Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-15

a young woman who had acquired the
manly art of self-defence,n punished an i'm.
pudsnt scamp In true pugilstic fashion who
insulted her on Washington street. Boston,
Saturday night.
The Paint and Oil club of New England
held its regular dinner at the Narragansett
hotel in Providence on Saturday evening,
and the mayor and other prominent citizens
of Providence were guests.
The subject of soldiers memorial is being
talked Of at Milford, N. h, and sum Of
money has been raised for hall There has
been $1,000 subscribe for the object, and
lot of land In the centre of the village, val
ued at $500. Two memorial windows, one
tor tn soldiers Of that place and one for
the Eighth New Hampshire regiment cost
ing $3.50 each, have been pledged A suit
able builling will cost about 500
Shipment Of shoes from Haverhill, Mass,
for the week ending February Z, 6455 cases;
corresponding week In 1888, 50,1 cases. Ship
ment of hats for the same period 16O cases,
corresponding week last year 265 cases.
Department Commander Franklin NJ. Drew
of the Maine G. A. R., has appointed Edwin
G. Milliken Of Portland assistant adjutant
general, and B. P. Beals of Auburn assistant
quarter-master general for the ensuing year.
Kennebec lumbermsn are meeting with
much better success In their operations in the
woods thi season than was expected The
winter s cut will be not less than 100 900, 900,
and may possibly un up to 1l5, 100000 The
PenObscot lumbermen are also doing good
winters work on the west branch. The cut
will be over 40,00l000 or some 5000, 600
more than it was last year. The Androscog-
gin operators are doing their usual amount
of numbering
The establishment of city hospital at
Ma. hua, N. H., is being discussed, and it is
understood that one citizen has pledged $1,000
and two others $1,000 each for that purpose.
AT a pre- eiminary meeting Of citizens to form
a voluntary organization the following were
named as truStees: DR.. Edward Spalding,
Rev. George w. Grover, Solon s. Withheld
Mayor Charles H. Burke, F. W. Esterbrook,
W. D. Caldwell, E. M. Shaw and L. P. Lu-
cier./
The supreme court of New York has re-
Gently handed down decision in the case of
Augustus G. Brown, administrator, respond
ent, against the Farmers Loan and Trust
company OF New York, appel ant which is
of peculiar interest to Rhode Island people,
in that it sustains the action of the late Gen
eral Burnside in pledging bonds, the proper
ty Of his wife, Mary R. Burnside which was
conveyed to her by the Confedel ate General
Simeon r. Buckner of Chicago in the sum
of $4,000.
About 100 Patrons of Husbandry met at
Providence last week to air their objections
to the site selected for the agricultural sta
ton and school. Overseer John Hoyle of
Richmond presided, and the following reso-
luton was adopted: Resolved, That we be-
lieve the location of the buildings Of the
Rhode Island Agricultural School and Ex-
pertinent station, two and one-half miles
from the depot, Is undesirable, and we are
therefore, in favor of the state purchasing
additional land near Kingston station and
the erection of the buildings of the said school
and experiment station thereon. A commit
tee of three was appointed to act in the
matter.
The Industrial school at Newport, r. l.,
has been open 16 months and there have been
65S pupils, BAL in cooking, 231 in dressmak-
ing, 225 in sewing and 149 in household work.
The cooking school is In charge of Miss
Susannah Usher Of Lacrosse, Wis, a gradu-
ate of the Boston schools. The pupils of this
department have made during the past five
months 1 515 dishes at their homes The
dressmaking department is in charge of Miss
Annie F. NARROW of Boston; in 10 months 81
dresses have been made In the school. The
sewing and homework departments are
equally successful, and the problem of in
dustrial training seems to have been practi-
cally solv ed. The expenses of the school are
$2500 for the school year of 10 months,
The 9th annual encampment of the De-
partment OF Rhode Island, u. A. r., was
held at Providence on Saturday, Department
Commander Gideon Spencer presiding. The
annual report showed 81 posts, enrolling 2726
members an increase of 115 members during
the year The following department officers
were elected: Department COM
mander Prof. Alonzo Williams of
Brown university senior vice-command-
er, Benjamin Davis junior vice
commander, T, Henry jerks; medical direc-
tor Charles o. Ballou; department chaplain,
Rev E. o. Bartlett; delegates to the national
encampment, Patrick Egan, H. B. Williams,
A. D. Nickerson, William H. Phillips, The
department commander named his staff as
follows: A. A. G., George NJ. Turner; A. @.
W. A. Phillips; NJ. o., A. E. Pierce.
A water main at Pawtucket, R. l., burst
few days ago 100000 gallons Of water
running to waste and doing considerable
damage on Dexter street.