Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-11-09
new ENGLAND NEWS

An attempt was made to wreck train on
/ the Old COLONY road between Southboro and
! Marlboro Junction few days since. II
was discovered in season by the engineer Of
a freight train. The materials were rail
| road ties and fence rails and the work was
evidently incomplete.
William b. Hale has sued the reorganized
! Florence Sewing Machine Co of Northamp-
ton, Mass, for $l4 500, and has attached the
property at Florence. When the company
! was reorganized, Hale as stocllholder. paid
| S12, 900 assessment. No dividend has since
been paid, and he sues for the amount of
assessment with interest.
The annual meeting of the Seaconnet mills
was held at New Bedford, Mass, and the old
| board of directors, excepting D. A Chaplin,
was reelected. Samuel Waddington was
chosen in Mr.. Chapin's place. The treas.
! urer's report showed the earnings of the mill
last year as S92, ,42l, or % per cent of the
capital stock. The earnings for the three
and one half years %ea mil has been run
ming were S2l6 900 the production for the
last year is claimed to be the largest of any
cotton mill in the United States, averaging
81 yards per loom for every day the mill WIS
running. 1t was voted to pay $3.50 year to
the Fall River hospital for the support OF in
jured help.
The supreme court, in case In point at
Waterbury, Ct, rules that the selectmen
| have power to decide whether the saloons
shall close at 4 or IL o'clock at night
George M. Sharp of Yale rs and of Balti-
more Md, editor of the Baltimore Under
writer, was, by unanimous vote
OF the faculty of the Yale law school, ap-
pointed lecturer on insurance law.
The estate of William Warren, the veter-
an actor, has been apprais d at $2l0, 500 02
and is all personal OF the amount $77, go
is in United States bonds and $50 500 in city
of Boston bonds. The remainder of the es
tate consists Of railway bonds and stocks,
including 1871 shares of Boston Sc Maine
stock.
Winsted Ct, has already shipped 20CO
bushels of apples, including a carload to the
yellow fever sufferers in Florida.
The E agle Lock Co. at Terryvile, Ct, has
increased its facilities by the addition of
new boiler.
A large pulp mill is soon to be built at
Brownville, Me-, and dam will be con.
structed across Pleasant river.
Mabel Hastings former Fryeburg, Me-,
girl, saved a flock of sheep by prompt
| heroic action on ranch at Ubet, Mont, re-
| Gently. she was left alone in charge of
large flock when pair Of wolves attacked
them. Selling her fathers rife she placed
herself between the flock and their pursaers
and after five shots were fired and one of the
animals wounded, they turned and fled.
The aid given by the state of Maine to sol
diers last year was the largest since 1867,
and amounted to $32, ,476.
A tribe of Red Men will be instituted at
Laconia, N. H., November o.
Mrs. Celia Thaxter of Laconia, N H.. the
| poetess, is so much improved in health that
| she will spend the winter at her home at the
| Isle of Shoals.
Nelson Abbott of Concord, N. H., saved a
very valuable apple tree several years ago
| by filling in a cavity with cement. When
the tree was cut down the other day and
| opened at the spot cemented, the place of
the cement had been taken by lump of
hard wood, and not a trace of it could be
found.
The yacht race on Lake Champlain be-
tween Dr. W. s. We5h's yacht Nymph and
Mai. w. B. Wetmore's Dolphin last week,
near Burlington, VT, was witnessed by a
brilliant company of spectators. The course
was 615 miles long, and the Dolphin wCn i'll
81 minutes and seconds.
The Corona Marble Co., Brandon, VT, is
erecting a mill building and finishing shop
at the quarry near the village. The build
ing is to feet long and 90 feet wide. The
company has bought 10 gangs of saws and
the line shafting for the mill Of the Lincoln
Iron works at Rutland Outlay, $4,000.
Capitalists from Philadelphia have recent
Iy been looking over the fine oil estate of
Henry L. King, at Petersham, Mass, with
view to buying The mansion is quaint and
spacious, having been built as early as 175l,
and interesting points of history relate
to it.
Fred l. Marcy and Co., Providence manu-
featuring jewelers., have assigned with liza
bilities of $500 and assets Of $500.
William Cook, 70, Providence broker,
hanged himself few days ago. He was
worth Sl00, 900 and suffered from insomnia.
The state board of health of Connecticut
has sent circulars to all the doctors in the
state asking for information on the sanitary
condition of the towns they live in, to be
used in the annual report Of the governor.
A loaded two-horse team while descending
a steep hill from the farm of Waldo Rouli-
ard in n H., became unmanageable and
ran down the steep decline, throwing the
driver from the load and injuring him se-
verely. One Of the horses valued at Sl6O,
was so badly hurt that he died from the in
juries.
Charles Lynch and Horton D. Walker,
the young men badly injured at the reunion
of the 14th N. H. regiment, are recovering.
Burglars invaded Hartland, Me-, for the
first time few nights ago; entered a milli-
merry and jewelry store, and departed with
over $50 worth Of goods
An infant child of Charles Folsom of Cam
bridge, Me-, fell into pail of hot water re-
Gently, and was scalded probably fatally.
D. G. French, the Concord tVt) sculptor,
is at present engaged on statue of Lewis
Cass, which was modelled in Paris last year,
and is now being cut in marble there. 1t is
the gift of the state of Michigan to the
United States government, and it will within
few weeks be placed in the old hall of rep
resentatives in the capitol at Washington.
The Harvard cub Of Rhode Island elected
its officers at Newport for the coming year.
The New BEDFORD board of trade at a re-
cent meeting took renewed action toward
urging the government to build life-saving
station in Alaska and to equpa relief steam
or to accompany the Arctic whaling fleet.
A full outfit of woman's wearing apparel
was found this week in the Branford woods,
in Connecticut and the discovery is consid-
cred important enough to warrant an inves-
tigation by the sheriff. A closer examina-
tion of the vicinity and the articles warrant
q suspicion of foul play. A limb of a hick-
ory tree near by had been cut, as if for
club, and there was something that looked
like blood on the clothing.
Col, e. G.. Peirce of Portsmouth, N. H., for
several years past superintendent Of the Bos-
ton & bingham steamboat line, has accepted
the position of superintendent of an impor-
tant railroad in Tennessee.
The employees of J. G. Towle & Co.'S shoe
factory al Haverhill stopped because they
have received only part Of their pay for
several weeks.
The contract for furnishing the combina-
tion electric light and gas fixtures for the
government building in Concord, N H.. has
been awarded to the Schultz Gas Fixture and
Art Metal Co., of Baltimore, Nd. at $lisS2.
.55. They have so days from Oct. 4th to
complete the contract
The officers of the West Haven (Ct.) horse.
railroad are considering the Introduction of