The Daily Herald

Rioting and Murder near home.—We learn from the Vergennes Palladium, that a series of disorderly and riotous proceedings have recently occurred in that city, which resulted, from first to last, in the destruction of six dwelling houses, and the loss of one man's life. The following constitutes the substance of the particulars which we gather from the Palladium and other sources.

One widow Grandy was charged with keeping a house of ill-fame, and was repeatedly told if she did not leave the town, her house would be demolished. Instead of complying, she prepared to defend herself and house. On the night of the 28th inst. some twenty or thirty individuals assembled for the purpose of executing their threat. Having forced the door, one Dolton, with others, entered, and Dolton was shot and soon expired: but the house was leveled with the ground.— One Jonathan Hall, who was in the house and employed by the widow to defend it, is supposed to have discharged the gun, and he and the widow are both lodged in jail. But we do not learn that the rioters are noticed at all by the civil authority at Vergennes. It would seem by this that mob law is tolerated in this good city! We hope not. The vice complained of to be sure is "bad enough, but riots and mobs are still worse, if possible, and more to be deprecated.—Rutland Herald.