The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-05-10
STATE NEWS.
Orange County.

- SibNN ietDol'i u EIuNt III luSt
Mr.. James McDuffee, of Bradford, whose
death took place last Saturday, at the age
of seventy-thrcc, had from "time immemo-
rial the village sexton, and had dug 800
grave while holding the position.
Mrs Agnes II. Pitkin, wife of Albert L.
Pitllin, of New York, formerly of Tun-
bridge, VT, leaves With party of friends
for Europe, June 1st
Franklin County.
Potatoes have recently been taken from
the ground at st. Adams that are sound and
in good condition for the table.
Mr.. II. A. Soule, of Fairfield, tapped
1 400 trees, and made large amount of
sugar this spring.
LamOiIe County.
The towns of Lowell, Eden and West
field, have raised seven hundred dollars for
a preliminary survey of the Midland rail
road.
The spring session of the State Normal
School at johnson opens May IA.
Chittcnden County.
G. J. Tomlinson has been elected w. G.
7. of Camel Hump Lodge of Good Temp
lars ar Huntington.
a barrel of beer was seized by Deputy
Sheriff Ferguson in Mays grocery at Rich
mond, the ID inst, and adjudgcd forfeited
by Justice Hall, and placed in the hands of
the town liquor agent.
Caledonia County.
The pay roll of the Passumpsic railroad
last month numbered about 500 men. The
amount paid for help through the year,
averages about S95,0 Il month, or $780,
600 year. But the number of employees
is usually much larger than at present, oc-
casionally as high as 1,200 men. Henry
i. Alden, and several other men who had
resigned their positions on the Passumpsc
road are to remain.
Washington County.
John Seabury has been elected w. G. II.
of Home lodge of Good Tcmplars at Water
bury.
James Phillbrick and Merrill L. Coffrin,
both entcrprisng young men, left Montpe-
lier last week for Detroit, Minnesota, where
they go to establish homes near the North
crn Pacific railroad
The teachers institute for Washington
county was held at Middlebury this week
William Cooley is building cheese fac
tory near Waterbury Center. The milk of
five hundred cows is to be furnished this
factory.
y gentleman going from Waitsfcd to
Waterbury on Sunday last, May 3D., en-
countcrcd n snow drift, which by actual
measurement was found to be seven feet
deep.
Frank n. Smith has been appointed post
master at Waterbury Center, vice John ID.
Smith, deceased.
The Vermont reform school chair fac
tory is now turning out about five hundred
chair seats per day. About half of these |
are caned by the boys, and the rest in about |
forty different families, to whom some
twenty dollars per day will be paid.
HcIc WAS tdNcu out OF ulc garden OF
Col. Jacob Davis, of Montpelier on the list |
of April last parsnip, well proportional,
which measured exactly six feet, six inches
and two-thirds of an inch in length. I'll
Spoone1's Journal, May IS, 1901.
Windham County.
James Fisks monument at Brattleboro |
will probably be erected before the close of |
the month.
Maple sugar is plenty at Brattleboro, at |
prices ranging from thirteen to eighteen
cents.
o. II. Fowler, n Brattleboro blacksmith,
was seriously injured, Tuesday, while at
tempting to shoe vicious horse.
William II. JONES' eX-assstant judge of |
the Windham county court, and man |
well known and respected throughout the |
State for his official fidelity, died at his |
home, in West Dover, Monday. He was |
buried with Mosonic honors on Wednesday. |