Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-05-04
rHE RUTLAND WEEKLY HERALD THURSDAY MAY 4 1871


some three thousand dollars have been
paid by the town on the contracts already
made for the erection of the building
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
VIM. Blain of West Barnet has
raised this spring from his flock of five
sheep twelve lambs-which is generally
thought to be little the best story in
that line which has been told of late.
Arthur Hughes, laborer on the
st. Johnsburg and Lamoille Valley rail-
rosd at st. Johnsbury, was severely In
iured on Friday, the 18th, by the ex-
plosion of charge which he was en-
gagged in drilling out, causing two COM
pound fractures, one just below the knee
and the other at the ankle joint, the loss
of the right eye and perhaps both; hands
and face severely burned.
On Thursday of last week, as Roland
Mcdonald and Michael Tearney were
blasting rocks on the st. Johnsbury and
Montpelier railroad, about two miles
above Fairbanks Village, Mcdonald was
very severely and Tearny slightly burned
by the premature discharge of a rock
they were engaged in blasting. 1t ap-
pears that they were attempting to re-
charge hole or seam in the rock which
had once been blown out, but some fire
remaining in the hole or seam, the pow
der ignited from it.
The trestle work of the st. Johnsbury
and Montpelier, or rather the st. Johns
bury and Lamoille Valley railroad, is be
ing built near st. Johnsbury. Cars viii
be running to West Danville this fall.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
-Moulton Brothers of Johnson, Vt.
have patented one of the cheapest anc
the most durable water conductors known
1t is nothing butIa wooden pipe boilet
in certain water proof preparation anc
wound with wire. It costs but one dolla
and ten cents rod.
The ice is fast clearing out of Gas
plan Lake, and the fishing season is nea
at hand. Mr.. Csok, the hotel proprietor
is making new boats and other prepare
ton for the more ample accommodation
of fishing and other company.
The Hardwickers hope to be able tx
attend the State Fair at st. Johusbury b,
rail, over the Lamoille Valley road.
The Lamoille Valley railroad is pro
crossing favorably an increase Of fore
is being put on.
The people of Fillmore are to have
new church, the funds necessary to bull
fine and tasty edifce having alread,
been raised, and building committe
appointed consisting of Hon. G. S. Par
ker and Wilson Griswold.
WINDHAM COUNTY,
On a recent Sunday a preacher wa
announced to hold forth in a school nous
in Rockingham. After the services ha
begun, two young men left the room an
locked the door behind them. The result
was that those in the house were oblige,
to crawl out thro3h i wjn1Dw.
School District No 0, in West Dove
has made twenty-five tons of maple suga
the past season.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
The Royalton National Bank is to b.
moved back again from South Royal
ton to it's old quarters in Royalton vii
lage.
"A son of H c. Orcutt of Taftsville
fourteen years of age, has made five hun
dre1 pounds of sugar from forty trees.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The story about the finding of th
body of Mrs Thompson, in Topsham
| said to be fable.
The gelding colt, James Bartlett o
Washington sold last fall for five hundre,
dollars, has been sold again for twenty
two hundred dollars.
AT town meeting in Corinth. re
Gently called, the vote at the annua
meeting in March to adopt the town sys
TEN of schools was rescinded.