The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-25
new ENGLAND NEWS.


port to this Office without fail and without
delay every appointment and every dis
charge OF employees. In the case or every
appointment state whether it is made under
any civil service rule of the commonwealth
and whether the appointee is a veteran; alst
his or her full name, birthplace age, resi-
dence, date OF appointment and rate Of pay
In tho case of every discharge state the rea.
son or reasons therefor. The departments
are requested to assist in the best possible
enforcement AMI in the constant improve
ment Of the civil service law.
The town of East Corinth, Me-, has been
greatly excited since the recent destructive
fires. 1t certainly appears as though g. II
Gilman, In whose store the blaze originated
blew open his own safe; tho fire which fol-
lowed may or may not have been planned by
him. Gilman has been arrested and is said
to be insane.
Ground has been broken for the extension
of the works of the Edison Illuminating
company at Fall River Mass. The addition
will be of brick, two stories high, Two new
dynamos of 120O-light power will be added.
Massachusetts, charters have been granted
the Pleasure Park and Fair association of
Easlhampton, E. w. Wood, president, E.
L. Sawyer, treasurer, capital $4,000; the
Kernwool club of Maiden, A. J, Chase,
president j. G. Chandler, treasurer; the
North Grafton Cooperative association,
o"ihos iiuHud, p'tslusnu w liiidii iIaLioui,
treasurer, capital $4,000
Two Rhode Island menhaden steamers
have been captured and crews arrested by
the state police for illegally fishing in Massa-
chuSetts waters
The Connecticut law prohibiting the sale
of cigarettes to boys under 10 years of age
goes into effect next month. The cigar
dealers are having lot of machines made
at Waterbury with drop-a- nickle-in-the-
M M yyb Inv
drop penny and receive cigarette. The
machines are to be placed outside of the store
where the dealer cannot see who buys.
joseph W. Stocker has been appointed
deputy collector of the Salem Mass, custom
house for the district of Beverly.
The Ellsworth, Me- board of Aldermen
have voted 10 contract with the Ellsworth
Water company for system of water
works, the city to pay annually the sum of
$780,
The Worcester steel works are talking of
establishing branch Of their industry in
the northern part of the town of Cumber-
land, r. l., if they can obtain certain con-
ditions, among which is the exemption from
taxes Of the proposed plant for at least 10
years.
The returns made by the assessors Of Mil
ton, Mass, show that the valuation of the
town is Sl3, sol, 433 of which s. 730, $40 is
The tax rate is to be 81 per $1,000. There
are 9i2 polls.
The National Car company at st. Adams.
Vt, has elected these officers James r,
La gdon, j. d. Hatch, NJ Hall Stantons
Gilman Cheney, Herbert Brainerd, E. Curtie
Smith, Henry l.. Mills. These officers wer-
sub equently elected; President, j. R. Lang
don; treasurer and secretary F. Stewart
Stranahan; saditor 90 D. Hatch; executive
committee, j. R. Langdon, E. Curtis Smith,
Herbert Brainerd; superintendent, j. B.
Fletcher.
A new corporation has just been organized
in Belfast Me, called the Belfast CONSOLE
dated Gas and Electric company. The
capital stock is $4,000 divided into 800
shares, par value of $50 each. This is a con-
soidation of the Easton Electric company,
est New York and the Belfast Gas company.
sy some blunder the exact nature of which
is not to be ascertained, two Grand Trunk
freight trains met at Paris, Me. The engi-
5sers ard firemen of both trains jumped for
their lives, and escaped with good shaking
up but both engines were demolished. The
loss will be heavy.
Probably the most notable lot of wander
ing mail that has turned up in any Maine
postoffice for some time recently came into
the Bowdoinham office. 1t was a large sized
package marked Books for Hon. Jefferson
Davis Beauvor, Miss" 1t was sent from
Savannah, Ga. 1t is quite curiosity how a
package like that could get so far out of its
track and be landed in that office. Postmas-
Ter Jack forwarded the package to its desti-
nation.
Miss Annie O'Brien, the nineteen year-old
daughter Of John O'Brien, wholesale meat
dealer is missing from her home, 1878 Wal
nut street. Lynn, Mass. Her disappearance
is very mysterious, and much concern is felt
by her parents and friends.
The tonnage for the district of Gloucester,
Mass, for the quarter ending June 30, in
cluded vessels of 472. II tons under perma-
nent registers; 2 vessels, 110S.4 tons under
temporary + gisters 3Sl vessels, 2s6S4 50
tons; steamers, 9SS7 tons and barge,
12l.64 tons; under permanent enrolment.
The statement OF business done at the
Montpelier, VT, postoffice during the fiscal
year ending June 80 shows the total receipts
TO have been $13 406S SO and the total ex-
Sal5427. The deposits received from fourth
class offices amounted to 27,99S.S5. The
number of pieces of mail matter delivered
amounted to 33S, 957; collected, 1888, 1888
handled by carriers, 522, 800; sent out, 741,
537
Or. Carl Putnam and Herbert W. Gould
of Marlborough, Mass, have been arrested
and held in SO, 900 bonds in the police court,
the former for criminal malpractice and the
latter for aiding in the same, on the person
of Effie Cooper, causing her DEATH DR.
Pu nam furnished sureties, but Gould was
Committed.
James Hart of Hinsdale Mass, convicted
of assault with intent to kill his wife July
Fourth, has been sentenced to nine years ir
state prison.
The earnings of the Knox & Lincoln rail
road for the month of May were 81, 500. &C.
Ray P Eaton, commissioner of subsistence
at the National Military home at Togus, Me-,
has resigned.
The new pulp mill of the Eastern Manu-
featuring Co., at Brewer, Me-, will be 2S0S
80 feet, with storage warehouse S0x30 feet
the boiler house being separate brick build
ing 154x63 feet and having five steel boilers
Waitsfeld, Vt, will have centennial the
first week in August,
The Massachusetts, state treasurer ha
awarded a million and half of the stat.
house loan to the New York Bank of Saw
ings.
The hay crop at Tisbury, Mass, is larg,
this season and many farmers already have
it cut and housed.
1t looks as if the water supply in the Mer
rimac would reach very low point thi
summer. 1t is away down now and steam i
used chiefly for running the mills. TIL
Amoskeag Co., Manchester, N. H., has it
entire steam plant in operation.
The repairs and changes in the Norma
school building at Gorham, N. H., now ben
made will make the whole structure appea
much more attractive and will add much t
the convenience of the school,
1t is said that the reason the wages of tn
8randford, Conn, molders were cut dow
was that the company was offered S200, 90
contract some time ago, but the margin o
profit was so small that to make fair prof
they had to cut the labor. On account o
the molders refusing to work. about 100 me
in the other departments havs been oblige'
to quit work and from 200 to 800 are still a
work, with prospect of idleness.
Menhaden are very plentiful in Buzzard
bay. Two vessels have already taken NOR
than COG, 900 each.
At Newburyport Mass, the sewerae
commissioners have awarded the contrat
for labor on the system of sewerage to .
w. Douglars of Newburyport for S37 49,
The bodies of Mrs. John MacGregor an
two children We're discovered in small
creek near Youngstown, o. The woman
had first drowned her children and then her