Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-03-09
Vermont News
CALEDONIA COUNTY.

CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Two or three Wesleyan preachers in
Sheffield, are making a raid on Free
Masonry in that town.
David Allard of Wheelook is over ~
years old and has never yet seen the cara
He has circulated in Sheffield and Vince
lock for over 40 years without stepping
foot out Of them. -....
Numerous friends Of Amos E. Car
penter met at his residence at West
Waterford ON the 14th ult., upon the very
unusual occasion of the marriage of three
of the daughters of the family. The
Waterford Carpenters are evidently good
j0inerS also.
The Hardwickers are having haunt
ed house sensation. Unseen feet stamp
upon the door steps, an invisible horse
whinnies at the door, and other strange
noises excite the inmates, who cannot dis
cover how it is all produced.
There is to be grand Musical Con-
vention at st. Johnsbury, March IA, Is,
16 and II. The conductor will be Mr..
Scion Wilder of Boston, with Mrs. I'll.
Smith soprano, Miss Addie Ryan central.
to, Mr.. Fessenden tenor, Mr.. Barnsbee
basso and comic vocalist, and Mrs Shep-
herd pianist.
The Goth annual fair of Caledonia
County Agricultural Society will be held
at the fair grounds in st. Johnsbury on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept.
90, q and %, the society having decided
to try the experiment of holding the
stock over the second day of the fair, for
which ample accommodations will be pro-
vided.
The CdLet10ntaa mentions instances of
school district officers refusing to allow
their teachers to close their schools to at
tend a session of the County Institute.
The law, passed last fall, provides that
they may attend these Institutes five days,
and that the time so spent shall be re-
garded as spent in the service of the dis
trict, and not be accounted as "lost time"
to the teachers.
Eugene Ransom and Charles Stevens,
of East Hardwick, were arraigned before
Justice Conant a few days since, for pro-
curing liquor under false prstences. and
also for breaking windows in W. d.
Huse's residence. Ransom was not held
on either charge. Stevens was convicted
on both charges, and fined $40 and costs
on the first and Sc with costs on the Sec
ond, amounting in all to about $31.
A town meeting was held on the 18th
ult., in Hardwick, to consider the subject
of issuing more bonds in aid of the La
noble Valley Railroad. Gov. Hendee and
Hon. II. W. Brigham, President of the
Railroad, were present and addressed the
meeting. A resolution was passed in
which the town agrees to issue the re-
mainder of the bonds required whenever
assessments are made, provided the Rail-
road Company give selectmen ample as
surances that the road will be graded be-
tween East anu OoutH IlaEO"ich FlidRSo
before Nov. l, 1871.
CnTrTENDEN COUNTY.
The Teachers Institute for Chitten-
den county is to be held at Shelburne,
commencing Monday, March 18th.
The Postoffice at Bolton has been
re-established and ]. Fl Allen sppoin ted
Postmaster.
Only three towns in Chittenden coun-
ty besides Burlington, that issue printed
annual reports.
The Winooski Savings Bank, of
which Hon. L. G. Kennedy is the compe-
tent Cashier has just paid an extra divi-
dend.
Miss Nina Z. Gregory gave dramatic
aud poetical readings at Milton, Feb. %,
for the benefit of the schools of that town.
ORANGE COUNTY.
-Alro B. Drew Of Tunbridge is the
temperance candidate for county COM
missioner,
The Normal School at Randolph has
now LAT students, making the largest
spring tenn siuce its organization.
1t is said that iu Newbury there is
almost everything that is desirable ex-
cept milliner, and there is good chance
for one of them.
The First Congregational church in
Brookfeld has lost by death within eleven
months, seven members, the aggregate of
whose ages amount to 552 years, the
average being 70 q z years
Tho Se3ond Congregational Society
of Brookfield at their annual levee on the
23rd ult. included an cold folks concert"
aud readings by Miss Nina E. Gregory of
Mortified. The net profits of the even.
ing were nearly 5000,
James Dalton of Wells River, owns a
very Intelligent dog. One morning re-
Gently, he returnrd home from some
house with good hot beef
steak, just ready for the table. He kept
it right side up, and delivered it complete
to the wife of his master. Somebody
went without their breakfast that morn
ing.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
J. P. Baldwin Of Barton, sawed, in
one week, 50,400 feet of lumber
"A little girl of DIR. Winslow, in
was terribly burned last
week by pulling petroleum lamp upon
herself and breaking it. 1t is thought
aer hands will be MANNED for life.
"A child, three months old, of Mrs.
Henry Bowley, of Barton, was smothered
n bed Monday night Of last week. Mrs.
Bowley had been broken of her rest, and
'lept so soundly that she knew nothing