Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-01-06
new ENGLAND NEWS.

Mr. Babson, one Of the owners of the
schooner Alice NJ Strople, challenged by the
Carrie Z. Phillips, says be is not anxious that
any OF his feet shall sail such a race as pre-
scribed. A race of 20 miles TO windwaTd OF
70 leeward and return, in Boston bay or over
the course of the Eastern Yacht Club, is no
race at all for a fishing vessel However, il
the race was TO be from Cape Ann TO Grand
bank and return, or some port near Cape
Race, N. r., for $1,000 or more, there are
plenty of shippers and vessels here ready TO
accept the offer.
Stark K. Chesley, aged 81, unmarried, a
student Of Phillips Exeter IN. H. Academy
and son of DIR. Lafayette Chesley of Exeter
attempted suicide by taking a dose of
Rough on Rats He bought the poison
in drug store and attempted to swallow it,
but was prevented by the proprietor He
said he had been debauching for some days
past and became discouraged.
Farrell & May of Stoughton, Mass, will
open a shoe shop at Pittsfield, which will be
operated with a stock company, with CAPT
tai stock of S25, 900 to SjO,000. About &c
hands will be employed.
At Waterbury, VT, the Thermometer reg
istered 25o below, Jan. l.
A petition has been put in circulation
in Portland, Me-, which is being
signed generally by leading representatives
of the shipping interests at that port, adj
dressed to Congress, stating that the safety
and convenience to navigation require the
construction of a breakwater on Spring
Point ledge, near the entrance to Portland
harbor, and that light be placed at the
eastern end of the ledge.
The Maine game commissioners report q
wonderful increase in large game in that
state
The Pilgrim Society of Plymouth, Mass
has had q HuiCha1 in ba aftin Of Pill
grim Hall for use as a library. Many of the
volumes are very old, the most ancient one
dating back 800 years. A large number of
newspapers of the times previous to the
revolution are also in the library.
Exeter, N. H, is to celebrate its quarter
millennial next summer.
The schooner Mary A. Drury, reported
ashore on Point Judith, foated by the life
savers and afterward beached on q sandy
shore with 10 feet of water in her hold, sue
cumbed to the fury of Sundays gale, and
was broken up. The vessel is total loss.
Hon. J. G. Soule, attorney at law and prom
inent citizen of Waterville, Ne, dropped
dead at his residence Jan /. Deceased
was 81 years old, and for many years prom
inent in educational circles.
Butterfield Hopkins of Pembroke N H.,
aged 81 years, who laid out of doors all
night during the late cold snap, had both Of
his feet frozen, was carried to the county
farm at North Boscawen, where his feet
were amputated. He will probably die.
The new town water supply of Aver,
Mass, is now in successful operation The
water is pumped into a reservoir, and from
there distributed about the place. The cost
of the improvement is 900.
By order of the Lasters' Protective Union
of Dover, n. H., all the lasters employed in
George B. Wentworth's shoe factory quit
work.
The New Hampshire Manufacturers Mu-
tual Fire Insurance Company, having its
principal place of business in Concord, is 60
ing into liquidation, in consequence of recent
heavy losses.
The town of Winchendon, Mass, is agitat-
ing a system of water supply at an estimated
cost of 100000.
Hon. William Parsons, a prominent lee
turer, died in Boston, Jan. 1. Mr. Parsons
was an lrishman, born at Clontarf, near
Dublin, and was member OF the ancient
family of the Parsons of Parsontown, the
head of whom bears the hereditary title of
the Earl of Rose.
You cannot expect to get cooking range
for nothing, but the next thing to it is to buy
a New Hub Range, with Wire Gauze Oven
Door, which saves enough in food and fuel in
a single year to repay the cost of the range.
The Hub Ranges are used by the Boston and
New York Cooking schools, and are COM
mended by the leading housekeepers of the
country. These ranges are sold by dealers
throughout the country. Write for special
circulars describing the science and practice
of cooking Smith g. Anthony Stove CO.,
manufacturers Of Hub Stoves and Ranges,
81 and 81 Union street, Boston.