Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-07-03

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Whidden, son Of Hon. b. F. Wild
den, OF this place, and W. o. Burbeck,
Of IIaverliill for nearly year past con
nected with the Gdzeite Office, have re-
Gently passed successful examinations for
admission to Dartmouth College.
UNFOUNDED.-A rumor in circulation
i'm this vicinity to the effect that Barton
G.. Towne, Esq, had become embarrassed
or involved by the recent failure of
MeSsrs. Porter brothers, we are author
lied to state is without any foundation.
Mr. Towne is not liable for MeSsrs. Por-
ter Bros, either directly or Indirectly for
any sum whatever,
On Monday, July 18th, the people of
Lancaster and surrounding towns will
have an opportunity of attending Muir
rays great railroad circus, which gives
two performances at this place. Mr.
Murray, although young, is n veteran in
the ring. He has worked himself up from
a subordinate position to the proprietor
ship of one OF the best paying circus con-
Germs now on the road. He drags round
no cages of puny animals, advertises no
menageric, but has a good, square,
straight out circus performance, and on
this and on his band he laviShes money
with an unsparing hand. As result,
Murray's circus is above competition.
BASE BALL.-A return game of base
ball was played between the Littletons,
of Littleton, and the Stars, of Lancaster,
on the grounds of the latter, last Friday
afternoon, resulting in a victory for the
Stars by score of ~ to 20. The Little
tons won the toss and sent the Stars to
the bat; the latter by excellent hits and
unusually bad fielding by the outside,
scored runs before a man had been put
out. The first victim of the Stars was
Quimby, and he surrendered only by rea-
son of superior fielding by Chase, short
stop, who captured cred hot" one and
held it on the second base which had just
| been vacated by jackson, thus making q
: fine double play. After more runs had
= been scored, high fly from Billiards. bat
was captured by Weller in the right field.
The LittletonS took their turn at the bat
and scored 5 runs, two of which were
gained by wild throwing of the Stars.
The LittletOns changed pitchers at this
point, which evidently troubled their adj
versaries who scored only 2 runs during
the inning. At the end of the third inning
the Littletons had so far overcome the
odds existing at the end Of the first that
their opponents were only 2 runs ahead
The Stars gained at each inning during
the remainder of the game, however, and
in the last two innings whitewashed theil
G adversarieS while scoring 10 runs fol
n themselves. The first home run was
made by Weller, of the LittletonS, in the
S sixth inning, by which only his club was
: saved from a whitewash. At the next
r inning Whipplc made the only home run
| scored by the Stars during the game
The game was interesting throughout
and it would be invidiOuS perhaps to make
especial mention of good playing, as the
players generally filled their positions
> with credit However, we cannot forbeal
= referring to the extra playing of MesSrs
Weller and Chase, of the Littletons, il
the positions of pitcher and short stop
us well as that Of Whipple, of the Stars
who played first base, and ''Wally'
Cobum, the youngest player on the nine
who captured every fly sent to the left
field that he could possibly get his hand,
+ on to, and did not make an out during The
game. A large crowd of spectators were
q present and entered into the excitemen
of the game with great zest. Appended
a is the score: