Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-05-28
sgutal mad General 9lptes.


Fishing parties are very popular just
now.
Rev. Franklin Butler, editor of the
Vermont Journal, died on Sunday last at
Windsor, at the age of IS years.
Miss Eolia Morse, who has been in
Boston the past few months taking
music lessons, returned to town last
Saturday.
tits reported that the Grand Trunk
authorities contemplate putting on a
train which will make the trip from
Montreal to Chicago, distance of S39
miles, in % hours.
The cow nuisance has begun again.
Last year much complaint was made
at these animals being allowed to roam
through our streets, and we hope that
we are not to have a repetition of such
scenes this year.
Mr.. G.. S. Robinson, our courteous
town clerk has been appointed census
enumerator for this town. An excel |
lent choice, and from what we know
of George, we are sure that the work
will be carefully and thoroughly done. !
The Listers of this town have compile
ted the grand list, making it $3106,99,
material gain over last year. This is
a good showing in favor of the prosper
itv of our town, Notwithstanding the |
losses by fire during the year. The
number of polls is 1884, against $40 last
year.
We publish in another column the
call for the Republican State Conven-
ton for the purpose of nominating a
Governor. Lieut.. Governor, Treasurer
two Presidential electors-at-large, and |
the appointment of a state committee
to be held in Burlington, June %, at
II A. NJ.
GRAND TRUNK RECEIPTS: The
total receipts for the week ended May
Is, were $19S. 643, as against $149, asa in
1879 Increase in 1880, $40, 1859. The
Riviere du Loup receipts are included
in 1879, not in 1880; adding them, the
weeks increase is $53,359. The ag-
gregate increase for twenty weeks is
i$5S7,S74.
Mrs. Mason has just received select
and varied assortment of new millinery
goods. Very fine Leghorn hats only
80 cents Canton Braid hats only As
cents; and fine English Braid hats
from 81 and upwards. Ladies desiring
millinery goods Of any description will
do well to call early and examine the
new stock.
Pay day heretofore has had no
charms for the printer, but we hope
that this time he will be remembered.
We are doing our best to give you a
good paper, and are very much pleased
to know our efforts are appreciated,
but we need something more substan-
tial than the congratulatory words so
freely bestowed on us the past few
weeks.
The bal boys male their first pub
lie appearance for the season on Friday
evening Of last wey!l, a1I unler the
sklful a11 talented leadership of L F.
Bigelow RECALLED our citizens with some
very beautiful music, much to their de-
light. The band has recently been re-
organized two new members aided,
and new instruments Sc cured. 1t now
4umbers eleven players.
A CARD. The undersigned, a late
member of Co. l., Sd VT, whose health
is poor, would beg the privilege,
through this paper, of thanking my
friends in Island Pond and elsewhere,
for their generous contributions for
myself and mine, and may the One,
of whom it was said 81 was naked and
we clothed me, an hungred, and we
gave me meat" bless you ALL From
Island Pond 1885, other places 5000.
S. G. CHAPLIN.
West Charleston, May "a, 1880.
We published last week q series of
queries from well known citizen of
Guildhall, and the ire of some one has
evidently been aroused thereat We
are in receipt this week of a vile and
coarse effusion, written by some brain
Less BOBBY, as a reply, seriously re-
tlecting upon some of the best citizens
of that town. Now we will gladly
allow any person who feels aggrieved
at anything appearing in the HERALD,
aa opportunity to use its columns to
ventilate his grievance, but when it
comes to US in the shape of a lot of low,
vulgar personalities, the writer of
which has not the decency to sign his
name, nor the manliness to post his
letter at Guildhall or Northumberland,
we shall decline to allow the HERALD
TO be the medium of propagating such
slanderous and filthy language as has
been sent for Publication.
L. F. Bigelow has been engag led as a
clerk at the Stewart House. He finds
the duties there very fatiguing and is
often heard to exclaim how "tired" he
feels. Last Saturday we suppose must
have been an extraordinarily hard
day, for Lew went home as usual in the