The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-20

~ short time ago A. ID. SLACK, the we'll /
known merchant of Sherburne. started |
from J. +. IIadley's for his home about
dark. 1t was necessary that he should go
through piece Of woods fifteen or twenty
rods wide, but going in wrong direction
he wandered in wider part of the woods
for about half mile, when he mistook a
small brook running down steep hill for
still water on the Quechee river, and fol
lowed it up go Mr.. Fosters where he was
so confused rs not to know the place. Mr..
Foster conducted him through the wood to
to the road at d short distance from home,
where he soon arrived, to the JOY of his
newly welded wife
4 adams history of FaiIhaven says Major
Ebenezcr Allen of Iinmouth and Captain
Isaac Clark of Castleton, appear to ihave
had "a hunting camp" on one of the lodges
in West Haven, and not lar from Benson
line, with paths leading to and from the
same in various directions, before the town
of Fairhaven was chartered and probably
before the state government was organized.
The prUprletors met At this camp August
81, $780, TO commence the survey Of their
several proprietary pitches.
IIubbardton in 1910 had 40 inhabitants,
l46 less than il had in 1880.
Mendon increased in population in the
decade from 1910 to 1920 Sirty-dirce
When 0. II. Rounds, Esq. of Mt. Ia
Dor was a young man in Clarendon there
were in that town eight families that had
ia children, and % Of the children grew
up to maturity. He remembers and can
repeat tho names of all the children.
The names of the fathers of these children
were J. Eddy, George Rounds, Charles
Simmons, Richard Weaver, William Har-
rington, Theopolus Harrington and James
Harrington
The epidemic discntcry which prevailed
in pittsfeld. in 1903, swept off nearly all
the children in the town, and an epidemic
in 1918 caused the death of over a hundred
/ Of its adult inhabitants.
Shrewsbury, at the second ccnsu5 in 1890,
| had population Of AS, an increase of
800 in ten years.
Among the first settlers Of Tinmouth
were Thomas Peck and John Mcneil. The
town was Organized March II, I'M.
The first settlers Of Wells, having locat-
ell near marsh, at the outlet of Lake
Austin. nearly all its inhabitants in its
carly history were victims of fever and
ague, but since 1880 its inhabitants have
been free from this aflliction.
In West Haven, VT, smallpox has made
its appearance. \ peddler who had bought
rags of people in the same town, stopped
at night at one Kely's and left the infec-
ton. The town officers were solicited to
take care of the first cases but they did not
heed the appeal. Now there Is a great
commotiOn there and much additional cN-
pense to the town treasury.
The account of Isaac Sphinx, administra
tor of the estate of William Saborn OF
Fairhaven, will be presented for allowance
at the probate Office in Castleton, April 9th
Seneca Fields and W Lodcll commits
sioners on the estate of James VI Jones o
Castleton. will meet at the house of Mr.
Wilson Proctor, at Castleton Corners, OF
Saturdays March 21st and June 18th, 1874
About 600 tons of iron ore were formerly
mined in Chittenden annually, much o
which was smcltcd at the PittsfOrd furna
ces The manganese was found al unequa
depths below the surface, and nearly 30
tons, worth $50 per ton in New York
were sent 10 market.
In November last Mr.. Douglass of Paw
, let, finding mineral deposits on his farm,
! sent samples of them to Mr. DAVIS O
!, Shenandoah, Pa, for examination. The
! were submitted to number of skilled eX
: perts in minerals and tested and examine
6 with great care. Inc opinions or tne en-
+, pertS differed. a part of the number pre-
: nounced the specimens coal shale an
, thought that they indicated the near pres
cnce of a coal vein. Others called til
specimens indications of a lead vein an
: thought that deposit of that mineral WI
: not far off Mr. X. 5. Lane Of Pawlet HI
Il leased eighteen acres of his farm to Nj
J., II. L. Williams of Pennsylvania, for mil
= ing purposes only. The lease runs for fl
G teen years and the terms are understood I
he 800 for the first year and $500 for eac
of the remaining fourteen years. In add
i. ton Mr.. Lane stipulates that ii one-fourt
: of the sales of minerals found amount t
" more than $500 year. then takes the on
fourth instead of the $500. Business III
# begun under this lease and on Thursda
S last the miners began to sink shaft to te'
the richness or existence of the deposit.