Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-08-27
New Hampshire.

ing, killing Charles Dyer, shipwright, aged66,
New Hampshire.
Nathan Cragin of Wilton, while moving
g1ain recently, was chased by a large black
snake, and driven from the field. After a
while he returned to try and finish the now
ing, and had moved but a little way when the
snake made his appearance with head up and
ready for battle, which followed, until it
wound itself around the scythe and was finally
killed. 1t was five feet long and as large us
mans arm.
The Bellnap mills of Laconia are incopo-
rated as the Lexington mills.
The Mt. Washington tower is SO far COM
pleted that Prof Quimby begins his work in
the triangulation of the state on the first fair
day. The upper floor Of the tower is 6,323
feet above the sea level
There are &C savings banks in the state, of
which one, the Derry institution, has made an
assignment. The deposits have increased
$l,922, Cos, the depositors 1866, the surplus is
81, O39, 262, and the guaranty fund 1871 ,2l3.
Dividends were declared in the year by % of 5
per cent, by IL of IL, by 20 of 4; by of
from 2 to "a, and passed.
Nellie Ryan was before the court in Ports
mouth, recently, charged with violating the
Sunday liquor law, and being adjudged guilty
was assessed fines and costs amounting to
$l,19O.
Moses H. Sanborn, driver of RUSSELL Say
ward & Co.'S express, was arrested at Haver-
hill few days ago, charged with wrongfully
appropriating $500 of their money to his own
use.
Co. d, Heavy Artillery, of Portsmouth, OF
the LIST regiment, New Hampshire N. g., has
by request been disbanded by order of state
authority. A company is to be raised at Sun
cook to fill the vacancy.
The Cocheco manufacturing company at
Dover is sued for $4,000 for the hurts OF
Maggie German in the recent blasting accident
The LIST regiment will be encamped at the
Riding park, Manchester, from Sept. IL to II
Parker Merrill of Hopkinton lately killed q
common striped snake that inclosed no less
than sixty-seven young ones over eight inches
in length.
George H. Colby shot a blue heron neal
Spectacle pond, Sunapee, few days since
that measured feet from tip to tip; height
feet inches; length of bill Z inches
Perley Knapp, well known and respected
citizen of Stewartstown, died very suddenly Q
Jew evenings since, being engaged in pitching
hay in his barn, when, it is supposed, he Iup.
tured blood vessel near the heart.
As a large wagon containing seven gentle.
men and five ladies from Boston was on its
way recently from Oxford to the copper
mines, part of it gave way while it was
turning corner and all of the party were more
or less injured, Oscar Weden having a leg
broken just above the ankle. Others were
knocked insensible, and many had their heads
injured.
Joseph Williams of Kittery, Me-, promi
IL, l.. q
stealingcopper from the Portsmouth navy yard
where he was long a foreman.
Vermont.
The apple crop in Northern Vermont ha
been nearly ruined by the recent high winds
The fruit only partially grown, was scattered
in all directions.
The fourth annual fair of the Poultney In
dustrial society will be held on Sept. 81, 2.
and %. Buildings for the better accommoda
ton of persons exhibiting stock are bein!
erected and premiums to the amount of $40
are to be given
The Southeastern railway company vii
move its workshops from Sutton, P O., t.
Richford.
The contract to build the Unitarian churcl
at Bellows Falls is given to W. L. Dow & Co
of Newport, n. H., for $4,000.
It is reported at Brattleboro that William
Waite, the defaulters son, who has gone Yves
to make q fortune and redeem his father
name, wrote to prominent lawyer that tn,
talk about offering reward for his father
arrest must be stopped, and his name with
drawn from public mention lest his interests
which were identical with the stockholders
should suffer.
The Seventh Day Adventsts of Vernon
will hold their annual state camp meeting thi
year at Morrisville Sept 2 to 7. Elder Jane
White and wife of Battle Creek, Mich, an,
Elder George l. Butler of Mount Pleasant
Iowa, will make addresses.
At West Hartford recently, A. c. Bean
roadmaster of the Central Vermont road, lai
the last rail of the new steel track on tn
portion of this road extending from West Hart
ford to within seventeen miles of st. John
2. Q. Steel rails are distributed on the re
naming miles and will be laid at once. Thi
will give a continuous steel track 163 mile
north of that place.
Stephen Miner, aged 80, has committed sui
eide at Milton by hanging with rope SO Ion,
that his knees touched the floor
Dover held $ll, 900 of the stock of tn
ruined Brattleboro bank
Massachusetts.
Mrs. Laura Miller, aged 92 of West Spring
beld, has died, in consequence of taking poison
fly mistake for medicine prepared fol her.
Lieut.. Andrew H. Russell of the ordnance
corps, stationed at the Watertown arsenal ha
patented magazine fire-arm, claimed to in
clude 80 new combinations.
Mary Binney Banks the eldest daughter O
Gen. N. p Banks recently married Rev. Pau
Sterling of Ohio, an Episcopalian minister 2.
years of age.
Lewis Clapp, native of Northampton
willed $l50,000 to the county in which h,
lived to establish county school, on condition
that the county raise a like amount for thu
same purpose. As the county refused to &C
cept the offer, the money goes TO the heirs.
The church recently erected by the Catho
lies at Cordaville was dedicated recently.
efficiently some unknown person put Londor
purple, potato-bug poison, in the wells be
longing to James A. Kingsbury and Mrs
Alfred Hodge, at East Foxborough. The
water was so badly colored that both families
feared to drink it,
John q. Taylor, secretary of the Masonic
Mutual Relief association of Western Massa.
chusetts, and his wife, were drowned in the
sJames Claflin of Arlington won the belt Of
the Fat Mems association, by eating over two
bushels of CLAIMS.
New Bedford policeman had a family inI
with his wife the other day, and came out Sec
ond. He then put on his coat and in the badge