Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1875-04-15
State N ewS.

The Methodist church at Fergenes
received ten additions Sunday, the a.
The snow is still very deep in nnY
towns. 1t took the Wilmington fage
14@ hours to make a trip 90 miles ne
day last week
An important meeting of the sick
holders of the Canada and Vermont ril-
road company will be held at Brat e
boro, on the 28th of April.
Ex-Superintendent Gyles Merrill, If
the Central Vermont, has been at ST. a.
bans this week and is enjoying improed
| health.
Decoration day this xasS. May 9th,
| comes on Sunday, ana VIII ss.S5I.!@ y !
observed on Saturday, the Goth.
The lodge of Good Templara Of Gas
Teton has surrendered It's charter * -
now among the defunct institutions of
the town.
The ladies' of Middlebury have o~gau-
- : yvofaan's christian Panperance
Union, Of which Mrs President kttcag
| ell is President. Seventy four names
were obtained as members of the OhioD.
Mr.. Buel J. Derby, the new posisa'.--
ss,r a. darlington, TOOK possession OF the
Office and entered upon the duties of
his appointment on saturday. --e-~
Jacob Miles of Topsham, a one EARNED
veteran of the Eighth Vermont, has
been promoted from an inspectorship of
Customs to the place of Deputy Collec-
tor at Island Pond
At the annual school meeting in Dut-
louisville, March 30, Joseph Adams was
elected district treasurer for the fifty
first time, having been first elected to
that office ill 1926, and has held the Of
flee every year since.
The mortality in Huntington is some
thing surprising. The village has about
soveniy-five inhabitants. Within the
last few months seven persons have
died and four more are now dangerously
sick. Sickness has entered nearly ev-
cry house in the village.
Rev. Malcolm Douglass, D. D., Pres
ident of Norwich University, has accept
ed call to the rectorship of the Episco-
pal church. Andover, Mass. Capt. c.
A. Curtis, U. s. A succeeds to the va
cant chair.
Joseph L. Gray, an employee of Math-
ews d Davis, at Burlington, had the
thumb of his left hand neatly amputatcd
from the base of the first finger to the
wrist, Monday, by a circular saw. max
ing some three thousand revolutions a
minute.
The legal element of Chittendcn
county have had their ranks strengthen
ed by the addition of Seneca Hasletou.
of Undcrhill, and Geo. f. Marsh. of
Burlington, who were admitted to the
bar on Tuesday last They are gradu-
ates of the University and are said to
stand on par with men in general as to
truth and veracitY.
Some one tried to burn Albert JONES'
tenement house on Allen street. St. Al
bans, Tuesday morning The second
hoor OF the tenement is unoccupied. and
on this floor and the garnet were found
two balls of cotton or other material in
a lively state of combustion. The i'd
0erttser thinks that thirteen accidental"
fires in Il year ought to do for a place
OF that size without applying the torch.
The St Adams Adgertiser and the
Springfield Republican will please note
that the sheep trade is hardly as dead in
Vermont rs they hoped it was. 1t is
exceedingly lively hereabouts. Sheep
are changing hands very rapidly. Geo.
Hammond has just purchased of Messrs
Cherbino a selection of thirty of their
ram lambs for the California market at
$50 each. They are probably the best
arge lot of lambs raised in Vermont last
and such a lot as Vermont can
hardly afford to spare lNiddlebury
Register.
st. Adams had its first spelling match
IN Saturday evening last, Col. Benton
acting as enunciator. About fifty COM
oeted. The spelling presented the wide |
'ange of photographed eccentricities
isual CD such occasions. Facetious was
pelled ''phacetius gentian, ''gean-
hun;" squeal, ''squeel" (perpetrated
~ Judge Deavitt); and finally Mrs. w. |
4. Vickery took the first prize "a five |
iollar gold piece on caribou" The |
match was held in the interest of st. |
4ukes Episcopal Society, and was very
large audience being in at
enhance The proceeds were about |
s65.
A young man named William Demo-
ey was badly hurt at the rolling mill in
It. Adams, while attempting to work
What is called the trough and tumble