Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-05
NORTON.

August 2.-"ThcSc are Dog Days" said
4 man this morning while viewing the
remains OF one just killed by a passing
train near the mill
An army of raspberry pickcrs are daily
on the march The fruit must be i'll
abundance Judging 10y the well filled pals
which accompany them homcward.
Mrs. Stctson, Mrs. Osborne, Miss
Clark and Master Graydou Stctson Wis
tied Montreal last week.
Mr. and Mrs Charley McCaul,y and
baby went to Bellows Falls few day $
ago visiting friends. On their return
home the horse dropped dead upon the
road somewhere near East Charleston
The horse was valuable Young beast
and will I've loss to Charlie.
Robert Marsh is home from Gilcad
Me, laid up with cut foot. Two toes
were very near severed from it.
The dance last Saturday evening was
we'll attended, and all enjoyed themselves
very much.
\ grand air will he held here the lat.
ter part of September i'll aid Of st. Der
nard's r. {. Church, when numerous and
costly articles will he offered for sale.
All friends arc cordially invited to attend.
We are pleased to learn that the Rev.
|. Il. Pouliot of this town has been APP
pointed sole agent for that Modern Won
der columbus at the Royal Court OF
Spain" a beautiful telegraph. This
| splcudid work Of art will be offered by
him at the extremely low price of orc
dollar unframed and unmounted; framed
and mounted, 32X+O 50 80. Rev. Mr..
Pouiot will visit Island Pond next week
when the people of that place will have
an opportunity of seeing and purchasing
this grand work, All purchasers OF this
painting will be given free of charge a
years subscription to either of the IA
nous journals, The Ladies Home Com
! panion, or the Farm and Fircsidc.
We take the article herewith appended
from the Daily Gazette, published at
Phoenix, Arizona, and would be glad il
any one could guide MS to the scene or
field of battle or the graveyard where
the slain are buried. Truly one must 60
from home to get the news.
NORTON MILLS, VT, Nov. %, 1889
A pitched battle took place, five miles
from this station, last night, during
seriously wounded. \ Boston company
operates a large lumber mill here, and
have nearly 300 men employed in the lum-
Der camps, cutting and hauling spruce
logs to their mills at this point. The
company employ large number of Can
adams in their camps-but n majority of
the bosses and experienced men are from
| Maine
This class became indignant at the
Canadians, and a scheme was organized
to drive them all out across the Canada
line, which is only one mile distant from
| the mills. So at nine O'Clock, fifty men
attacked the camps, where the unsus-
pecting French were sleeping, and reused
them from their slumbcrs, ordered them
to get" The Maine men were power.
full men, and the Canadians knew only
too well, that i'll fight they would be bad
~ beaten, SO many of them quietly slip
ped out; but at one camp the French
were up and refused to leave, and 4
bloody battle took place. in which tn,
French were terribly whipped. Many o
them made for the line half naked, in tn,
bitter cold of midnight. There are nc
officials i'll the town aud none nearer
than Coaticook some fifteen miles
distant, and as yet no arrests have beer
made.