Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-03-07
Vermont News.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.

Measles are breaking up the schools in
Peru.
The Good Templars are waging war
against the rum sellers in Readsboro.
The authorities at Pownal are enforc-
ing the law against drunkenness. and the
'sOakcrs" are having lively time.
A team belonging to Mr.. Paddock Of
| POwnal, ran away last week. smashing
the sleigh TO pieces and dragging Mr..
Paddock a long distance.
The Banner says From "a friend in
Jacksonville, Florida. we learn that
Katy Root and Sophie Hall are keeping
school They have called together about
thirty-fiye scholars. colOred mostly.
whom they are instructing gratuitously,
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The town of Lyndon has expended
nearly $40, 900 in school buildings with
in the past five years.
Last Sunday morning valuable colt
belonging to a Mr.. Lawrence of Pas
Sunpsic was found hung in tn stable
Mr.. G. W. Phelps of Waterford. re
Gently sold two-year old hcifer. that
dressed over 800 pounds. for upwards
of so.
Jarius Leach. aged - years, and wife,
-, OF Lyndon, recently took a team
and drove to ST. Albans and back on a
visit. Fc~ people Of that agr would
dare to risk such journey alone.
Colby. Gay Il Blake have had drawn
TO their mill i'm West Concord spruce
log measuring 81 feet in length, 3 feet }
inches in diameter at the butt. and
inches in diameter at tho top. II was
20 inches in diameter 10 feet from The
butt, and scaled 1850 feet
Pctriticd trees have been found in
bog at Waterford in two instances one
huge pine stump was found resting upon
another. indicating that the latter tree
grew after the first had fallen. the seed
having been deposited on tho stump.
George W. Spencer. Of No. Danyille,
has a three year old stallion sired by the
Stanton horse. by a black Morrill, mare,
owned by Geo Earney. He is fifteen
and half hands high, and weighs nine
hundred and fifty pounds, is a beautiful
stopper of Jet black color. and bids
fair to make one of the finest horses i'm
the State
ESSEX COUNTY.
During the Musical Convention recent
w held in Lunenburgh some roughs
broke into the meeting house. and
knocked the bottoms out Of five of the
eight contribution boxes belong
ing to the Sunday school The money
missing is SO.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
L
fit from the Missisquoi Railroad. \
good deal of lumber and bark Is shipped
from there.
The population of Swanton in 1870
was 1866 and it is now over 5000. So
much for the Portland and Ogdensburg
railroad.
S. Hicks, of Berkshire, ''comes to the
front with two big pigs, nine months
old, their united weight being S47 lbs.
The two saw mills at Enosburg Falls,
are doing a thriving business this winter,
each saving from sixty to eighty thou
sand feet of lumber per week.
Mr.. 4. Foss, hotel keeper at Fairfax,
was arraigned February 22d, before JUS
tice t. s. Butler. for liquor selling, and
fined $500 and costs . total, 1916. He
dpptdiSa.
Miss Rahamah Shaw, maiden lady
80 years of age, half sister of the late
Veranus Locke, died last Saturday morn
ing. She was the Oldest person in Rich
ford, and was very estimable old
lady.
Bishop Bissell, visited Montgomery
Sunday, the 18th instant, and confirmed
six persons.
LAMOILLE COUNTY.
The hay buyers in Jacksonville,
bought hay at $15 ton, and are press
ing it for market.
Betsey Blaisdell who died at Jeffer-
sonville, January 23d, was ninety years
and nine months old. Her mother was
ninety-one and two months old, and her
grandmother was ninety-one years old.
Her great grandmother died at the age
of ninety-one years.