Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-02-08
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.
Vermont.


Station Agent Ross, at Proctors.
vile is reported to be defaulter to
the amount of $500. which his sureties
mast pay.
The Burlington city liquor agency,
sold $4,000, worth of liquor last year.
J.H. Batchelder, arrested for for
gerry in Brandon, is well known in
Vermont, as well as in many New
Easland and Western cities. lie has
borne hitherto character Of spotless
record. Everybody had the utmost con-
fidence in him, and lie was considered
one of Vermont's best citizens. lilo
was in the last Legislature, and in
many instances proved himself a USE
full member.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson the
wealthy New York lady who recently
presented the Governor with the paint
ing of the signing Of the emancipation
proclamation, was born in Caledonia
County, and at the age Of 20 served
as waiter in st. Johnstury hotel.
Broad lake, near Burlington, was
closed yesterday, fifteen days later
than last year. The mean time
of closing during the last sixty years
was January 20. In that time there
was four years in which the lake was
let closed.
John Marston, of Corinth, was &C.
cidentally shot in the abdomen by q
school-fellow yesterday afternoon.
There is no hope for his recovery.
DR.. w. L. Worcester, late of Bur-
lington, has been appointed Assistant
Superintendent of the State Insane
Asylum Of Michigan, at Kalamazoo.
While Michael Cosgrove was strip
ping q jumper in marble mill at
West Rutland piece Of steel flew IN
to his right eye, cutting it completely
in two.
A Vermont girl has Just been dis
covered eleven years old, with change
able eyes. In pleasant weather they
are light blue, and in wet and windy
weather they change to red.
The scholars of o Troy school at
tackled their teacher the other day
and tried to eject him from the school.
house, but after severe struggle sur.
rendered Internationally.
Woodstock has a village debt o.
only $3.50, and the tax voted at towr
meeting to pay the running expence'
Of the current year and the indie bted
ness was only tcu mills on the grant
list.
| A freight train was thrown from
the track while crossing trestlc thu
other day, near Wolcott. Six person!
were slightly injured.
Samuel Weeks and David Currlc
of Lyndon have got themselves int,
the following genealogical snsrl
Weeks married Curriers' sister for hi
second wife; and Currier married
Weeks's daughter for his first wife
and for his second wife married tn
widow of Weeks's son, who wa
, Weeks's own niece. The combine,
J families are sitting up nights, tryin,
to figure out their relationship.
, Some Rutland men have just bough
. a dozen deer, which will be KEEP
in Rutland and fed unit .fhe SHOWS or
gone from the mountains, when the
will be turned loose. There is q orc
hibition against killing deer in Vel
mont for the term of five years fror
the last session of the Legislature, an
the gentlemen who furnish the none
to obtain these deer will see that tn
law is strictly enforced, and at til
same time share with the farmers owe
whose land they may roam the ex
pense of any damage they may do b
coming into Enclosures and destroyin
crops.
/, The diphtheria is abating in Ferr:,
burgh, where it has made such frigh
f. full ravages. At present not siugl
: case is known to exist in the town.
The house and drug store of jaime
H. Gross at East Berkshire. wei
burned recently; loss about $4,000, il
: surance $4,000.
The cashier of the Brandon Natior
al Bank, d. G. Bascom, did not ru
away, as was thought at first, in col
sequence Of his defalcation OF S10O
900, but was on visit to Rutlant
0 He has returned to Brandon. He sa,
that he has received no benefit frol
: discounting Jas. II. Batchelder
paper.
When Mrs. Luther Adams of Mo
. ristown returned from a sleigh rio
s with her little six months old girl bah
' the other day she laid the child on
lounge, and turning to pick it up fe
minutes later, and found it dead.
The North Bennington women hay
Q provided the young men with hant
some reading room in the former b:
and billiard room of the Benningto
I House.
The Vermont Supreme Court hs
decided that the taxes, amounting [
Sl00, 900, along the line of the Rutlan
Railway, which was leased to the Ger
trail Vermont line, must be paid b
the Rutland and Burlington Compan,
!. Industrial Grange of Andover, {
fers to the public schools Throughout
r the town six prizes, two for reading