Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-12-20
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Boston Weekly and Semi-W eekly
Traveller are offered for 1879 at re-
duced terms. Sec advertisement.
Last Tuesday for the first time in
nearly seventeen years, gold reached
par, and one hundred dollars in gold
were worth precisely one hundred dol
lars in greenhacks.
The NJ. Z. Society will hold a
Christmas Tree at Association Hall,
on Tuesday evening, December oath.
All are cordially invited to come and
bring their presents.
The Ladies OF the NJ. f. Society
will hold a Pop Corn Sociable, at
Association Hall, on Friday evening,
Dec. ooh. Music and tableaux. All
are cordially invited. Admission free,
G.E. & z. w. Clarke wants 1000
Trade and Mexican Dollars at Far in
exchange for groceries at bottom
prices. Come and see their Christ
Eas goods. Corner of Main and
Cross-streets.
A very pleasant social time was
passed by those present on Tuesday
evening, at the Guild-room of Christ
Church. 1t is expected that after
Christmas, other entertainments and
gatherings will be held in the same
hall.
The Ladies' Sewing Circle of Christ
Church are to hold Christmas sale in
the Guild-room of the church on
Monday afternoon next and through
out the following day. Useful and
fancy articles appropriate foc Christ
mas presents will be on sale. See
Adv.
The Congregational Society will
celebrate Christmas at their Church,
on Tuesday evening, Dec. oath, with
Christmas tree and appropriate exer-
cises. All that desire to hang pre-
sents for their friends are cordially
invited to attend. A pleasant time
may be expected.
The rush Mt Rawson and Politics.
for Christmas presents still continues.
They have as yet good assortment
to choose from, and our readers are
advised to 60 early and make their
choice. Anything not to be had at
their store will be ordered without
extra expense to the intending pur-
chaser.
Mr.. Moses Currier, while at work
on the Edger, in Mr.. A. j. Langs,
saw mill, near East Charleston, had
three fingers of his right hand cut off
and the fore finger badly injured. DR..
G. G. Adams was promptly at hand,
and dressed the wound. A few years
ago Mr.. Lang had the fingers Of his
right hand cut off while working at
the same saw.
The attention of our readers is di-
rected to the advertisement and prices
of James Leslie in another column.
He desires to add that at his store in
Bonetts Block, he has for sale 200
bushels of oats and 100 bushels Of
buckwheat. lie will also sell tripe
and pigs feet. Special attention is
directed to the prices Of oysters and
fish as compared with our last issue.
The Christmas Festival of Christ
Church Sunday School will be held at
the church at seven o'clock on Christ
mas Eye, Tuesday next. There will
be short service with the singing of
carols by the children, and the distri-
button of gifts from the tree. All
are cordially invited to this service,
and any who wiak their gifts to be
distributed from the tree may send
them to the GuiId-room of the church,
between the hours of three and five,
on Thursday afternoon. Full service
ct the church on Christmas Day, at
IL am.
LAYING-1N HIS WINTER SUPPLIES -
The other day, q young Frenchman
went into James Leslie's (thc Duke
of Argyle's) saloon just as two young
men were paying for some oyster
stews. The young men left, and
Leslie went into the back room, leav-
ing the Frenchman alone in the
saloon. When the Duke returned,
"Parley VOC was no where to be
seen. A search discovered him snugly
slowed away under the counter quietly
filling his capacious pockets with
canned oysters, smoked herrings, &c.
"Ho. what TIL dell are We doom there,
mon p says the Duke. "No, Farley
VOC Anglais," replies Frenchy. Cam
owt O that or all brake every bane i
yer body" said the Duke. Frenchy
Scam owt," and meekly allowed him
self to be unloaded. When the Duke,
after reading him lecture in choicest
Gaelic on the enormity of his crime,
dismissed him with the injunction:
"Duno show tn roges face agin here
or I"l gle we DER to TIL Sheriff. Leslie
says he finds a Frenchman is no whit
better than Scotchman.
The place TO buy goods and get
away without feeling as though you
had lost your pocket book is at the
CASH STORE OH Cross-street. Abner
has just returned from Boston, and is
now opening for the Christmas trade
large lot of fine Dry Goods. You
can buy anything you want in the line
of dry goods from a DC. Print to a
Black Silk, also Worsted and Silk