Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-25


gold mining company at Bridgewater,
under the supervisor % "a Mr. Hail,
OF Rutland, have commcuced sinking
a SHAFT 10 the quartz hill gold region,
where they have taken out some oil
tue richest ore, we are Informed, that
has ever been found in the mines here.
They work two sets OF miners one in
the day, the other in the night"
Frank Woodbury., of Mortified,
was probably fatally injured on We'd
nesday by the explosion of shot gun.
Two centenarians, Ms. Phoebe
Hazard, OF Montpelier, and Mrs.
Truelahd, of Lowell, aged l0l and
l02 respectively, have just died.
Mrs. Salome Logro, n French
woman of 80, set her clothes on fire
at West Brattleboro' recently, and
was burned to death.
Ransom Town. of Grayswlle, was
Shot the other day by the accidental
discharge Of his gun. The charge OF
Duckshot passed through his left hand
thence through the same arm near the
shoulder, shivering the bone and max
ing a frightful wound.
Cider is selling In some parts of
the State at Go cents per barrel.
Three large barns at Swanton, be-
longing to Fai banks, BARLOW, Jewctt
and Hatch, were recently burned,
with over 100 tons OF hay and other
property.
The champion disciplinarian is a
Burlington woman. who recently tied
the hands Of her little son behind his
back, chained him to the hltching post
before the house for an bour or more,
because of some petty fault of the boy.
The thrce-miIc run i'll the Dart
mouth Athletics, postponed Thursday
until Saturday, was won by G. ID.
Lamb, OF Windsor Vt, in ION. 23s.,
beating any former Dartmouth record
and within two seconds of the CHAM
pion's time in the intercollegiate
sports at Saratoga.
A resident of West Dummerston,
owns a tame jay which has developed
marvelous power of mimicry. 1t imi-
tates to perfection the cawing Of a
crow, the growing OF a bantam rooster,
the cackling and cIucking of hens,
and the peeping of chickens.
Mrs. Kate Heath, 81 years of age,
recently walked the entire distance
from her home in Potion, six miles,
to North Troy, and returned the same
dag. She is the daughter of tie no.
torious Col. Ruiter, who commanded
the Indians and Epglish at the burn
ing and sacking Of Royalton.
The surprising success attending
the efforts to obtain petitions in favor
of granting John L. Phair a new trial
has encouraged friends of Graveline,
Tatro, Hayden and Magoon, now in
in our State Prison, under sentence OF
death, to make efforts to secure for
them either Il Communication of sentence
or Il new trial.
Darwin L. Page, for 20 years a
night watQhman at the Central Yer
mont Railroad depot here, was found
this afternoon insensibIc, with bullet
wound in his temple. A discharged
revolver lay hear, and it is thought
the shooting was an. accident. He
will probably die.
Charles RYDER, sentenced in the
Orleans County Court for grand lar,
ceny, and committed TO prison Sept.
18th, 1878, escaped from his keeper,
John Hull, last Thursday, while out
side the prison walls assisting in stable
work. His flight was Immediately
discovered, and he was pursued until
he reached some woods about oae mile
west Of the prison at the foot Of AS
Quincy Mountain where lie was lost
sight of. His capture will he rem
dered more uncertain from the fact
that his prison garb is plain gray not
listinguishable from the working
dress Of many farmers. Keeper Hull
is solely to blame, as he violated
positive orders forbidding keepers to
.ermit prisoners to go outside the
prison walls without special p?rmis-
sion of Chief WarIeo Onlys