Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-08-14

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and Col. Kent's Office adjoining, have
been greatly improved in appearance by
repapering, painting, sc. The Colonel
had always opposed removing the old pa
per lest his Office would not present
homelike appearance, but now appears to
feel quite at home under the new order of
things.
Mr.. 4. r. Boardman, the gentlemanly
agent for the Wheeler-&- Wilson Sewing
Machine, has had all the business he
could attend to thus far, since he hung
out his shingle in this place, and could
sell more of the favoritc "No. T." if be
could get them from the manufacturers
fast enough. He has sold nearly 4 hun
dred machines in this vicinity within the
past four months, which is pretty good
evidence that they are the machine.
LANCASTER AcADENTY.-It will he seen
by reference to our advertising columns,
that the Fall Term of this institution will
commence on the 30th inst. The Execu-
tive Committee have spared no efforts to
make the school what it should be in
every particular, and there seems to be
no reason why, under the tutOrship of Mr..
MacOmber and his efficient assistants,
students may not receive rs thorough in
struction in all the branches taught as
can be obtained elsewhere. The Acade-
my building is being reprinted outside,
and will be put in thorough repair prior
to the commencement of the Fall Term.
Under the new arrangement the terms
will consist of fourteen weeks.
In another column is an account of the
murder of Frank 2. Towne by his
brother-in-law, Samuel j. Frost, in Peters
ham, Mass. Mr.. Towne was the adopted
sou of Mr., Curtis Towne, of Littleton,
who is brother to Barton G. Towne, Esq,
of Lancaster. The victim of this terrible
tragedy frequently came to Coos county
on business or to visit his friends. Last
fall he passed through Lancaster on his
way to Massachusetts, with horse he
had just bought of 7. G. Rowan, proprie-
tor of the Monadnock House, Colebrook.
He said then that he expected to drive
some cows from Littleton to PeterSham,
and it is quite likely that the cows he
owned on his farm and was engaged with
the care Of at the time he was murdered
were the same ones.
| Recent Massachusetts exchanges an
| nnnnpn thn 1nuth ot 7 nNrpn Of AnnllnS
Perkins, whom many Of our elder towns
! people will remember rs the editor Of the
first newspaper ever published in Lancas-
ter-the White Mountain AgiS His age
at his death was IS years. We copy from
Col. Kents essay on "The Press Of Coos
County," read before the N. II. Press As
sociation in 1872, the following sketch of
Mr.. Perkins and the EgiS:
The first periodical established in the county
was styled the White Mountain 1Hgis, issued at
Lancaster in springof 1888 AnAssociation con
sisting of Il. p. Kent Royal Joyslin, merchants
| Of Lancaster, Gen. John Wilson, deceased, and
ApollOs Perkins, now of Lowell, Mass, pul-
chased the material, being Unidentified, as they
| supposed, by sub-subscrption. The paper was
! Wing in politics, and was edited by Apollos Per
kins, j. f. G. Hayes being foreman and manager.
The -EJiS was published one year at Lancaster,
when it was removed to Haverhil, under the
control Of MIR. Hayes, and christened The WING
and -41giS. The paper was not destined to be Il
success. Its management was involved in diff.
culties, and about 1882 the Office was closed, and
the effects sold by the original purchasers. 4
The .EgiS was published in a room for.
merry the Masonic Hall, now the second story of
Chas. L. Aliens jewelers. establishment on Main
street.
On the same occasion, VIM. A. Wallace,
Esq, of Canaan, supplemented an essay on
''The Press of Grafton County" with the
following allusion to the AlgjS and its
editor:
Its columns were filed with we'll written cdito-
rails, mostly upon political subjects; and this fact
may perhaps account for the shortness of It's life
Although a man may be an ardent politician, he
likes after while to read something besides po-
litical ESSAYS. The last number OF the Uhig
contains the last Of Il series of articles upon the
"Sub-Treasury," which was as II Democratic
measure, vehemently denounced by the Wings as
tending to destroy the liberties Of the people
In closing his llbors in Coos county, the editor
makes due acknowledgements for the patronage OF
his friends, but owns up that the establishment OF
a ewing Journal in the strong Democratic county
of COos~ydS hazardous enterprise thirty years
ago. lie says: at was the first paper ever
printed in this county, and the result has shown
that We dill not mistake in counting the cost, but
in coming to This conclusion of our labOr3, we
have hl,l tn c0nsuG the COOL Of our own purses. ;
He thinks he would like to say something cheer
full if there was anything cheerful about the
thing" but like the squirting captain Of whom he
had read, although we c0nh say something, yc
we won't" Doubtless silence was best, and like
the deacon's balky horse, when he got to the foo
of the Hill he aCdS there.