Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-08-17
new ENGLAND NEWS.


At a meeting Of the governor and council
OF New Hampshire, Hon. John d. Lyman
OF Exeter was reappointed a member of the
state board of agriculture, and it was voted
to accept the history of the 18th war regi-
ment.
The blowing out of the cylinder head Of an
engine at the Wonskulzet (R L. wooden
mill will necessitate shutting down negrly
two-thiris of the mill for about month and
throw five hundred persons out of employ
ment.
In the hearing t0 be held by the county
commissioners at Dover, n. H., as to dam
ages for the land that will be taken for the
public water works, George P, Demerritt
of Dover was disqualified and Judge Doe
appointed Albert Demerritt Of Durham in his
place.
There is great scarcity of striped bass in
the waters Of Buzzard's bay and its neigh
horhood this season. The fishermen sscribe
this scarcity TO the immense quantity of
menhaden off shore The menhaden also
keep bluefish away from the bay.
The man killed on the railroad near Hart
ford, Vt, on Tuesday was Alexander Grant
of the firm of Dingle g. Grant granite
workers. OF Barre. He was identified by his
partner, who arrived on the night train. 1t
is thought that his mind was somewhat de-
ranged. He was a Scotchman and had
Quincy, Mass.
A breakwater 500 feet long and feet
above high water mark is being erected by
the government on Barnstable bay side Of
Blllingsgate island at the entrance Of Well
fleet haruor, thereby affording protection TO
the island on which is situated Billingsgats
light. About 30 feet of the island was
washed away last winter, making over go
feet washed away the past two years and de-
posted in the harbor. The work is under
the direct supervision of Assistant Engineer
T. A. Chubbeck
large gang Of workmen will commence
work at once on the Lake Shore railroad
from Lake Village to Alton Bay, contracted
for by Ryan q Co. of New York. The distance
is Is miles anu the grading is to be completed
by Dec 10. The road has been asked for for
over 20 years by the citizens of Belknap
county, and will open up a large country.
The Dover (N. H. Daily Times, published
by Robert I. Welch, discontinued publica-
tion Aug. 10.
Frank Blair, foreman at the Milestone
Hill quarries, near Worcester, Mass, was
badly burned by the premature discharge Of
a blast.
DR.. H. B. Storer of Boston, president of
the Spiritualist association, has left Lake
Sunapee Spiritualist camp meeting for Tenn
pie Heights, Me-
Hosea b. Walker, a respected citizen Of
Newport, n. H., committed suicide by hang
ing few days ago. The probable cause was
i'll health. He was 6S years old.
Walter Ray and Chester Albee, two paint
ers, were injured while at work in Worcester,
Mass, by the falling OF a staging. Albee
suffered internal injuries, but Rays injuries
were not so serious.
j, q. Hutchinson, aged 25 son of Mrs. L.
ID. Hutchinson of Hartford, Ct, fell un-
conscious in the water at Block Island while
bathing, and expired in a short time Death
was assigned to apoplexy or heart disease.
A meeting of the officers of the New Hamp-
SHIRE Granger Fair association decided to
hold the third annual fair at Tilton, Sep
| 12-l4 The Tilton cornet band and the Deer
| ing band will furnish music. There will be
programme of races similar to that of last
| year, with one additional race open to all
| horses owned in the association. Additional
buildings will be erected and the exhibition
will be large
Maj Gibbons place, one of the handsomest
residences in Great Darlington, has been
purchased by Col W. L. Brown, part owner
of the New York Daily News, for $4,000
1t was once the home Of George Ives, father
| of Lady Alice Seymour, whose nom de
plume was Octavia Hanshel. Later the
place was owned by David Draper, ex-vice
president of the Housatonic railroad, and
occupied by Col. Brown as a summer resi-
dence.
Charles Hanks, noted horseman, we'll
known throughout southern Massachusetts,
and Rhode Island, dropped dead on the Fair
| grounds at Taunton, Mass, after driving his
horse on the track. Heart disease was prob
ably the cause.
A. NJ. Morreles, Spaniard who has been
tailoring at Brunswick, Me-, was run out of
town for making indecent exposures to an
| o-year-old girl was was in his shop on an
errand. A crowd escorted him to the depot
and purchased him ticket west,
John Lowrie an employee at the Willow
cottage, Magnolia, at Gloucester, Mass,
| opened a trunk of one of the guests of the
took the train for Boston, He is about II
years old,
During the progress of a fire on West
| street, Randolph, Mass, which consumed
the barn and partially destroyed the house
of John Kelly, Mrs. Kelly, his wife, was so
| overcome with fright that she was stricken
with paralysis, taken to the house of neigh
| Dor and died.
City Solicitor Greenhalge, of Lowell,
| Mass, has decided that the action of the
| school committee in dismissing Miss Anna
| belle Costello, a recently elected teacher Of
| the Moody school, is legal. This will remove
| all obstacles to the opening of the training
| school, as one of the teachers of the Worth
| en- Street school will be transferred to the
| Moody school, and Miss Costello will go into
the training school.
John Conklin, an old resident of Bridge
port, Ct, stabbed himself Is times i'll the
chest and lower part of the body with
| small pocket knife. Finding this would not
| accomplish his object he took razor and
| cut his throat. He was removed to the hos
| pital but cannot recover. Temporary insani-
| ty is supposed to have been the cause.