Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-03
Items OF Interest.

The q. S. two cent piece is to be abol-
ished.
In Brooklyn Peter Fox was sent to
the penetentiary for two years for kill
ing his son.
A deaf mute entered Peoria saloon,
lately, and wrote on his slate " Give
me an o p ner." ......
All the Smiths who go to Europe this
summer will come home Smythes,
Thompsons will omit the "p," and
Bakers will style themselves Becairs.
The sale of pews in DR.. Hepworth's
church in New York was great success.
So well did they sell that the gross year
ly income of the church will be about
$3.50, 900.
H. G. Gam, editor of the Sentinel, at
Warren, H., accidently shot, and dan
gerously wounded his wife, while care
lessly handling a gun which he thought
was unloaded. " .
The Modoc assassinations have caused
a profound sensation all through the
United States, and a general order of
determination has been issued by the
War Department. .. .-... ....
Dry goods merchants in New York
report an increase in the extravaganza
of fashionable women this season over
any previous season, especially In iaces,
embroideries, silks, and velvet.
An act providing for the punishment
by Imprisonment in the Penitentlary OF
persons convicted of bribing State
officers or members of the General AS
sembly, has passed both branches OF
the Ohio Legislature.
The grave of woman buried IN
Vermont town some months ago has
been opened, to disprove statement
that one of the persons who prepared
the body for burial had cut off portion
of her hair and sold it. ..r
An Iowa druggist has been sued for
$5, 900 damages by a woman to whose
husband he is in the habit OF selling
liquor. She says she does not see any
difference between drugshop whisky
and dram-shop whisky.
Intending visitors to the great
Austrian Exposition will do well to look
to their vaccination marks as well as to
their letters of credit, the deaths from
smallpox in Vienna, at last accounts,
averaging sixty week. ..r.a ..
Her name is not given, but she was
heard pouring forth volume Of richest
melodywhile currying COW i'll Sweden,
and has been sent to Paris, from whence
she will come to demand 81 for tickets
from American lovers of song.
There is a gentleman out West who
feels considerably taken down. He re-
marked to his wife that it was lucky he
didn't meet Miss - before he got
married. and his wife unfeelingly put in
her oar and said, Eyes, lucky for her.
The custody of the children has been
awarded to the wife.
DR.. Brown who attempted to murder
a gas collector, in New York, has been
identified as having been sent to State
prison eleven years ago for causing the
death of young girl by malpractice.
The murderous attack upon the gas col
lector was plainly made to get the
money he displayed.
Forty years ago revolutionary
soldier d, posted 800 pension money
in New Hampshire savings bank, and
in each of the two following years added
$15 more. Neither principal nor inter-
est has ever been drawn, and the amount
now is 81, ,22S,81, with a share in an
extra dividend about to be made.
Another Illinois verdict of $4,000 for
breach of promise suggests the question
why it should be so hard to alter mere
intention to commit matrimony when it
is so easy to dissolve marriage already
consummated and further gives rise
to the reflection that if breach-of-promise
laws were repealed there would be fewer
applications for divorce.