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

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hurry her dinner, and was fatally burned.
John Hudson, a bigamist, ran away
from Newburyport last week, because Of
the sudden arrival Of his first wife leav-
ing the deceived women living together.
Elisha Croweil of Gloucester has been
defeated in a suit for an injunction for
bidding j. w. Beardsley's Sons of New
York to put up homeless Goldfish without
paying the plaintiff a royalty.
The Boston lady who kept a lion for n
pet has sold it to the London circus COM
pany for $1,000. its mate having died.
Jeduthan Spooner, well-known citi-
zen of New Bedford, was found dead in
a field where be was ut work the other
day. Heart disease was probably the
cause. He was "a years of age.
DIR. Sarah Z. Brown of Hyde Park re-
Gently cured boy of chronic deafness
by removing three ounces of coal and
gravel from his ears.
A Somerset man nearly lost his life the
other day by wearing red overalls, which
angered COW so that, after holding her
by the horns and being dragged all about
the field, he did not escape without terri
BILE wounds.
The bark Josephine has arrived at
New Bedford from a cruise in the south
Atlantic and about the coast of Patago-
MIA, having been absent since May 10,
1877, bringing 800 barrels of sperm oil,
3400 barrels of whale oil, and 81, 600 lbs.
of whalebone.
The census is expected to give Lowell
over 60, 200 people, a gain OF 10000 since
1874 o,,J Of IN 900 ginna I9-E
A heavy shower passed over Attleboro
recently, and one man was killed by
lightning. His hair and clothing were
burned and a gold ring in his pocket
melted.
The steam dredging machines for the
! Cape Cod ship canal are being lowed
around from Delaware by steamer, and
are daily expected on the scene of oper-
ations; one will work on the Barnstable
bay side and two others on the Buzzard's
bay end. 1t is designed to cut the canal
200 feet wide and deep enough to have 25
feet of water at low water.
The widow of A. G. Hills of Boston
gives the Yarmouth library association
100 volumes from his library.
The Baptist society at Brockton is to
build church to seat 500 persons.
Two tubular wells sunk at Lynn lately
gave 1900 gallons an hour, and, if the
flow continues and the water is good,
the city has an excellent supply.
Joseph H. Choate of New York de-
clines to he a candidate for overseer of
Harvard College.
The West Boston savings banks re-
| (niUprC ora DoUipu dividend IF MOI,
cent, which makes IS per cent of their
money returned to depositors.
James Lemon is held in $4,000 bail at
Fall River for his assault with intent to
kill Henry A. Clark.
The widow of E. j Horton, of Attic
boro, lost on the Narragansett, gives a
generous sum of money to the destitute
widow of Robert Fulton, lost at the same
time.
Connecticut.
/ A pail of oil and varnish caught fire in
a Wethersfeld house the other evening,
and a neighbor named Sperry, thinking
the house was afire, ran toward the win
dow, out of which the blazing pail was
flung, striking him in the face, which
was covered with sheet of flame and
shockingly burned
Charles Tatro has been sent to the
state-prison for two years and Albert
Cherry for one year for burglary ut
! Hartford.
The army worm has eaten bare 1000
acres of the Cromwell meadows, a rich
tract of land near Middletown.
The army worm is leaving bare the
fields of Stratford, Fairfield, Newton and
about Danbury, Bridgeport, New Haven
and Hartford. One farmer counted "A
worms in the space covered by his hand,
and 527 in square foot, and in some
/ places the ground seems a moving mass
of life, mutlling the sound of carriage
wheels in the road. The rose bug is also
at work on fruit trees and grape vines in
several towns along the Sound.
Peter Nelson, for 90 years newsman
on the Norwich and Worcester railroad,
in sudden insanity tried to kill himself
at Norwich last week by pounding his
head with an AK, and is fatally hurt.
John Francis (colored) of Stonington,
who died last week, was said to be 108
years old. He came to Stonington about
40 years ago from st. Helena where he
had been servant to Napoleon.
The Consolidated road-bed over the
peat bog near Meriden seems to have
struck bottom, as it refuses to sink fur
ther under heavy weight and when
saturated with water.
The annual report of Insurance Com
missioner Stedman, to be issued soon,
shows that the Connecticut companies
have an increase IN assets of 1922, 720,
in real estate by foreclosure SO, 89l, 1892.
in stocks and bonds $3,005, 1892; de-
crease in mortgage loans of $5,653, 234,
in premium notes Sl,379.5OO The in
come from their real estate and real
estate loans was II per cent against 6.94
the previous year.