Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-07-12


ton has raised the salary of the principal of
the high school TO $500, while the first as
sstant will have $500 and the other assistants
$3.50 each. The principal OF the Sawyer
grammar school will have $1,000 and of the
Belknap S600 The music teacher is to re-
ceive 81 week and the janitors each 5000
year.
John Holmes, who was tried for arson for
an alleged attempt TO burn the Carson build
ings at Togus, Me-, and who was released ON
bail has been arrested on new testimony.
Mr.. John f. Chase of Augusta, Me-, has
made flying machine which he thinks will
prove a success.
A little daughter of John Paine of Revere,
Mass, was seriously bitten about the face by
a large mad dog, which was afterwards
shot.
The largest taxpayers in Rochester, N h,
are these, Cocheco Manufacturing company
S4001, Norway Plains Manufacturing COM
pany S3673, Z. G. & e. Wallace 1924, Comic
Manufacturing company Sl3l2, Rochester
Aqueduct and Water company $685. Hon.
John McDuffee 1924 Dominicus Hanson
$500, and Sarah Dodge 1913.
A movement is being made to form a cho-
rus of singers within a radius of eight miles
of Harwich, Mass, to rehearse for a days
festival closing in the evening with an ora
torio the first ever given on Cape Cod.
The assessors of Cohasset Mass, have
completed their labors and make out that
the towns real estate is worth 50, 143, $40, an
increase Of SS7, ,066 over last year. Personal
estate is valued at 81, 436 $50, an increase of
S48, 297, while the total increase in valuation
is S135.3 363
Prof. David P. Todd of Amherst college
observatory has just received papers from
the state department. at Washington ap-
pointing him chief Of expedition to observe
the total eclipse of the sun, visible Dec % in
southwestern Africa. Prof. Todd will be
accompanied by a large staff of scientists and
assistants and intends to leave New York
for his destination, st. Paul de Loanda, in
the Portuguese province of Angola about
Oct l.
The new high sch oil building at Pittsield,
N. H, will be of brick, with granite trim
mings and slated roof, two stories above
basement, 50 feet in length by So deep and
will furnish accommodations for 200 schol-
ars.
A; H. George of Canaan, N. H., postal
clerk, has been promoted to the fifth class
with a q salary of $1,000.
Counterfeit silver dollars of the issue of
1885 have been deluged upon Providence dur
ing tho past week. A gang from New York
is believed to be engaged in the work. The
pICCG 10 VI GACtlleuU COIOT, anu UEuTeS are
distinct except the IN" on the neck of the
bust. The most noticeable thing about the
counterfeit is that it has lighter weight than
the genuine dollar; the milling is not cut but
nodded
Sunday "Blue Laws" arc being enforced
at Laconia, N. H., every confectionery store
being closed. Sunday papers were not OBJ
tainable at any price, the dealers not daring
to sell them.
The old ship Constitution is to be towed
from Portsmouth, N. H., to Washington,
where she will be used as a receiving ship.
A new industry is about starting up at
West Cove, Moosehead lake. Parties from
the west have purchased land opposite the
steamboat wharf and will put in a veneering
mill there
The Diamond Match company, Damaris-
Gotta mills now have in stock 2,70O0 900 feet
pine logs and 100000 hemlock and spruce.
They also have large stock of boards on
hand for their match cases and will use this
year 400, 900 feet of boards for boxes. They
are working 70 to so men and eight boys and
girls They are getting out new match
card that is selling very fast, much faster in
fact than they can be made at present. and
more machinery will soon be put in.
In Manchester, N. H., during the last
quarter, the whole number of pupils in the
puDllC SCuOOlS WAS OOOf WIFI I'LL average
daily attendance of $500.
The elopament of j. E. Ricketts,, teacher
of New Haven, Ct, and a high school girl
named Eta Davis, is reported
c, M Foster of New Haven, Ct, has dis
appeared, leaving many debts.
Frank W. Sutton of Naugatuck, Conn,
aged "a went to his room at Mrs, Pease's
boarding house, and after stripping went to
bed, then shot himself dead wit h revolver,
He had been employed by the Goodyear Me-
tallic Rubber Shoe company for some time.
He had q wife and two children at New
Haven, where he formerly lived, but his
married life was not happy one. Sutton
was suffering from temporary alteration
caused by drink.
The National Granite company at Barre,
VT, has an order for 400 carloads of granite
for bank building in Pennsylvania to cost
500 600