Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-06-28

Misses Emogene and Alice Buck are
making a sojourn of three weeks in
Barre.
Messrs A. C. Holman and T. j. Adams
have finished work for the present at the
Tewksbury store.
The Ideal Male Quartette sang at the
i commencement exercises OF the Normal
last Thursday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. E. Evans reached home
Friday morning; the former from Boston,
and the latter from Waterbury.
J.W. Atwood, wife and son have gone
to Caspian Lake, Greensboro, and expect
to remain in camp nearly two months.
Mrs. Walter Burt and little daughter,
who have been at MIR. j. W. Burt's for
several weeks, returned to New York on
Friday.
Rev. and Mrs. V. NJ. Hardy visited
friends in Morrisville last week, going
there from the Congl convention at st.
Johnsbury.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. o. Snow and two
children went Friday to Montpelier
Mrs. Snow and the children are TO be
away sometime.
New coal sheds have been erected west
OF the freight depot for Mr.. &. NJ. How
ard The sheds contain six large bins
and are located close to the track.
John Abbott of the Harvard Law
school, remained over Sunday in West
Randolph. Yesterday, he otficiated as
POSTMASTER at the Dartmouth alumni ban
quet.
George H. Barker OF Boston visited this
| town the Dist, for the purpose of obtain
] ing Information 10 be used in compiling
the Vermont Directory and Gazetteer,
which is issued once in two years.
The latter part Of last week, Mr.. c. d.
| Sanborn was in Montpelier for A. W,
. r -. Il u
! other haru wood tinishings into the resi-
dences of Messrs. Howe aud Temple
| Rev Homer White went Tuesday to
Mortified TO ofiiciate at the marriage Of
| MIR. Robert II. Ford OF ST. Adams, civil
| engineer on the Central Vermont railroad,
and Miss Emma Jackson, relative and
member OF the family Of DR.. George
/ Nichols OF Mortified.
The wages which the employees Of the
/ Tewksbury factory had been receiving
1 before the firm went into insolvency, have
| been cut down on an average OF about
ten per cent. A few OF the men whose
terms of service have just expired, have
| left the factory to seek employment else
where.
Z Next Wednesday will be the Glorious
! Fourth, and apropos Of this national holb
/ day, Pudd'nhead Wilson thus feelingly
remarks: statistics show that we lose
more fools on this day than in all tue
other days of the year put together This
proves by the number left in stock that
one Fourth Of July per year IS now made
quate, the country hasgrown So"
! On the 2ist, the sun god, Phgbus, turn
\ ing his fiery steeds about, commenced
coaching trip from Cancer to Capricorn,
\ and the days have very gradually been
/ growing shorter. No concern Is lit lest
! this coach should not arrive at its desti-
/ nation on schedule time, Dee. DIST, as the
roads over which IL will pass are supposed
to be as good, even, as those OF England.
! DR.. A. c. Bailey was summoned to
! Bradford the 2lst as counsel in the case
OF Rev. r W. Hamblin, who was taken 50
| very i'll during the conference held at
! that place, and is at present in very
precarious state of health. His friends
| are fearful lest he may not recover, ana
| his physicians think that an operation is
/ inevitable. The Methodist services at
Enosburgh Falls, TO which charge the
last conference appointed him, have
been supplied by his brother clergymen.
The trial OF the State Us. Wm. NJ. Cor
ham, charged with setting fire TO the barns
on the estate OF his late wife, for the pur-
pose Of deirauding the insurance company,
I was finished AT Chelsea last week. The jury
after a deliberation OF forty eight hours,
/ brought in verdict OF guilty and five years
OF hard labor at the States prison In
] w lnusOF Was tut rthleuNt lhNatN upon
( the unhappy fire-bug. Before rendering a
verdict, the jury came in several times to
| have portions of the testimony read to
/ them and certainly did not arrive at any
nasty conclusion. Harvey OF Topsham
and Darling of Chelsea were counsel for
the prisoner Great interess was taken
/ here in this trial, and public opinion
universally approves OF the verdict The
sentence is considered to be very mild
/ one.
When the afternoon mail drew out Of
/ the station Friday, horse belonging 10
! Mr. Horace Howard, which had been left
unhitched near the Tewksbury saw mill,
started in for a race, but as the wheels
struck the track, the horse fell, and had
it not been for the promptness of the en-
! gineer in stopping the train, the animal
would have been run over. Gathering
itself up, the horse, having its purposs still
! in view, proceeded at a lively gallOp
] through Weston street, South Main street
and across he track, until its headlong
career was brought to an abrupt close by
a stone hitching-post in front OF Tewks-
/ bury's store. The wagon was found scat
\ tered along the route, and only the fore
/ wheels remained with the horse at the
end Of the trip.
4 Last Thursday evening, the High school
auditorium was well filed with interested
i listeners to the lecture by Hon. Mason ).
! SlpNet Sihte superintendent OF tANthtAuus
/ on the subject of "Education-Wh and
/ How?p Rev. G. w. Morrow acted as mas
ter of ceremonies, and the entertainment
/ opened with a well-rendered solo by Miss
/ Caroline Haufier, and a recitation by Miss
I Ethelynd Gould, delivered with her usual
oratorical skill. The speaker of the even
4 ing was then introduced and spoke With
/ y and forcibly on the many heads covered
4 BY the wide range Of his subject He
complimented the people of this village
on the increasing prosperity and useful.
ness of their school, evinced by the large
number of its yearly graduates, of whom
1 good per cent afterWard pursue a col
4 lege course. He recognized a wise dis
/ tinction between mere intellectually and
education and, remarked that the fact
4 that young lady is capable of mastering
/ books is no sign that she VIII be capable
of mastering boys and consequently
i achieve success as teacher; nor does
4 the boy who stands first 10 his class at
school or college, always stand first in the
I world later rrudnnf