The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-04-11
RUTLAND COUNTY.

Danby--Wll Allen has absconded leaving
bis wife and children to the tender mercies Of thu
| town.
S. L. Griffith is about to repair ana enlarge hi
| boarding house near the depot also to build q
new one on the mountain for the accommodation
| of his workmen there. He also ,contemplates
! the construction of a railway to convey logs tt
| his mills. lie old method OF conveyance
! by teams is getting to be too slow for Mr. Grif
| tith's advanced ideas of doing business.
| Mrs Fred Lesson and Mrs Crow are now on {
visit to friends in Cohoes, N. Y.
Martin Foley has let his farm to Pat Persil
| his son-in-aw, for the ensuing year.
| William Emerson, eafmute who has beer
| constantly employed for the past l6 years as q
| common laborer on the railroad here has gone
west with his family to engage in farming with
| his brother.
Charles Baker, who is an employee at the
| Herald office in Rutland has removed his fam.
| lily to this place.
Jemima Boyce, who died recently, was ten.
derby nursed in her last sickness by her only
daughter, Mrs Jesse Nichols of Manchester.
VIM. N. Bond committee in District No. is
now seen in the streets scratching his head try
ing to make a judicious selection from score OF
applicants for the village schools. The sad fail
ure of the past year makes the task difficult
one.
Eddy, only son of Anthony and Susan Bar
ret, died suddenly after brief illness of only
thirty six hours. Cause of death unknown to
attending physician.
Nineteen dogs have been licensed in town for
1884. This leaves duite a number of worthless
ours to be disposed of by the authorities, unless
protected by two-dollar license by the middle
of May.
Non-residents find it to their pecuniary advan-
tage to remove their stock from town before the
first of April and thus escape burdensome
tax of 200 cts. on the dollar, that of their resi-.
dent town being about thirty cents.
Add Rutland county letter
Rutland is vitality interested in the success of
its marble business, consequently there is much
uneasiness over the gloomy prospect 'or the
trade during the coming season. The "Marble
Pool" as it is commonly called, is, to the mini
of the average Rutlander, the most unpopular
institution in the state bearing the entire burden
of blame for the recent decline in the first of
our local industries. About year ago the five
largest concerns in this country combined under
the name of the Producers Company, for the
avOwed purpose of controlling the market
throughout the country. This attempted mon-
opoly was, however, met by an organized OPP
position on the part of the dealers, especial in
the western states, and trial of strength has
been going on ever since, which appears to work
dsastrously for the Producers. The channels
of supply have been largely diverted from Ver-
mont, manufacturers seeking their raw material
elsewere. As a consequence, the shipments of
the combined companies declined from forty to
sixty per cent during the last year, and nearly
all of them lost money This is said to be par
ticuafly true of the firm of Sheldon & Sons.
1t is now generally conceded, even by the in
terested parties, that the backbone of the pool
is broken and its dissolution must soon be a
matter of necessity. The knowing ones predict
that in case crash should come which is not
at all unlikely under the circumstances, whoever
falls eX Gov Peoctor will be sure to land on top.
Meantime the general public are anxiously
waiting for return to the old and settled state
of affairs.
Rutland Both the late Judge Everts and
n p. Sim ons left wills which have been left
for probate in the Probate Court. Judge Ev-
no surviving chill lren. Mr. Simon's will which
was made in 1850, leaves $1,000 to his only
daughter and the balance to his wife.
The telephone exchange has 135 subscribers.
The marble workers will hold their annual
ball April Is.
The Odd Fellows have removed to Billings
block on Merchants row.
The Rutland Odd Fellows will celebrate the
sixth anniversary of the order, April 20.
A line of horse railroad is to be constructed
to Center Rutland and West Rutland.
The two weeks cooking school has closed. 1t
has been largely attended with satisfactory
results.
The transfers of real estate have been larger
in 1883 than any previous year in its history.
A salvation army has been organized at Bris-
toll, which has caused considerable commoton
in that community.
Messrs Harley c. Tutte and his brothers
Egbert and Fred who have been doing business
under the firm of Tuttle & Co., have been or
gauized into a corporation under the general
statutes with a capital of 100000, under the
name of Tuttle & Co.
Castleton-It is expected that Alex e.
Sweet, editor of the Texas Siftings. will spend
a portion of the coming summer at Taghkan-
nuc isle, where his graphic, lively pen will have
an oppo, tunity to portray the beauties OF that
lovely place.-Another boom for Poultney and
Castieton Hiram Ainsworth has disposed OF a
norton of the Evergreen slate quarry to MIR
Colander. the billiard manufacturer OF New
York They are to erect a mill to furnish Col
Iander's billiard factory with slate beds. Mr.
C,lander is immensely wealthy, and IS one OF
the largest billiard table manufactures IN the
states. The other large manufactury is at Chi
caro. They obtain all of their supplies OF the
Castleton Slate Co. Thus Castletleton has q mo-
nopoly of the most profitable portion OF the
slate manufacturing trade. The Evergreen Is
in Poultney, but worked by Castleton mar, the
same as Vail's quarry is in Castleton and work
ed nv A Fair Haven man. Peultney Journ-
al.