Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-23
Massachusetts.

Massachusetts.
While the Boston pastors are hurrying
to the mountains and seaside, the Y. M.
G.. A. and the Christian Union have start
ed tent services which are very popular.
The Concord school of philosophy has
started its second term, to continue five
weeks. A. Bronson Alcott delivers the
salutatory, and also the valedictory
August ID.
Henry Stone, Northboro farmer, is
in trouble as a result of the wiles of a
washing-machine man, who, in the old
and familiar way, induced him to
become an agent with the privilege of
returning to the factory or Office of the
concern all the machines unsold, when
all demands of his should be promptly
satisfied.
War is in progress against the illegal
Westbolo liquor sellers, many of whom
have been fined and one was sentenced
to Jail for four months.
Ward M. Allister, the Harvard stu
dent who attempted to leave boat of
the Old Colony line at Newport when he
had started from New York for Boston
on "limitedn ticket, has won his case
at Boston. Mr.. Allister bought through
ticket for one dollar and on trying to
land at Newport the guard stopped him
and collected 60 cents additional, the fare
from New York to Newport being $l.6O.
Boston has contributed nearly $4,000
for poor children's excursions.
Paul Boyton is giving swimming feats
around Boston.
Harrison Garfield of Lee, who was as
saulted dangerously by John Bottomly
over a year ago, for which the latter is
now in the Berkshire House of Correc-
ton, has recovered $500 in civil DANA
ges in a suit for $4,000.
Five fishing arrivals have been report
ed at Gloucester, recently, with good
fares of mackerel, aggregating 1900 bar
rels.
The Gospel union temperance workers
will hold meetings during the summer
on the grounds of the Boston baseball
association.
Platform gates on the cars, is the new
feature on the Boston steam railroads.
The Fruit and Flower mission of Bos-
ton make an appeal to their country
friends for supplies.
VIM. E. Wolcott was duly licensed by
the Hampden East and West associations
recently. The brethren did not ask the
candidate to preach a sermon, some of
them saying that man who had been
on the Republican would be sure to write
good ones.
There are fourteen applicants for adj
mission to the second four-year's course
for women at Harvard college.
The Boston Cordage Co. has organized
with capital of $4,000, for the manu-
facture and sale of cordage, rope and
Irvine.
w. w. Chamberlain, WOrcester's miss
ing woOd-dealer, took at least $4,000
away with him, but there is no evidence
that he did not get the money honestly.
The Boston and Albany railroad have
notified owners of land adjoining them
that they are entitled to recover of the
owners for the cost of the fences which
the company have recently built. Suits
have begun in some cases.
John Kelly, Il Springfield laborer, has
been arrested for numbering his wife.
The Common and Public Garden at
Boston are looking well after the rains.
Holyoke is bothered about getting a
taX-collector at a fair salary.
Twenty Norman stations and eight
mare colts, weighing from 1900 to 2,0lC
pounds each, were received at Boston re-
Gently, worth from $4,000 to $4,000 each.
They are to be used for breeding in the
West.
Mary Shweder, OF Jamrica Plain, ID
years old, has eloped with a boy named
Notion of Is.
The office of inspector of vinegar, re-
Gently created by the Legislature, is not
a sinecure, since at Boston alone the trade
amounts to S1,000,000 a year, and the
acid is sold in over 1900 places.
At the Harvard college observatory q
new planetary nebula was discovered re.
Gently by Prof. E. G. Pickering, near the
star "Sagittarii." Only about fifty Of
these objects are known, and this is be.
lieved to be the first one found by ar
| American astronomer.
The Boston Lawn Tennis Club has ir
contemplation the erection of building
costing about $4,000 or $4,000, where
games may be played in winter.
A lad named Robert Lane, an employC
Of the Newton mills. while at work ir
the mill recently, was caught up into
some of the betting machinery and whirl
ed about the shaft with such force as tc
cause his death few moments after he
was eXtricated.
Mrs: j, G. Wyman, of Bradford, died
recently by falling from a hammock.
G. W. Grant, young blacksmith, has
been missing from Millbury for about
two months; and as he left his clothing
and considerable money behind him, il
is feared that he has been either purpose
ly or accidentally killed.