Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-05-29
FRANKLIN oorNTY.

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FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Franklin Coufty people are
building a new Court House at St. Al
bans at probable cost 100000.
The Baptist Sunday School Associ-
alton of Vermont, will hold conven-
ton at Fairfax, on June 4th, 1878.
A Fairfield mother learned of her
daughters contemplated elopment,' and
on the night appointed for the flight put
some laudanum in the girls tea. The
latter fell asleep and did not wake up
till morning, and in the meantime
Romeo got tired of waiting and went
home disguised. He goes with another
girl now.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
The Missisquoi House at Alburgh
Springs has been thoroughly repaired
this spring and will be ready for guests
in a few days.
The Franklin and Grand Isle Con-
ference of Congregational Churches
meets at Swanton June 4th.
Arthur Wheeler, a young man
about IS years old, who has been suffer
ing for some time with fever sore, was
found dead in his bed at Alburgh
Springs last Monday morning.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
At a recent sold folks dance at
Morrisville, the best player of the
orchestra was Dwight Marsh 80 years
old, and he played upon fiddle $50
years old.
The "Messer Boy" who a few
years ago figured conspicuously in the
Lamoille county court, is at present
stopping in Hyde Park. He is just out
of the New Hampshire State Prison,
and had previously served terms at
Windsor and Dannemora.
ORANGE COUNTY.
There is an epidemic among the
sheep in Orange county, nearly every
large flock having lost from ten to
twenty-five or thirty.
-Newbury has a 'tChase estate af-
fair of its own that is not of the ''wild
goose" sort. The Henderson family
about six in number, have received some
$50, 900 from the estate of relative in
Scotland.
Mr. VIM. Clark has purchased the
Mineral Springs property at Newbury,
and is putting up an extensive addition
to the house, which will contain thirteen
bath rooms, fitted up in as perfect a
manner as can be found anywhere.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Judge Parker, of Coventry, about
so years of age, has been camping out
for several weeks, hunting muskrats, of
which he kills twenty per day on an av
erage.
The railroads are doing a great deal
of filing at Newport III. order to get
room for new buildings. All the shall
low borders of the lake are becoming
solid ground. ..
The frost melted out from under a
pile of ~. 900 feet of lumber stacked up
in Baldwin's mill yard in Barton, and in
the afternoon of Sunday, the nth, it
took a start and pitched off down the
HILL the top of the stack landing 10 or
90 rods from where it started.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
E. C. Spencer, of Marshfield, killed
two valuable blood hcifers recently, by
washing them in n solution of tobacco
to kill lice.
The farm of Julius Robinson, of
Calais, has fully supplied its propretors
with flour for the last thirty years, they
not having purchased any in that time.
What other farm can show so> good
record
The Rev. Mr.. Forbes, from the
Theological School at Canton, n. Y,
has accepteda call from the Universalist
societies at Plainfield and Marshtieid,
his labors to. commence the last of June,
preaching alternately at each place.
w1NDHAM COUNTY.
Having no doctor, Dover has no
need of It's town hearse, which was sold
at auction Saturday.
-BrattlebOro is to have horse-trOt on
the grounds of the Windham county
park association, Thursday, June 10Th,
81, 300 being offered in prizes.
Hon Daniel Kellogg, of Brattleboro,
is the only surviving. member of the
staff of Gov. Van Ness, when that official
received Gen. Lafayette on the occasion
of his visit to Vermont the last time he
was in America.
The family of Jabez Wood consisted
of nine boys, three of whom are now
living, and reside in BrattIeboro. They
are the 9th, 9Th and 9th of the family,
and their total age is 800 years. A curl
Gus circumstance this year, is that their
birthdays, although occurring in different
months, all come on Sunday.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
To manufacture the gas for the bal.
loon of Prof. j. Allen, which is to as
cend from Bethel July 4th, requires $50
bbls of oil of vitroil, $500 lbs. iron, y
hhds, water, l peck lime, 100 lbs of ice.
Preston Merrifeld, of Windsor, has
an old family Bible, printed by subscrip-
ton, in London, at least two hundred
years ago. 1t is huge folio, with an
immense number of illustrations, and
with notes and comments explanatory of
the sacred text. The original price was
forty pounds sterling-nearly two humid
red dollars.
j. A. II. Els, of Springfield, has
been engaged for three years in series
of experiments to utilize the latent heat
in exhausted steam and produce power,
and has succeeded. The results are said
to be remarkable, proving as they do
that the amount of work done by our
best engines with a consumption of a
pound of coal can be more than doubled.
Death i'm The Pot.