The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-12
new ENGLAND NEWS.

The Concord & Montreal railroad has
leased the Suncook Valley Extension rail.
road for term of years at an annual rental
OF five per cent,
The mercury reached point l5o below
zero around Moosehead lake, Maine, and
The cold was most severely felt by the
jewellers there,
The Mercy Home of the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union in Manchester, N,
H., will be dedicated on Jan. /,
Henry Bergen, a French Canadian OF
Lewiston, Me, aged 81, was run over by a
train on the Grand Trunk and killed, the
wheels passing over his head, II is sup
posed the man was intoxicated
Rufus Thompson of West Swanzey, n.
H., the venerable father of the we'll
known actor, Denman Thompson, was
married few days ago to Mrs. Sarah A,
Walker of Westminster West, Vt. Mr.
Thompson is So years of age, and the bride
is eight years his junior.
While negotiations are going on in the
southern part of Vermont looking to the
colonization of a considerable number OF
Scandinavian families, company has been
formed and purchase of n large tract OF
land in the northern part of the state has
been made for the immediate colonization
of eight Scandinavian families now living
in Massachusetts, This business is in the
hands of q private company, headed by a
Swede, who will start for Sweden Jan, 2,
intending to return in April with a larger
number OF his countrymen, though actual
sales have thus far been made only to the
eight families referred to,
The water in Watuppa ponds at Fall
River, Mass, is but 81 inches below high
water, and some anxiety has been felt on
that account. There is no instance of any
such height in December since 1898,
James B. Edgerly of Pennington. Fifth
Regiment veteran and cashier of the Farm
ington, N. H., national bank will give a
valuable lot of land as a park on which to
locate the proposed soldiers monument in
that town.
The Evergreen Slate Quarry at Fair Ha-
ven, VT, formerly owned by Cole & Aims
WORTH has been sold for $1,000 James Ma
nogue and Thomas Greer being the pur-
chasers. The property comprises build
ings, tools and machinery. The original
cost was $4,000.
One of the peculiar places of Vermont is
the farming town of Waltham, which adj
Joins Vergennes. 1t contains $3.50 acres Of
land and 24S inhabitants. This town has
no postofiice, church, town house, poor
house, store, lawyer doctor, blacksmith S
shop, or even bridge, and yet it is one of
the thriving towns of Addison county. Its
taxes are merely nominal.
Mrs. William j. Foster of Franklin, n
H., was shot dead by Madison G, Colby, a
butcher of that town A feud growing out
of disputed boundaries was at the bottom OF
the deed although the victim was innocent
ofconnection with it.
The stockholders of the Capital Fire In
surance company of Nashua, N. H.. have
voted to reinsure all risks in the Granite
State company of Portsmouth, thus wind
ing up the affairs of the first-named com
pany.
The stockholders of the Northern Rail
road company of New Hampshire have rati-
fled the lease of the line to the Boston &
Lo veil road The instrument provides for
the lease of the Northern, its branches,
leased lines and property for 50 years from
January | 1890, at an annual rental of per
cent. for the first seven and one. half years
and per cent. for the remainder of the
term, to be paid quarterly; also for the as
signment of the leases by the Boston &
Lowell road to the Boston & Maine railroad.