Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-22
State at Large.

State at Large.
A grange of the Patrons Of Hus-
handry was organized at Waitstield,
last Wednesday evening, with sixty
two members.
Marlboro and Wilmington are en-
joying good sleighing, aud the stage
from those towns runs into Bratt.e-
boro on runners.
Enoch Balk's store and contents at
Hancock, were burned, Friday night
loss $1,000; fully insured.
Arad Ward of West Brattleboro. a
young man about twenty-five years
old. fell from n loaded ox-cart, Thurs
day, and was instantly killed, the
wheel passing over his head.
The present assets of the Vermont
State Agricultural Society are esti-
mated at Sl4,l77 81.
Levi b. Southland, clerk in the gen.
eral freight Office of the Central Yer
mont, has had an attack of paralysis,
induced by the constant use of his
hand in writing.
The annual meeting OF the Vermont
State Agricultural Society and Wool
Growers Association was held at
Burlii gton on Wednesday. 1t was
reported that the expenses of the last
fair were S6994, and the receipts
S6953, leaving a deficit of SAL. The
Hon. William r. Sanford, was elected
President for the ensuing year. Col
onel Edwin S. Stowell of Cornwall
was elected delegate to the National
Wool Growers Association.
The snow is two feet deep on the
mountains west of Bennington.
The new st. Adams Advertiser,
organ of the Smith ring. is touchy
about being called "a ringworm" by
the Woodstock Post.
The shop OF EnoCh Balk Of Han
cock was burned, Friday night,
together with its contents loss $4,000,
fully insured.
The Rutland Railroad war is over,
the Harlem Extension having con
scented to let the Rensselaer, and Sa,
ratoga road run their engines owe
the Harlem tracks TO their engine
house.
As Il result Of the recent vigorous
war upon hquor-sclIers in Montpelier
the grand jury found forty-one indict
ments against as many different
parties. At the recent term of court
eighteen pleaded guilty and paid theil
fines, amounting to $1470; three
cases were continued 70 the mex
term; in three the bail, amounting t.
$500, was forfeited in one case tht
jury did not agree, and in three TIN
verdict was not guilty. Of the thir
teen convicted on trial, five were
found guilty Of third offences, thu
penalty for which is Imprisonment II
the county Jail. The trials and plea:
of guilty have developed ll8 first of
fences, twenty-nine second and five
third. =
! The persons who were arrested up
on the suspicion of being concerned
in the shooting of B.ssct, the propri
r,or of the floating gin mill upon
: Lake Champlain, have been discharg
ed, their names being wrong y stated
in the warrant. The parties are
bosses and foremen upon the Ne'
f York Il Canada Railroad, and the
denied any intention Of avoiding al
rest, claiming that they acted upol
self defence. The Coroner's jur,
found a verdict to the effect that Bas
sett came to his death by guusbo
, wounds teloniously inflicted 10y a ma
named Bracy, Levi Yell, Peter Bar
: and others to them unknown. Th
. Coroner has issued warrant for tn
! apprehension of Bracy, Yell and Barr
Building is going on at MorrsvillC
i, rapidly, and the village is growing
, fully as much this year as in 1872.
The negroes who have served a
porters on the drawing-room car
! between Troy and St. Adams will
: hereafter be conductors, the forme
conductors having been discharged.
: Vermont is the seventh collectio
=. district IN the Union in the maguitud
e OF its imports, coming next to Me-
S Orleans. Its imports for the las
+ fiscal year were $40, 557, 900, and eA
= ports 81 ,43l 900.