The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-14
new ENGLAND NEWS.

The Bridgewater (Mass.) public llbrsry
has a record Of all the deaths in that town
which have occurred for the last 200 years.
The record Is complete TO July | Ofths
year, and was compiled by the late Thomas
Cushman
At Madison, Me-, a gentleman walking
through the woods was surprised 10 find
himself tangled up of a sudden in painful
manner with 40-pound bear trap, lie was
beginning to get pretty thoroughly scared
when his yells finally brought assistance
and rescue,
1t is proposed to erect in Bangor, Me-, a
memorial building, dedicated 10 the memory
OF the soldiers who fell, and fitted for the
use of the soldiers who are left
A man in Aroostook county, Me-, claims
to have spent three days in the top of a
pine tree without food or water. He climbed
up 90 feet to get an eagles nest, II was a
Norway pine, with very smooth bark, and
he used climber similar to those used by
telegraph linemen. When he got TO the
nest he was taken sick and dared not
descend for fear of falling, as he tells the
story,
f. b. shedd of Lowell, Mass, has given
$50 the public library at Tilton, N, II,
The yards in Dover, N H., and vicinity
have manufactured this season %, SEQ, 600
brick.
The treasurer of Chase Home for Children
in Portsmouth, n. H., has received $3.50, be-
queathed by the late Mrs. FEMME NJ. 5. Jen-
kins Of Brooklyn, N. Y, and $50 from the
estate of the late Thomas T.. Call of Ports
mouth.
The Connecticut River railroad has re-
placed the trestle bridge in Keene, n. H..
with an iron rueture, leaving no wooden
bridge on the line Of that corporation.
Swanton, Vt, has voted to have its streets
lighted by electricity.
Hon, Charles p Marsh of Woodstock
VT, has donated 100 books for the establish
ment of q public library in Perkinsville.
The Remington (vt.) battle monument
has now reached a height of 275 feet, and
the contractor expects to complete the shaft
The present season.
The Vermont State Fish commissioners
are soon to receive quantity of German
carp for distribution among the ponds in the
state, St. Adams will be the distributing
point.
Louise Dolphin, formerly an actress in the
Theatre Comique at Providence Il. l., has
sued Herbert A. Sanhorn of that city for
$4,000 for alleged breach of promise of
m rriagc.
Counting all classes, Boston has about
10000 unskille laborer5.
George Elliott, who had just completed a
term in the Providence Or. ~ county Jail
for larceny, was arrested while in the act of
passing counterfeit halfdollar pieces. He
had worked them off on tradespeople for
several days, and when apr hended had 80
more of the base coins with him. The coun-
erfeits are excellent in every way and
would readily be taken in the course of or
binary business.
The first fatal accident on the new Dexter
& Piscataquis railroad occurred on the It'll.
A train of empty gravel cars without loco
motive in charge of one brakeman, was
| running on down grade, when it was met
by another train pushed by a locomotive.
Three cars were badly smashed and piled up
at the foot of an embankment 10 or 10 feet
below the track.
The anarchists of New Bedford held me-
mortal exercises in commemoration of the
Chicago anarchists, which, in the circulars
| distributed, is alluded to as the murder of
| the leaders of the wOrkngmen." Speeches
were made in German and Bohemian.
Horace Whitcomb of Bath, n. H., aged
Co. was probably fatally injured by his team
running away and going over an embank-
ment.
Whistling noises on the Boston and Al
| bany railroad tracks have been pronounced
anuisance by Back Bay p ople of Boston.
1t has been determined that the proceed
ings of the Cambridge, (Mass.) city govern
ment, whereby the West End Street Rail
way company was granted location fol-
tracks on the approach to the new Harvard
| bridge were lrregu a, inasmuch as the right
| was given when the city did not own tht
| land, which was subsequently taken. 1t is
| said that notice has been served on the
| COMPANY forbidding it oCcupying the street