The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-06-21
new ENGLAND News

The 30th anniversary OF the introduction
Of Good Templary into Maine was observed
at Portland.
In the Rhode Island general assembly
Jonathan A. Chace was reelected United
States senator by a majority of both houses
The schooner Hattie Knowlton Of Swamp
scott, took a fare of 5000 pounds Of cod for
the Boston market. 1t sold for l-2 cents
per pound.
The stockholders OF the Great Falls Manu-
featuring company met at Great Falls, n.
H., and the following directors were elected;
George p Gardner OF Brookline, Mass, j.
son Coolidge, Samuel r. Payson, and Thorn
as Wigglesworth OF Boston, s. NJ. Marston
of Great Falls, Edwin Wallace of Roches-
ter, N. II.
James McCaulley, former inmate of the
National Soldiers Home, Togus, assaulted,
with intent to kill, Chenery and Won ker.
sting, clerks of Gen. Stephenson, at the
home Monday evening, McCaulley was ar
rested Tuesday morning, waived examina-
ton, and was put under $4,000 bonds. Won
kersting may die, though somewhat better
at the latest accounts, The cause Of the as
saut was desire for revenge.
Harry L. Harvey, who has been for
several months past stealing bicycles and
tricycles throughout New England and who
was held to appear before the grand jury for
the larceny Of two tricycles in Maiden, was
sent to the state prison for three years from
the superior court at Cambridge
The letterbox scheme by which the resi-
dents of Somerville and other places have
recently been victimized has within a few
days been sprung upon the people of Brook
line, and some go boxes have been sold. The
plan pursued was similar to the one which
has operated so successfully elsewhere.
A frost in the Contoocook valley on
Wednesday was sufficient to nip early vege-
tables.
Fish Commissioner Anterior took II ,00C
landlocked salmon from Plymouth, N. H., tx
Lake Dunmore, Addison county, Vt
Romance Davis, while attempting to fas
ten rope for campaign flag in the top Of
tree at Dover N. H., fell 40 feet to tn,
sidewalk. Ho was badly injured, but may
pull through, although the chances arr
against him.
In Lebanon, Ct, Timothy Dwight Will
liams aged 76, was found dead on his littl,
farm, where for years he had led a solitary
life He had tried to hive a swarm of bees
had fallen from tree, broken a leg ant
been stung to death.
Thomas Wood, II years of age, was ar
rested at Newport, R. L., for opening box
at the postcfice belonging to Col. william
Gilpin, and taking from it a pension lettel
addressed to Jonathan Dawson, containing
check for s24. The boy confessed,
Rudolph Stoefrel, arrested for shooting
Andrew j. Peck, was taken before justice
Dayton. The evidence was of purely cir
cumstantial nature, and no new develop
ments were brought out Stoeffel was com
mitted on charge of murder in the frs
degree.
Schooner William Deming, Capt. Hodgins
from Newburyport, reports that at oclocl
Monday morning, during a dense fog, sh
was in collision with the shooner Mary c. o
St. John, Bennett, master, from Rockport
| N. B., for New York, with cargo Of piling
The Deming lost her jbboom and head gear
had her rail broken and side badly chafed
The damage to the Mary c. is unknown.
A rascally italian padrone, said to be Carl
etto Faretta, hired in New York Sc Italian
to go to Waterbury to work on the Merider
railroad. Each of the laborers was induce;
to pay him So. SO as commission and the,
also gave him nearly 50 as fare. On tn
way to the city the padrone slipped off tn
cars and the men were in sorry pligh
when they alighted from the ITO train
They divided up their money so that all bu
three could buy tickets to Bridgeport. TIL
fares of those were paid by three travelling