Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-17
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

Capt. Clark of the schooner Daniel Web
ster of Mid6letown, Conn.,, was found
drowned near L1wrence's wharf.
Black bears are killing sheep and brighten
ing people in the towns OF Beckett, Washing
ton and Middlefeld, Mass They have al
ready killed about dozen sheep, and there
was grand hunt for these ancient natives
of the mountains few days ago. The bears
were followed some distance, but managed 10
elude the hunters One of them is very large,
his tracks being over nine inches long.
Is. W. Richards, harness maker, at
Portsmouth, n. H., is reported to have left
his wife, to whom he was married about a
year ago, and gone to parts unknown. Rich
ards, before his last matrimonial adventure,
omitted the short legal ceremony Of obtain
ing divorce from a wife in Newburyport,
as well as her predecessor, his first wife, i'll
Maine.
The gentlemen who purchased the property
of the Portsmouth (N H Machine company
at an auction sale, have organized new cor
poration under the name Of 1.-The Portsmouth
Machine company with capital Of 500,
600.
Max SAINT, aged 90 years, tailor by
trade, residing in Bridgeport. Conn, has been
missing from home for over a week. The
last seen Of him was at the masquerade ball
Of the Social Turn Verein
The mule spinners are dissatisfied with the
proposition TO place them on the Fall River
advanced scale of wages. They have always
been paid by the pound but the Fall River
custom is to pay by the hank, and they say
they will strike unless they have an advance
of 10 per cent on the New Bedford scale.
Ellen B. Leslie of Patten, Me-. shot her
self through the head for some unknown
reason
Charles Anthony Of Providence, who has
been pr minent in various branches of that
city and state governments died few days
ago at his residence in that city. He was in
his seventy-thiId year.
The water works at Old Orchard were
tested, and a stream was thrown over the
flagstaff on the Old Orchard house. The an
nual talk about pier is now rag .ng there.
Robert Peters, the colored revivalist, so
prominent in old-time camp meetings, is
deld. He would have been 100 years old on
April next
During party in Lewiston lMe,l city hall
Joseph She han, agc;l 10, attempted to slide
on the stair rail, lost his balance and fell to
the basement about 80 feet. Though his in
iuries are severe there is a possibility of
recovery.
Edward H. Benton,5 ,55 years Old a Gulfortl
grocer, committed suicide by blowing off
the top of his head with a shotgun. Despond-
ency was the cause
The body of an unknown man, apparently
about 80 years of age, was found on the
eastern division track of the Boston & Maine
railroad near Exeter, N. II. One arm was
found some distance from the body, the head
was badly cut and face disfigured, and the
body was frozen stiff. He was probably
killed by some passing night train.
Samuel Shaw, metal spinner of Meri-
den, Conn.,, aged s. shot himself while clean
ing gun, the charge entering his lett breast,
making n bad hut not necessarily fatal
wound He did not know that one barrel of
the gun was loaded.
Fall River is again partially blockaded by
ice, and New York passenger steamers are
once more making Newport a terminus.
Freight boats still go through to Fall River.
L. L. PIERCE many years ago one of Bar
NUNS managers, died at Springfield recently.
He had charge of the party when Tom
Thumb made his first tour of England and
the continent.
Schooner Theodore Dean, which has been
ashore on Ram Island, Buzzards Bay, for
two weeks, was pumped dry, after being
lghtened of about 100 tons of coal, and
foated.
Portland, Me, clergyruen, who feel ag-
grieved by the non-action Of the municipal
authorities regarding the enforcement of the
liquor law, have prepared a protest which is
to be sent TO every voter in the city.