Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-08-07
General Vermont News.

lhe Grand Isle county democratic cOnven-
ton made these nominations senator DIR.
U. W. Petty Of South Hero assistant judges
n. J. Powers Of Alburg and William Mont
gomery Of Isle La Motto judge Of probate,
B William Haynes Of North Hero sheriff NJ.
/ I. Mott OF Alburg; states attorney. Josiah
Adams Of Grand Isle; high haili1. d. l..
I Dodds Of North Hero county commissioner.
Socrates Reynolds Of Grand Isle.
/ These are the dates for the St. Johnsbury
fairs, Northern Caledonia Lyndonyille
September and 3: Ryegate and Wells
River, Dairymen's association, South Rye
gate. September. 9, 10 and IL: Caledonia
/ county, st. JOhnsbury, September 10, 1G and
H.
james A. Faulkner & Co., Of Fair Haven,
have begun TO fit out a picking house.
/ They have 80 acres planted with vegetables,
suitable for pickling. They will also manu-
facture tomato ketchup, and carry on their
trade in maple sugar and syrup, which has
become quite extensive.
Ernest Romprey, a little seven-year-old
/ boy, the son Of Louis Romprey, who resides
about a quarter of mile north Of Fort
Ethan Allen, was shot Wednesday July %
/ about o'clock, by pistol which Mr. Rom
prey believes was fired by one Of captain
DOdd's men who were out for target prac-
tice in the rear of the post stables.
/ The Bell foundry and tool works company
/ of Fair Haven, have begun business with
/ 500, 900 paid-in-capital and have elected Off
GERS as follows President, " Il. Reed vice.
president A. N.Adams secretary and treas
urer. L. II. Phelps. The company have Just
completed extensive repairs ON their plant
which is on the old NRlidy marble COM
panys site and has good business, al
though only month old. They will manu-
facture a full line of bells and strictly first
class tools of which they own the patents.
A heavy thunder storm did some damage
to crops in Addison county. 1t extended
into Chittenden county as far as Charlotte
and the young people at Thompsons Point
had some sport with balls of hail
The Burlington cotton mills started up
both their mills Monday after an enforced
idleness of several weeks, owing to the
breaking OF the fly wheel. They will run
on full time and with full complement Of
hands.
The Bethel shoe company has been giving
its employees a little practical illustration Of
how free coinage would affect them.
Each employe received the following notice
on last pay day
To our employes-We use in our payroll
today Mexican silver dollars. containing
more silver than the American silver We
put them in as sixty cents only, asthat is all
they will pass for not being eXchangeable for
gold dollars as our silver dollar Is.
should we have free coinage of silver as
advocated today by the opponents Of our
present gold standard our silver dollar will
buy less than this Mexican dollar, a. it con
tains less silver and could not then be ex-
changed for a gold dollar. Yet We could
make you take il for dollar Just the same
by law.
The bank will take them off your hands at
this price if you cannot pass them though
you probably can use them anywhere in
town, as sixty cents.
The notice is signed by W. II. Creamer
who was one of the boiling delegates to the
recent national convention.
Seymour F. Norton who received 921 votes
st. Louis, is a verm0nter. He enlisted from
Burlington in company l., First United
States Sharpshooters in 1861, was promoted
to be captain of that company. was trans
ferred to the Fourth Vermont regiment and
mustered out with that regiment in July,
1865. Since the war he has published
greenback and populist paper in Chicago.
The following pensions have been granted
to Vermonters: Original. Andrew Holt,
Bridgewater Corners increase. Harrison
w. Lowell. Fletcher: original widows. ete,
Hannah Tillotson, Washington Rosetta NJ
GOwing, Quechee.
f. L. Pierce. a char-stock manufacturer,
who ownes factories in Brookline. Putney
and Putney Falls, has begun another factory
in Westminster, The boiler Is in place and
the other machinery will be taken in part
from the Putney and Putney Falls factories,
Mr. Pierce expects to employ about twenty
hands there.
An order has been received at the West
Dummerstone granite quarry for so carloads
of stone to be shipped immediately for use
at the Northampton reservoir.
About 300, 900 feet of lumber, now stacked
in Jamaica, will be shipped to the factories
of the New Home Sewing company at Orange,
Mass.
Burton c. Austin. for two years general
secretary Of the Brattleboro Young Mems
! Christian association, has resigned his posi-
| tion, He intends to enter the general theO.
| logical seminary of New York city, where he
| has been appointed by bishop Satterlee to
the Charles Dickerson Smith scholarship,
! which is the most desirable scholarship CON
ferred.
| Glastonbury mountain, nine miles north
east of Bennington, is the second highest
| or the highest point of land in Bennington
county, James Mccormick. a member Of
| the United States geological survey. which
is working in Bennington and vicinity, re-
Gently took a good deal of pains to obtain
accurate results in measuring Glastonbury
| mountain, and finds that its height is 3,803
| feet above sea level. 1t is the first time
the mountain has been measured by an
expert 1t is a mooted question whether or
not Mount Equinox at Manchester, is higher
than Glastonbury mountain. The former
was measured in 1859 by professor Joel W.
Andrews of Albany. and a little laterb by pro-
fessor Hitchcock of Amherst college, both
observers fixing the height at B. 7S7 feet, but
ton college, the height is given as 3,S72 feet,
or 50 feet higher than Glastonbury noun
| tain.