Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-05-15
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.

The ladies of Addison propose to
have decoration ceremonies in that town
on the Both of May.
j. N. Smith of Addison, is putting
his steam mill, on the south side of
/ Snake Mountain in running order
Deacon Josiah Parker of Vergennes.
| died at the residence of his son, J. W
| Parker, on Monday last, in the eighty
/ fifth year of his age.
On Sunday, April 9th, Peter Blair,
Sr., - Canadian died in Ferrisburgh
Center, aged ninety-nine years and ten
months.
BENNINGTON COUNTY.
Mrs. Lee, of Bennington, came
near ueng Fatally injured last week.
while lifting on a barrel OF nour, by
the bursting of a blood vessel internally
Her recovery is considered doubtful.
Mrs. Maria Parker of Stamford.
has borne twenty-siX children, ten of
whom were boys, whose united weight
when they arrived at maahood was over
two thousand pounds.
Applications for rooms mt the Man
chester summer hotels begin to arrive
and the prospect of a good season was
neves better. F. II. Orvis, proprietor
of the Equinox House, arrived with his
family on Thursday.
There is a lively debate going on
between Bennington and Ludlow as to
which town has the most dilapidated
graveyard. The Banner says the Ben
mngton selectmen have adopted the rule
mot to make any repairs unless the oc-
cupants complain.
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
Col. Frank Walker, foreman of
Fairbanks foundry, st. ,Iohnsbury, has
been in the cOmpany's service twenty
five years.
Mr. Tinkham has resigned his pos
ition as freight master of the Passump-
sic and p & .. roads, at the ST. Johns
bury depot.
Geo. Paige and Mrs J. T. Williams,
of East Hardwick, were arrested recent
ly on a charge of criminal intimacy. An
examination was held before Judge
Perley, which resulted in each being put
under $500 bonds for temperance at
the June term of the County Court for
trial. Paige was arrested at New Bed
ford, Mass. 1t is said the whole opera
ton is'an attempt at Matchmaking Mr..
Paige
cHITTENDEN COUNTY.
The French Catholics of Burling-
ton arc about to build a new church.
Burlington delights inopen air brass
band concerts.
The summer influx of lumber from
the north and west to Burlington has
begun in earnest. Immense piles will
soon appear about the docks.
The Burlington City Council, at its
meeting May 5, voted $500 for dedica-
ton expenses, July 4.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
Mr.. David Rowley, of Fairfax, sold
365 pounds of butter from his COW, last
year, besides supplying his family |
with butter, cream and milk during the |
same time, and also furnishing some out |
side
"A lad, riding along recently, on an
eastward bound train, shot horse he
saw as he was passing, between ST. AL |
bans and Essex junction. The owner
followed on the next train, and the per-
prtrator was called to account for his
reckless shooting.
LAMOlLLE COUNTY.
1t is reported that the rum barrels of
he American House, at HYDE Park,
nave been 'spiked," and the Colonel
announces that henceforth, g No liquors
sold here. +" This will make business
lively at Morlisyille and the adjacent
owns.
AT the last session of the Probate
Court. held at Johnson, the principal
business was with an estate in Wolcott,
hat has been under probate.for forty
1ears. Lamoille county was not then
and the estate was first pro-
1ated IN Orleans county, Wolcott then
'eing in that county.
Moses Mcfarland, of Waterville.
las now the original record book kept
" Zachary Taylor during the Seminole
var. He has also sword taken by
limself from rebel officer In a Skin
nish, in which his company, of only
IS men, were engagedt.slone, against
0 rebels, and took 20 of them prison
RS
ORANGE COUNTY.
--Almon Underhill, of Chelsea, has
nade 972 pounds of sugar from 275
rees; and Ii. s. Annis, of the same
own, has made from 200 trees 1000
ounds OF sugar-the best, SO far.