Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-03-27

ties and are now WOrkinS ulIHoi q So"'o
Grange.
-Guv Warren, of Fletcher, recently
assaulted his sister in such shameIul
manner that she was obliged to seek rel
noe in neighbours house, badly beaten
and covered with blood.
GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
j. w. Bartlett and D. Stone nave
hought out G. G.. Waterhouse, IN the
Island Pond Hotel; they take possession
April first Mr. Waterhouse finds his
health too poor is stay in the hotel.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
A son of G. J. Scott, of Morrisville,
was recently killed by the cars at Dos
ton.
The town library at Stowe at the
present time contains over seven hun
dred volumes.
Work is going on upon the L. y y.
road beyond Hydepark, in several OF the
heaviest cuts-both rock and dirt. This
is done to put the work forward, so that
the remaining forty miles to Swanton
may be finished for running the coming
season. The grading is already well adj
vanced.
ORANGE COUNTY.
The village of West Randolph has
at present four accomplished music
teachers, and all in full employ.
Eight men and one woman have
died in Vershire since August 9Th, 1872,
whose ages have been from about seventy
| five to ninety-three years. There are
! now living in town at least twenty-five
| persons whose ages are from seventy to
ninety-two, and a large proportion OF
them over seventy-five years.
-Newbury was settled one hundred
and ten years ago. The nearest mills
were at Charleston, sixty miles distant.
| So the grain was sent down in canoes in
autumn, and drawn back on the early
! ice of winter In the midst of an in
tensely cold winter the first saw mill
crank was drawn from Concord on a
hand-sled. In 1884 the Newbury Sem
mary, an academy of the higher grade
was established at the center village
under the direction of the MethOdists.
The location was favorable. 1t gained
large patronage, and during the thirty
three wears it remained there, was at
tended by 10000 different pupils. In
1868 it was removed to Montpelier.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
Stephen Renfrew, of Craftsbury,
has entirely recovered his eyesight, and
in fact he was blind for few days only.
It will be remembered he was reported
to have been left blind by a case of mea-
sizes.
Grin Kelley, of Barton, cut birch
tree lately that measured 37a inches IN
diameter at the butt, and 81 inches 80
feet therefrom, sound as nut and
straight as an arrow. This is unusually
large for birch.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
Rev. Lester Warren has become
pastor of the Uniyersalist church al
Barre.
The house of Hiram Potter, il
Plainfeld, was destroyed by fire on tht
9th inst. No insurance.
WINDSOR COUNTY.
Henry S. Dana, of Woodstock, ha!
been appointed register of probate fol
the Hartford district.
Helena Barrows, of Bridgewater
left fatherless when quite young, is soo1
to leave for Montreal to enter a mOnas
terry, much to the grief of her friends.
, AT the annual meeting of the Ma
J tional bank of Springfield, the following
officers were chosen: Directors, Henry
? Barnard, Udney Burke, George w. Por
ter, Samuel Afford, Jr., George B
Nichols, the last named of Boston. A
t meeting of the directors Henry Bar
nard was chosen president.
? The roof and one side of the ole
Congregational church at BridgewateI
Corners fell in, week or two since
leaving the belfry still standing, mucl
to the regret of one citizen, whose houa.
80 within, falling Distance of. that be1fry
The Episcopalians of White Rive
Junction, assisted by other denOmina
tions, are making a successful attemp
to raise funds for the purpose of build
I ing a church at that place. Quite
large sum has already been pledged fo
that purpose.
E. r. Thomas, of Windsor, has
young ram whose wool is nearly
: straight like goats hair, and has alter
nate patches of white and black, anC
: where it is white being as pure as tn,
driven snow, and wherever black al
, black as jet.
WINDHAM COUNTY.
AT rthe annual town meeting a
Westminster, it was voted to cede o
. deed to the State the ground in the Gem
etery on which the monument to Mr.
o French is to be built, in accordance will
the act passed by the Legislature las
fail.