Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-04-02

bennington IL 10 nave q new pas
senger depot. III is to be built Of grar
lite and will cost $4,000.
Vermont sent 10 the Boston marke
last week III cattle, l45 sheep an
lambs, ITO swine and 5l8 calves.
The blacksmith shop OF Charlie
Corruth Of Groton was burglarize,
one night last week and 200 pound
q horoscopes and $50 pounds of horse
shoe nails were stolen.
Hon. Leander Smith Small OF Hyd,
Park died last week, after d long i'll
ness, in his 10th year. He was coun
ty clerk from 1861 to 1868 and county
judge from 1878 to 1882.
The boys OF tie Windsor graded
school have formed battalion Of
cadets, consisting Ut three companies
They will be uniformed and a COM
petent drillmaster will be secured to
instruct them.
The quarry and mill OF the Rutland
White Marble company at West Rut-
land has been purchased bya New
York syndicat and it is expected that
the quarry will be started as soon as
the weather will permit.
The property of the Ascutncy club
OF Windsor has been sold at public
auction. A meeting Of the members
OF the club will probably be held in
the near future to close up in full the
affairs of this organization.
A wild deer running through some
OF the villa ye streets of Bennington
Sunday morning, March %, attracted
much attention. The animal had
probably ben driven from the woods
by dogs. 1t was female and a hand
some specimen.
Joseph Gillis of Troy has earned a
right to national distinction. He is
said to be the father of "a children
and has more than $50 descendants.
The little ones arrive al the rate of
one year, with not single case Of
twins or triplets to increase the num-
Der.
Pres. Geo. I. Childs, of the Repub-
lican League of Vermont, is in receipt
of advices to the effect that Senator
Frye will try and arrange his duties
SO he can speak at the League rally at
Montpelier, April %, and Senator
Thurston will be present unless unex-
pectedly detained.
The body of a horse was found in
Moon brook at Rutland recently. Com
plants were made to the town health
officer and states attorney. The body
OF another horse was seen a few days
ago near the same place and third
horse was left recently OH the rocks OIL
Pine Hill not far from the pond.
One of the greatest inventions ever
held added to the granite business is
being given a test in Montpelier. The
machine is for saving granite and
contains "a, 900 of diamonds, the total
construction costs being in the neigh
borhood of $4,000. The machine is
being erected in the shed OF g. II.
More & Co., and a practical test will
be given in two weeks.
Ex-Gov. Levi X. Fuller of Brattle-
boro left home Monday for an indefi-
mite stay in the South. He will go
first to Jacksonville, Fla, and Nassau.
New Providence Island. The gov
ernor has been seriously i'll for the last
five months. He is accompanied by
Mrs. Fuller and Miss Maud Essex of
London. The family physician, Dir.
George +. Gale, also goes with the
party.
Gov. Busiel OF New Hampshire has
Associate Justice Lorenzo
P. Carpenter of Concord chief justice
Of the New Hampshire supreme court,
10 succeed the late Chief Justice
Charles Doe. Judge Carpenter is a
by birth, having been born
in Waterford. He was ia practice at
Bath many years before his appoint
nent to the bench, and fer 10 years
vas solicitor OF Grafton county.
The Rutland Herald says that
lumber of prominent Vermonters
,avc bought a fine tract of high pine
and in northern Florida for the pur-
bose Of making a winter home in
outhern climate. The site selected is
lear Stark in Bradford county, on the
highest table-land in the state and has
zen christened Verdemonte. The de-
ign is to make cheap, comfortable
ZONES where Vermonters may con-
,regate and spend their winter vaca-
ion among home friends.
A volume Of special value to per-
ons interested in Sunday schools has
ecently been given to the Kellogg
hubbard library at Montpelier by
Irs. J. w. Howes. 1t is the life OF
robert Raikes, commonly regarded as
he founder of the Sunday school
novement, and it has, as part OF its
inding, veneer Of wood taken from
he door Of the room in Gloucester,