The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-02-09
Vermont News.

holding series of revival meetings in st. |
George, with good results.
Theodore Hutchinson of East Hardwick |
is under arrest for incest with his daugh- |
ter, fourteen years old.
William II. Wright of East Concord has
failed His liabilities are thought to be at
least double his assets.
The Winooski cotton mill has shut
down, owing to the financial embarrass-
ments of the owner, Jonathan Earle
Mr.. w. II. Lantman late of Franklin,
has moved to Highgate, and is keeping the
hotel there known as the Frank johnson
house.
Rev. p. s. Pratt has been pastor of the
church in Dorset twenty years. Only six
of the Congregational ministers in the state
are his seniors in the length of their present
pastorates.
Childs Brothers, of the Vermont Ga
zette, published centennial edition last
Friday, containing large amount of inter-
esting, local historical reading matter.
Lunenburgh voted on the 9th inst. to
stand suit with the Portland and Ogdens-
burgh railroad, and not issue town bonds
as per contract for $50, 900 worth OF stock.
The stage between Burlington and Platts-
burgh, A. Laduke and Stave & Ransom,
proprietors, now makes daily trips each
way, leaving Burlington at o'clock a. M,
and leaving Platsburgh at l0a. IN.
The slate interests of Farhaven and
Hydevi,le, which have suffered a general
depression during the past winter, are now
| rapidly picking up. and orders are pouring
in faster than they can be attended to.
The Concert billiard rooms at Burlington
were entered by burglars, through one of
the windows, Saturday night, and $500
cigars, some silver and about Sl1 in money
taken. There is no clue to the burglars.
Perhaps the only widow of a revolution
airy soldier in the state is Mrs. Sarah Will
lans of Randolph, ninety-three years old,
whose husband was thirty years her senior.
She is still in good health and retains her
faculties.
A child, whose brief history of ayear
and half was singular, died at Nergennes
a few days ago. AT its birth it weighed
eight pounds ard has never weighed more
than that. For the last year it has only
weighed six pounds.
There are 1877 families in North Benning-
ton 1lS persons under 90 years of age
under years of age, 70 from 5 to lC
years, SO from 10 to 10 years, 81 from
Is to 20 years, o. whole number under
20 years, $3.50 ; births, 10; deaths, r.
Thirty-two persons were baptized by
Rev. w. Underwood, at the NJ. L. church
Waterbury, on Sunday, February 9th
There have been fifty-two reclaimed since
the last quarterly meeting, and numbers
have been converted at the Congregations
church under Rev. Mr.. Wheeler.
w. NJ. Brown of Jacksonville took two
young ladies sleigh-riding to Wilmington
last week, and on their return Wednesday
evening IN the binding storm they cap
sized. The horse got loose and ran away
} and took refuge in secluded swamp
where he remained nearly three days with
out food.
The passenger and freight depots of III,
Connecticut and Passumpsic railroad a
Barnet were burned Friday night by thu
breaking of kerosene lamp in the ticke
office. The tickets, books, papers and &C
counts of the station were all burned, bu
the contents of the freight house wer
, saved.
The second steamboat ever built in tn
!, world was the Vermont, which was Launched
in Burlington in 1908, just one year afte
Fulton bad successfully steamed up tn
Hudson or North river. The boat wa
, built by James and John Winans, jus
Y west of the old Nye store, and was 100 fee
, long with 20 feet beam, with an engin
| rated at twenty horse power. The boa
was wrecked near st. Johns, in 1915.
!, The Burlington convocation of the Epii
copal church met at Winooski, Februar
j LIST and ID. Sermons were preached b
: Rev. J. Isham Bliss, ri. Rev Bishop BIZ
sell of Burlington, and Rev. N. +. Putnal
!. of St. Abans. Missionary addresses WEI
made by Rev. DR.. Sweet of Fairfax, Re,
! Z. II. Atwcll of Burlington, and tn
bishop. The next convocation will NEE
y at Fairfax on the last of April or in Ma,
Y The broad lake at Burlington was froze
over Wednesday night, and, from all OF
+. pearances, will remain SO during the res
: of the season. This is the latest closin
: since 1870, when it did not freeze owe
until February %. Previous to that dat
the latest closing for thirty years was i
a 1864, February II. The mean time of tn
I closing of the lake for the last sixty veal
8 is January 30, the earliest day being Janr
u airy Z, 1868, and the latest March 4, 1871!
During four seasons IN that time the broa