Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-07-03
Vermont News.
ADDISON COUNTY.


''Stod'' knows how to do it. 49,. -...-..
Rev. w. p Aiken, pastor of the
Vergennes Congregational church, is
taking his summer vacation. ..s-.
-Euphemia Tucker, of Weybride,
was Frustrated by sunStroke, last week,
while in the field gathering strawber-
ries
in Vergennes, Thursday night,
barn belonging to 3. F. GOss was burned.
Loss, $1,000; Insurance, $3.50. The
cause of the fire we have not learned.
Mine host Battell, of the Bread
Inn, Ripton, is fixing up things general
ly. He has built an addition to the two
story building east of the inn, while re-
pairs and additions to the east. wing of
the inn proper are in progress.
-Ossian E. Dodge of st. Paul, sing
er, editor, real estate agent. poet and
general blower for Minnesota, and ''all
the world and the rest of mani ind" is q
native of the old and respectt d city Of
Nergennes. ...-... ......
Mr.. Johns Of Starksboro, an &C.
centric old gentleman of - years, has
been printing paper in this State ever
since 1910. His paper differs from the
others papers; it is all editorial matter,
and 1t Is also printed with a pen.
Br .NSIyGTox. COUNTY.
AT thu, recent session of the County
Court eif hit divorce cases were granted
-seveh for desertiOn and one for Sc
verify. ........-
! = new engine, "Wamamang." for
the Glastonbury railroad has arrived
She is a powerful machine. and well
tlt ed for the business required OF heron
II lat road.
William Cook, conductor on the
! Harlem Extension. and who was quite
seriously injured Il few weeks since,
made his first trip since the accident last
Tuesday tie is still little lame, but
fast improving.
F c. White, Esq. superintendent
of the Harlem Extension Division of
the New York, Boston and Montreal
r railroad, informs the Banner that he
has advices that four new passenger
cars and twenty-five new freight cars
will come on to his line this week The
: new locomotive, No 8" arrived and
, took its place ON the line. Monday last.
The present running of the trains in
cludes a sleeping train
CALEDONIA COUNTY.
= Parker Harvey. of Passumpic, has
been fined ten dollars and costs for
? abuse of his cattle Good.
The Lyndon Union SAYS: Jason
Bradley has a gobler which manifested a
desire to set, month ago, and he was
accommodated with n set of hens eggs.
The old fellow was faithful and Matched
out seven chickens which he is now
rearing.
:, The wife of Geo Bennett, of ST
, Johnsbury, died in 1854, and was put in
the cemetery in that town. Last week
her coffin was removed. The coffin was
> so heavy that it required four men to
carry it, and on being opened the body
was found in apetrified state. The head,
arms and feet were gone, but the legs
/, and body were in form, and as hard as
! granite, and being touched with ham
mer gave sharp ringing sound.
2 OHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Burlington is all agog with prepare
ton for the celebration of the Fourth
and the dedication of the Ethan Allen
: monument.
The annual exhibition of the Yer
, mont Episcopal Institute took place at
Rock Point, on Monday evening.
f Burlington had taste of the pro-
| HlDiIOTy law, lUSLGdu Oh some freshly
imported liquors, Saturday, the Sheriff
/ Selling some $500 worth of wines and
t liquors upon their arrival at the depot.
: Daniel Small, of Huntington, has
e picked from lis apple trees this spring
t several specimens of what are usually
e called crosse blossoms" The most per
f feet looked just like a small white rose,
d and grew at the end of a twig on which
: were seven apples already set. These
9 abnormal flowers are not rare, but are
: alwaps curious, and much wondered at
+ by those who see them for the first time
. ESSEX COUNTY.
e The potato vines in Essex county
: were killed by frost June 23d.
e "A young lady teacher in Guildhall
- has become insane by too close applica-
b ton to her work. Mighty few of them
t do this.
i FRANKLIN COUNTY.
:. Mrs Harry Green, a widow of sew
h enty years, who resides on Prospect
Q Hill, st. Albans, found handsome big
o baby, some two to six weeks old, at her
a door on Friday morning. The little
founding was turned over to the over
4 seer of the poor
: "A. S. Hyde has resigned the office
f of town treasurer of St. Albans, owing
s to infirm health and cares of business,
e and G. N. Bishop, who has so accept
e ably filled the office for several years
: hitherto, has been appointed instead.
LAMoILLE COUNTY.
! The time of holding the next fair
+ in this county has been fixed for We'd
q nesday and Thursday, September Gath
q and Goth.
! i. G. Sanborn of Wolcott, wants to
! know where there are six COWS that can
D produce more than two hundred pounds
a of milk in twenty-four hours. He has
e six cows that have Just done that each
day for six days If there are any ssbo-
i; vines that can beat this he wants to buy
e them.
: Prof f. G.. Hathaway of the State
4 Board of Education, has been obliged,
e on account of his failing health, to leave
e the Morrisville Academy in the hands
e of other teachers. He is now lying
e very low at the house of his father in
, Hardwick, and his recovery is extremely
g doubtful.
: ORANGE COUNTY.
! Mr. Sullivan, an employee of the
Vermont Copper Mining Company, at
Vershire, claims to be a relative of the
newly elected French President Mae
> Mahon.
The semi-annual term of the State
: Normal School at Randolph, closed on
Thursday, with an address by Hon. G.
< II. Heath, of Montpelier. The gradu-
ating class consisted of twenty-five ladies
and ten gentlemen.