The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1886-06-24
NEW ENGLAND ITEMS.

A naval court martial has been ordered to
convene at the Boston Navy Yard on the 22d
of June for the trial of Commander Henry
l.. johnson ON charges of scandalous conduct
and disobedience OF dcrs, Tho following
officers compose tho court; Rear Admiral s.
b. Luce, Commodore Bancroft, Captains
Joseph Fyffe, j, N. Miller, Charles N, Nor
ton, a George II. Perkins, and Command
ers G. M. Schoonmaker and b. j, Cromwell,
with Captain George c, Reid, U. s, NJ e.,
as judge advocate,
Judge Charles Allen at Boston has over
ruled tho motion for rehearing of the
Taber divorce case and makes the decree alb
solute.
Thomas Donnelly, laborcr Of Clinton,
Mass about go years of age, was struck by
the White Mountain express while walking
on the Worcester and Nashua track. He was
killed instantly. Ho leaves wife and two
sons.
At tho office Of the harbor and land COM
missioners, Boston, Mass, there is on exhi-
bition au old gun Of the revolution, secured
from wreck by the dredging machine
while at work opposite the navy yard in that
harbor.
The Bay State House, Wor ester, Mass.
was lately raided by police, and, after long
search, two bottles OF lager beer were cap,
turcd. They were in q case with lot of j
per CenU. SUull. lut
edged that the beer was stronger than the law
allows.
The schooner Mayflower has arrived at
Gloucester, Mass, bringing $50 barrels of
large mackerel which, Capt McKinnon says,
were caught 40 miles from the Nova Scotia
coast. He reports that the large body Of
mackerel has gone east; weather foggy and
unfavorabie for seining. He visited the har-
bors of Prospect and Liverpool and was
II n,.tn from
the harbor.
Cornelius McAulilf of Orono, 80 years old,
recently committed suicide in Bangor, Me-,
by taking laudanum.
AT meeting of the Maine Steamship COM
pany at Portland, Me-, it was voted to
authorize the directors to buy a new steamer
for the company
Two section hands on the Old Colony rail
road recently narrowly escaped death Will
riding on hand car near West bingham
Mass, by being run into by an extra gravel
train. They jumped In time to save their
lives. The hand car was completely wrecked.
While Edward, son of Joel Needham Of
Peabody, Mass, and James Parker, were ex-
perimenting with an electric battery in
West Peabody, trying to fire blast, there
a finger broken, both hands burned, his face
filled with powder, and his eyes injured. Par
ker had his left WRIT broken ard was other
wise injured.
Schooner Rather lately arrived in Glouces-
ter from the coast of Nova Scotia, bringing
375 barrels of mackerel, which is the largest
fare landed here this season.
John Coffee, of bingham, Mass, employed
by mccarthy Bros, contractors, while re-
moving timber from a pile of blasted rock,
was struck in the head and fatally injured
Leontine Desmers, aged II years, while
playing on the bank of the canal at Lewiston,
Me-, fell in and was swept into the river and
drowned
Sheriff F. A. Atherton and G. E. Moody
of Waterbury, Vt, recently captured two
men, supposed to be perpetrators of recent
burglaries at Waterbury and Stowe. The
men fired four shots at the officers, and Ath-
erton shot one of them in the shoulder, but
not seriously The men have been identified
as those at Stowe, and are now in Jail here.
| They refuse to give their Names A fine set
| Of burglar tools was found on them.
| The first colored man to serve as a horse
car conductor on any line in the state of
Massachusetts has been appointed OH the
Cambridge road.
The Maine prohibitionists have nominated
Aaron Clark of Baxter for governor.
George, the 1l-year-old son of Joseph
Brean in attempting to jump on a freight
train in St Adams, VT, fell and was run
over, is left leg being badly crushed so that
| he cannot live.