The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-11-12
MAINE NEWS.

Nine cases OF SeaIl,t fever recently &C.
CURED in one house in Waterville.
Confd nee men are said to be numerous ON
the railroad nains in Maine. Look out for them.
Richardson's sawmll Mt Kingman was
burned ON the LIST inst, Loss $4,000; ill.,
surance $1,000.
There is a prospect that q large spool,stock
and excelsior mill will soon DO built at tho
Katahdin Iron Works,
A. l., Lewis, Of Kenduskeag, died on the
oath ul', from shock OF paralysis received
four on five days previous.
II rold NJ. Sewall, son OF President Sewall,
oil the W. c. r. r., has been appointed to be
vice and deputy consul at Liverpool.
Daniel G. Sawyer, Esq, ofOldtown, prom
inent citizen of that town, aged 20, died OF
pneumonia on Wednesday Of last week,
A pair OF valuable two year old steers, be.
longing to S. II. Beedy and being paslured al
w, Phillips, died from eating Paris green.
Avan Rand, Esq, of Scarboro, has a cut
glass pitcher which was carried out OF Fnl.
mouth tPorland) at the time Of the burning by
Mowatt.
Rev. Mr.. Harding has severed his connec.
gregatonal churches and has accepted call TO
East Machias
While Mr.. John I.atty, Of fremont, aged rs
years, was leading his cow, she became enragel
and gored him badly. 1t is feared Mr.. Latiy
will not recover.
The corn shop at Hiram is again in operation,
engaged in canning Baldwin apples, The
number of cans of corn canned during the sea
son WINS lGl SOP.
President Sewall, Of the Maine Central, has
asked the City of Bangor on what terms that
city will sell or lease its inter, st in the Ban
gor and Piscataquis railroad.
Some idea of the magnitude of Mr.. Aliens
publishing business in Augusta may be gained
when il is stated that he has just purchased 80
barrels OF ink for the use Of his presses.
Halls Ideal Fire Kinder takes the cake.
Send % cents TO the Herald Office, Presque
Isle, and get one by return mil. If it does
MT give satisfaction the money will be re-
funded.
Fred Eaton, Of Skowhegan, was hurt very
badly while trying 10 pick the cap out of IL
loaded cartridge, the cartridge exploding, tear
Ing hole through the palm OF his hand, No
bones were broken
few nights ago n partridge flew against
Mrs. Creations front door, Termination, and
broke SD glass panel, and thus gained cn-
trance to the vcstlbule where the bird was
found in the morn ny.
Hon. Fred. Atwood, of Winterport, is work.
ing up tie proposed legislative and executive
reuhion with his accustomed energy, and has
received n large number of letters from on
members endorsing the movement.
Tie estimate of some of our lumbermcn,
ia ,nt ;.t .,
the kcnnebec for the coming seas, will cx-
coed that of last b. 2o,00000O feet. The ill.,
crease wi be mostly on Dead river
The Pc obscot Chemical Fibre Co, West
Great Works, is doing business OF very large
rroro. tons, their monthly output of pulp
averaging about five hundred tons. The pulp
IS used by many ieudins paper mills through
out the country
Portland has discovered that Just when the
streets mo need lighting, in storms and high
winds, the electric lights are liable 10 go out, :"
and the Press very pertinently asks why the
city does not arrange with the gas company to
supply he deficiency?
Capt William Douglass, of Buxton, master
OF the schooner Stephen Bennett of Camden
dio suddenly in the German hospital ut Phila-
celphm, Sunday, OF pneumonia. Capt. Doug
iteo' N''9 Clay ySpAS vi upc lluu lOllOWeu
! thc sta of upwards OF ior'y-o years.
One morning, not long ago, ut Yarmouth
aitcra son OF George Royal got up he WINS at
tackcl with severe coughing and threw up II
rivct over an inch long, that had been lodged
III his throat and caused the little fellow
months oil suffering. lie is now doing well.
Mr.. l. T. Carville, of Lewiston, has sod
two thoroughbred Holstcin calves 10 I. F.
Dresser, North Fryeburg. for $500. The
calves were shipped by train, Thursday Mr.
Ca,vile has sold this seas IL three calves for
$50; and taken $3.50 in premiums at the
iirs.
The Wilton r. corl says: 1t will be rcmem.
hercd by some OF our readers til Miss Fanny
Clark OF Jay, mysteriously disnpr reared few
months ago. Some people though, there was
foul pny. 1t is not so. She is among the
Shakers to stay till she reaches the age of
eighteen years.
On Monday night OF last week Elias D. Row
ell, 'f kcnduskeag, awakened his wife about
midnight, by making peculiar noise. She
spoke to him and finding something the mat.
ter lit the lamp TO discover that he was in n
comntose condition. lie remained so until his
death, some six hours after
RUFUS Smith, Ct Brunswick, was pulling his
f'o's''o ''hSs Al It" WcCkS sl1Ce ana during lie
sensCn they had been literally sprinkled with
Paris green. Mr.. Smith had sight wound
one one hand, and the result was that in
handling those old vines he WIS poisoned, his
hand, 1t not all the arm, swelling badly, and
lie was confined with it for three weeks.
A workman engaged in digging the trench
TO receive the steam pipe from the First Ma.
tlonal Bunk building to Storer Brothers boiler
mouse, Portland day or two ago, found an
o!d English coin buried at a depth of several
icc' The piece was dated Ill and was sold
by the hinder for fifty cents. Subsequently
collector offered him $40 for it and he wished
he had held on to the find.
James Mcconnell, of East Bethel, was at-
tackled by bull while tending him for the
night recently; the animal knocked him S. nse-
l'ss and was on him with his knees fghti. q
him with his head and horns, and would have
Killed him but for the timely assistance of his
niece, Miss Matilda. who hung her lantern on
her arm and with the first weapon size could
hnd-a short handled iork-fought him off and
drove HIM out into the field where he became
so inrious that he was shot the next day BY ii.
ID. Howe, reports the Oxford Democrat
Loling l.. Lord, aged l6, son of Charles A
Lord. of Wcstbrock, had some tronble n,
schjol W days ago. During n sou,bble
among the boys, one If them was pushed
| through window. The teacher told younr
Lord he must pay ior the glass. lie went al.
recily home, loaded his gun with a tremendous
charge Of powder and shot, went into the shed
chamber, ashed the gun to sawhorse, tied
one end OF string to the trigger al the other
end to the ramr d; knelt and placed his ear to
The muzzle, and then, by mea $ of the ramrod
fired the gun, and bored hole through his
head M inch in diameter.
The Buffalo Journal tells tho following: A
gentleman had n child vaccinated and fiom
the child's arm he vnccinated the remainder of
the iamily, useins pen-knife IN the operation.
Subsequently, the gentleman's wife used the
same knife in pairing the nail of her large toe
and in the opelution made slight woand.
Nothing moro was thought of the ire dent
| and the couple went 10 Portland on business.
While there the lady's toe began TO swell and
new pair of boots were ruined TO give her
ea.c. That too assumed alarming roportions.
and physician was consulted. why" said
the physician after an examinat on, won are
vnccnated in the toe" 1t was even So. Size
had inoculated herself with virus from the
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