The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-05-09
new ENGLAND NEWS.


and New England line into the depot will not,
time
The slooprlyged open boat Mayhower was
picked UP by a Swampscott Mass, fisher
man, and was brought into SwampScott.
Sixty d liars was asked for the salvage which
was refused, and it is expected that the hull
will be sold.
BY the fall of pile of lumber at Water
Vile Me-, Winfr, d La glois of Winslow had
his thigh broeen and John Gruder suffered
the fracture Of four ribs.
Walter A: Mullett was arrested in Boston
charged with having in his possession imple-
ments for counterfeiting, AMI United Stat es
commissioner Hallett held him in $1,000 for
trial before the United States circuit court.
In Mulletts room was found complete lay
out which included large number of bars
OF lead, aquantitv of antimony, tin, clay,
etc, moulds of all sizes which covered the
tables all kinds OF tools some counterfeit
nickeis and different sizes of scales for weigh
Ing the coin after 1t was manufactured
Mullett was surpri ed to see the officers, and
claimed to be a manufacturer Of confection-
cry. He has occupied the room in the house
all winter, and none OF the other people In
the house knew what his business was.
As soon as sufficient capital is subscribed
and 30 per cent of the subscriptions paid in,
tho work Of starting shoe factory will begin
at Brunswick, Me. The prospect looks favor
able for success -
The washout at the dam at Great Works
Me-, has extended from 30 to 100 feet on the
land of Jacob Brown. Fears are entertained
Tor the safety of the dam as there is very
high pitch Of water Nothing can be done
at present to stop the destruction
In the new Sycamore mill at Fall River
Mass, looms will be put In that will run Gao
picks minute, which will surpass the record
OF any mill in the city, as it is 20 picks more
than those of tn, Seacoanet mill, where
looms are running at higher speed than
sure good wp"k in the Sycamore no weaver
will be allowed more than six looms and the
production must be 40 cuts week
Representatives of the Central We mont
railway, the Boston & Albany, the Fitch
burg, Maine Central and other roads were
before the Interstate commission and ex-
planned to VIII t class of persons they gave
passes, and the extent to which the system
was carried TIE passes, they claim, have
the several TO dis that none had been given
10 secure commercial business, and that the
law had been observed
Mark Shattuck Of Mason, N. H., visited
Nashua and fell in with confidence man.
who robbed him Of his god watch and chain
and 81 in bills Will doing the own Officers
were notified and arrested Bradford Camp
bell of Litchfeld, who had the stolen proper
ty in his poss ssion.
Joseph W, lad of Is, scholar in the
Easton, Mass, high school, has suddenly left
town, and is supposed to be on his way to the
wild west to fight Indians, taking with him
3s-caliber English bulldog revolver and a
large sum of money, whicn he had drawn
from the bank. In his rtom were found
about 25 dime novels.
The arrest of Gidney Green of Kansas
on suspicion of Icing the much-want-
ed John Thompson, accu ed of the murder
OF Mehitable White, awak ned new interest
IN the case. Tat Thompson is innocent of
the crime charged against him and that the
murderer or murderers are living not many
miles from the scene OF the terrible murder.
is the opinion q many living in the town.
The employees of tie mailing division Of the
Boston p3stoffice pres ented the retiring su-
perintendent Mr.. Peter J. Hughes, with
splendid Howard gold watch, chain and
charm, inscribed in unique manner.
An egg the shell of which sh ws all the
colors Of the rainbow is the product of an
Ellsworth, Ne, hen of genius $3.50
Insurance Commits oner Merrill has no.
titled the Order of Scottish Clans that it
must cease doing an insurance business in
Massachusetts, because it does not comply
with the law he order was chartered
under the Missouri law, and has been doing
business in the state for several years with
out license, maxim no annual returns to the
insurance departm Mt Now that the lille
gallty of their position is known, O split in
the order is threatened.
The Riley Elevator company has secured
the right to build a mile track at Point of
Pines, Mass, and contracts are now being
made with builders. 1t is thought that the
track will be ready for operation by the mid
die of July.
The granite business is booming in Suna-
pee, n; T., just now. A stock company is
about being formed there for developing the
Sunapee granite. 1t will include in its op-
eratons both quarrying and cutting stone.
Mayor Hart of Boston will Withhold his sig
nature to the order of the board of aldermen
granting the West End Street railway leave
TO use the overhead electric system until the
law department has passed upon the legality
of the order. rg-
The stagnation of business which is re-
ported IN some of the watch factories is yun-
known at Waltham, Mass. The working
force is being increased every day, and some
OF tle departments are running over time. q
Mrs. Mehitable Stratton Dayton, one of
the most remarkable centenarians in the
SotAAHONbiNues
her l02d annive sary at her home in South
Glast injury. Her mind is 81 ill vigorous and
she maintains a warm interest in trent
events.
In the case of William c. Lowe VS., inhabi-
tants of Peabody, Mass, a cas-, for f]oware
of land at Browns p nd, the Essex
county commissioners have filed fin ling of
$1472.13.
Two men entered the store of H. A. Win
ship at Bradford Vt, overpowered the
oookkeeper, stole $3.50, and cannot be found
st. Luke's hospital New Bedford, Mass.
receives $1,000 and the association for the
Relief OF Aged Women $1,000 from the estate
OF the late Benjamin. Lindsay, who was
proprietor, editor and pub Usher of the Mer-
curry for many years He leaves his home
stead to the First Congregational Unitarian
society for parsonage.
The Winchester Arms Co., of New Haven.
Conn, has sent to the Paris exposition an
elaborate and exi ensive stand containing 100
guns and large guam ity If cartridges.
Mirrors are so situated in the ides and bot
! OF the case that the arms can be seen as
the case is approached from any side. The
whole is surrounded bya gigantic 1C0-pound
rapid firing cartridge five feet four inches |
long.
capt: Gilbert b. Borden of New Bedford.
Mass, has been appoin ed keeper of the new
house OF refuge to be established at Point
Barrow, Alaska, by the government, and
will probably be ordered to San Francisco
to go to the Arctic by the steamer Bear
which leaves on the GOTH Capt Borden has
Teen two years to Hudson Bay the schoon-
r Abbie Bradford, and both seasons he
came near losing the vessel by being crushed
N the ice and afterwards did lose her.
The canoe in which Fred D. Page and his
cousin, Clarence Hines, both of Somerville.
Mass started from Lynn a few DAYS ago
has been picked up off Highland Light by a
pilot boat. 1t did not appear TO have been
capslzed, and in the bottom Of it lay a zinc
fudder, zinc centreboard and seat, on each
md OF which were outrig ers
Joseph Willette accidentally fell into the
bleach tub at the Sugar River paper mill at
Jaremont, N. H. and was scalded to death.
The Massachusetts, state board of arbitra-
lion has rendered decision in the matter of
ne joint application of the New England
MIX Producers union and the New England
Dairy association, first, that from Nav /.
S89, to Oct. ], 1889, the price in Boston Of
milk now coming to Boston market shall be
" cents per can of 81 quarts
The shoe factory, machinery and stock Of
J. Z. Farrar e. Co, Danvers, Mass havs
,een sold; the factory to j. c. Campbell, for
4loO over a mortgage of $1,000 Mr.. Camp
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