, and lay down In the snow
on the north side of school house, think
ing he had got home to bed. His horse
went en-, and was put in the stable appar-
entity without aly search being made for
Mr.. Bean and he lay In tha an2w all
night till sober, and then crawled TO his
beuee with frozen hands and feet.
Il bogstep ypars old, while in the up.
It Halls mill in Lyndon, was
per story siaeg on an upright shaft
caught by the clio, ,tn,ta The ua.
revolving 20 times IL and the
chinsry was promptly stopped, II,
boy having had presence of mind enoue. =,
to hug the shaft closely was rescued with
out injury, But in moment more he
would have grown dizzy, and losing his
hold been dashed against timbers and
killed beyond doubt.
ESSEN COUNTY.
"A daily mail has been established
from Lunenburgh to Dalton, n. H, be-
ginning January 1st
Joshua Silsby of Lunenburg, crossing
the river from Dalton, December %, with
a heavy balance wheel on bis team, broke
through the ice and lost the wheel and
two horses he went down twice himself,
and was pulled out by his driver.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Mr.. Joseph G. Gallup of Sheldon,
raised the past season, from Al acres OF
land, 249 bushels of oats, weighing 30 lbs.
per busheI. He sowed twelve bushels OF
seed.
Mr. f. Hull of Bakersfield, raised the
past season on one acre and ten rods OF
land, one hundred and thirty-five bushels
of ears of corn; ten one-horse loads of
and fifteen bushels of turnips
The Vermont House at Sheldon has
been re-opened, with Mr.. John Fish as
landlord.
1t is proposed to have a county con-
vention of the taxpayers of Franklin
County at St. Albans, to consider the SUBJ
ject of the State Equalization, and, If
thought advisable, to ask the Governor to
call an extra session of the Legislature.
.... LAMoILLE COUNTY. .t.
The La moille Valley Railroad Com
pany has set, led the land damages for 80
miles, from v 'est Danvile west, at an av-
erage of $3.50 per mile. e
81 "A farm in Cambridge has just been
sold which had been in possession OF the
Taylor family abo ut ninety years. having
passed through three generations.
ORR. EANs COUNTY.
Edison Gill, Canadian laborer on
the new railroad in Hardwick, had leg
broken Dec. 26tl !, by the eaving in OF a
bank of earth. ESQ
Mrs. Iras X ing OF Glover was thrown
out of a sleigh a. yainst rock, last week
Friday, and fat ally injured. Her skull
and breast bone we're broken, and she was