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

Pasture land :near Middlebury sells
1t $52 an acre-eighty acres were sold at
hat rate last week.
"A new marble company of Toledo,
Ohio, men, has been formed with capital
Of 100000 to quarry marble in Middle
bury.
The vergennes people hope and now
expect to secure the removal of the
Brooksville axe factory, to that city.
There was large and brilliant party
in Bridport the 18th, on the occasion of
the marriage of Mr.. Hiram W. Kings.
land to Miss Lucia L. Elitharp, daughter
Of Prosper Eiitharp.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
The Bennington Free Press says The
Harlem Extension Railroad is now owned
by VIM. Butler Duncan, of the house Of
Duncan, Sherman 81 Co. ........
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The Caladonian has put in new
Potter press. .a etc., 81. III. ...r
Accidents have begun upon the new
railroad at st. Johnsbury. A freight
train at Fairbanks Village one day last
week run off the track, wrecking one cal
and injuring the bridge. a-a.r
Last week was bad one for broken
bones in st. Johnsbury. Nellie Harlow
broke her arm for the fourth time by fall
ing on the ice on the way to church
Phillip Carpenter, IA years old, had ar
arm broken by running into team while
ceasting in the dark. John B. Woods fell
into his cellar and broke his arm badly
The same evening, about dusk, Willie
a small son of Cyrus Sergeant, of Summer
street, was run into on the same hill by
another boy, cutting bad hole in his leg
which the doctors sewed up; and Edmund
Underwood's youngest daughter slipped
on the ice, dislocating wrist and frac
turing the forearm. ~ w
CHITTENDEN COUNTY.
-Hinesburgh, by unanimous vote
has requested its selectmen not to issu'
tax bills for county and State taxes hefor'
the next annual March meeting.
"A donation and honey supper wa
given for the benefit of Rev. J. G. Hale o
the Methodist church at Jericho Corners
on Tuesday evening.
"A child of William Curtis of West
ford, about two years old, while playing
with common screw, Ii inches long, pu
it in his mouth and sucked it down TIL,
head of the screw was so large as to stoI
his breath, and in a few minutes ne wa
dead.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
--Chas Gordon of South Hero, crossin,
on the ice Tuesday with his horse and on
of Chas. Keeler's, broke through, and bot
horses were drowned. Gordon got il
himself but managed to save himself ant
to cut the animals loose from the sled.
ORANGE COUNTY.
An office has been established a
South Tunbridge, Vt, and E. Ross ap
pointed postmaster.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
"A striped snake was killed crawling
on the snow, 10 Albany, the other day.
The champion knittest is Mra. l.. II
Orcutt of South Barton, who knit in min
hours nine double mittens, mems size, o
one an hour.
before the Fassumpsic railroad wa
built no rats were ever seen beyond th
heights in Barton but civilization move
with the iron horse, and now the Espres
announces their first rat in Newport.
-Four members of the family of A
M. Deyo of Coventry, have died sine
April last, the mother and three daugh
ters.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The spring term of DR.. Spaulding'
school, the Burr Academy, commence
February 10th.
The Goddard Seminary at Barre com
mences its next term February %.
The Teachers Institute for Washing
ton County commences at Barre, Febru
airy 9th. Secretary French is to be assiste,
by Mr.. Fordyce A. Allen of Mansfield
Penn, and Miss Eliza M. Clark, late pre-
ceptress of Burr and Burton Seminary.
Miss Betsey Knights, the Oldest per
son surviving, who was born in the town o
Waterbury, and had always resided i,
that town, has recently deceased.
Miss Nina Gregory, a daughter o
Hon. John Gregory, received compli
mentary benefit from the citizens of North
field. She gave some of her excellen
readings and never read better. North
field being her native town and presen
home indicates that Miss Gregory is no
"without honor in her own country"
At an Ice Cream and Oyster Festival a
the Methodist Church in Mortified, tn
net results were $135.
Five young Mortified men who as
saulted some boys at play, and RAISED
particular Ned" in the school house, on
evening after spelling-school, paid tn
town about forty dollars for their stron,
educational proclivities.
The Freeman thinks some typograph
ical errors in its commonly well printet
sheet might have led the readers last weel
to the conclusion that editor, printers and
were on bender, "were i
not so well known that Montpelier is thi
year under the regime of the true tenn
peranoe party, and that consequent,
stronger than ice water can b,
procured within forty miles Of this place
The MONTPELIER FIRK.-Ths insur
ance of the Collamer wooden mill, neal
Montpelier, which was burned on Thurs
day, was $13,5O0-$ $4,000 in the Etna o