Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1897-10-22
General Vermont News.

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that OF George 7. Glover of Chicago. ma
tive Of Vermont. He plans to build a snow
railroad 10 the hlOndike. Mr. Glover y 10
confident Of it, success that he Is ready and
anxious to establish "a line Of snow teams
between Fort Wrangel and Dawson ttiy as
soon as the government authorities a. WASH
ingtOn give their sanction and show di~po-
sitiOn to aid the work. Mr.. Glover
says that he can traverse the hTrir
country to Dawson City, a distance
OF 500 miles, ia less than week
after that with a train Of from eight 10 ten
cars Of supplies. b. p. Weare and Mi"hael
Cudahy Of Chicago have been To Washing
ton and had several conferences with Srrre-
tary Alger and il was practically agreed that
the government would cooperate with The
North American Trading and fransp"rid-
tiOn company in sending supplies to ihe
Klondike miners should the need nerune
imperative. Not more tEan szJO.OO3 would
De necessary To- equip a dozen trains ana put
them Ia operation, allowing "a good sum 10
be expended in building permanent road
way through parts of the roughest land.
In the municipal court at Bennington
Charles STYLES and Samuel Castle Of Bond
vile, pleaded guilty to assault on Mile
Williams in that village. September TO- whe1
he was tarred and fcathered and rode ON =
rail for repeated visits to house OF un-
savory reputation. Two witnesses on caeh
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for which the two respondents should be
fined. The testimony of Williams was very
much against him, he testilying that he had
served four YEAR, in the state prison Tor
various crimes. The court, after stating
that like OiIeLsrs were rare in Vermont. and
. that committees or mObS had no right to
take the law or administer justice in their
own behalf. even on an eX-cOnvict, fined the
two, including costs, Sl4S.29 Five others
who were subpwnaed az witnesses were ar
rested as accessories. The eases of two
were nOlle pressed and three were discharg-
ed upon payment of costs incurred. .ID5 IN
each case. The fines and costs were all paid
before the respondents left the court. Viii
liams now announces that he will bring suit
for damages against each Of the convicted
parties.
The people who resided in Montpelier half
a century ago remember the excitement that
il caused when it was known that the man
who had robbed the Citizens bank of Ban
gor of 5000 600 in cash and bonds had been
located At what is now the Exchange hufel
in that city. Boston detective named Pol
ham spotted his man there, but IN an
attempt to arrest him received Il bullet
wound in his shoulder and the thief escaped
From written confessions left by hermit
when he died recently at Dry Run, o., it Is
believed he was the noted Billy Preston who
committed the bank robbery and who
narrowly escaped capture here.
The summary of the parochial statistics
/ OF the Episcopal church shows that there
are zoos baptized members of the church il
1 Vermont. of whom 1896 are cOmmunicants.
/ There were 277 baptsms last year, 1873 con
! Arnations. ll6 marriages and % bnrials-
/ The number of clergy attached to tine di"-
/ cese, including the bishop, is IL lan increase
/ Of nine since Bishop Han came to Vermont
| These serve S. parishes and missions and
/ rhapels. The total contributions for the
/ year. as reported, were S65, ,003.9l, and the
/ value of all church property is S653,3SI 81,
/ against which are debts amounting TO
/ S20,6T2.60.
/ rumor that comes from "a reliable source
! says that Rudyard kipling will return to his
| home in Dummerston. just over the BratHe-
! bOrO line, within Il few months. DIR. GOniand,
! perhaps the closest friend the novelist has IN
| Brattleboro. declines to talk in relation to
/ his friend kipling. The field near Mr. Kip
! ling's residence, which was formerly
/ grassy plot, has this year been cultivated
by his man that has charge Of the place, and
/ fairly good crops secured. The farm and
/ residence are supposed to represent con
siderable number of thousand dollars. and
forced sale would not command good
/ price.
Mrs. Charles Jameson of Norwich has
/ started IA cat farm. The biological depart
| ment Of Dartmouth college, across the river.
has for years past required that every stud
! ent in the course should dissect one or more
| eats. The consequent frequent mcursiOhS
OF students has had disastrous effects upun
| the cat population, and has for repeated
/ times reused the ire of farmers Now the
| Norwich woman has come to the reS,UG Of
! cats on humane principle and III what
/ promises to be profitable business. SOmr
| 90 students elect the course yearly, and there
/ will be a good demand for the commodity.
Last winter Herbert Bailey of South Rye
gate advertised for a wife. The next weeks
| paper brought the news from Il young lady
saying that she was his huckleberry. They
! correspondrd with each other and ex-
| changed photographs. On the strength OF
| this he bought nice farm and carried it
! on the past summer. Last Saturday he went
! to NewUury and met his intended, Went to
the town clerks office and got license to
| be married. and then took her to ). W.
Bailey's, his father. She remained there
until Monday evening. when they We're
married 10y Rev. j. J. Hail.
It is expected that work Will he con-
menced this fall Of setting poles for Ran
| dOlph' new electric light system. Wirn~
of the residences ana stores will be done
during the winter so that everything will
! be ready to turn on the current IN the early
spring. The dam and power station below
! Bethel village will not be completed much
| before Feb. |. The promoters of the scheme
will have the wires to the village come over
Christian 1ll, so that if any at Randolph
Centre want lights they can be secured at
! little expense to them
State Treasurer Field has received from
the secretary of state the grand list for 1897.
with one gore missing, and he is now send
ing out the notices for the state tax of IL
cents on the dollar, which was assessed at
the late general assembl . Two-thirds of
the amount of the tax apportioned to each
| town is to be paid into the state treasury on
or before Nov 10. and the remaining third
on or before June 10, 1898. The grand list
of the state is II, ,743, 764 "a as against 81
| TAG, 972. % two years ago. The tax will give
the state about S26l ,564.
}. p. Stafford of East Burke has in his
possession copy of Vicksburg paper, the
last printed before the surrender of Pember-
ton. 1t is printed on wall paper and con-
tains some of the Southern boasts Of how
| the city and the Southern cause will continue
to hold the fort to the last The editor
didn't realize while his press was running
that he would be running himself in a few
minutes after the issue was put out. Stafford
was a member of the 10th n. Y. regiment
was i'm the city a few minutes after the paper
was issued and secured a copy which he has
preserved as a relic.
Mrs p. Bresnahan Of Proctor, while
! shaking out a shawl one afternoon
last week, came near losing the sight
of one of her eyes. A pin which had been
fastened in the folds Of the shawl flew into
her left eye, the point penetrating the eye
ball near the corner for some distance. it
was taken out and q physician gives hope
that the wound will heal with proper care
and that the sight Of the eye win not be i'm
paired.
Hosea Mann of Wilmington, state examiner
of savings banks, has exchanged for build
ing lots in Bratteboro hotel property in Hall
fax, a store and tenement house in Wards
boro, and some land near Lake Raponda.
On account of poor health, Rev. W. $.
Smart of Brandon has boon Obliged TO de-