Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-05-21

The Southern Massachusetts telephone
company has voted at New Bedford TO
double its stock of $50, 600, and expects
to secure control of the entire business
in the five southeastern counties of the
state. The line uniting New Bedford
with Fall River will be finished this
week.
Connecticut.
Bedding Bros, of Rockville, have taken
the first premium and a gold medal at
the Sydney (Australia) international
fair, for their sewing silk.
Bishop Clark of the Rhode Island do
cese will preach the baccalaureate sermon
at Trinity college, Hartford, June 81.
About $50 acres of Woodland were
burned in South Windsor recently; the
loss is divided among 40 owners.
The Bridgeport cutlery shop has i'm
ported three Swedish women black
smiths, who wear short dresses and
heavy boots, and swing a hammer
Justify.
The Blanchard wooden manufacturers
of Hartford have bought two-third of the
Hane wooden mill at Beacon Falls, which
has been idle for some time, and will be-
gin work by July l.
The will of Mrs. Mary A. Hotchkiss,
of New Haven, bequeaths $500 to each
of the following societies: American
board of commissioners for foreign mis-
sions; American home missionary So
ciety; American Bible society American
tract society. American and foreign
Christian union; American Sunday
GphnO1 nninp A ,a,.,aa,, g. I
society, for libraries; American mission
airy Association; Female education So
ciety of New Haven; New Haven
branch of the women's board of foreign
missions; Ladies homes missionary So
ciety of the First (Center) church of
New Haven First church, home for
aged women on Wall street; Ladies' sea-
mems friend society for port OF New
Haven; New Haven city mission. for
female missionaries support. To the
New Haven orphan asylum, Home for
the Friendless, New Haven aims house,
New Haven county Jail and the United
Workers 500 apiece is given ''for reli-
gious and useful books for their librar-
les" These requests aggregate 5000,
and the rest of the property, if any is
left, is left to the state hospital for found
ing free bed for protestant woman
who may need such help. To the art
gallery at Yalo is bequeathed portrait
of the late Bishop George Smith of China
and Egyptian photographs-all in men,
DRY of the late Charles William Bradley.
The father of boy named Fleury,
whose arm was recently broken by an
elevator at the Brainford lock works, has
sued the company for $4,000.
Howard Williams, who was so terribly
burned at New Haven by the contents of
druggists show bottle, is dead, The
bottle contained much alcohol, which he
spilled over his clothing and then fired
by standing near stove to get dry.
The Danbury and Norwalk railroad,
which has paid only partial dividends
for over three years will resume June l
quarterly dividends at the rate of per
cent.
The state grand chapter of Royal Arch
Masons at Hartford has chosen as grand
high priest, Dwight Phelps of w. Win
sted.
Thomas Hamilton, an overseer in the
Hartford carpet works at Thompson
vile, was showing a new hand last week
how to run a machine for crowding
thread upon spools, and cautioned him
not to put his finger under the instru-
ment-thus and his finger was gone.
An cmploye, the other day, thought to
show friend how Hamilton lost his fin
ger and illustrated it perfectly by the loss
of his own.
Miss Fannie M. Clifford, formerly of
Boston, now of New Haven, has inherit
ed 800, 900 from an uncle who recently
died at London, Eng.