Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1899-02-16

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Field, charged with embezzling post
office funds by issuing money orders
without funds to pay them to the
amount of nearly l,400. Buck
waived examination and was held in
$500 for his appearance at court.
John Gardyne of North Troy fur
nished bail. The money has been
carried back into the United States
treasury, which accounts for the
small bail.
The Colorado newspapers are tell
ing wonderful stories of the recent
finding Of rich gold ore at Cripple
Creek in that state. Considerable
space is devoted to the heavy yield of
gold in mines which were leased not
long ago by S. Waldo Harwood of
Bennington. Among the mines that
were leased by Mr.. HARDWOOD last
December is the Diamond mine,
which is panning out at the rate of
$50 a ton. Some veins in the mine
turn out S75 to the ton and the pros
pect seems bright for continuance
of the yield.
The first annual exhibition Of the
Woodstock Poultry and Pet Stock
association closed Friday, the show
lasting two days. The attendance
was not large owing TO the storm but
ii was very successful considering the
number Of entries and quality of the
stock. G. c. Paine Of Randolph led
in the number of entries with II birds
and other large exhibitors were f. G.
Brown OF Queehee, j. X. Anderson of
Barre, Warner Bingham OF West
Concord, II. G. Underwood, w. l..
SWEET Of st. Johnsbury, NJ. A. Jen-
kins OF Bradford. i
The so-ealled Grimes place, four
miles from Wilmington, was burned
Friday morning, causing a loss OF !
sl5, 600 to $4,000. Insurance, g, 900
It was bought three years ago by the
Misses Celia and Lucy Heather, who
'ame from Michigan and fitted it up I
IS a country home. Five women, who I
barely escaped with their lives, h ad TO I
walk a quarter of a mile barefooted
md in their night clothes through the I
now with the thermometer 10 below
,ero. The contents OF the house were
ntireiy destroyed but the stock was
aved from the barn.
The l0-cent fare business IN Mont i
,elier will be tested by the courts. w.
\. Shay and L. NJ. Harvey went to |
}arre recently and refused to pay s
more than five cents fare and de- t
handed transfers for use on the sec
nd section of the tip as slip.
lated by the city charter the road "
hould furnish. The two men were e
flowed TO 20 to Barre, but on the re- ,
urn trip the conductor refused to a
i've the transfers and at the car barn p
upt. Smith entered the car and
ulled the men off. A suit for $500
amages was brought against Supt. +
mith by w. A. Shay. i
Rev. John Henry Hopkins, who a
pent his youth in Burlington, has II
zen unanimously called to the rector e
hip of the church of Epiphany in "
'hicagO as the successor of Bishop p
lect L. n. Morrison. His grand ST
lther was the first bishop of Vermont el
nd his father preacher and edueat- n
: of distinction. The son graduated Of
'om the University of Vermont in N
$50, and then engaged in the fire in NJ
france business until 1887. Enter 81
lg the theological seminary in New L
ork, he graduated in 1890. He was G.
.sistant for a time at Calvary chapel -
! New York until he was called to -
hicago.
j. II. Farrant, the Newport florist, >,
As a curiosity called the sResurrec- y.
on plant" which same is mention !,
by Isaiah in the Bible. This plant -
a shrunken, rounded ball of tightly y,
lied leaflets, dry and apparently ~
lad but when immersed in tepid 80 -
alter, it begins to slowly unfold un- -
!, in a short time, the whole plant "a
IS resurrected and transformed it, N,
II into lovely rosette of beautiful a.
lvet-green, fern-like moss, both odd al
ID marvellous. In this state it can a.
kept for years, or can be planted A.
a warm, moist, shady place, where NO
will mature and grow to a large a.
&c. a.
The st. Johnsbury town liquor wc
ency has done a thriving business COS
e past year, but the matter is ex- ne
aimed i'm part from the fact that he
1eral of the nearby towns OF this no
unity have abolished the town str
ency system, and, consequently, the pr,
lex people" of those sections have fai
tronized the st. Johnsbury agency inc
lenever "medicine' has been requir- "a
either during illness or haying ba,
ne. At the beginning of the year SIR,
, agency had on hand liquor valued fnI
S671.90; during the year, viii
uor valued at S7,509.36 has been W.,
nght; rent, agents salary, license, for
4 other expenses amount to 5000, onI
the years business figures a bal gre
e to profits something like 1912. "a
joint institution of councils Of By
knights of Columbus was held at anC