Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-12-07
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.
The Christian church a: Lincoln has taken
action in the case of EIier Milo Durfee, the
charges having been preferred by the Vermont
western Christian cpDferercs. He has been ex-
PEELED from the church and conference, they
thinking his love for the opposite sex too pro-
nouneed.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Fred. EDDY. Esq., of woodt I'd, slaughtered
a ten mon hs I'D pig few days since that tipped
the scale TO 746 pounds.
Widow stratton Of woodford, dug mp q q two
dol lar and half god piece in the door yard few
days since. How it came there is query but
Mrs. Strstton thinks there is more coin some
where in the adj.cent grounds.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Seth Ford plo~ed up, recently, the skeleton
of a man near the railroad track. Not q vesrge
Of clo' hing was found. The exciting question
nov is, Who Is It, and bow came IL there"
some think 1t may be one of Rogers men, who
passed down this valley over one hundred years
ago. The SHELTON is IN the possession Of DIR.
HszIet0n.
Capt. Stanley Page, for a log time resident
of Danvllle, is TO revisit C4i'ornis, where he
has q son living. Nineteen years ego he went to
California, by way Of Cape HOrn. making six
months voyage. This time be proposes 70 70 By
rail, with uncert inty as to when he viii re-
turn. co says th- Star.
-Hr NerelI S oeker of nanvillA kss sent 20
the Boston market during the summer and fall.
$500 sheep and lambs,
ESSEX COUNTY:
-"As soon as the county was organized, q jail,
m M q m N "a in ruil
east of where B. p. Goth lives. In lso8 it wss
built the site where 1t now stands This Sec
ond building put up with two-foot square
tImbers, and as some claim, was saf-r isil than
the present This sDood till 1928 when it wa. torn
down and two-story brick bu'ldU put up in its
stead. This vas burned in 1864. q. is supposed,
| by Moses B acon, who vas confnsd there at the
| time. For TIRE next two years the jzils ia CAL
edonis and Orleans eouptiss we're used By Essex
county, and ia 1868 tn. present jail was erected"
60 says the Lyndon Union.
! GRAND I.Ls COUNTY.
| The town Of South Hero has sfnt box of
clothing 20 Green Bay, Wis, to aid the sufferers
/ by the la's fires. AIro quite a Contribution was
n ads by the abbath School, 20 aid In rebuilding
the Sabbath School Missionary Tsbsrnacls Of
chiago. Something has been T issd 20 aid in re-
building the Congregational churches.
ORANGE cousIY.
| Mr.. Ziba Bass residing soou. three niles
north Of West Randolph, died very suddenly on
Monday evening the 9Th ult., about 10 o'clock.
He retired ear y, complaining Of slight pam in
his stOmsch, but 20 all apuearsT cs in his usual
heal and spirits. HIS wife had not retired. and
hearing nothing Of hin, supposed him asleep.
AbOut ten O'clock he airing slight cultural sound
from his roon, she went in and found that be was
| h. hzvf haar hn ~ and bal
only sound he made, in passing from life into
death.
Randolph gains s4ls.S6 of the U. 5. deposit
| funds by the recent distribution.
-vershire gains &c., SO of the U. S. deposit fund
By the late distribution, and Orange county loses
1874 IS, and gains s4s3.4e.
| H. d. Steel. Esq. son-in-Isw of Calvin Pea
body of East Topshsm I'm, but a re-ident of Denver
City, Colorado, lost sI5 90 in the late Chicago
fire. The money was depo ited in one Of the Chi
cago banks, previous to buying goods with the
| same for his trade.
Bradford loses ss6s.2i of the U. S. deposit
| fund by the new dis,nbu'ian.
| Mr.. r. Curtis, Of Orange, raised 50 bushels OF
wheat TO the acre on hi, farm this season. he
| has raised wheat for his own use and TO sell for
81 years, and never but once failed of a good
crop.
| ORLEANS COUNTY.
| The Irashurgh Library a Association now owns
bet Eeen one and tEo hundred volues of the best
standard works of history, bingrsp' y, science and
fiction. II is purely private affair." the object Of
which is TO supply its members with the bs-t bt-
erature, which many do not feel able 10 place
upon the shelves OF their own library.
| The Orleans County Good Templsrs Union
will hold their next quarterly meeting with tie
Mount Norris Lodge at Lowell, on the l2th or
December.
| Miss Eliza LYMAN Of East Greensboro, VT.
has contract-d tn furnish lumber for the water
tank and depot buildings that are soon to be con-
structed on he great bend" Of the Lsnoille
| Valley rallrC al near that p ace.
| wErHAM COUNTY.
i There were seven'y-Iwo students in Leland
and Gray Seminary, at Townshend, during the
past term, and the examining committee make
very favorable report of the instruction, diseip
line and progress Of the institution.
i About forty persons signed the temperance
pledge at the close of lecture recently delivered
at Rockingham by Richard Grogan Of Brattle-
boro.
| Rev. A. Chandler delivered lecture on To-
b.cco, at Marlboro, on Monday evening, Deem
Der 4th.
-osgood J. Beemis' pail-handle mill, at MARI
boro was burned on Monday night, Nov. 2oih-
Loss $3.50; insured for 1850.
/ The grand list Of the town Of Athens for 1874
is s94l .o3. This gain Of s3s IS over last year
and 50, 55 over the yesr 1869.
Good working oxen Sc Ing for about five
dollars per cwr Ia WbitiDgh .n, the best pairs for
about six dollars per cut. 60 it Is said.
Barney Gallup OF Wet Ba flax, formerly
stag criver IN the BrattIe boro and North Adams
route, vss found dead On Wednesday moInir 9,
near Jacksonville. Whether he was actually
frozen 20 death, rumor has il, died frI m dis
ease, We are As Jet unsb TO learn.
The citiz@ps Of Fayetteville have purchased .
"hre exiting
Two years ago five freight teams were I'm
ployed in carrying freight through Nexfsne One
year sgo eight teams were employed In the ssme
business. This y ar over twenty tesms. from two
to Fix horses each, emplo. Cd and At this rate
OF increase Ut business, how many teams will be
required TO suopy the business demands Of West
River valley for two years b. pcei
i The jury In the Clinton case 1t Lynn
Mass, acquitted John @. Clinton of COM
plioity in the death Of his wife, and he