Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-01
new ENGLAND NEWS.

Of Exeter Of the appointment as a United
States senator from New Hampshire requires
he resignation only of his membership in
the present legislature of that state. His
service in the next legislature, of which he is
a member-elect, cannot commenc until the
first Wednesday In June, when his senator
ship VIII probably expire by constitutional
limitation.
Ex-Gov. Cheney and wife and ex-Gov.
Currier Of of Manchester, N. H., will attend
the Inauguration ceremonies at Washington.
Lieutenant Charles F. Munroe, Adjutant
J. Payson Bradley and Lieutenant George E.
Hall officially represented the Ancient and
Honorable Artillery at the Amoskeag veter
ans ball at Manchester, N. H., on the 22d
Governor SAWYER of Dover, N. H., is
chairman of a committee selected to report
an organization for an Old Ladies' home in
that city.
The Amesbury, Mass, board of trade has
arranged with the carriage manufacturers of
the town for a grand spring opening COM
mencng March 10 to continue throughout the
week, to which an invitation is extended to
visit the town, view the new productions and
inspect the carriage industries in general
Mr.. Dana Flanders, the general passenger
agent Of the Boston & Maine railroad of
Maiden, was pleasantly remembered on the
occasion of the twentieth anniversary of his
Connection with the road by a handsome pres
ent from the employees.
The body of Charles Feustel, aged %, was
found under the ice i'll Agawam river He
had wandered away from home and tried to
cross the river ON the thin ice.
The new public library at Gambia, N. H.,
gift from Ex-Governor Frederick Smyth of
Manchester, N. H., to his native town, will
be opened on march,.
The prohit itory convention at Providence,
| 1 D.,,
for governor; lieutenant governor, Joshua
G. Brown of Newport; attorney general,
John 7. Blodgett. The nomination for at
torney general was left to the state central
comm ttee. Daniel Howard was nominated
for secretary Of state and Jason ?. Hazard
for general treasurer.
The will of Walt Kenay, the late Hart
ford millionaire, was admitted to probate
last week and leaves his whole estate to his
wife.
New Haven's charity ball at the Hyperion
theatre was a very brilliant affair. Gov.
Bulkeley and his military staff, ex-Gov. Eng
lish several members of the Yale faculty
and many other prominent people in the
state were present. About $1,000 was netted
for the New Haven hospital.
William Cowen, a Middebury, Ct, milk
man, while driving across the railroad track
at Naugatuck last week, collided with a
train, which demolished his wagon and in
jured him so that he will probably die.
There is more snow in the Aroostook (Me.)
region than the people want, as it interferes
with business.
Dexter, Me-, has a smart old lady who cut
and made pair Of stout pantaloons for her
husband the day she was 90 years old.
| Hon. David A. Bunton, an ex-mayor OF
Manchester, is seriously i'll at Concord.
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to Wyoming Territory as manager of cattle
ranch
| The White Mountain mills at Laconia will
be occupied by G. H. Tilton in the manufac-
ture of hosiery.
D. J. Mooney has been made presi-
dent of the board of trustees of the Richards
free library at Newport, N. II.
Poston parties have leased the Copp mill
at Tilton, N. H., for five years and will en-
! gage in shoe manufacturing.
The question of the erection of Grand
Army memorial hall at Milford, N. H., will
be acted upon In the coming town meeting.
c. w. Abbott of Wolfeboro', the veteran
conductor on the northern division of the
Boston & Maine railroad, is dangerously Ill
with pneumonia.
Abiel T. Eastman of Tamworth, who died
| lately at 81 had served four years as rep
Der of the constitutional convention in 1875.
In Weare recently an owl attacked a cat
in tree and killed it. The latter weighed
over six pounds, and the bird when captured
was found to measure six feet from tip to
tip Of extended wings.
Hon. George Fl. Whitney of Nashua, N.
H, Las brought claim against that city,
demanding damages in the sum of $4,000 for
personal injuries alleged to have been re-
ceived by fall upon a sidewalk.
In London Co., N. H., outside of its centre
village, there are 38 unoccupied farmhouses.
The aggregate valuation for taxable pur-
poses, not including any land, is $40, 4O5. The
number of this class Of empty dwellings in
the town increases yearly.
Emery & McKeen, the shook manu-
facturers Of Portland, Me-, have bought the
Isaac Adams mill property in Moultonboro',
N H. together with q large tract OF timber,
and are employing a consid erable force of
men and teams getting out shocks for the
New Orleans market
For four years Mr.. G.. w. Parker has car
ried on worthy mission in Chelsea, Mass,
feeding and clothing free forsaken and poor
men Of Boston and vicinity. Mr.. Parker
hires large house on Winnisimmet street
with chapel on the first floor, library and
reading room on the second and dormitory
on the third. In one year he gave away
over 10000 meals and furnished 5000 lodg-
ings. Generous friends heve kindly helped
in this good work. On the 22d there was an
all day meeting in the chapel, led by differ
ent speakers.
Gen. Neal Dow has been nominated for
mayor by the Portland, Me-, prohibitionists.
The glove company at Warner, N. H. did
business of almost 100000 during 1888.
The factory kept 65 men busy all the time,
and this year will add 20 more hands and
put in improved machinery.
B. White of Peru, Vt, has entered into
q contract with the Hudson River Water
Power company, by which he agrees to de
liver before the 1st of April 1889, 10, 600 cords
of wood; $1,000 more cords to be livered
before the 1st Of June, 1890. The carrying
out of the contract means the expenditure OF
, over 100000.
The subscriptions for the Warren Mass,
town library building already amount tC
$780, conditional upon the raising Of SIS, 600
before June %, 1889. 1t is proposed to de
! vote portion of the building as memoria
to soldiers in the civil war.
New York parties have been in Farming
ton, Me-, several times this winter purchas
ing horses for carriage use. Pennington has
long been famed as horse market.
, The New Haven, Ct., board of commissioner:
Of public buildings has not metfor five years
t The local papers are making use Of the Hart
, ford disaster as means of calling public at
tention to this inattention to duty.
A new steam windass is being constructed
! at Bath Me, in which the power is devel
, oped in 6-inch cylinder, connected directly
with capstans driving shaft By this ar
r rangement the capstan can be worked alone
( there is less loss of power, and the chain ar
rangement is discarded.
, L. S. Atkinson of Tilton and L. M. Stearn.
of Derry depot N H, have finished their series
Of correspondence games at checkers Mr.. AT
kinson won one game and seven were drawn
Preparations are already under way fol
the Narragansett fair to be held at Provi
I-.oa ID / in tho foil po,,,ds ,,,b,