Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-26
Vernl ont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

reCtOrate OIL the EplSCOpdl CnuIcH III
to take effect upon the Sth
lay of July proximo.
&C. Ticknor, ESQ.,, formerly of Mid
dlebury, now st. Louis, Mo-, is engaged
In a large manufacturing enterprise, the
and manufacture of barry
ties. Their mills are fifty miles south of
St. Louis.
MIR. Daniel Sanford, aged Sc years,
and Major Orren Field, aged 81, are the
oldest residents of the town of Cornwall,
both being born there. Mr.. Shubael
Ripley is 81 years of age, but didn't
come into town to reside until 1917.
Hon. John M. Dyer, who purchas-
ed the United States Arsenal at Yer
gennes, is very much pleased with his
purchase, as he ought to be. There is
no doubt that he secured it at less than
half its value, while it is one of the
loveliest spots in the State.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
We regret to learn that Hon. A. B.
Gardner has met with the loss of another
child, the youngest, and the only of its
mother, Mrs. Matte Wilmarth) Gard
ner.
Gen. Yale, of Bennington Center,
was injured by a carriage running
against or over him, in Brooklyn, n. Y,
Tuesday, 18th inst. His injuries are not
as serious as was at first feared, and he
will be all right again in a few days.
The escape was very narrow one.
Bennington generally has three or
four students at Williams, but we are
sending most of our spare talent now to
the Reform School at Waterbury. In
dications, however, are that by and by
we will have some more boys fitted for
college, unless the Troy Press and New
York Tribune succeed in breaking down
our Graded School system. Banner.
1t is reported that a skeleton, en-
closed in suit of clothes answering the
description of garments worn by one
John c. Rice, young man whose sud
den disappearance from Searsburg
(where he had been employed by Church
& Messers,) about two years since, led
many to believe that he had been foulty
dealt with. has been found in an obscure
place in Wo0dford, and near the spot
where he was last seen Rice being a
man of dissolute habits. it is believed
IIldj TIC UitNl iIDlll VI Ctttl 'bttSi
during a debauch.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
There are parties in Dauyille who
want to start an anti-Masonic paper and
revive the excitement of 183O5.
-Thaddeus Fairbanks and family, of
St. Jonsbury, were the first party who
assembled Mount Washington this sum-
mer.
Samuel Drew, of Newark, set fire to
a thirty acre lot a week ago Sunday, and
the fire ran into the woods and over a
vast tract of timber lands owned by the
Lyndon lumber company,
The case of Grenville c. Meader,
for an assault in resisting an officer who
was collecting his tax, came up at ST.
Johnsbury. Tuesday last. Meader plead
guilty, and was fined S25 and costs.
Moral Pay your taAes without a fuss.
oHITTENDEN COUNTY.
There was heavy frost in Hunt
ington, Saturday night, the 18th inst.
The burlington Young Mems Chris
tan Association hold Sunday evening
meetings in the park.
-Rev. Lewis O. Brastow, of st.
Johnsbury, has declined the call of the
White Street Congregational Church of
Burlington.
The Queen City Band of Burlington
has been reorganized as a military band,
with Ed T. Paige as bandmaster, and
have procured handsome uniforms. A
magnificent one for the drum major. G.
f. Wright, was furnished by B. Turk
& Brother, at cost of nearly $40.
In the case of Noah Allen as. the
CITY of Burlington, which was heard at
the last January term of the Supreme
Court for Chittenden county, and held
for further consideration, judgment has
been rendered for the plaintiff. This
decision finds that the high school tax
and sinking fund tax for 1869 were lille
gally assessed.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The body of Frank Poole, of Guild
hall, who was drowned on the afternoon
of May 81, was found last week about
two miles down the river, lodged among
some logs The features are much
marred by lying so long in the water.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The St. Adams rolling mill has al
ready turned out rails enough to supply
thirty miles Of railroad.
L. G. Pierce and G. P. Armstrong,
of Fletcher, few days since, captured
seven young foxes by digging open their
den, and now have six of them alive.
Two of the litter escaped.
AT the annual meeting of the Wei
den Hotel Company, at st Adams, on
Friday last, the following gentlemen
were elected directors: Lawrence Brain
ard, Gin place of Hon. II. n. Barker, de-
clined), 7. Stewart Stranahan, Edward
A. Smith, George G. Smith, and Brad
ley Barlow. Lawrence Brainard was
elected president.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
Stanley, who runs the stage between
Wolcott and Albany, does it with a
horse that is thirty-two years old. He
is sound and good yet, but his head is
getting gray with years.
w. r. Smith, of Hyde Park, was
tried at the late term of the County
Court for stealing, and sentenced to
State Prison for three years. He had
previously served almost eighteen years
in Maine State Prison for murder He
is a tough one.
The suit of Miss Florence Smith, of
Wolcott, against the town of Hardwick,
for injuries sustained in consequence of
insuff1ciency of highways, recently tried
by the Lamoille County Court, resulted
in verdict against the town for ST, 900,
ORANGE COUNTY. ~
West Randolph has had a fatal case
of smallpox.
A school teacher in BroOkfeld
named Edison, recently administered
eighty-nine heavy blows with strap on
the person of one of his scholars named
McCue, a Montpelier lad, thirteen years
old. The teacher will probably be made
to suffer for the barbarous act.
John q. Chamberlin of Newbury,
and Superintendent Dodge of the ssMon-
treal" road, are making rapid progress
in grading the ewing" railroad. This
road. starts from point on the railroad
six miles beyond Littleton and runs. to
the Twin Mountain House. The grad
ing to the last named point will soon be
completed. 1t is proposed to continue
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