Add epoch to letters and children

[adinapoli]

cc @srijs

As I'm on Easter holidays over here, I spent 2 hours of hacking time doing 2 things:

1. Adding the concept of "epochs" as you suggested, so that we can ignore stale DeadLetters. I have also cleaned up the restartChild section, got rid of the yielded Bool in favour of a more richer data structure RestartResult and finally moved emitting the events down to handleEvents, it seems just much cleaner.
2. I fixed a bug in handleEvent where my typeOf check was never firing. The subtleties was that what we had as input of typeOf was SomeException thus that check was always yielding False regardless which kind of Exception we had as input. Yikes!

[coveralls]

Coverage decreased (-2.07%) to 85.621% when pulling 048c5bc on add-epoch-to-letters-and-children into da93c5f on master.