Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-04-12
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lee, Concord, n. H., ciycular saw,
bench. w A. Lewis. Springfield, vt,
churn power. C. Cole, Meriden, n.
H., washing machine. G. p. Rich
ardson, Gloveton, n. H., grind-stOne
trough and'support. \
The foreman of the Rochester, n. Y.
Union, is lady.
Brigham Young's son, William was
locked up fer drunkenness in Sacra-
mento few nights since.
Education is SO common in Maine
that hens lay eggs with inscriptions
upon them.
An Indiana paper is in favor of
abolishing the gallows as an insight
ly and offensive way of inficting the
death penalty, and proposes poison or
electricity as substitute for asphyxia.
The saloons and gambling bells of
Denver, Col, are shutting up, owing
to the revival there.
California housewives describe soda
as "that ere stuff what you put in
biscuits tosmake 'em get up and Gre
clan bend themselves"
A German printer named Conrad
Lutz, now living at Burlington, Ia,
has received official information that
he has been drafted into the Wurtem-
burg Landwehr. Inasmuch as he left
Germany when two years old, con-
temporary intimatcs that he intends
remaining in the land wher he is.
Mr.. Anderson, who has made such
s. mnnifcent gift to Prof. Agassiz.'a
museum, made his money manufacture
ing and selling tobacco. Who shall
say that no good comes from the weed,
and that it all ends in smoke end filth ?
Science is now under obligation to the
noxiOus herb, and would do we'll to
acknowledge its merits in future.
CEREBRO SPINAL MENINGITIs.-Last
week more than three times the lumber
Of persons died in Boston from cere-
bro spinal meningitis than died from
small pox.
FIRST Administration potatoes
and tomatoes have made their APP
perance in New York market, brought
FROM Bermuda. The potatoes sold at
$40 per barrel, and the tomatoes at
1925 per box, by wholesale.
A tragedy took place in Massachu-
sets State Prison at Charlestown,
Wednesday morning, which threatens
to prove fatal. AS the convicts were
marching i'll line as usual, from break
fast, VIM Patterson attacked John
E. Shaw, a prison official, one Of the
escort, and inflicted two terrible blows
with a large knife which he had secre-
ted about his person.. Shaw's, handl
was nearly cut off, and his face laid
open with a deep cash eight inches
long. Patterson was at once secured.
He was serving 70 years, sentance' for
burglary having previously been con-
yicted forrl2 years.
The Rhode Island elections took
place Wednesday, resulting in the
success Of the full Republican ticket,
with the exception of Lieut.-Gover-
nor, of which there was no choice.
Henry Howard the Governor-elect,
had 9273 votes, to 1866 for Chase
(Dom.) and "a scattering.
Geo Sherman, the man who eloped
with Josephine Drew, from Fisher
vile, N. H., last fall, was arraigned
on the. charge Of adultery in the SUI
preme Judicial Court at Concord. N.
H., Wednesday, and plead guilty.
He was sentenced to the full extent
Of the law, three years in the State
Prison.
Nearly all the Ku KluN prisoners
sent to Albany for participation in
raids, or who were convicted on the
charge of belonging to the Ku Klux
order, have been pardoned.
The Spaniarls in Cuba have arrest
ed Mr.. O'Kelly, correspondent Of
the N. Y. Herald, and threatened to
hang him as an insnrgent spy. Our
government has interlered to save
him, and the Spanish minister at
Washington has telegraphed to
Havana, to not do it.
The Travellers Washington dis
patch says that some of Speaker
Blainc's friends express the opinion
that his reelection as presiding officer
of the next House will be almost
unanimous.
Professor Roch Of Canadian Col
lege, who disappeared three weeks
since, has been discovered a defaulter,
having squandered the funds of the
college by dissipated habits.
The Boston Advertisers Washing
ton dispatch says that thus far Mr..
Epson OF Ohio is the only one among
the retiring members of congress
who has refused the back pay.
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