Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-05-02

StereOscopic views OF scenes at Phair's
execution are on sale at Windsor.
Contributions toward erecting a
school house somewhere in the South
have ceased in Brattleboro, since the
eloquent lecturer got drunk with the
money that he had obtained.
The good people of West Derby are
complaining of the unpleasant frequen-
cy of disputes, quarrels and street
fights, all accompanied with the worst
description of profanity by men, wo-
men and children.
One of the first to receive a pension
under the act of Congress approved
January %, 1879, was Mr.. Isaiah Frost
of Groton. Although the rate of his
pension was only s. month, yet the
whole sum received by him at the first
payment, covering a period of fourteen
years, amounted TO 1896.
The body of an infant was found
near the roadside in Center Benning-
ton, by some boys the othes day. The
bundle containing the remains was
seen earlier but no one had the curios-
ity to investigate it. The child was a
girl, evidently about day or two old,
and there was conclusion on the head
and finger marks about the throat,
pointing clearly to murder. An inves-
tigation is proceeding.
John w. Clark, Postmaster at Mont
pelier, attempted without legal papers,
to recover from q truclman a wagon
claimed by Clark. The truckman re.
sisted and Mr.. Clark was painfully
injured.
Henry Loveioy, station agent in the
employ of the Central Vermont Rail
way and agent of the United State:
and Canada Express Company at Cut
tingsville, has been arrested and jailed
for embezzl ement. When arrested he
made an at tempt to escape, but was
'recaptured by the Sheriff.
The new town of Ely is in trouble
about the L. gality of the meeting which
gave it birth.. The friends of the ole
name, Versl ire, have brought suit O
quo 'oarrantO, based upon the omission o
the meeting to elect a Moderator. 1t il
believed tina the point is we'll taken
| and that a new meeting will be helC
and the who lie thing done over again.
AIonzo Bl.ophy's four-years-old sol
was scaldecl to death recently at Dorse
by falling into boiler of hot water.
Rev. n. Il. Carter, pastor of tn,
Bellows Falls Congregational Churcl
for the past -four years, has accepted 1
call to the Quechee Congregations
Church.
David Ordway, the eccentric Proc
torsville, man, who had his funeral ser
mon preached last summer, has nov
procured his shroud and coffin, having
the latter tri mined at his direction, anC
had them ia ken to his house. He is s
years old AMI quite unwell.
Thieves ell tered Henry,C. Durham
store at Bethel the other night, by ;
window, and carried off his safe, whicl
was taken to- a neighboring mill-yard
where the water falling over dan
drowned all noise, opened and con
siderable IL Oney stolen.
A scamp named John Carl Cheney
who has been lecturing on Temperance
throughout New Hampshire, Vermont
and Massachusetts, has finally come t.
grief. He may have abstained fro1
the use o. Intoxicating liquors, but h
was very incorporate in another d
rec ton, having three wives living II
married No. in Hillsboro', n. H., NJ
3 in Lowell, and No. in Iroquois, Can
No. has sued for divorce, and it wa
No. = who exposed the fellOw. lie is i
Jail at Northampton, Mass.
Blu Ike depot, on the Ogdensburg an
Lake Champlain Railroad, was ente
ed the other night and the compan
safe robbed of the contents; sever;
tick ITS for New York were also takei
The robbery is supposed to have bee
com United by tramps.
No RTH Troy, April 2G.-Two rods {
the RI ,ad-bed of the South Eastern Raj
way b ere have been washed away, al
trains since yesterday have been della
ed. The Missisquoi river is risir
rapidly
While Justice John w. Lewis WI
driving AZ spirited horse near the vi
lage of St. Johnsbury Saturday afte
noon the whiffletree broke, the hor
ran, and Mr.. Lewis was thrown on
breaking botlr bones of his left II
below the Ilnee-
| The failure of the extensive hare
ware firm of G. T.. Thompson u Co.
Brattleboro is in nounced; liabiliti
unknown.