Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-07-25

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ling will be commenced this fall and
viii be ready for business next spring
Isaac Freeman Hall Of Arlington
has accepted the SUPPLEMENTARY 81
the North Adams, Mass, public
schools. Mr.. Hall was from 1883 e
1891 superintendent Of the public
schools at Leominster, Mass.
The trolley wire Of the Brattleboro
road has been strung from West
Brattleboro to Centerville and the
road is positively expected to be run
ming by the 25th. No part Of the
road will be operated till the whole is
completed.
Last week, two ladies came by rail
to st. Johnsbury with an infant few
daysold. They seemedto be waiting
for through train and just before it
came one of them handed the baby
to girl standing nearby and took
the train, leaving the child. The lit
tie one died a few hours later, pre-
sumably being drugged.
The Baldwin refrigerator company
of Burlington has been notified by
the government at Washington that
their proposal to furnish the United
States marine hospital and quarantine
service with refrigerators during the
current fiscal year has again been ac-
cepted, making the llth or 18th
year that this company has supplied
that branch OF the government service.
Two bunco men made an unsuccess-
full though clever attempt to rob
Royce A. Smith of Green's Corners
under the pretense Of purchasing Mr..
Smiths farm on Georgia shore for the
purpose Of building summer hotel.
They apparently gained his confidence
and they judged him a fit subject up
on which to play their old game. He
proved, however, to be too much for
them and blocked their game. Mr..
Smith says he thinks he had as much
fun over it as they did.
1t is now said that shoddy was the
joint invention OF two Vermonters.
Reuben Daniels of Woodstock invent
ed machine to reduce rags to fiber
in lS40, Which he called rag wool, and
A. G. Dewey Of Hartford then COM
menced the manufacture OF shoddy
under the name Of "Dewey's Grays'
and "Poor Mans Cloth" 1t was sold
at 81 yard. The business has grown
to large proportions, and is now being
carried out at Springfield, where they
are turning out $500 yards day.
A singular sanguinary conflict was
witnessed in the Montgomery hills re-
Gently by man who was attracted by
the strange believing OF a COW. A
bear weighing 800 pounds had at
tempted to get the cows calf While
the bear stood upon his hind legs, the
COW charged upon him with lowered
head, tossing him high in the air.
Bruin would attempt to use his claws
every time the COW advanced. This
act was repeated several times until
the bear was killed, literally disem-
boweled. The COW was covered with
wounds, the flesh being torn from her
back and sides.
The Montreal Gazette has this to
say about a Vermont coin: "What is
known as the Gloriam reign coinage
Of the time Of Louis XIV takes its
name from the words sgloriam regni
tut dicent,' which form part Of the
18th verse of Psalms cyIv in the yul-
gate (Ps. cxIv in the English Protest
ant Bible) 'They shall speak of the
glory Of thy kingdom The coinage
bearing this legend once circulated in
Canada and specimens of it are now
highly priced. In an old number Of
the Canadian Antiquarian and Nu-
journal, Mr.. r. McLachlan
says that Mr.. John II. Hickok, in his
History OF the American Coinage,
classes the Glorious I'll Wis copper
Vermont coins, on the ground
that the Wis should be read Wis for
Vermont. Surely iii Wis is meant
for Iii Tvs. sius, i. e., 'tertius IA COM
mon contraction. The Glorius-Geor-
gius."
Rev. James III. Elkins, Universal
list clergyman Of Andover, N. H.,
died recently, aged 70. AT the age
Of Ia he became member Of the En-
field, N. H., Society of Shakers, where
he remained l6 years. While a men,
Der Of that community he fell in love
with one Of his sisterhood, which was
The cause of his going back into the
world, and he finally married the
ady. Afterward he wrote book,
entitled "Fifteen Years in the Senior
Order of Shakers which was an ex-
,eedingly entertaining publication,
'ctecting very kindly upon the follow
us Of Ann Lee. Removing to Glover,
VT. he was induced, through the in
iuence of Rev. George Severance Of
his state, to prepare for the Univer-
alist ministry, but some 25 years ago |
ie retired and passed the remainder !
If his life on the old homestead in
Andover, where he was born.
The grand master of Odd Fellows
# the state of New Jersey has extend
d an invitation to the grand officers
md Grand lodge of Vermont to at