Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-06-22
NEWS IN GENERAL.
DOMESTIC.

Danbury, Conn, was visited by very
serious fire Monday afternoon, entailing a
loss Of sl25,0O0.
John Budd, a brakeman on a New Eng
land freight train, was crushed at Hope
well junction Sunday night, so that he lived
but short time.
The United States Fish Commission at
Woods Holl has propagated and distributed
this spring into the waters in that locality
over 100000 young mackerel, $500 soup and
quantities of small Holsters.
The town of Oxford, Mass, has voted
that the tower on Memorial hall be raised
to accommodate clock and bell at a cost
not exceeding $500
The Dodin Improvement company at
Waterville, Ne, have completed about 1900
of the 10000 feet of eurbing for the city of
ST. Paul, MINI. 1t will require about five
months time CO con-2lste the contract.
The girls who do housework in Lewiston
and Auburn, Me-, propose to form union
and to hoid a county convention to consider
the wage question, to ask for better pay and
better treatment.
The Gardiner, Me-, Assessors report the
total valuation this year to be 50, 423, 290, an
increase of $45,S SG2 over last year. There
are 1905 polls, gain of SO. The rate of
taxation is .02.
Navigation began in Lake Sunapee on
made.
The selectmen of Milford, N. H., have
signed a contract with Boston parties to
build and operate a system of town water
works, to be completed on or before Deem
Der next
The lead keel for the new Burgess yacht at
| Burlington, VT, has been successfully cast
and contains 10 tons of lead, about one ton
more than was expected Work on the
| ua will ho I,nI
BILE.
Hon. Charles Z. Batchelder, Justice of the
municipal court at Portsmouth, N. H., will
sail on June 30 for pleasure trip to Europe
Bunker Hill Day was observed by Charles
town citizens by parades in the morning and
afternoon, with several entertainments of a
more or less private character sandwiched
between. There was a balloon ascension in
the afternoon. The Coeur de Lion Com
mandery, knights Templars, had a short
parade, trip down the harbor and ban
quet in the evening.
A fish commission car left Woods Holl on
Saturday afternoon with live Holsters for
stocking Pacific coast waters in the region
about San Francisco The shipment consists
of over 900 Holsters of both sexes, the larger
portion being females many cf which are
now carrying eggs about to hatch. An ad-
ditional lot of zoe, 600 free eggs is also in
cluded in the shipment, and these will be
Matched artiticially after their arrival in
San Francisco. The Commissioner of Fish
cries, Col. Mcdonald, and Mr.. Rathbun, as
sistant in charge Of the scientific inquiry,
have personally directed and arranged all
the details of this important experiment, and
every precaution has been taken to assure
success.
The president has recognized Henry Kun
hardt as vice consul of the republic of Hayti
at Boston.
Gen. and Nine. Diss Debar were sentenced
at New York to six months imprisonment
each.
Hon A. w. Mcclellan has resigned the DO
st5ion of postip paster-genera1 and has been
appointed lieutenant governor Of Nova Sco-
tia.
Hon. Charles H. Tupper, the new Domin-
ion minister of marine and fisheries was
elected to parliament by accl lmation for
Pictou, N, S.
The Canadian minister of finance has re-
ceived word by cable from London that
&12, 00O, 900 Of the new Dominion per cent.
loan has been subscribed for at 95. The
government will only require 94,00O,00O at
present.
General Howard, commanding the division
Of the Pacific, has formally objected to the
system OF monthly payments in the army,
recently adopted, General Howard finds
the new arrangement tends to increase the
number of desertions and decreases the
amounts of deposits of enlisted men, S1cre-
| tary Endicott says the new system will not
be discontinued until given fair trial.
America is asked to unite with England in
raising the funds for the memorial TO Dinah
Mulock Craik, which is to be placed in
Tewkesbury abbey. A marble medallion is
proposed, and SIS has been fixed as the maxi
mum of individual subscriptions in this
country. Joseph W. Harper of Harper g.
Bros. will receive subscriptions.
A young woman named Cargile, who re.
sided with her mother in New York, either
fell or jumped from the roof of her house
Sunday morning, and was killed. They
formerly lived i'll Virginia in afiluent cir
! cumstances.
A dispatch from St. Paul says: "After
a very late spring, summer has come in the
| northwest with vengeance 1t has been
hot for several days and Sunday afternoon
the mercury touched &C. Even the nights
are hot the thermometer standing at 80
Sunday night"
Ex-Congressman Rice of Massachusetts,
arrived on Monday to look after some legal
business. He called on his successor, MIR.
John e. Russell, ard had very pleasant
chat about politics in the 10th district.
The case of Lieut.. E. H. Taunt, U. s. N,
sentenced to be dismissed the service by
|
though many months have elapsed since the
proceedings were submitted to the secretary
OF the navy. Lieut.. Taunt has been informed
so it is said, that his resignation would be
| accepted, but has intimated that he has no
intention of quitting the service voluntarily.
A box gaudily trimmed in red, white and
blue bunting and cambric, and two Ameri-
can flags, was received at the white house ON
| Monday. 1t bore label reading: Our
Next President, Hon. Grover Cleveland,
Washington, d. G. From G.. B. Vail, Angus
ia, Ca" Through the top of the box peeped
the round sides of two great watermelons.
Comptroller Dunham has made final
settlement of the accounts of James M. Ew-
ing, late discussing clerk of the department
| OF justice, and who was discovered some
time ago to be defauter. Mr.. Durham
finds that the total amount due from Ewing
is S974O, and Informed the late disbursing
clerk and the sureties on his bonds that. un-
| less the amount was made good forthwith
suitagainst them would be instituted. Among
his bondsmen is Representative Goff of
West Virginia.
The assessment by the collector at Boston
of 30 cents per pound and 40 per cent ad
valorem on lawn tennis suitings imported by
Shepard, Norwell & Co., per steamer Nor
wegian, March 2S, 1883, is affirmed, and the
claim OF an allowance for deficiency in the
quantity of flannel shirts embraced in the
same invoice has been denied bv the treasury
department; it also affirmed the assessment
by the collector at Boston of As per cent. ad
vaorem on sckles and grass hooks imported
by Parker o. Wood, per Venetian, March %,
1885,
A. distinguished company assembled In the |
Concordia German Lutheran church on Sun |
day and participated in services in memory !