Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-11-15
VERMONT.

VERMONT.
An intelligent tramp appeared in
Bennington last week WHO Juuld beg
in ten different languages.
The park Guards Of Bennington
talk of acting the Loyal Mountains
eers," the latter part Of November.
Barton boasts of having furnished
twenty soldiers for the Revolutionary
war and sixteen for that Of 1912.
West Brattleboro has d woman
village improvement society, which
has recently illum-na ed the streets
with lamps.
Mr.. Charles P. Button, Of Burling-
ton, has entered the the lecture field
and is delivering addresses on "Our
National Park"
J. j. Houghton was arrested in
Burlington on Tuesday, for passing
counterfeit money on the firm OF
Sprague & Wells, of Cabot.
The tramps, Howard AMI Arm
strong, arrested i'll Burlington, re-
Gently, on the charge Of r0bbing C..
Denny & Co.'S store IN Northfeld
have been held for trial.
William Wilson of Westm ore, rails
ell ia bushels of good wheat from 6
bushels of sowing. VINO says that
wheat Will not produce y good crop in
Vermont,
The directors of the Brattlebors &
South Londonderry Narrow-guage
railroad have voted to increase the
company's capital stock to $4,000
and issue $4,000 bonds.
Mrs. Stockwell of West Brattlo-
boro lacks only six months cf being p
centenarian, while there are two other
persons over 90, II over 80 and 80
over 20 years in that village.
Anothsr prisoner in Middlehury
Jail, Eubare BY name, has died OF ty-
phoid fever.
o. IL. Rice has bsen appointed
postmaster at East Alburgh, and c.
A. Powell at North Fairfax.
The Woman's Board of Missions
was in session on Wednesday in Bur-
Iington; abuut four hundred ladies
were present. The procee tings OF the
forenoon consisted of the reading oil
reports and remarks oy Mrs. Barnes,
Of Boston, and Mrs. Snow, OF Rurling,
tom
A young lady mysteriou3ly disap-
pcared from Center Rutland the otnei
evening, and has not been heard from
by her family.
At North Troy grade COWS arc very
cheap, and sell at from fifteen t.
twenty dollars. Hay sells at ftom
to 10 dollars per ton.
Some malicious person set fire te
George Howe's barn in BratLlebor,
the other evening, but the flames were
discovered AMI extlnguished before
they had done much harm.
Mrs. Isaac Danforth, aged 55 pear.
of st. Albums, committed suicide o.
Thursday morning 10y hanging. Sh,
is supposed to have been insane whe,
the deed was done. She leaves tire,
children.
During the months Of August, Sep
TENDER and October there were in thi.
state 20 deaths by violence-8 in Aug
ust, 8 in September aud IL in Uct
Of these Z were suicides; three eacl
were killed by the cars, by Academia
shooting, by being thrown from ,
carriage and by drowning, and 4 were
killed by falls. During the quartz
there was but one murder,
The stock OF boots and shoes al
Legged 10 have been stolen from til,
store of Pichc & Parrault of ST. AL
bans the other night, have been re
covered at 81. Armand, Quebec, b,
the Canadian customs officers, wIt
seized the goods for differentiation
The so-called burglary is alleged t,
have been, as was suspected, q tricl
to defraud tho firms creditors. Par
raulL is st st. Armand and officers ar
in pursuit of Plche.
The Free Press says so great dis
quiet has lately been aroused by th
numerous cases oil body snatchil.g tina
in Burlington, in The case of severa
recent internents, watchers have beef
employed to protect the graves fron
possible dissertation.
Daniel w. Staples Of Weathers
field raised $500 bushels of ears 0
corn on II acres.
A tramp who was befriended b.
James NJ. Tabor, on Hog Island th