Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1876-11-30
State News.
Montpelier, November %, Is


c. Il Steele, a recent graduate at An
dover Theological Seminary, has been
engaged to preach at Winooski for a
year.
Woodbury. & Russell, of West Con-
cord, have $25, 900 debts, and about
$4,000 Of good assets.
Mr.. G. Horace Hubbard has retired
from the position of agricultural editor
of the Vermont Farmer.
Mr.. Henry Magoon, of Washington,
stands Fix feet and seven and One-half
inches in bis stockings.
Miss IDA DIN of Pownal, made fine
shirt on Wheeler s. Wilson sewing ma
chine in fifteen minutes and full dozen
in nine hours.
A rock weighing one hundred pounds,
was thrown by blast through the roof
of J. r. Murdock's house in Woodstock,
81 Friday, hurting nobody.
Two daughters OF ReU6en Haley, of
Pownal, aged one and three, were burned
to death, recently, while playing with
fire during the temporary absence of
THAR parents.
While some boys in Westdeld were
firing the cannon, the other day, it burst
and the pieces flew around considerably.
One piece, weighing twenty-eight pounds
was thrown some twenty-five rods, and
went through the side Of Mrs. Bedell's
house.
John Malone of BoliUu wcrt home
from Richmond with hs wife, in his US
ual health, the other Cay. He went to
the barn to take care of his team at
about O'Clock ?. NJ. Being gone long
er than usual, be was looked after and
found dead in his barn.
Tt ere arc Two cases of small pox in
ST. JohnsbaIy, brought there by persons
who had been 70 the Centennial A
high fence has been built around the
house of one of the patients and the 9th
er has been lodged IN tie highest story
of brick block.
The Woodstock StantJard says the
White River Valley railroad project
isn't dead yet, but that work will be
commenced in December Gov. Smith
will be associated with the Springfield
company in the construction Of the
road.
The following postmasters have re-
Gently been appointed in the State: D.
H. Bennett, Bridport Daniel 81. Orvis,
South StaTksborough; o. @. Huntley
Leicester Junction.
Michael Grace, a butcher at Benning-
ton, mss stepped over into rev hUrh
with So 600 that his creditors ought to
have, and the stakes of twO election
bets.
Charles Peck, farmers son at ST.
Johnsbury, twenty-One years old, tried
to Kill bimself by shooting pistol ball
through Dis head Friday, gard although
alive at last accounts, his attempt will
probably prove successful
4 p0riian Of the members of the In
dlsaisl Works at Springfield lhaYe
fGrnlgd new company and are expect
ing 10 again purchase the buildings and
machinery of MIR. Afford, who bid them
off at tle auction, aad who has been
running the business since that time.
The tto.e Of w. B. Marston of Cbel-
sea, was entered by a burglar on the
night of the 2tst inst, and the changein
the money drawer was distracted and
valuable articles stolen. On complaint
sheriff Dickinson arrested Joseph Alb
bolt, alias Joseph Cheney, transient
person. He was examined on the 23d
inst, before Justice Davis. Ga plead
ing guilty he was held for trial at the
court in the sum of $500 Failing to OBJ
tain bali, be was committed to await
trial.
Mr. Merrill White, employed in the
shoe peg mandatory OF w. E J. G.
Flint, vi Arlington, met with a serious
ecoidel,; last Thuraday While running
pointer lis hand came in contact with
the knives, cutting MI of the fingers on
that hand, and api:ntering the bone of
the middle finger. Dr. Phillips dressed
the wounds, and be is Coirg we'll under
his treatment.
Several Of the relatives OF the late
Hiram Bellows, Of St. Albans, whose
will left large sums for future educa.
lioual purposes at st. Adams and Fair
fax, because they were either but slight
~ menlinned Ur were passed over alto
gether, are to contest the validity of the
will. They say, moreover, that State
Senator Edward 5. Soules, the executor,
who is the husband of Mr.. Bellows's
adopted daughter, returns the property
as only about $500, 600, while il can be
proved 10 be nearly double that sum,
and thai be is trying 10 get bill through
tie legislature for his individual benefit
rs exector OF this estate.
About four weeks since Sheriff Nor
rill committed 10 the st. Adams Jail, for
drunkenness, man named Kemp, whose
failure to account for his place of resi-
dence, and other suspicious circum-
stances, caused the sheriff to investigate
bis previous history, which has resulted
IN Identifying him as an escaped convict
from the State prison at Windsor. Su-
perindent Bailey, of the State prison,
has taken him back 10 serve out his
term.
The Montreal Star puts it thusly: "a
clergyman in Vermont, who had been
detected in extensive swindling transac-
tions, was confined to his house by III
ness; but, according TO the Vermont
Farmer, he improved in health very
much until last Sunday night, when he
felt well enough to go out. But instead
OF getting mp in the day time, he waited
till midnight, took team and went out
to ride. Strangely enough, riding out
made him feel better, and SO he kept on
until the Canada line was passed, when
his cure was complete"
The Vermont woman who advertised
''Thoreauic home" last summer.
doesn't appear to have been appreciated
as boarding-house mistress and has
removed TO Boston, where she adyertises
herself IN this fashion "a lady of
Enc: sonian thought and sentiment Of
fers to assist, as far as possible, unjoy-