Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-05-14

looking man at Albany, N. Y, last week,
and he was arrested. While in prison,
he wrote a letter to the steamboat agent,
mercy on the ground that he
had been a Methodist minister in the
Vermont conference, but ill-health had
forced him to give up preaching; that he
was travelling on borrowed money to his /
home at Burlington, and his taking the |
towels was from n feeling OF anger at |
some impolite treatment from one of the |
boat hands. The complaint was with |
drawn, and before leaving the court |
room the unfortunate man who gave the |
name of Rev. w. l.. johnson, knelt |
down and invoked blessing on all who
were present.
The Brandon justices of the peace are
charged with appropriating fines from
liquor prosecutions.
Royal Carr, now in Jail at Montpelier
awaiting the action of the supreme
court in August on his sentence to death
for the murder of the Indian, Murcum-
muck, says that the spirit of his victim
often visits him Mt night, violently shak-
ing his bed, and declaring that Royal is
only technically guilty, and that his
cousin Chester, who planned the deed, is
the real criminal.
Massachusetts.
The estimated cost of rebuilding Chel-
sea bridge is $65, 000 for which Boston
has appropriated $45, 900 and Chelsea the
rest.
Ole Bull, now living at Cambridge,
has imported four Norwegian ponies, the
only ones'in this country, one of which,
handsome stallion, is valued at $4,000,
and the others ut $1,000.
A new chime of bells, which cost
$4,000, was played for the first time re-
Gently in Harvard church, at Brookline.
Mary j. Morgan. the wife of Milford
| jeweler, and well known in good society
in the eastern part of the state, was ar
rested at Boston recently for snop-lifting.
| She failed to recognize her husband, and
physicians pronounce her hopelessly in
sane.
An addition, $50 by IS feet and four
stories high, is to be made to the Ipswich
hosiery mills.
1t is reported that a permanent exhi-
bition building will be at once erected in
Boston, on lot on Huntington avenue,
bought by the Massachusetts Charitable
Mechanics Association for $llO,O 900. The
machinery will be in the basement, and
the main exhibition rooms, which will
accommodate from 5000 to $1,000 people
on the floor above and in gallery run
ming round the sides; this room, when
not in use for fairs, will be used as a
military drill hall.
The laying of the corner stone of St.
Stephens Episcopal church at Lynn is
postponed to the 10Th. The church will
contain memorial altar, to cost $l0,-
600, built by Il relative of Amos Law
renee.
A hearing in progress at Cambridge on
the appeal of three grandchildren Of the
late Rufus Lansom, of Cambridge, from
the decision of the probate conrt, allow
ing his will, which gives them each $50
a year and $1,000 when they become OF
age. The estate is worth 100000.
A Plymouth despatch says the trustees
of the Pilgrim Society have concluded to
put up a temporary building to exhibit
the pictures and curiosities in during the
repairs and remodelling of the hall this
summer. The building is to be on the
park in front Of the station, the use Of
land having been given by the railroad
corporation. The building is to be com.
menced at once, SO that there will be nc
interruption to persons visiting the
town. Work on the hall is to be com.
menced at once, a contract having been
made for the iron work.
Dexter w. Jones, who died ut the
Worcester aims house on Tuesday, was
formerly wooden manufacturer anC
worth 100000. He failed in business
and unfortunate Endorsements coming
upon him at the same time, completed
his financial ruin.
John Kellys recent lecture in the Bos
ton theater Melted 1854 for the St. Mary
infant asylum.
, The stockholders of the Lynn and Bos
ton railroad company have voted to issu
$40, 900 of bonds, secured by a mortgage
| upon the real property of the company
) to build additional tracks and extend tn
road.
Charles Sumner Wilson, of Salem
q (colored), who was so fortunate as to b
f refused entrance to the West Point mill
tary academy a few years ago on accoun
of his youth, has been admitted to til
bar.