Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-03-28

! The irish ladies' OF St. JOnnSDury pre-
sented the st. Patrick Society with q
beautiful flag.
Andrew Brook at Barnet last week
sawed Is cords of wood twice in two
and split it in good shape, in about three
days and half
Andrew Arthur while driving spikes
on the railroad at Barnet had his eye
seriously injured by spike flying into
| it.
Willie Counter jammed his fingers at
| Lyndonville and they were amputated.
A few days after he died of spinal men
nights, resulting from the injury.
d. Simonds of st. Johnsbury has a
large Bible in his possession, probably
over $50 years old. 1t records the mar
riage of his great grand father to Mary
Davis at Northampton, in April, 1852.
Merritt Newhall of Kirby, has a COW
twenty-three years old next spring, that
has had twenty calves and is now with
calf. She has been farrOW but one
year.
CIuTTENDEN COUNTY.
The fair of the Chittenden county
Agricultural Society is to be held at Es-
sex junction, September 10th, 18th, 18th
and 18th, 1872
We understand that Hodges store at
Richmond, was broken into Sunday
night and robbed. We have not been
able to ascertain the amount taken, or
the particulars.
The steam saw mill of Field Brothers
at Bolton, VT, was burned last Monday
night. Loss about 81, 500; no insurance
They will build again Immediately. The
engine and boiler were not materially
injured
ESSEX COUNTY.
On Wednesday, February 21st, Mrs.
Charles Ames of Lunenburg, in closing
a window j9mmed the flesh off from her
little finger, and caught cold in it, Medi-
cal advice was taken and it was decided
to amputate the finger, but too late to
save her life, the soreness having passed
all over her body. She died on the 4th
inst.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The oldest person in RichfOrd is Mrs
Annie West, SO years old.
May Smith of Richford, 5 years old,
"spelt down school" recently.
The town of Richford has 81. Abb
in the treasury after paying all eX-
penses.
The oldest person in Swanton is Dan
iel Billiard who is SO years old.
There are no less than ten places in
Swanton where ''benzinc' may be pre-
cured.
The scarlet fever is doing fearful work
in Georgia. Three children of ,TOspDh
Cello, residing in the northern part of
the town, have died of the disease this
week.
John S. Upper, Esq, of Richford,
was last week admitted to practice in
the United States Circuit and District
Courts
Mrs. Rebecca Boguc, wife of DR.. NJ.
Hatch of EnOsburgh. being somewhat /
deranged, refused to take food and .
starved to death. She had been married .
less than a year
c. S. Royce Of Richford shipped a
car load OF sixteen superior horses from
RichfOrd
The carriage house and contents of
Edwin Wilson at Richford. was con-
,umed by fire on Monday morning last.
Loss S16O.
The officers of the law arrested two
)enzinc peddlcrs at Swanton a few DAYS
ago. Hon. II. A Burt refused to act
Is their counsel and one of them stepped
tut to secure a counsel and has not vet
'eturncd. The others were relieved Of
$50 in fines. Thus near a land flowing
With 'benZine' and red eve people
ire waking up to the reality that there
: a prOhibitOTy law
LAMomLE COUNTY.
The Stowe Jou1wal has been purchas-
Il by Mr.. a. \. Merchant of Cham
lain, \. Y
Arthur Pike, while Sitting lumber at
Johnson had his left hand caught by the
mall circular saw and his fingers cut
If
On the same day Samuel Jones of
ohnSon, while saving logs in the mill
1 North Hyde Park, was struck in the
EFT eye by flying chip intlictinL -cri-
us injury.
y valuable COW belonging to Thomas
'rock at Morrisvillc, jumped down
reclpicc 40 feet and broke it, neck
William Wallace of Eden hanged HIM /
elf with a log chain in his barn last J
EEK. No cause is assigned. lie wasa
IAN OF som" means. and generally r. .
DcCtrd
ORANGE COUNTY.
Whoopns cough l. prevailing in RAN !
olph.
ScarIetina is quite prevalent III Brad y
ord,
Eight deaths have occurred in Brad !.
)rd within week Il
y. S. Martin, Esq, of Williamst0vn. t
oW haa apples flesh and fair, and Of good d
ayor, that were gathered in the fall of y
$50 =
Mr.. Charles Spear of Randolph, while o.
gagged in loading car with lumber
ne day last week, was injured severely. Il
is jaw was fractured. 0
The people in South Royallon have a
pmc to the conclusion that this is a
'ctty tough winter to follow a light 81
~ crop, many being obliged to depend -
most wholly upon western corn for -
Ter stock. r.
ORLEANS COUNTY. u
Charles McRoy, who was recently u
lot by Henry Turner in a drunken II
awl at Craftsbury, since died from his d
oundS, and Turner has been committed D
Jail to await trial for murder.
The Orleans County Agricultural So :
ETY. have offered three premiums of -,
;, 50 and 81, on each of the following e.
nds of sugar in quantities of twenty W
funds or more sugar cakes, tub sugar, b(
ldrained; sugar drained; stirred h,
gar; also maple honey, IS, 50 and %
nts.
Mrs. Andrew Somers Of Irasburg. w..
Gently, accidentally swallowed an d.
ange seed, which stuck in her throat. Y
d up to last accounts had dcfied all at r.
npts at dislodgement. tn
Deacon Marshall of Greensboro has a Y
ok entitled John Lock-" and dated ~,
TO- ''~' on
There were nine town liquor agents in ci
leans county, seven of whom sold III
or two thousand dollars worth of co