Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-02
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.
Maine.

Rev. III. L. BOdley resigns from Christ
(EpiscopaD church at Canaan.
Rev. James II. Fits resigns from the
the Congregational church mt Topsfeld,
ate. nine years service, to accept a call
to the Congregational church at South
Newmarket.
Rev. f. b. Pike, of the Congregational
church nc Northwood, accepts a call to
the Atkinson Congregational church.
Carl Schurz spends the summer at
York beach.
The Goth annual session of the general
convention of the New Jerusalem church
in the United States has been held at
Portland
Mr.. Charles J. West died suddenly in
Deering the other evening, while at work
in his yard, from bleeding of the lungs.
The Bible Society of Maine held its
anniversary at the First Parish Church
Mt Portland on Sunday evening. Ad-
man, ID, of Portland, and Rev. Chaun-
cy Giles, d. D., of Philadelphia.
A married woman at Bangor dropped
dead at a house where she worked, recent
ly. 1t is thought to be heart disease and
trouble combined Cher husband being in
Jail for breaking into the Castine post
Office.
The general Congregational conference
of the state at Bangor sends as delegates
to the national council ut st. Louis Rev.
DIR. j. o. Fiske, of Bath, William +.
Gould and Rev. Z. Z. Clark of Portland,
and G. S. Dickerman of Lewiston.
Rev. John Morse, Methodist, whose
presiding elder requested him to stop
preaching because of scandal about his
relations with a Dexter woman, has
been hurried by his friends into Canada.
A Portland woman, aged "a, has dined
with every president except Lincoln.
New Hampshire.
The governor dominates Walter Har-
riman and Harry Bingham state COM
missioners to aid in organizing and di-
recting the national exhibition to be held
at New York in 1888, and Henry Abbott
and John w. Sanborn as alternate COM
missiOners.
Clark T. Rowell OF Keene is appointed
coroner for Cheshire county.
Hollis celebrates the l5Oth anniversary
vi lbN GClUlClllCllu JlllS SulnlllGI.
A Portsmouth man, from one of its
Oldest and richest families, was arrested
Saturday for non-payment of taxes, and,
after much excitement, the assessment
was paid under protest. A suit for
damages is threatened.
Henry Parkinson, resident county COM
missioner of Nashua for more than forty
years, was run over recently on the
Worcester and Nashua railroad by a
shifting train of the Nashua and Lowell
road, and instantly killed. He was 81
years of age.
John E. White, who tried to shoot his
wife and then cut his throat in railroad
car at Ossipee last week is recovering.
Both he and his wife are of good repute.
Mrs. Eliza N. Emery, aged about so,
has committed suicide by shooting at
New Hampton. She was in comfortable
circumstances and is supposed to have a
husband living in Massachusetts, but for
the last 10 or II years has lived with her
invalid mother. She was the sister OF
Judge Stephen G. Nash of Boston.
Rev. S. w. Bowditch of Kittery, Me-,
accepts call to the Christian church at
Manchester.
The Unitarian grove meeting at Weirs
on Lake Winnepiseogee is held August
to8, and many prominent preachers will
attend.
The annual meeting of the state-senate
association at Concord chose as president
II. K. Slayton, of Manchester.
The Charlestown Conversational
church declines Rev. Geo. H. Dunlap's
resignation.
A native gives the town of Surry SIO.-
600, paying its debt and leaving $4,000
for free library.
The glove manufacturers of Plymouth
are advancing wages from ten to thirty
per cent.
Vermont.
Senator Edmunds, Joaquin Miller and
Gen. Henry have gone a-fshing in
Canada.
The Methodist, published at New York,
declares that the boundary committee OF
the general conference, against whose
action the Methodists of western Yer
mont revolt, should be ashamed of itself.
Since it was court, its members were
jurors, and the obnoxious vote was car
ried by these jurors pledging themselves
to action before hearing the evidence.
The I'd corps of the Army of the Poto,
mac chose at Burlington as president
Col G. I. Hopper; the 9th corps.as pres,
ident, Gen. Chas. Devens.
Desmond, Kenney and Hayes, who
robbed Geo. A. Henry's store at Spring
field, are all in jail at Woodstock.
Mrs. Chas. Packard of Tinmouth was
tarred and feathered in Middletown, re.
Gently. She was taken out by party Of
masked persons, Invested of every arti.
Gle of clothing, and given thorough
coating with tar and feathers. Her of.
fence seems to have been that she desert.
ed her husband and children last win.
ter.
The first merino sheep ever shipped
from Vermont to Montana have beer
shipped from Middlebury by the Nc
Adams Bros, and filled two cars, one
load being all registered stock, and some
OF the best specimens of the young sheer
of the state. These flocks 90 by rail viz
Chicago and st. Paul to Bismark, Oak.
and thence will be driven overland 64(
miles to the famous Yellowstone valley
William II. H. Slack has given the
Springfield fire department new $4O(
hose carriage, and the company that runs
it bears his name.
Linus NJ. Price, who wound up thu
affairs of the broken Commercial nation
al bank at Saratoga and the Washington
County bank of Greenwich, N. Y.
arrived at Brattleboro from Washington
recently prepared to take charge of th,
crippled Firstnational bank as temporar,
receiver, to collect all assets and pay Of
the creditors, three months being allowed
for proof of claims, after which the,
will be disallowed.