Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-09-18
Vermont News.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.

r. T. Hurd is erecting a large
clothes-pin mandatory at Sandgate, to
replace the one destroyed by fire. The
engine was not materially injured, and
is in running order again. The other
machinery win all be new.
Burr and Burton Seminary has one
hundred and twelve students enrolled,
and few more are expected. Of these
more than thirty are boarders at the in
stitution and the balance day scholars.
Three young ladies from the Seminary
immortalized themselves by climbing
to the top of Mount Equinox, last
Saturday, going straight up by the short
est and also steepest route. This has
seldom if ever been accomplished by la
dies before, and is considered difficult
undertaking by the young men.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
The st. Johnsbury academy has one
hundred and forty-seven scholars this
term-we think the largest number of
students in its history.
We learn that the legal controversy
between Gen. w. w. Grout and A. A.
Earle, ESQ, is settled, by the discontin-
uance of Earle's suit against Circuit in
this county, and the dropping of CIRCUITS
suit against Earle in Orleans county. 1t
will be remembered that Mr.. Earle re-
covered against the General at the last
term of this county court, and the SUI
preme court having reversed the ruling
of the lower court it was supposed the
case would have to be tried again. We
should say that the settling of both these
cases was wise.
EpANETIN COTTNTy
Oscar Vospey, young man employ
ed at Norton's Mills, Essex county, was
adjusting some betting around a pulley,
on Friday last, when he got entangled
in the betting and was frightfully man
gled. His head was torn from hetrunk
and his arms from his body. He was 10
years old, and the sole support of wild
owed mother.
IN. G. Martin, j. F. Draper and
others have been at work on the fair
ground lately, and have made many i'm
provements The track has been thor
oughly repaired.
Byron Dickinson, of Sheldon, fell
from a wagon about noon, Sunday, and
broke his leg. He is now doing well.
ORANGE COUNTY.
Watering milk that is carried to a
cheese factory is not profitable bust
ness, as a Williamstown man has real
| lied $25 worth.
DIR. Henry Mcintyre of Randolph,
returned on Monday from his summers
work in Alaska, as general agent of the
Alaska Commercial Company.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The general term of the Supreme
| Court for 1873 is ordered to be held at
Montpelier, on the last Tuesday of De-
tober next.
Moses Pearson of Montpelier, found
| a clam in the Winooski river this season
from which he took perfect pearl that
weighs 80 grams.
At Montpelier on Monday morning,
the rope of the elevator gave way, pre-
| cipitating a man named VIM. Thurston
a distance of forty or fifty feet to the
! ground, killing him almost instantly.
wINDHAM COUNTY.
Mrs. Hobart V. Welton of Water
bury, Ct, committed suicide by drown
ing, last Wednesday evening at West
minister, VT, where she was sojourning
for the. benefit of her health.
"A suit has been brought against G.
NJ. Wilcox of Guilford, by the widow of
the late William Smith, for $1,000, I'M
der the act passed by the Legislature
of 1870, for damage sustained by the
death of her husband, who was killed
in the fracas of July 4th, she claiming
that the liquor causing the fracas was
purchased of Wilcox.
| WINDSOR COUNTY
The Vermont Sabbath school con-
vention viii meet at Chester, Wednes-
day and Thursday, October 8th and 9th,
1878.
"A man named Caverno, employed on
the Passumpsic railroad, while walking
on the track near White River Junction,
| recently, was run over, having both his
legs cut off and receiving other injuries.
The dwelling house of Charles
Montague of South Bridgewater, with a
barn and its contents, and several other
| houses, one of which belonged to Ly-
man Cobb, were burned Friday night.
The fire was probably set by an insane
person who had escaped from his keep
ers.