Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-09

fall and winter
Kent & Griswold have just opened a
large stock of genuine Portsmouth shirts
and drawers bought undel price, which
they are closing out. A full stock Of
common and nice oxercoats.
Arrangements have been perfected for
a series of races at the Riding Park next
Tuesday, Oct. 18th, on which occasion
purses amounting to s4OO will be offered
as follows: Purse of sIO0 for horses that
never beat 2.5O-S6O to LIST, $50 to 2nd,
$40 to Sd; purse of $l25 to horses that
never beat 2.4O-S7O to LIST, $40 to End,
SIS to Sd; purse of Sl75--open TO all
horses 1t is understood that some of
the best horses that have ever trotted
here have already entered for these races,
and we doubt not that lovers of turf
sports WIN be treated to good days Gu
tertainment.
care you selling prints for and Scents
per yard?" is the question so often asked
of Porter Bros. & Hodgdon since their
great sale commenced. Echo answers
again, yes, and such low figures are not
cenfned to prints only. Remember they
are selling their entire stock at a great
sacrifice from cost. The following are
few of their prices Best prints, to
cents standard cottons, 8 to 10 cents;
heavy Atwood shifting flannel, 20 to 80
cents; Greenbank's cashmere, 80 cents;
best Jap. tea, so to IS cents per h.; salt
pork, 10 cents. They guarantee prices
on crockery to be lower than can be found
this side of Boston. The public should
not fail to avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity to buy cheap.
As our readers are aware, game of
base ball was arranged to be played on the
fair ground, on the Goth, between the Lam
caster club and a club from Franklin, N.
! II. The conditions of the arrangement
were that the Agricultural Society should
pay the expenses of the visiting club and
admit both clubs to the grounds free.
Nothing was said beforehand by the
Franklins concerning the time that the
game should commence, and the Society
set it for 9 o'clock and so advertised
through their programmes ofthe fair. The
Franklin players came Tuesday night and
insisted on playing in the forenoon. The
Society refused to make the change, for
thereby many who proposed attending in
+I, lHy TO 4 hn Il
be disappointed, and it would make but
little difference to the Franklin Club as
they could return home on a night train
after the game. They assumed to dictate
in regard to the matter, however, and
finding that the Society would not come
to their terms, left for home on Eastman's
train which leaves here at half past one.
Promptly at 2 O'Clock p. NJ. the Lancaster
club was on the ground prepared to play,
and the opposing club failing to appear,
tie Umpire decided the game in favor of
the former 8 to Q. To our mind the con-
duct Of the Franklin club was nothing
less than ScurUy trick which would not
be practiced by a club processing Il parti-
Gle Of honor The. Agricultural Society
and the Lancaster club supposed when
they arranged the game that they were
dealing with an association Of gentlemen,
but learned, too late, that they were only
a set of scallaWagS, devoid of all sense
of honor or common decency. To all
appearances they were afraid of getting
beaten if they played the Lancaster club,
and did not intend to play from the start,
if they could avoid it, but accepted the
proposit ion of the Society simply to
sponge them out of q free ride on the
railroad and their hotel expenses.
1t was utterly impossible for the races
of the Riding Park Association to take
place on Thursday, by reason of the rain,
in consequence of which postponement,
until Saturday was announced. The
storm continued with such violence,
however. that Friday afternoon it was
decided to postpone them indefinitely, as
it was evident that the track would not be
in good condition Saturday. Mr. Dener
the tight rope artist, was in town, how.
ever, prepared to fulfill his engagement,
and as the society was obliged to pay
him, without regard to attending circum-
stances, it was decided to have him give
his exhibition Saturday afternoon on the
fair ground and admit spectators for hall
the usual rates. There was very good
attendance and the performance was
unqueStionably one of the best of the
| kind ever given. The Riding Park As.
ISOLATION must lose nearly 5000, on ac-
: have acted honorably, redeeming all tick,
cts sold for the races and promptly pay
ing all expenses incurred in full. Refund,
ing the money paid for admission tickets
had the effect to reveal one of the mean.
est practices ever brought to light. When
= it was announced to those within the
: grounds that their tickets would be re.
| deemed there was rush for the gate an6
) it appeared that there were many more
within the grounds than there were tick
cts held by the gate-keepers; but all in.
, sisted upon receiving the price of admis-
sion, which could not be refused as il
was impossible to distinguish between
f those who paid to go in and those who
t sneaked in without paying. As result
t the Association paid out some $40 more
than had been received for tickets. 1t is