Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-09

| hopeless love for a girl at Brooklyn
/ n. Y.
A masked burglar at Lynn gagged and
severely beat Marcus futile, rec lily,
while in bed, and took away $50 in
/ money.
John F. Chittick of Chelsea, IA years
old, is under arrest at Boston for larceny
committed while incorporating as ser
want girl. His complexion, dress, false
hair and gaudy jewelry deceived the po-
I licemen. who refused to believe him q
boy until his father identified him.
Engineer Locke of Adams has receiv-
/ ed about 300 answers to the circular sent
out to parties afflicted, for information re-
/ garding the recent sickness. He believes
that the difficulty was with the water,
! three jugs full of which have been sent
to the state board of health for analysis
As soon as he passed the dead ends" OF
the water pipe, in the fire-district limits,
each way from the village, no cases were
! reported.
In most of the hill towns of Franklin
county, most of the farmers report an
average crop of hay where it has been
! secured. Tobacco raisers will probably
earn all they can get for their tobacco
the cost of fighting the drouth and keep.
/ ing down the weeds and worms being
about what the price of the weed will be
! in the market.
The body of Thomas McDonough, q
Providence policeman, a victim of the
Narraganset disaster, has come ashore on
Fishers island.
! A census enumeratOr who has been
! through farming district near Brock.
ton, says that the average farm in Ply.
mouth county, worked by man and his
family, will not produce over $500 q
yer.
The most popular man in Boston is the
iceman.
Veteran Boston firemen will have re.
union Sept. 9Th.
A business man in Boston makes the
offer to the School Board.to devote an
hour or so everyday, without charge
for time, to instruct the boys of the
public schools in swimming.
Newburyport is the smallest city in
the state in respect to the population.
The liquor license question disturbs
the slumbers of Springfield aldermen.
Capt Adolphus Greedy, who goes out as
commander of the Howgate expedition.
is a native of Newburyport, tall and
thin, wit blue eyes and black hair, and
look of plucky endurance. He has
great energy and ambition, and has been
an unwearied student. Hemarried, with
in few years, beautiful young lady Of
San Diego, Cal. and he goes on his cheer
less and dangerous undertaking leaving
Der and young son behind, from whom
he can hear little or nothing during the
years of his absence.
Mrs 7. Henry Perkins was granted an
absolute decree of divorce at Boston a
short time since, because of adultery by
her husband, who was ordered to pay
1875, 900 alimony.
The Washington light infantry OF
Charleston, S. G. sent through the Boston
light infantry, to President John K. Hall
of the veteran corps, fac smile, worked
on satin of the flag carried into the bat
tie of Cowpens by Col William Wash
ington.
The schooner Herman Babson OF
Gloucester, has been turned back by ice
from an attempted voyage to Greenland,
and reports that the blockade extends
down to latitude $50. with innumerable
icebergs floating southwark
A skeleton recently dug up from under
the back doorstep of the Boylston aims
house, with marks of violence upon it, is
said to answer the description of a wo-
man who, local tradition says, lived
there 80 years ago and disappeared very
mysteriOusly after numerous broils with
her husband
The Turkish famine, causes DR..
George G. Reynolds medical missionary
to make an appeal to Americans. Con-
trlbutions are received by Langdon S.
Ward, treasurer of the A. B. G.. f. NJ,
Boston, ana transmitted without charge.
And now Boston mourns, because the
Yale crew carried off the brush.
The postmaster-general has completed
negotiations with the New York Central
and Hudson River, and Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern railroads, whereby
the benefits derived from the fast mails
in operation on those roads in 1875 and
1876 will be again given to New York
and Boston and the West.
Thieves who committed burglaries
near Springfield, have been found recent
ly serving out sentences at Wethersfeld
Conn, and will be tried for the Massa-
chusetts burglaries on the completion of
their present confinement.
A trunk was smashed into "smither-
Gems" at the Boston and Albany depot in
Westtield, by a freight-engine striking it
as it fell from the baggage-truck.
The sentence of Holland Barton of
South Amherst for liquor selling, is
called the result of Barton's forgetting
that he lived in glass house. He
ordered the arrest of man who had
been in his employ for stealing, and the
man retaliated.
The conference of charities and cor
rection at Cleveland o., recently elected
+. b. Sanborn of Concord president
The next conference will be held at
Boston during the six days beginning the
last Monday in July, 1881.
Frank Hicock of Barkerville, aged 10,
was arrested recently for refusing to sup
port his wife and five-months-old child,
and he was sentenced to six months in
the house Of correction.
The Dighton strawberry crop was 500
tons, and would have reached 1000. had
the season been good. The average price
at Boston has been eight cents Il quart.
the cost of picking, transportation and
commission being FIVE cents.
Connecticut.
An epidemic similar to that in North
Adams, Mass, att cked a number of