The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-09-27
NEW ENGLAND NEWS

of wood and other pulp after being treated
or hardened by chemical process, SO as to
render the articles hard, impervious and OF
great strength, capable of resisting action OF
water, acids, alkalis, etc, has been infringed.
The Berkeley Manufacturing Co. of Provi-
dence r. l., has dedicated u library for the
use Of their employees,
The output of the Winterport, Me-, corn
canning factory this season will not be moro
than so per cent. of that OF favorable years.
1t is believed that the total in the state will
not be within 1900, 20 per cent. of that OF
last year.
A Boston woman has been arrested for
passing two counterfeit half dollars on
conductor of West end car.
Manuel Nunes IA years DID, OF Taunton,
Mass, popped up from behind target
which he was tending in his uncles shoot
ing gallery, just in time to get bullet in
his right cheek from an mir gun, tirel by
an embryo marksman He was taken to a
physician, who probed Tor but could not
find the bullet The shooting was accl-
dental, and the wound will not be serious
unless it interferes with the boys eyesight
| Schooner Minnesota has arrived at Glouces,
| ter, Mass, from Greenland with 100 600
pounds Of fetched halibut. Only one other
vessel, the Alice NJ. Strople, is left, and she
has gone fur5hcr north to explore the
nav fishing ground.
Augustus Blanchard, Jr, and Levi Sans
| vile of Marlboro. Mass, were taken to Cam
bridge Jail, being held in $1,000 each for the
grand jury, to answer the charge of break
| ing into the saloon of Israel Sansville at
Marlboro on Sept. 20.
A young man has swindled number of
benevol- mt people at Quincy, Mass, by
claiming to have lost one hand, showing
mangled stump, as evidence OF the injury.
| 1t now appears that the stump was made OF
wax, and that the fellow simply had his own
hand cleverly concealed from view. He is
said to have taken in considerable coin.
The employees of the New York & New
England repair shops at East Hartford, Ct,
refused to work longer than O'Clock Satur-
| day afternoons, in accordance with a rule
which has been in force for the past 10 years
| The company refuse to transport them to
| Hartford, and 200 men were obliged to walk
! four miles to their homes.
! Advices from Dexter Me-, report that
Col. Charles A. Wilson, member Of the
common council of that city and judge advo,
cate-general of the lrigaie of Rhode Island
militia had been seriously bitten by bull
| dog. Colonel Wilson was with Il friend, the
owner of the dog, and playfully shook his
friends clothes, when the brute seized him
, by the left leg and terribly lacerated the
flesh, tendons and muscles. The wound may
lay Colonel Wilson up for the remainder of
| the winter.
The Fall River weavers have sent to the
board of trade request for an advance of
| five per cent, and a sche lule list of prices
for weaving odd goods The weaverS at the
Stafford mill are on a strike, and nearly
1000 looms are idle.
c. F. Case of Glastonbury, Ct, has sold
his paper mill to Frank Clark OF East GIas
tonbury and P. r. Stafford of Broad Brook,
who will run the factory at about the same
capacity it has been operated by Mr.. Case.
Nelson Whittier, for SO years connected
with the Dwight Co., of Chicopee, Mass, as
paymaster, and previous to that in other ca
pacities, has resigned to take the agency Of
the Whittier mills at Lowell.
Another season Conanicut, R. l., will have
waterworks, the supply for which will be
derived from springs.
The route for the new railroad which will
connect Rockville Conn, with the Air Line
road at Portland has been surveyed, and its
construction will begin in October. At YER
non it is probable that this line will run I'M
der the New York & New England ro1d,
and will prove great help in joining the
manufacturing interests at South Man.
chester Burnside and Glastonbury. Con-
nection with the Connecticut Valley road
will be made at Portland
Treasurer Pilbrck of the Salem, Mass :,
Young Mems Christian Association has sent
a second check for 800 to Jacksonville.
Many herring have ''struck inn at Swamp
scott The crew of the Minnehaha recently
stocked Sll00 from recent mackerel fare.
In the cases of J. r. Palmer, F. E. Clark
and John Daniels, supervisors of Barring
ton, n. H., who were convicted of wilfully
removing the name of DR.. Daniels from the
check list in that town, have had fine i'm
posed of $50 each and costs Exceptions
were taken.
A feature of the Boston market last week
was the arrival of about 700 barrels of Irish
mackerel on the steamer Bulgarian. The
fish are not as satisfactory to the trade as the
home cured fish, but it now looks as if these
importations from across the water will have
to be resorted to to supply the market hers
during the winter and spring, if our catch
pans out no better than it has SO far.
These fish will probably grade about IS,
it is thought.
A. Miller of New Sweden, Me-, has rebuilt
his starch factory in Perham that was
burned last spring and his other factory in
New Sweden is nearly finished.
J. S. Richardson's extensive new steam
sawmill at Kingman, Me, is now completed
and running. 1t is furnished with the most
improved machinery and has capacity for
, turning out 25, 600 feet of lumber daily
Reports say that the mackerel fleet find
more mackerel in Massachusetts, bay from
Boston light south along the coasts of Ply
mouth and B>rnstabe than anywhere else.
Here vessels at times pick up from Is to 100
, pounds.
The Kilkenny IN. H. R.R. proposes to ex.
tend its line through to connect with the
} Grand Trunk. The Whitefield e. Jefferson
, road is anticipating the same move, and it
is mere question of which has has the most
! enterprise.
| tall in
the death in Buenos Ayres, of Samuel B.
!. Hale, the pioneer of the United States trade
with South America He was the senior
member of the firm Of Samuel B. Hale &
Co., which was engaged in the banking bust
ness in Buenos Ayres.
The whaling brig D. a. Small, Captain
Winslow, has sailed from Provincetown on q
12-month.' Atlantic ocean cruise
: The stockholders of the Dexter & Newport
, R. R., have held their annual meeting al
Dexter, Me and declared q dividend of three
PER cent The sum of $1,000 was subscribed
toward the Dover extension. They are still
, confident in Dexter that work will commence
on the railroad construction this fall.
Burnapone Raffaelle, one of the italian.
} who has been at work on the water works al
Dover, N. H., has received notice from Italy
that he has been drafted into the Italian
army, and he has settled up and left for Bos
=
, if he did not 20 he would never dare to re
, turn for he would be liable to arrest ane
Imprisonment even after years. He says
, however, that it is rare that an Italian doe!
obey such a summons from the King.
Winsted, Ct, has a sensation in the elope
ment from there of ]. j. Adams, chief o
police, age 50, and Miss Jennie Dutton,
saleswoman in dry-goods store.
/ Heavy rains for the past few days hav
|. greatly swollen the streams in the vicinity 0
Bellows Falls, VT.
The Byron Weston company of D ,lton
Mass, has been granted certificate of or
= ganization. 1t has a capital of 5000, 00O
) Byron Weston is president and treasurer.
2 A libel has been filed on behalf of tn
United States governm mt against the steam
e yacht Eileen, owned by 2. B. Herman 0
Chelsea, Mass. The charge is that the zach
n has been running without an inspection am
4 with an unlic -nsed cattain and pilot. TIL
: penalty is \ rne e. ssh ": sach count.
n R. G. Bennett, treasurer of the Beverly
S Mass, Savings bank, and treasurer of tn
= town, will this month complete so years ser
i vice as bank officer
:, The Belfast Electric Co. for furnishin,