Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-05-16

Castleton has four soldiers of the wal
of 1912 still living, Hyde Westover,
Beers Perry, Levi Phillips and Jacob
Wheeler, all of them over 80 years OF
age.
The new Masonic hall of Hiram
Lodge, No. 1O4, at West Rutland, will
be dedicated by the officers of the
Grand Lodge on Wednesday, May %.
Mrs. William Laird of Chelsea, 40
years old, has committed suicide by
hanging, while partially insane.
Orison Bowen was killed at Graham's
chair factory in South Londonderry
last week, silver thrown from a cir
cular saw cutting his jugular vein.
Senator Edmunds, with his wife and
one of his daughters, will visit Europe
in June if Congress adjourns soon en-
ough.
Oliver Avery, mailing from Danbury,
Ct, and recently discharged from the
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store of Stephen Baird, Chittenden,
Friday and stole two guns. He was
pursued and captured near Brandon,
having in his possession the two guns
and also three pistols, a clasp knife
and dirk, the latter of which he at
tempted to use on Sheriff Peabody.
The sea-serpent season has been
inaugurated by the discovery of the
animal in Lake Champlain on Sunday
by three st. Adams men,. They saw
that the water two miles away was
dashed into foam. AT first they
thought this might have been caused
by school of fish coming to the sur
face, but this supposition was soon
dispelled. The agitation increased and
in moment the water was thrown to
an estimated hight of thirty or forty
feet. In the midst of it they discover
ed a dark object of considerable bulk,
which would rise to the hight of ten or
fifteen feet for minute or two and
then go down and come up again.
They pulled for the spot as fast as they
could, but before they got near enough
to get any distinct outline of the object
it dove out of sight and the water soon
became placid. The appearance, how
ever, had continued for some ten min
utes, and it impressed each beholder
alike.
Editor II. w. Love of the Burlington
Review, was thrashed at Brattleboro'
recently, by w. e. Waite, whose feel
ings he had rolled by personal article
some months ago.
ST. JoHNsBURY, May II. John W.
Lewis, who was lately injured by his
horse running away and breaking his
leg, and who was thought to be i'm.
proving, died about 8 o'clock very
suddenly.
The Baptist people are about to
organize % society in Middlebury, and
contemplate building q church edifce
another year. They are using the
county court house for the present.
At Highgate, on Saturday last, boy
of ID summers having planned an elope.
ment with a blonde of II years, they
started for the depot to take the eve
ming train for Boston. Paterfamilias
started in pursuit, and the couple were
sent to bed without their suppers.
Resulting from the recent revival in
the evangelical churches at Bellows
Falls, there were 81 baptisms and IS
admissions to the First Congregations
Church. Others yet to come in this
and other churches make total Of
nearly 100 in all.
Lewis Demers, Is years old, and a
Fitzpatrick boy, II years old, had a
quarrel at st. Johnsbury the other day
when the larger boy gave the smaller a
fearful kick in the back when down
totally disabling him. How badly he
is injured cannot yet be known, but he
is still confined to the bed, and may be
disabled for life.
By the will of the late Gen. William
s. Pierson, of Windsor, who was very
wealthy, $4,000 are left for the Congre
gational Church at Windsor, to be de
voted to music expenses; $4,000 are LEFT
for family monument and $1,000 FOL
keeping the family burial-lot in order
the surplus to be expended for the
benefit of the cemetery.
Dennis Britain, a well TODD farmer
at Barre, hung himself in his barn las
Monday night. Age rs. Ill health
and religious excitement was the cause
He leaves wife aged about rs.
Articles have been signed for collar
and elbow wrestle for the champion
ship of Vermont and 800 a side be
tween Edward Cox of Fairfield ant
George w. Flagg of Randolph, to taxi
place at st. Adams, May 81.
The ladies of the Congregations
Church, Vergennes, have raised $3.50
and purchased an organ.
M. j. Sargent's drug store at Soutl
Royalston was robbed of 500 worth O
goods the other night.
David Richard Campbell OF Windso
has recently presented the town O
Chester the sum of $4,000, the incom,
thereof to be devoted to the support o
the inlipant Moor and naunnrs