Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1898-12-08

while skating. His body was re
covered by his father after it had beer
under the ice three-quarters of al
hour.
A. o. Hood, Esq, closed last weel
continual service of rs years as JUS
tice and trial justice for Colchester
retiring with record for service prob
ably not equalled in the county if il
the state.
The free delivery system in South
Burlington is success. The returns
for the month of November are:Num
Der Of pieces collected, 1897, number
delivered, 6,091, making a total Of
9,088 pieces handled.
G. O. Barrett of Montpelier met
with seTere accident while unload.
ing goods from a wagon Saturday
afternoon. His hand was caught be-
tween a barrel of vinegar and the
platform and badly crushed.
Marcus Carr started for Rutland re-
Gently in charge of some stock. While
seated in the caboose, the engine
backed down into it with SO much
violence that he was hurled from his
seat and had three ribs broken.
The New England states, with the
exception Of Connecticut, suffered the
following loss in the Spanish war;
Massachusetts, 298 men; Maine, "A;
New Hampshire, 30; Vermont, p;
Rhode Island, 8; total of 1893.
Hon A. n. swain of Bellows Falls
gave a banquet last week, followed by
toasts, to the newsboys OF that place
who sold papers during the late war.
One little fellows response TO the
invitation was a model Of brevity. 1t
read, 81 can CO."
Two young and giddy youths OF
about seventy and seventy-tive years
respectively committed elopement a
few days ago by crossing from Rip
ton over to York state where the
mouse matrimonial was drawn tight.
The annual report of the Home for
Destitute Children in Burlington
shows 80 children received during the
year and an attendance OF 81 at times.
A commodious nursery has been built
and the prospect for the coming year
is excellent.
AT an clocutionary contest among
the fraternity at Wesleyan university,
Middlctown, Conn, recently, the two
prizes awarded were won by two
Poultney boys, Ralph ;. Cushman
securing first prize and w. Gray
Harris second.
The New York World gave a
lengthy account OF how Mrs. Hetty
Green spent Thanksgiving. She and
Mr.. Green and daughter, Sylvia, have
taken a fiat OF three rooms in Ho-
boken, N. j., plainly furnished and
no servants are employed.
Col. DIN Scott, proprietor of the
Machine works, Is in
on matters connected with
D wood pulp establishment for which
he is furnishing machinery. He has
Just received orders for machinery and
heavy work for a powder mill that
viii keep the Bennington works busy
Tor a long time.
Alexander Fuller, a young man OF
n years, formerly of Addison but
who, previous to October IA, was
in Cornwall, stole an over
coat of r. p. Nicholson and skipped.
He was traced to Bethel where he was
arrested last week and returned to
accompanied by Deputy
Sheriff e. N. Hemenway, who ar
rested him. He wa tried and SEN
fenced to sixty days at the house of
B. +. Tucker of Ripton has an iron
spectacle case that belonged TO his
great-glandfather, Benjamin Tucker,
and steel spectacle frames from the
house in which the mother of Martha
(wife OF Pres. Geo.
Washington lived, in Frcdericks-
burg, Va. Their appearance indi-
Gates great age, being massive and
made for round lenses. They are
part of the colonel's captures during
The late disagreement.
The painting OF Admiral Dewey,
by John A. Goodwin Of Providence,
K. l., hung in the reception room at
The statehouse, has attracted much at
IGNITION. 1t has been highly COM
mendcd by Vermonters in Proyi-
ience, at whose suggestion Mr.. Good
win brought the picture to Montpel-
Ter, with the view of selling it to the
state. The picture is valued at $500,
not $4,000 as has been reported. Mr..
Goodwin is Montpelier boy, re-
moving from that city to Rhode
Island some years ago where he has
made success as a painter OF por-
traits.
LADY PoOR's OINTMENT keeps the
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