Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1873-06-12
cHITTENDEN COUNTY.


by blasting in the streets.
cHITTENDEN COUNTY.
Three cheese factories in Hinesburgh
are in successful operation,- and three
others in adjoining towns are patroniZed
by Hinesburgh dairymen.
"A novel surgical operation recently
performed at Burlington was the re-
moyal Of a portion of the medium nerve
from the middle of woman's arm. She
had suffered for four years from neu-
ralgia, induced by tumor involving the
nerve, and relief is expected from the
operation.
"A citizen of Williston found the
wall of a-shed charred one day last week.
Suspecting the cause, the next bright day
he made an experiment which satisfied
him and all his neighbors that the char
ring was caused by the reflection of Che
suns rays from row of milk-pans, and
nothing else. Look ont where yOu put
your pans
= ESSEX COUNTY.
Hon. John W.. Hartshorn, of Lu-
nenbure, accompanied by his wife and
daughter, has started for an extended
tour through the Western States. and
also to visit his son, Captain E. j.
Hartshorn, who is now a resident of
Iowa.
| GRAND ISLE COUNTY.
AS a young man named Dodds and
a Scotchman were crossing from North
Hero to the Lake View HOUSE, late one
! night last week, their boat was capsized
| in violent spuall The two men sue
! ceeded in righting the boat, but the water
| being very, cold and heavy sea run
ming, they were. nearly exhausted with
the effort. AS it was the boat was
partly filled with water, but finally
! drifted to. the shore, when it was found
that the Scotchman was dead.-Nesssl1-
ger.
LAMoILR COUNTY.
in order to. do away, with the open
bars at the hotels. the selectmen of
Hyde Park have purchased the stock of
liquor at the Union House, and turned
it over to the town agent.
There is a family in Cambridge that
has in eleven years moved thirty times,
! been in sixteen different States and
moved seven times in one year. The
longest time they stayed in any one
place is eighteen months.
the first frame building erected in
Waterford was recently demolished 1t
was built in the.y6ar 1902, and put to-
getker with wrought iron nails. The
frame work was hewn from hard wood,
and although it had been in use for sew
enty years, it was in good condition at
the time of its demolition.
toRANGE coTNTY.
The new store being built by the
Vermont copper company, near their
works in Vershire, is rapidly approach
ing completion, quite force of men
being now at work upon it, and it will
be ready for occupying soon. 1t is a
fine building and will be great addition
to the place:
Frank, son of Lambert Hastings,
residing at Post Mills, in Thetford,
seems to be a foolish youth. He desired
to marry young miss; and his mother
refused her consent, whereupon he re-
sorted to ''cold pizen," attempting to
kill himself by that method on two oc-
:. casions Each time, however, DIR. Niles,
who resides in the next house, was able
to bring him out of it.
ORLEANS COUNTY.
"A town pauper named Eliza Shep-
herd drowned herself in Greensboro on
Monday last. She left a letter saying
she could be found in the pond if want
ed, and on search such was found to be
the case.
"A few days ago boysome fourteen
years of age, at work at Gallup's steam
mill, Bloomington, was accidentally
caught in shaft that made 600 revolu-
tions in minute and wasso injured that
he died i'm a few moments.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.
The Central Vermont investigating
committee will meet again June Goth, at
Montpelier, to make up their report.
1t is said the new management of
the Central Vermont propose to secure
the building of the proposed new rail-
road from Montpelier to Barre.
Two cows belonging to Sylvester
Alden, of Middlesex, were recently
struck by lightning and instantly killed.
They were in the field and were found
living close together, with but slight
marks of mangling about them. Other
cattle near by escaped uninjurcd.
wINDHAM coUNTY.
The Fall Mountain paper company
have recently begun the manufacture OF
colored poster paper, OF winch tney are
making a very good article.
Charlie French, a boy of eleven
years, residing in the vicinity of Derry
Pond, captured last week noble speci-
men of the American bald eagle, meas.
uring over seven feet from tip to tip OF
wings, and has him safely Gagged.
{ -Townshend people are shaking their
sides over practical joke played upon
an old farmer who Dragged considerably
over a big egg that one of his hens had
laid. The day following its discovery,