The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-11-08
new ENGLAND NEWS

Marlboro Junction few days since. II
was discovered in season by the engineer of
freight train, The materials were rail
road ties and fence rails and the work was
evidently incomplete
William b. Hale has sued the recognized
Florence Sewing Machine Co, of Northamp.
ton, Mass, for Sl4, 500, and has attached the
property at Florence, When the company
was reorganized, Hale, as a stockholder paid
Sl2, 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 ID. 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, 4el, or 2S per cent of tho
capital stock, The earnings for the three
and one half years the mil has been run.
ming were $4,000, 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 WAS
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 II or IL O'clock at night.
George NJ. Sharp Of Yale rs and of Balti-
more, Md, editor of the Blltimore 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 $40 81,
and is all personal OF the amount S51, 90
Is in United States bonds and S29, 500 in city
of Boston bonds. The remainder Of the rs
tota cictc pf RAILWAY hands and stp.Es
including 1871 shares of Boston Il Maine
stock.
Winsted, Ct, has already shipped eGC0
bushels Of apples including a carload to the
yellow fever sufferers in Florida.
The Eagle Lock Co. at Terryville, Ct, has
Increased its facilities by the addition of Il
new boiler.
A large pulp mill is soon to be built at
Brownvlle, Me-, and dam will BIO con
structed across Pleasant river.
Mabel Hastings, q former Fryehurg, Ne,
girl, saved flock of sheep by prompt
heroic action on . ranch at Ubet, Mont, re-
Gently. She was left alone in charge of u
large flock when pair of wolves attacked
them. Selling her fathers rife she placed
herself between the flock and their pursuers
and after five shots were fired and one of the
animals wounded, they turned and He'd.
The aid given by the state of Maine to sol
diers last year was the largest since 1857,
and amounted to So, 476.
A tribe of Red Men will he instituted at
Laconia, N. H., November Q.
Mrs Celia Thaxter of naconia, 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
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 a lump of
hard wood, and not trace of it could be
found.
tween DR.. w. S. Webb's yacht Nymph and
Maj. w. B. Wetmore's Dolphin last week,
near Burlington, VT, was witnessed by ii
brilliant company of spectators The course
was 61 miles long, and the Dolphin won in
B4 minutes and s seconds.
The Corona Marble Co.. Brandon, Vt, is
erecting mill building and finishing shop
at the quarry near the village. The build
ing is no 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
ly 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 1851,
and interesting points of history relate
to it.
Fred I. Marcy and Co, Providence manu-
featuring jewelers., have assigned with liza
bilities of $500 and assets of $500.
William Cook, 70, Providence broker
banged 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 Roui-
ard in N. H., became unmanageable and
ran down the steep decline, throwing the
driver from the load and injurng him Sc
verely. One of the horses valued at SlG0,
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 18th 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.
All Sullu VI CudIieS TOlS )luUl CdfH-
bridge, Me-, fell into a pail of hot water re-
Gently, and was scalded probably fatally.
D. G. French, the Concord VII sculptor,
is at present engaged on a statue of Lewis
Cass, which was modelled in Paris last year.
and is now being cut in marb 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 C ub of Rhoie Island elected
its officers at Newport for the coming year.
The New Bedford board of trade at re.
cent meeting took renewed action toward
urging the government to build lfe-saving
station in Alaska and to equ p a relief steam
er to accompany the Arctic whaling feet.
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-
ton of the vicinity and the articles warrant
suspicion of foul play. A limo of hick-
Dry tree near by had been cut, as if for
clue, and there was something that looked
like blood on the clothing.
Col. E. G. Pcirce of Portsmouth, N. H., for
several years past superintendent of the Bos-
ton d bingham steamboat line, has accepted
the position of sup arintendent of an impor-
tant railroad in Tennessee
The employees of ]. g. Towle & Co.'S shoe
factory at 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 1882
.55. They have so days from Oct. 4th to
complete the contract.
Tne officers of the West Haven (Ct.) horse.
railroad are considering the introduction of
electricity as motivepower, and are
likely to have it in use by another summer.
They favor the Julien system of storage bat.
teries.
The resources of Bluehill, Me-, have been
opening up at an encouraging rate. A large
deposit of chalk has been found at Morse s
pond, paint mine that has already produced
fine colors is another find, and good marble
is found on c. C. Cloughs farm.
The cider mills at Petersham, Mass, are
well patronized, large one which is run by
water-power being crowded with orders.
Jairus Stone has harvested 300 Iarrels of
first quality apples, which are ready for
market.
The rumor that Souder the murderer Of
Calvin, the Hartford. Ct, ausage-vender,
threw the knife he used into cess pool at