The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-10-11
new ENGLAND NEWS.


The Harvard freshman class numbers 500
making II the largest class that ever entered
Harvard.
Phillip Palledeno the italian who muir
dered his brother In cold blood on the even
ing of June %. 1885 suffered the death pen
atty at bridgeport CT
,..,,,a.,a 10, Ar AN, E,oo,r;,
rin,, ID. INV III VI WV avn ~ tho
Atbnl ~ anu rower COMPANY hpa .gan,oa + A
S'noi gas ToinPany nas ooon eh,uVe 80
dent and eenarai msnager
IT., M. -, 10. .o,,..,o,,, for soOO
no fi.cnourg r1au nas go @ ~, s eor'
'ons y, nea'y s'so' i'is ,V' u'1 "eNO ,e',
The Boston a Maine VIII make number
OF changes In time on Its Lowell system ON
the sth inst, and on the list wiz adopt the
winter N,It.p seneou'e On Jus eas'erh anu "'s'ei"
uvisions'
Ina drunken row on Davidson street,
Lowell, James Goulding and his wife were
assaulted by Mary Carrigan, the 'od gray
mare" with heavy stone pitcher. Mr..
Goulding may lose the sight of his left eye,
and will then be totally blind
Judge Rollin Harmon. recently anpointed
Judge of probate and insolvency in Essex
county, Mass, vacated the Judges chair at
the police court. LYNN last weel, where
since 1879 he has rendered service. Asso.
ciate Justice Ira b. Keith will fill the office
theh eONSihoi fhihcs ihfhcS VI
judge of the Lynn court,
John Burke of West Bridpewater. Mass,
while walking on the Old Colony railroad
track near Pawtuxet station was strnck and
thrown some distance by the Cape exl ress
train. Burke was badly cut on his fore.
head, but sustained no serious injury. al.
though he was unconscious when picked up.
His companion, a man named Gilmore,
jumped aside and was not struck by the
train.
The Dover & Winnipiseogee Railroad COM
pany elected the following directors: VII.
liam Hale of Dover: John McDuffee of
Rochester; George G.. Lord of Boston: Will
liam S. Stevens of Dover. Amos Paul of
South Newm rket; Frank Jones of Ports
mouth; and Elisha r.. Brown of Dover,
Az tho ANNA, naotiro of tho co,cord g.
passed omtiIorjzinp nm increase of the capitaI
stocl, from $3.50 00D 10 $500 600 and proyidinc
that IL he allowed Mt mar TO holders of stock
i'm PROPORTION to the amount held at time of
issue. The following d .rcctors were elected:
Samuel N. Bell, Manchester: joseph b.
Walker, Concord; Walter Nj. Parker, Man
chester; John j. Bell, Exeter; William A.
Pierce, Portsmouth; Moody Currier, Man
chester.
Long distance telephone connection has
been successfully accomplished between
York and Philadelphia, and an order for
goods was made by a Providence firm on
Portland, and acknowledged at the
eastern end of the wire. Providence
works as clear and distinct as any short dis
lance line; New York, quite clear; Philadel-
phia, more muffied. Still, conversation was
kept up between Portland and the Quaker
City for some moments. These connections
VIII be permanent and procurable at all
times by the public.
The naval torpedo board met at the tor
pedo station a few days since to witness some
trials of the Hall automatic fish torpedo,
but, owing to the loss of one of the screws
in launching, the trials were postponed.
The report that fur Their trials were
to be abandoned is entirely unfounded.
The torpedo is one of the automatic type
and it possesses novel means of regulating
the immersion and governing the speed and
n peculiarly ingepiou, devices for overcom-
| ing the net defences of war vessels. The ord-
nary diving rudd.r is supplanted by an i'm
mersion valve that causes the torpedo to dive
or rise as reou red by directing currents of
air above or below from the stern.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tabor. wealthy lady who
has given a great deal of money for public
imrrovemenis in Marion. is dead Mt the are
of 81 years. She gave the money to build
the Tabor academy and b ardlng house, the
and the Congregational chapel
The fine residence of Ezra w. Chapin at
| Chapnyille. Northboro Mass. known as the
| Davis house, was completely wrecked
nv the exniosion of fine hotter in the
basement, which Mr. Chaplin had just started
up, having teen out of use for several sea-
| sons The damage is estimated at $4,000.
All of the main house, a two-story wooden
structure, is mass of ruins, the roof only
J
A smashup occurred on the Boston & AL
bany railroad, midway between Westboro
and Grafton. few days ago. A freight
train going west on the north track was
| switched on to the south track to let the
n,'r'.o h.S. ney uaoheu a. ouiu
eo,,th tronL 49, j.; ao me, eaSS Ut VI, VI. aM
steam TO picl, un the cars gradually. and moi
knowing the other train was there dashed
into it at full speed. Fourteen cars and both
locomotives were either split oren or de-.
rallied. Both tracks are completely blocked
No person was injured. The damage will
reach $4,000.
William johnson, aged about 90 from
Pittsfield. Mass. was killed on Grevloc,
mountain in coming down with load OF
wood.
| Women are goinp TO vote for school com,
mitteemeu in large numbers in other nlaca.
i'm Mass cbusetts BESIDES Roston Records re
coming in of the number ossessod In Som,
ervil there are 1l00. In Natick the mum
Der reached 800 Monday evening in Lynn
there were 527, in Watertewn 200, in Wal
than 1896.
Capt. Charles G. Goodspeed died suddenly
at plymouth, Mass, recently He was g.
years Old, and half century ago was cap
tam OF packets plying between Boston, Prov
1ncetown, Hartford and New York.
The attention of the Portland board q
trade has been called to the delay of impor
tations made through New York ard Bostor
bv Portland importing house. for the want
of a bonded line between Boston and Port
land.
w;.ato5 ~.
= inset ". w., - Vroupleu py numerous eei'
III ,'' "a'ei supply WHICH CHOKE ,ne pipes.
Joseph Gonsalve, laborer on the Swart.
az, 80 iuviuenIe' ~ Il I11t ilein .ne tnlrc
o;taI an a. W .nG nnoue lSiahd nos
p''ai ~ ~ eo'i ioua ooiioi'ioh.
Advices from the northern woods o.
Maine state that sportsmen who have gont
there after deer are suffering more hardship
on account OF cold weather than they were
prepared to meet.
Three men were rescued from a capsizet
boat off Narragansett Pier by two catboats
md two mon 1vera roco,,ai from, =, o,,or