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Friday, Dec. 9.

Gen. Harrison's plurality in Maine was
23,252
Perry Belmont's resignation was announced
in congress yesterday.
Governor Richardson of South Carolina
was inaugurated yesterday.
T. B. Barry has issued manifesto in re-
gard to his new labor organization.
The Palnell commission decided yesterday
to adjourn from the 14th for one month.
The Delta Upsilon club of New England
held its annual reunion in Boston yesterday.
The Coke Consumers association threatens
to make protest if the price of coke is ad-
vanced.
The statemept Of the Chicago Burlington
aard fl,,i,sn ailroad for October is very
n H. Fssifc railway all, ,a,,di,ls dirsss... Z nave ",
ordered freight rates restored to remunera-
tive point.
It is r,,mored in Chicago that Jay Gould
has secured controlling interest in the At
Gibson road.
Anglo-Indian papers demand Of Lord Sails
bury an apology for calling an Indian chief
q black man.
A bark bound for Boston has put into
Lewes, Del, with her captain dying of
Chagres fever.
Five persons perished in the flames Of
burning dwelling near Blyth, Ontario,
Wednesday night
Wall street is again concerned over the re-
lations of Jay Gould to the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe railroad.
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MANIA PLEADED.
A CONNECTICUT WOMAN ON TRIAL
FOR HUSBAND-klLLlNG.
The Insanity Plea Made for Mrs. Martha
johnson, Accused OF Shooting Her
Husband-A Former Charge.

johnson, Accused OF Shooting Her
Husbapd-A Former Charge.
HARTFORD, Dec. 11.-One of the most
mysterious Of the murder trials for which
Connecticut has recently become noted
opened yesterday afternoon at Tolland, a
little country court house town about twenty
miles from here.
Mrs. Martha johnson, a tall, gaunt, ,haggard
woman of SO, is on trial for the murder of
her husband, George E. johnson, in April
last at Stafford Springs.
The affair was most peculiar. johnson re-
tired early, and awoke about II o'clock with
severe pains in his back. He called his wife,
who had not yet retired, and sent for a doc
tor, who found bullet wound on the right
side of the spine. johnson did not pre-
viously know that he was shot, and
had heard no report of pistol
His wife was suspected, and when
arrested and searched the following day,
revolver with one barrel discharged was
found in a flannel bag strapped to her right
leg She claimed to have bought the weapon
months before as protector when out at
night johnson fingered in great pain until
July, when he died, and his wife, who had
been at liberty under $1,000 bonds was placed
in Tolland Jail. Last week she was arraigned
and pleaded not guilty, and the trial was
postponed until yesterday.
Friends have raised $500 for her defense.
the larger part being contributed by Dwight
Webster, foreman of the Underwood Betting
company at Tolland, who is her son by
previous husband, John Webster
1t is alleged that she was responsible for
the death of Webster by slow poisoning, and
there are intimations that johnson was vic
tim of the same kind of treatment for weeks
before she shot him.
The defense will be insanity She is
woman of strong passions, of nagging dis
position, and made Johnson's life burden to
him by her furious temper and insane jeal-
ousy, although he was a man advanced in
years and of good morals and highly re-
spected in the community. She claims to be
wholly ignorant of the shooting. But it is
understood that her temperament is such that
her counsel will not risk letting her 60 upon
the witness stand in her own defense, which
perE ~ rrder the conss,.tSrrt cririiiiats. ala-'
Ex-Governor Andrews, now of the superior
court bench, is the trial Judge.
An average jury was secured, the defense
exercising all its rights to prevent men from
getting into the box who would not be in
clined to give the insanity plea at least fair
The local feeling is so strong,
however, against Mrs. johnson that counsel
for the defense have good reason to fear that
they will go into the trial heavily handi-
capped. When the jury was completed, an
was taken until to-day.
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THE STORM-SWEPT COAST.

Sea Running Very High and Fears Enter
tained for Many Craft.
BosToN, Dec. 12.-Hardly have the sailors
repaired the damages to their craft by the
storm of Nov. 25, than another gale sets in,
which may prove to be equally as disastrous
to shipping. From all along the coast The
Globe received dispatches during last night
stating that the gale was terrific, blowing
from the northeast, while the sea was running
very high. At many places observations
were impossible. Life saving crews patroled
the beaches, but up to an early morning hour
no reports of shipwrecks were received
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MAKE NO MIsTAkE..lf you have made
up your mind to buy Hoods Sarsaparilla
do not be induced to take any other. Hood s
Sarsaparilla is peculiar medicine, pos ,ess-
ing, by virtue of its peculiar combination,
proportion AID preparation, curative power
superior to any other article of the kind be-
fore the people. For all affections arising
from impl re blood or low state of he sys-
tenn it is unequalled. Be suretO ,et Hoods.
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Pardoned in Time to Vote,

BosToN, Dec 11.-Ninety-two convicts
were pardoned from Deer island yesterday
and are expected to vote to-day. The chair
man of the board of directors of public insti-
tutions speaks of the pardon of these men at
this particular time as merely coincidence
He says it is usual to pardon some "drunks"
at this time to relieve the overcrowded Jail.
Mr.. Martin says some of the pardoned men
do not live in the CITY
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WatertOwn, Dec. IL.
stole from Armenian Work,nen.

WORCESTER, Dec. S.-George F. Dudley,
toremial for the Washburn & Moen Man.
ufacturing company, has been discharged
for stealing money from the pay envelopes of
Armenians who work under him. His steal
ings have been carried on for some time, but
the amount taken is unknown.
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An Ancient Expression.

The origin of the expression 'leave no
stone unturlledn is thus accounted for: After
Tie battle of Platea, Mardonius, the aide of
Nar-es buried a vast treasure on the field.
Polycrates consulted the oracle at Delphi as
to the best means of securing the same, and
received the answer: ''Turn every stone"
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BosToN, Dec. II.
Flour and Grain.
FLOUR-Winter wheat. straight and roller.
IS 40 to 8; spring patents SO 90 to- 4O Corn meal
81 to 02 q bag.
CORN-Sueamer yellow SEC.
OATS-Choice 38 to 4Oc
The above prices are for car lots.
Meat.
PORK--Prime mess S16 to 18 So Hams l2l6c
FRESH DEEF-Choice steers to 91fc y h.
MUTTON-Choice lambs 9 to 9lbc; Brighton
mutton to 71ac.
Farm Produce.
BUTTER-Western extra creamery 80 to 33c:
extra imitation creamery % to 25c; choce Yer.
mont dairy 20 to 25c.
CHEESE-Northern choice 11A to 12c.
EGGS-Eastern fresh 2Sc.
POULTRY-Northern fresh fowls IA to 15c
POTATOES-New Hampshire early rose and
Iebrons ~ to SOC $9 bu.
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Scarlet Fever i'm Pittsfield Jail.

PITTsFIELD, Mass, Dec. 10.-The trial Of
Frank Rivers and his wife for the murder of
their baby, which was set for Tuesday, has
been postponed until February, owing to
their sickness with scarlet fever. The news
that this disease has broken out in the Jail
creates CONSERVATION.
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saturday, Dec. 8.

Mrs. Lamont's baby is named Frances
Folsom Cleveland.
A Connecticut man has been arrested for
dunning by postal card.
Frank Murphy is matched to knock James
Hagan out in ten rounds
Frederick A. Moore, a once prominent
journalist, died at Nashua yesterday.
San Francisco merchants threaten to boy
cott local fire underwriters because of high
rates
Three Of the crew of the brig Golconda,
abandoned in the recent gale, have reached
Baltimore.
A bronse statue of heroic size is to be placed
over the grave of Stonewall Jackson at Lex
ington, Va.
Gen. Mahone's friends are urging him for
postmaster general under the next admins
tration, it is believed in vain.
Donald Mcdonald, the Roman Catholic
bishop of Harbor Grace, has been appointed
to The archbishoprIc of Toronto.
Democratic senator's are taken to task by
their house colleagues for lack of energy Ill
fighting the Republican tariff bill.
Several of the cabinet ministers of Spain
have resigned Prime Minister Sagasta will
nave I'LL l1UeTNioW Wiuu UhO quSOAi 'SeoSAN
to-day.
The survivors of the crew of the Maine
schooner, Ethel NJ Davis, wrecked in the
recent gale, were landed at New York,
yesterday.
Three naval vessels have been ordere
ready to proceed to Hayti to enforce de-
mand for the release of the steamer Haytien
Republic.
Senator Vest predicts that the Republican
administration will enter upon the greatest
extravaganza, and thus speedily get rid OF
the surplus.
George T. Rockwell, said to be the Oldest
hotel proprietor in the country, died yester-
day at the Rockwell house, Luzern, N. y,
aged 81 years.
Proctor Knott and Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury Thompson are prominently
mentioned for the vacancy on the civil serv-
ice commission.
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Sunday, Dec. 8.

Sullivan will take no notice of McCafrey's
challenges.
The st. Johnsbury, Vt, postoffice is not to
be moved.
A geyser has broken out in Charles Mix
county, Oak.
The Republicans of Keene, N. H., have
nominated George E. Whitney for mayor.
A son of A. T. Spear at Texarkana, Ark,
blew off the head of ex-Mayor Btidler Satur-
day.
Tbs recent cold weather damaged the to-
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Stole Books and Clothing.

BOSTON, Dec. 12.-One thousand dollars
worth of books and clothing stolen from the
Archway bookstore, the Munroe School of
Oratory, the Institute of Technology and the
Hollis street theater, were found in the room
of Robert George on Allston street yes
terday.
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Tuesday Dec. II.

Lord Tennyson is slowly improving.
The British parliament will be prorogued
on the Oath.
Duke Ludwig, is dying.
A new railway project is the building of q
connecting link between Chester, Vt, and
Claremont, N. H.
Professor Sayse has left Oxford for Cairo
to inspect and copy the cuneiform tablets
which are now collected there.
A grand production of Julius Caesar was
given at Eugene Tompkins' Fifth Avenue
theater in New York last night by Booth and
Barrett.
There was bad smashup yesterday on the
Boston and Albany road at Ashland. Two
men were injured, and the pecuniary loss to
the road will be about $4,000
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EX-TREASURER ROYCE

On Trial at Willimantic on Charge Of
DefalcatiOn.
WILLIMANrIC Conn, Dec. 12.-The long
expected trial of the case of the state against
Henry F. Royce, ex-treasurer of the Wilt
mantle Savings Institute, who was suspended
last March and indicted for alleged defaIca-
ton of $4,000 and Justification of accounts
began in the superior court yesterday after
noon, Judge Phelps presiding.
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Worcester's Election,

WORCESTER, Dec 12.-In the city election
yesterday Samuel Winslow, Rep, was re-
elected mayor by vote of 5757 to 41SO for L.
G. White, Citizens candidate The city votes
for license 5614 to 1899, All the aldermen on
the Republican ticket were elected
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Will the Pope Go?

ROME, Dec 1.-THE Osservatore Romano
(Catholic) declares that the new penal code
aud other laws would justify the pope in
quitting Rome.
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NEwBuRYPoRT, Mass, Dec 12-Mayor
Titcomb was reelected yesterday, receiving
1865 votes to 1859 votes for Frank w. Hale,
independent. The citizens elected the mayor,
all the aldermen and fifteen of eighteen
councilmen The city declared strongly for
license
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LOWELL, Mass, Dec. 12.-The result of the
city election yesterday is that Mayor Palmer,
Rep, is reelected by majority of $50 in
total vote of 10,6S6
The license ajority is 1852
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JOHN H. WATSON,
.4ftoawey uni CounSeIlo, al Lar,
Master and Solicitor in Chancey. Collections prompt
ly attended to-
Bradford, VT
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Lowell and Worcester Provided For.

WASHINGTON, Dec. n.-Governor Long
has assured Messrs. Allen and Russell that
their district will get the money for the COM
pletion of the Lowell and Worcester public
buildings in the sundry civil appropriation
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Malicious Persecution of President Eliot.
BosToN, Dec. 1O.-A case of malicious per-
secntion similar to that under which Dr.
Morgan died is being practiced ON President
Eliot of Harvard college. Engraved cards
announcing that Mr.. and Mrs. Eliot would
be at home to-day were sent out Saturday.
President Eliot says they are unauthorized
Some one also inserted advertisements in the
papers announcing that he wanted servant
and he has been overrun with applicants
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r. NJ. HARVEY,
.att0awey uni COunSeII0a' M<Z0'p,
Master and Solicitor in Chancery,
West Topsham. VT.
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A Brutal Assault on a Woman.

GREAT FALLS, N. H., Dec Mrs. J. A.
Pray keeps boarding house here. Wednes-
day afternoon Edward Collins, a boarder,
came into her house intoxicated and asked
her to get him something to cat She com
Piled ahd ~. 4 l.s.t.- betg,.9 ll3s,, vi idt lie
quickly ate He then asked for more, and
she, being very easy, asked him pleasantly to
wait until supper time, whereupon he arose
from his chair deliberately struck her with
his fist, then violently threw her to the floor,
breaking her hip and otherwise injuring her.
Mrs Pray is 67 years old, not very strong,
being against her recovery. Collins was
brought before the police court Wednesday
morning for aggravated assault and bound
over in $500 to the February term of the
supreme court
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J. b. PICKETT, JR.,
.atko1mey uni L'0umSeIloa' ut ZuW.
Notary Public, Collections promptly made. Union
Block. 80
Bradford, VT.
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Largest Wood Pulp Mill in 1

17"'SeS0 "Oou HulP NHffI III Vlle COuHtry'
BosToN, Dec 10.-John A. Gresnleaf of
Lewiston, Me-, has just closeIa contract
with the Shawmut Fibre company for the
erection of the largest pulp mill in the
United State, if not in the world. 1t is to be
built at Somerset Mills, Me-, and ex-Gov. A.
H. Rice of this state is one of the project
ors of the enterprise. The buildings will be
nine in number
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j. H. JONES, M. b.,
Hours until a. m ? to o p. m. Saturdays until p.
m. Office at residence opposite hotel.
Bradford, VT.
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SALEM, Mass. Dec. 12-Mayor Raymond,
Rep, is reelected by rs plurality. Large
majority for license.
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Newhall and Licensa.

LYNN, Mass, Dec. 12.-The city elects Asa
I. Newhall, Labor, mayor, and gives big
majority for license
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Raid on Chinese Gamblers.
The keene MayOralty

HARTFORD, Dec. 10.-The police yesterday
seized thirty-one Chinese gamblers, some
hailing from Springfield and Boston.
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KEENE, n. H., Dec. 11.-Herbert b. Wall
was nominated for mayor by the Democratic
caucus last evening.
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Keena,s Vote.
BOSTON MARKET,

KEENE, N. H., Dec. 12.-Herbert B. Wall,
lem, was elected mayor of Keene.
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Base BalIists in New Ze

Base BalIiSts In New Zealand.
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE Australian base
ball team arrived at Auckland. New Zealand,
yesterday
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New YORK, Dec. 10-The dynamite gun
cruiser made successful trial trip on Satur-
day.
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RRADFORD SAVINGS BANK & TRUST CO.,
Paid up Capital $4,000. Receives deposits, makes
collections, and does general banking business,
Bradford, VT.
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" Business Cards y

ROSWELL FARNHAM,
.4//n,wey uud C'nunSell0a M Z~W.
Master and Solicitor in Chancery Particular atten
ton to collections and practice in New Hampshire
Vermont.
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bacco and coffee crops in the state Of Vera
Cruz
August Belmont, Jr., coursed rabbits at
Hampstead, L. l., Saturday, and was ar
rested
A concentrated movement of Irish-Ameri-
cans to get Wharton Barker into Harriscn's
cabinet is reported.
Boucicault will sell his plays He is tired of
barn storming and wants to devote himself to
Mr. Palmer's stage school.
Harry Brown, mailing clerk of the Lowell
postoffice, was arrested Saturday charged
with stealing letters containing money.
The loss of the New York and New Haven
road by the burning of the steamer Mary
land Friday night is estimated at $3.50, 600
The receipts at the Boston Theatre last
week, the first week Of Fanny Davenport's
engagement, reached the uncommon amount
of $12,6S4.
Repairs to the rudder of the freight steamer
City of Brockton have been completed, and
she has resumed her place on the Old Colony
line to New York
Joe Tremper of Stockton, Cal, consump-
tive, called upon an undertaken and offered
to shake dice with him for coffin. The
undertaken accepted the offer and lost
Chandler Jones, a burglar, was identified
at Hazlehurst, Ga, by two tooth marks left
in an apple where he had committed a rob-
berry. One of the prints was of an ingrowing
tooth.
Monday, Dec. 10.
Leander Borden died suddenly IN Fall
River, Saturday.
A successful trip has been made with Peter
G. Campbell's air ship.
The price of tickets to the Inauguration
ball has been fixed at S. and SO.
Schooner Franklin sunk the Joseph Hall
in the waters of the Atlantic, off Chatham,
recently.
OF the 200 goldbeaters of New York not
one is a woman, while of the 900 gold cutters
not one is a man.
Sarah E. Howe, the notorious ''woman's
bank" operator, is again under arrest in Bos-
ton for swindling.
Prince Bismarck characterizes the actions
of the East African society as more energetic
than circunlspect
Appraisers Baker and Hoffman have been
dismissed from the Philadelphia custom house
by the presidents order.
The county bank at Aimes, Ia, was robbed
of $4,000 Saturday, by two fellows who sue
ceeded in getting away.
There is trouble between the railroads cen-
tering at Chicago and the live stock indus
tries ovff a new system of weighing stocks .
The Thurston house in Tariffville, Conn,
was burned Saturday, only the walls being
left standing. The boarders had u narrow
escape.
The Boston and Albany railroad depot at
Gilbertville on the Ware River branch, was
entered by burglars Saturday afternoon, and
robbed Of $25.
When an infant, f1fty-four years ago.
Bernard Meyer of Omaha swallowed
needle, and it has just emerged from undtr
his left shoulder.
The closing of the Anaconda Mining Gem
pany, which necessitates suspension of work
at the Chambers syndicate mines, Montana
throws $500 men out of work
Fifteen thousand dollars has been pledged
for building to be used as a shoe shop at
Kennebunk, Me-, and stock company with
a capital of $4,000 will soon be formed.
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BOSTON LIVE STOCK MARKET.


brighton, Dec. II.
Prices of beef cattle > 100 lbs live weight
Extra quality S. 621E OF first quality S5 121a@15 5O
second quality 81 6s1s0j third quality So 621s0
$30350.
WatertOwn, Dec. IL.
Prices of market beef-Extra STAR 25; first
quality S6@o6 so: second quality a so; third
quality SiQ1i So
Prices of sheep and lambs--In lots. 81, S3M4
each: extra 81 a50s or from 205c q NJ; spring
lambs 3lGQDj1sc u ID.
Veal calves 21aQb6c % d.
Swine-Western fat, live 6 to 61hc: northern
dressed hogs 6A07c ib q wholesale
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White Mountain Division.
HAvERHILL STATION
Trains North.
Montreal Night Express, 12.47 a. m
Mail and Accommodation, 6.3o o. M
Mail and Express, a15 p. M
Paper Train, o35 a. M
Trains South.
Montreal Night Express, 2.44 a. m
Mail and Accommodation, 6I3 a. m
Mail, 1o3 a. M
Montreal Express. 3.2o p. m.
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il. Certain IL is. however, that strong
grounds have existed for believiBp that
treasures were left buried in the sandy
soh of Galveston Island. Indeed, did
not Old Ben, the pirate sailor, who lived
in Galveston for thirty years after Latitte $
departure, always have plentiful supply
of yellow doubloons7 he was never with
out his grog or tobacco money. But
whence II came no ono ever knew-no
one besides Old Ben, though efforts were
made time and again to follow him TO
his hidden wealth.
Less than fifteen years ago there ar.
rived at one of the wharves in Galveston
large and handsome yacht. 1t was
commanded bya very young Frenchman,
accompanied by three grizzly old sailors.
Scarcely q soul was spoken TO. old Ben
was seen in conference with them. Then
the Captain, old Ben and the crew, ex-
cept one sailor, who was left TO guard the
yacht, disappeared. They were gone for
two days. About midnight of the second
day yawl was seen to glide around a
point of the wharf and up TO the Yacht.
In the yawl were four men and two large
chests. Silently the chests were trans
ferred to the yacht. At daybreak the
sails of the vessel were spread and it
skinned swiftly over the waters and out
of the harbor. AS the yacht left the
shore old Ben stood in its stern gazing
wistfully back at the island. Detroit
Ejres preSs