Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-25

crowds of people. They intend stopping
at London and will visit the Berlin fish
cries exposition and proceed up the Bal
tic.
A boy working in the Booth mill at
Lowell has been killed by machinery.
The Goth annual Massachusetts Sun
day-school convention is held at Martha's
Vineyard the 2Sth, 30th, and LIST prox.
Railroads offer special rates.
The. schooner Eunice p. Newcome,
which was recently fired upon and
searched by a Spanish cruiser off the
Cuban coast, is now unloading her cargo
of fruit at Boston. Capt. Anderson of
the schooner says he sailed from Antonio
May 8, and when about IL miles off the
west coast of Cuba on the Goth he saw a
large steam frigate, carrying the Spanish
flag, which came abreast but short Dis
lance away, and fired blank shot. The
schooner was going ahead very slowly,
under little wind, and small boat could
easily have boarded her from the frigate
without troubling her to stop and hoist
a flag. The captain took no notice, ac-
cordingly, of the first gun, but when a
second was fired, and solid shot passed
so near the stern that he felt its wind,
he ran up the American flag and hove
to. The Spaniard then boarded the
schooner with an officer and crew armed
with pistols. The officer asked Captain
Anderson why he did not hoist his flag
and heave to when he saw him coming !;
the American replied that he did not
propose to do anything of the kind until
he was forced to, and that he did not rec
Ou,,s0n h,1 ,.,nht fn command II Tho
officer then looked down the hold, and
English, left the schooner to go on its
way.
VIM. M. Borden and Charles J. Buffum
are under arrest at Boston, indicted by
the grand jury for stealing S60O0in books
and cash from their employers, Lock
wood Il Brooks, booksellers.
II. M. Paul, of Dedham, a graduate of
Dartmouth college in 1873 and the
Thayer school of civil engineers in 1875,
now assistant observer at the naval OBJ
servatory stand in Washington, has been
appointed professor of astronomy in the
university at Toxic, Japan. He sails
from San Francisco August |.
Superintendent Walworth, of the
"OlSbCu vi bllt
at Lawrence, has retired, because of his
connection with the recent commission
irregularities, but will act as wool-buyer.
Sophie Lyons, arrested on suspicion of
being Louise Sylvan, the notorious black
mailer, has been discharged at Boston, on
her promise never 20 enter the State.
The Boston common council has passed
an order to buy an estate and fit it for
the South-end branch of the public Ii
brary at cost of Sl8,000
A general association of the Suffolk
county posts of the Grand Army of the
Republic is formed at Boston with Col.
Charles B. Fox commander.
Bunker-hill day was observed as a
general holiday at Boston, and the sub
urbs were traversed by innumerable
private and public excursions. The
Dorchester district celebrated with
music and addresses the 250th anniver-
sary of its settlement, and at Charles
| town, after military parade, the Cont
mental guards of New Orleans gave a
stand of colors as a symbol of fraternity
between the Crescent City and the Hub
The Massachusetts home missionary
society reports to the Congregational
| general association of Massachusetts that
it has received 500, 1892 during the year,
of which $40, 96l was sent to the national
society, an increase of Sl0,884. Other
| sources swell Massachusetts total con-
tribution to home missions to S109, 300.
Lynn pays j. N. Buffrum $3.50 and
Henry Breed 1000 for damages caused by
emptying sewage on their land.