Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-11

toga aud Burlington rifle clubs result
ed in a brilliant victory for the latter
Levi Ringe, employed by Mr.. Ell.
Morse, Of Bethel, was found IN the
barn on Monday, apparently lifeless,
with blood running from his ears,
nose and mouth. L. was fnun that
conclusion of the brain had been sus-
tanned, probably from the kick of q
colt, but at last accou IS the patient
was unable to explain the cause. He
is expected to recover.
At North Troy, farm laborers are
commanding only from six to eight
dollars per month, for the winter.
Many acres OF moving and pasture
land in Orange county are ruined by
grub or muck worm. On picking the
the dead grass from a spot 2 feet
square 80 worms were disclosed,
A Rutland Liquor dealer has plead
ed guilty to sixteen offences, for which
he was lined Que hundred and sixty
do lars.
Officer Patterson of Craftsbury
was resisted by man named VIM
chester, at ST. Jobnsbury, while arrest
ing him for debt. lie sustained a
bad hernia from being kicked in the
abdomen, and has brought suit fer
damages.
Cornelius Fuller, of South Walling-
ford, has been held in $500 for per
j~ry at the recent trial of George
Bromley, the Danny rough, in Rut-
lanl.
Some of the deer turned loose on
the Green mountains have become
domesiicated to such an extent as to
visit a Chittenden farmers garden
recently and totally destroy his entire
crop of beets.
One Carpenter, mesmerIc perform
er at ST. Johnsbury, was recently ar
rested for trespass on the person OF
Peter Ribeau of that town-the latter
having been taken violently sick
while under The "mesmeric influence
Of Carpenter Only $4,000 damages
are called for.
The peculiar disease recently re-
ported to have attacked calves at
Stowe, has now appeared at West
: Brattleboro', where number ofyoung
animals belonging to Charles Harris
nave recently died, and examination
showed that their windpipes, bron-
chial tubes and lungs were filled WITT
tiny white worms, supposed to have
been hatched from eggs laid in tn
creatures nOstrlls.
A sad accident occurred at the state
reform school at Vergennes, on the
3D. ult. George Valiquette, lad Of
ii years who was sent from Burning
ton TO the school some three years
since for theft, was corrected for soml
misdemeanor by the overseer Of the
chair department. The young mar
after promising to do better, turned tC
leave the room and caught bis toe on
the threshold Of tie door and fell
heodlong, striking on his chest and
cheek bone on the Steps leading from
tie plank walk. The fall seemed tC
knock the breath out Of his body. lie
was taken up iAsenSible tnl conveycu
to room, but all efforts TO restore
him to consciousness were trutleSs
and he was pronounced dead.
There is a case on tile docket Of
the ChttcndCn county court whic
was entered i'll 1859.
Squirrels, red and gray, are very
plentiful in all pats OF the state.
Measles, diphthelil and lypAoic
fever are prevalent to quite an extent
at North Bennington.
joel Proctor Of Bolton, Mass, has
doubled his gift to the Vermont Acad.
envy at SaXton's River, 50 that it now
amounts TO the handsome sum OF
$4,000.
| Potatoes are rotting badly in Add
son county. Farmers refuse to sci
their hay for Sc Il ton, and are buying
cattle to eat it.
Chauncey X. Williams Esq, has
completed the compilation Of the pro.
ceedlngs Of the Bennington centennla
and it will soon be printed.
Many of the West Hartford farm
erS are blowing their potatoes under
they not being worth harvesting, AE-
pies are selling from 4 to 10 cents pei
buShel.
In the town Of jamaica, where the
population is all American except
one family, there are 1l2 families who
never attend church and IA tumil.es
were found destitute of the Bib.e
A Burlington man has raised pea.
nuts, and Springfield man sweet pc
tatoes.
Mr.. H. b. StirIson is to be the Sec
of Civil and Military affairs to Gov
Proctor.
L. w. j. Hawkins of Starksborc
has received the appointmant of en-.
crossing clerk, the present session,
Montpelier; and j. W, Fargo Of Ran
dolpn, L. L. Wood Of Montpelier anC
E. II. johnson Of Burlington hav,
been appointed assistants in the state
library.
There is one town in Vermont
where the potato crop is good, il
both yield and quality that is Roch-
ester.