Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-04-09

See the advertisement of F. E. Wad
leigh in another column.
The public debt was decreased SIS,
000,0 OO during the month of March.
A meeting of the Board of School
Directors is called for at ID. S. Storrs
Office, on Saturday April 10, at IL
o'clock a. NJ.
Look out for your dogs-the de.
stroyer goetl1 forth soon, and unless
your canine has check, his little wag
will soon wag no more.
Last Sunday one person was received
into full fellowship with the NJ. E.
Church, and five on probation. Four
people were also baptized.
Everybody who is not too lazy to
work will be blessed with prosperity
this year. Work will be plenty
crops will be good and every branch
of industry will thrive.
Counterfeit 81 bills of the Dominion
are in circulation, of the issue of July
1870, and must be closely looked at in
order to detect the imperfections.
They are marked D 4, and the num-
bering and word Gone" are badly
executed.
DRESSMAKING.-Mrs. d. Morse wish
es to announce to the ladies of Island
Pond and vicinity, thatshe is prepared
to do dressmaking, and solicits share
of their patronage. Satisfaction guar.
anteed, and prices reasonable. Rooms
at her residence on Cemetery street.
st MRS. d. MORSE.
The Gorham, IN. H. Nountainee,
is now in its fourth year. 1t is good
paper and brim full of spicy local
brevities. If q live newspaper is the
best reflex of the public spirit of the
place where it is published, then we
advise the good people of Gorham and
vicinity to rally round the MOuntaineer,
and its enterprising editor.
The first sugar party of the season,
held in the vestry of Association Hall
last Monday evening was not very we'll
attended, the rain having tendency
to keep many away. Those present
had sweet and pleasant time. The
printer was not forgotten, and our
thanks are extended for a generous
supply of nice maple honey.
Some very interesting leap-year
stories have been going the rounds, of
octogenarians who have only had
twenty birthdays, being born on the
Goth of February, 1900. We dislike to
be disagreeable, but there was no Goth
of February in the year 1900, which
Was not a leap-year at all, any more
than 1900 was or 1900 will be.
GRAND TRUNK RECEIPTS The
total receipts for the week ended
March eth, 1880, were $209,S33 as
against S151, 1877 for the same week in
1879, an increase of $5S,695. The
Riviere du Loup receipts are included
in 1879, not in 1880; adding them, the
weeks increase is $50, S95. The aggre-
gate increase for 10 weeks is $500, 4SG.
Our townsman Mr.. Fitzgerald, and
his counsel have gone to Newport to
attend the hearing before Judge Ross
of the case, Fitzgerald VS. Dodge and
Others, in which plaintiff claims to
recover for the taking OF bout 200, 900
feet of lapboard, in which the curious
question arise as to whether SO small
an item was included in q sale to de-
PENDANTS, by the assignees of Geo. B.
James in bankruptcy.
We understand some negotiations
are progressing, looking to a sale of
the Island Pond House property, and
perhaps to the erection of u restaurant.
If everything which is anticipated
should be accomplished, strangers
visiting our place ought to be made
comfortable. We trust such arrange
ments will be made as will insure per-
feet harmony between the Railway
Co., and those representing the ma
terial interests of our village. Our
village has in years past been famous
for its grand entertainment of the
travelling public and there is no reason
why, if its present facilities are put to
proper use, it cannot improve upon
the past.
PRIZES TO VERMONT BOYS, FOR
LARGEST CROPS OF Corn AND PoTA-
TOES Two members of the Trustees
of the University of Vermont and
State Agricultural College, interested
in the progress of agriculture in Yer
mont, have given $3.50 to be offered in
prizes to the boys who will raise the
largest crops of corn or potatoes on a
certain amount of land. The COM
mittee of award announces the follow
ing terms of competition.
l. Five prizes, of $25, $40, $15.$10 and
S5 are offered to Vermont boys, not
over II years of age, for the five largest
yields of corn on one-eighth of an
acre, and the same number of prizes
Of the same amount for the largest
yields Of potatoes. The same boy may
in both classes. For corn
any seed may be selected for potatoes