The Rutland weekly globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1876-11-10
Vermont News.

canary bird in Chelsea lived to be III
years old.
Edison d. Herrick has been appointed
postmaster at Highgate.
The line boat Vermont has been with
drawn for the season.
Jacob Greenwood of Lowell, raised this
season 1900 bushels of potatoes from 10
acres.
The steamer A. Williams now lands at
st. Adams bay only on Mondays and
Thursdays.
The next Washington county Good
Templars' union will be held at Roxbury,
November 49,
Gospel meetings at Warren, November
18th, 18Th ane 10th at South Woodbury.,
November 24h, 25th and 26th.
A son of Harry Hill, Ct Isle La Mote,
had his hand badly injured by the bursting
of a gun on Saturday, the 2Sth inst
At meeting Saturday evening tie
Mortified graded school district voted to
heat their new school building with steam.
Search is still being made for the body
of William Maloney, of Burlington, who
was drowned near Port Henry, the other
day.
Mr.. William II. Jackson, the temper
ance advocate, has returned to Boston
from successful lecturing tour in Yer
mont.
Visitors to the state house at Montpelier
should sec the interesting collection Of
autograph letters in the histories ii society's
rooms.
On Monday night the iewelry shop of
Edmund w. Cochran, at Northheld, was
broken into and four silver watches, valued
at $40, were taken.
Patents have recently been issued to AL
bert Gale of st. Johnsbury, for furnaces
for heating iron aud steel blanks, and Ell
ward A. Rock of Ludlow for scale beams.
The amount of cheese manufactured at
East Berkshire factory this season was
about 40, 900 pounds and has all been sold
at about anaverage price of $l1 so per
hundred.
In the patent case Qampico dressing ma
chne) between E. b. Whiting and jena
than D. Baker of st. Adams, the patent
department at Washington has decided in
favor of Whiting.
The report Of the Vermont state auditor
g., e. Lo
law for the past two years has cost the
state about $32, 900 more than the amount
collected by fines.
E. Severance, fireman on the Central
freight car Saturday afternoon by coming
n contact with a bridge near Brantree
station, and seriously, if not fatally, in
iured.
The selectmen of the town of Randolph
have iseued the following warning: Par
ties furnishing Fred Townshend, of this
town, with cider, or liquor of any kind,
will be dealt with according to law.
On Saturday of last week Morrill, Davis,
of Waterville, who was shot at Belvdere,
had the ball extracted and is now gaining
rapidly and will soon fully recover. The
ball was taken out some fifteen inches from
the point Of entrance.
Miss Fanny NJ. Banks Of the Cincinnati
school of design, who carved the Estey or
saa for the centennial exposition, has re-
ceived an order from the same firm at Brat
lleboro, to carve larger organ for the
Paris exhibition in 1878.
A young man by the name of Sutton,
who has been on spree for several Gays,
attempted suicide at Rock Island, Monday,
by cutting his throat with a jack-knife.
| He succeeded in making quite avgash in
his neck, but was frustrated in the attempt
| by having the knife taken from him.
Hartland -Four. corners rises modestly to
remark that it is quiet place with a neat
little church, a commodious school house,
town houEe and grange hall. The grange
has a hundred members; maintains series
IF lectures by home talent, and has weekly
literary exercises of great interest.
Mrs. W. L. Nichols of MinnCapo is,
Mimi. has an old stained and wern parch-
mcut deed, executed May IS, 1776, by Jo-
+iah Perry,a conveying to Samuel House
| (Mrs. Nicholss great-grandnother), a GER
tain piece of land in SALISBURY, in the
province of New York, now Vermont
Samuel House was a captain under Gen.
Stark in the revolution.
In consequence OF misplaced switch,
caused by some workmen leaving it turned
wrong, the Montreal express train ran of
on side track in East Swanton, and the
engine and baggage car were dumped. The
engine was badly wrecked, and the bag
gage car considerab damaged. No per
son was hurt as we can learn; the engineer
was taken from under the wreck un'n
iured and his escape seems almost miracu