Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-12-27
NO. 81.
Items of Interest.

Buffalo meat is selling for four cents
a pound in Greeley, Colorado.
A searching investigation is to be
made in regard to the Vile du Havre
disaster.
In a Poughkeepsie foundery, recently,
mistake which cost $1,000 was
made in casting an enormous gun.
The Iowa State Grangers have pre-
pared an address on transportation, to
be laid before the State Legislature.
A rumor is prevailing among the
Piute Indians that the Government in
tends to remove them to other quarters.
The Indians declare they will die fight
ing rather than leave their present res
ervation.
Women are said to have stronger at
tachments than men. 1t it evinced in
little things. A man is often attached
to an old hat but did you ever know of
woman having an attachment for an
old bonnet?
Troy workingmen are asking them
selves whether the long strike in the
iron mills has paid. Twelve hundred
men were out of employment summer
and fall, and they lost nearly $50, 900 a
month in wages.
The tobacco crop of Connecticut of
the present yerr, though less in quanti-
ty than in previous years, owing to the
smaller area devoted to the cultivation
of the plant, is fully equal in quality to
the famous crop of 1864.
This manifesto was recently posted
in the streets of Down East town.
To all whom it may concern: Thisis
to certify that I have failed my credi-
tors may go and hang themselves.
"WM. Roy"
A California Judge has decided that
woman who has lived with man for
twenty years and been by him ac-
knowledged as his wife, can claim
homestead out of his estate, even in
the absence Of any marriage ceremony.
An Oregon pioneer asserts that an
acre of the beaver dam lands of Wash
ington county, in that State, is worth
ten acres of the best prairie, that from
$3.50 to $500 per acre are the usual
profits on raising onions $50 to $50 on
hay; and $75 to $100 on grain. 1t
is vast deposit of pure vegetable
mould, with its fertility increas ed by
irrigation from a stratum of water
underlying, and not far below the
surface of the soil.
David U. Kimball, of Charlestown-
Mass, strangled his wife, cut his step
daughters throat, and committed sui,
eide. Kimball was fifty years old, and
had been married about two years. His
step-daughter was seventeen years of
age, and the murdered wife was about
| forty years old. Kimball was black
smith, employed at the navy yard, and
kept few boarders. He had the repu-
tation of being an industrious and
sober man. A brother of Kimball com
mitted suicide some years ago, and in
sanity is said to be in the family.
A Michigan veteran of the Mexican
war gives an interesting incident in the
life Of Iturbide, the son of Mexico's
first emperor. At the battle of Hua-
manila, on the 10th of October, 1847,
Mexican officer in majors uniform made
himself conspicuous by his valor. After
striking down four or five Americans he
was at length hemmed in where two
buildings met at right angles. Six or
seven Americans surrounded him, and
he could easily have been killed, but
they wished to take him alive. 1t was
only, however, when his sword was
shivered in pieces that he surrendered,
remarking, in good English, that the
son of Iturbide was not ashamed to
give up to such brave men. This Itur-
bide died about year ago.