Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-09-20


Lightning rld suindlers are around
Yergennes threatening suits against
all whose notes they hold If they do
not pay up Immediately, notwithstand-
ing the fact that the parties were told
when they gave the notes, that they
could have ten years If they desired
to pay them in.
The Free Press says "A few weeks
since William Rand, a young mtn of
20, clipped with Mrs. james L. Fowle,
a married woman, 20 years old and a
mother. all the parties living in Wo-
burn, Mass. The woman took her
husbands money. amounting to some
thing like $1,000, and the guilty cou-
pie came to Burlington and com
menead housekeeping in Carpenters
block, opposite tho Cathedral. Tue
wronged husband and the woman's
father, Deacon Whitrord, followed
them, and on Friday last procured
their arrest. Monday morning the
lovers were arraigned in City Court
on a charge Of lascivious cohabita-
ton and held for trial in the sum OF
$3.50 each. The woman declared that
she would not leave jail unless her
lover could too, and, m)nstrons us il
may appear, the infatuated husband
gave bail for both Of them, and the
happy trio started for Wohurn.
The golden wedding of Rev. and
Mrs. Uric Maynard of Castletop, was
celebrated recently.
ST. JoHNsRURY, Sept. 1G.-Tho cor.
ner-stone of the North Church was
laid by Governor Fairbanks. Presi
dent Bartlett of Dartmouth College
delivered the address.
The Central Vermont and Wood
stock Railroads have finally settled
their squabbIo over crossing a
White River Junction, the latter roaC
getting its desired facilities.
j. G. Bigelow of Burlington ha
contracted to dredge Otter Creek, th,
Congressional appropriation for th,
purpose being $4,000.
Potatoes are rotting badly in AID
olson county, ard the retail price ha
gone up to 70 cents per bushcl. Buy
ers offer Sc a ton for the best hay, bu
farmers refuse to sell at such prices
preferring to feed out their fodder t
purchased stock,
J Fountain Engine No. 4 of BrattIe
boro has played 22G feet through 80
feet Of hose.
Jesse Frazier, a girl Of IA, wa
caught by revolving shaft and bad
~ hurt in the Bennington wooden mill
the other morning.
Mr.. R. 0. Wickwire, widely know
as the Giving skeleton" died at hi
home in North Fairfax, the other day
Of pneumonia. Some years ago h
was with p. 7. Barnum, in New York
exhibited as "living skeleton" an
thereby accumulated some money
After his return to North Fairfax b
was appointed Postmaster, and he'll
the office until his death.
Rev. Thomas j. Taylor, late @
Windsor, has received a unanimou
call to the joint rcctorship Of Grac,
and St. Johns parishes, Randolph
Centre and West Randolph.
Mrs. Dolan of Burlington fell frol
a doorstep on Thursday evening
breaking her neck and dying immed
a.ely. She was 90 years old.
WEATHEEsFIELD, Sept. 16.-Sinc
the publication in the Boston JoW1na
several days since, of the anonymou
| letter written evidently by an un
known Frenchman, which stated tia
| Henry Gravelin, convicted and unde
sentence Of death for the murder c
Herbert O. White, nearly two yea!
| ago was innocent, Attorney Dearn
, Of CavendiSh has been assiduousl
working upon every clue which woul
eventually bring the writer of the lie
ter to light. A report comes here tc
day that the search for the missin
gig cushion belonging to White, i
the locality so mnuteIy described b
the anonymous letter, has proved SUI
| cessful; that the cushion has bee
, found in a decayed condition. Be
yonl this nothing more definite can /
learned.
MA DDIrH