Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1896-01-02

OF Somerset, one for $4,000 damage
and another for $4,000, for allege'
!, trespassing and removal OF timbe
from forests belonging to Newtol
Bros. in Somerset.
! The building records Of Below
! Falls and suburbs show 81 dwelling
erected the past year, costing $4,000
and furnishing tenements for "a fam
lilies. The capital expended in i'm
provcments Of manufacturing interest
: aggregates about $4,000.
It's rumored that Boston and Con
cord. N. H., parties, who have bough
the water power &C Centerville, VII
put in electric lights to compete witt
the great electric lighting plant a
White River Junction, at a great!
reduced expense for the people.
4 An Essex Junction travelling man
who frequently receives his orders b!
telegraph, recently received the fol
! lowing over the wire: "You will hold
Yourself in readiness to join Cleve
Hands army and march to Venezuela
The head Of the firm, which, is To-
Gated in Burlington, is a stanch DEM
Ocrat.
| Bishop Michaud has been quite q
busy man the past two weeks. FRI
day Of week before last he ordained
to the priesthood in the Catholic
church at Richmond, j. O'Neil. Sat
urday he participated in the consecra-
ton Of Bishop Farley of New York
as assistant to Archbishop Corrigan,
and Tuesday in st. Mary's cathedral,
Burlington, he ordained James Dwycr,
a young man Of that city, to the
| priesthood.
Barnet, McIndoes Falls and vicin-
| ity were the scenes Of well-worked
fraud a few days ago. A young man
canvassed the locality, claiming to
have found pair Of gold-bowed spec
tacles whose value he said the jewel.
ers estimated from So to $40, but
which he would sell for 81 as he
could not find the owner. Several
citizens bit. The spectacles were
worth about 10 cents.
In the case Of L. p. Bowles v. b.
Leroy, which had run on trial at Ben
nington one and one-half weeks, the
jury week ago disagreed after beirg
sent back by the court three times to
deliberate. The litigation is over
small piece of land in Searsburg,
worth probably 800. Two cases
have just been tried, which took up
about four weeks time and cost the
state more than $1,000, while the
whole amount under litigation was
$3.50 in both cases.
The Fair Haven Marble and Mar
bleized Slate Co. has just received an
order for one of their marble affairs for
the Catholic church Of Charleston, S.
c., the oldest church south Of Rich
mond, Va. The altar is to be of pure
white marble and the tiles in the sane
tuary are to be Whitley with four gates,
which will be plated with silver. In
the whole job there will be 1000 feet
Of marble and it will take about three
months to finish the work. The altar
is TO be ready for Easter Sunday.
j. Calvin Coolidge has been award
ed both the silver and gold medals Of
fered by the Sons and Daughters Of
the American Revolution for the best
essay on 'sThe Principles Fought for
in the Revolutions" The contest was
arranged last year, members Of the
senior classes of about 40 colleges be-
ing the competitors. Mr.. Coolidge,
whose home is in Plymouth, gradua-
ted from Amherst in the class OF '95,
and is now law student in the Office
Of Hammond Il Field at Northamp-
ton, Mass.
A painful accident befell George
Foster Of Island Pond last Monday |
afternoon. He was rolling some logs
down an incline, and one got jammed |
in the road. He thepupon took
lever and having pried under it, it
started down dragging him with it.
He had nearly extricated himself |
when projection again entangled
him and the log rolled over his right |
arm, crushing it in a terrible manner,
making huge cash from the elbow
o the wrist, breaking the small bones
lear the wrist. and tearing the flesh
IF all around the arm.
w. j. ellison OF Rutland fell from
he railroad bridge over East Creek
sunday afternoon, Dec. %, and was
BADLY injured about the head and
pine. Mr.. Gibson had been out for
walk and was returning home when
he accident happened. AS is his
ustom he went by the way Of the East
Creek bridge, as that is a somewhat
hOrter way to reach home. As he
topped upon the iron work his foot
Tipped and he fell to the banks of the
reek, % feet below, striking heavily
lpon the frozen ground.
The many friends Of George II.
Dickinson rejoice in his advancement
n the newspaper world. For some
ime he has been the news editor Of
he New York Evening Telegram,
wncd by James Gordon Bennett. He
ecently received cable summons to
Paris from Mr.. Bennett, and upon his
afurn IL was announcnd thot ha hod