Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-08-23
Local News.


'Guildhall.
Attention is called to the adver-
'tiscment of Derby Academy, else
where.
The Supreme Court term for
this County is to be holden at St.
Johnbury on Wednesday.
Our subscribers may expect call
during the coming week, for arrearages.
If those who have not already paid
their subscriptions, will have the right
change ready thep will greatly oblige.
Those uniform caps, worn by the
conductors, baggage masters and
brakemen on the b. C.. & M. r. r.
were presented to the persons requir-
ed to wear them, numbering about
twenty, by the Company. They are
made of nice material and very tasty
in design.
The water in the Connecticut River
has not been so low for Humber of
years. Springs are failing ana gen.
eral scarcity of water is complained of
all about. II The drouth continues
pastures will fail and the stbply of
good beef and butter will BE short
of the demand.
Abaut 700 sheep and lambs were
sent from this station by Mondays
train. More than 1900 were shipped
the previous week and the whole num-
Der sent within the past month amouts
to 5000. The r. r. Co. offer much
better conveniences for the transport
alton of this kind of property than
they do for passengers who desire to
take the train here, as they have
erected convenient cattle pens but as
yet no movement has been made TO
wards building depot.
Deputy Sheriff S. f. Grout, Of Con-
cord, paid our village visit on
Wednesday last, bringing Frenchman
of doubtful morals with him. Grout
left for home on the evening of the
same day, but his comp ahion was left
at the County jail to await chance
to answer before the c6hrt on charge
of stealing S14 from the Town Agent
of Concord. He, with two Others
awaiting trial at the States expense,
and one Or two more "bouhd up" to
appear at the proper time, promise
quite large criminal docket the
coming term.
Judge Moody Rich, Of Maidstone,
whose serious sickness was mentioned
in our last issue, died on the morning
of Saturday, the 10th inst, at the adj
vanced age of 81 years. His funeral
was attended on Monday at his late
residence, by large cohcourse of re-
lations and friends; he was inferred in
the family cemetery on the farm where
he had spent so many Years of his
long life. Judge Rich was son of
John Rich, who came from Germany
about 1870, and first settled in Mass,
but afterwards came to Haverhill, N.
H., where the deceased was born, A,
D., 1893, being youngest of the farhi-
ly. In the year 1884 or 1885 his faith
or removed to the town of Maidstone,
. and settled upon the farm occupied by
the Judge at the time Of his death, and
where the deceased has lived during
the whole;of the time since then. Dur
ing the whole period of his active life
Judge Rich was a prominent man in
the business and political circles of the
county, having for many years repre-
scented his town in the Legislature of
Vermont, and Essex County in the
State Senate, and having also held the
office of Judge of Probate and many
town offices of trust. During the last
years of his life he has been the sub
ject of frequent newspaper paragraphs,
the remarkable degree in which he has
retained his mental faculties to his
advanced age, having been the cause.
He has, during his whole life, held to
the principles of the democratic party,
though liberal and consistent in his
political life. He was an undoGBting
believer in the universal salvation of
mankind, in which faith he died. But
he always enter taihed and manifested
n deep respect for all denominations of
the Christian religion.