The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-18
" There are 200 children in the Brattlsboro',

There are POO children in the Brattleboro',
", village district between the ages of 8 and
H. There are 4S6 boys and 5Oi girls.
The whistling buoy of Granite point at
the entrance 10 tho Plymouth, Mass, har-
Dor, Is silent and the spar buoy on High
Pine ledge two miles north Of Gurnet point
Is missing. This ledge Is the one on which
the steamship Pavonia met with her mishap
In 1888. inside the harbor the black spar
buoy half way up Browns shoal, is also
gone and the Dicks fiat buoy Is missing.
These are all important marks.
About July 30 fog signal will be estab-
lished at Great Captains Island light station,
Long Island sound. 1t will consist of 10
inch steam whistle, which In thick and foggy
weather will give blasts Of two seconds du-
ration with intervals of 81 seconds.
a valuable parr OF horses owned by d. r.
Pierce were poisoned at Hanover, N H., by
sonic one who broke into the stable and
mixed paris green with their feed, Both
horses died.
Mrs. Abigail White Of vassalboro Me-,
has provided ono thousand dollars and lit.
tie more toward tho cost Of the dormitory
building now IN process Of construction for
the use of the Kicker Classical Institute,
Houlton.
Tho Ames Manufacturing o., Chicopee,
Mass, have secured Sl00 900 contract from
the government of Venezuela for the con-
struction OF two bronze statues of heroic
size. One will be standing figure of Gen.
Rafael Urdaneta, the Venezuelan soldier who
died In 1S45 and the other will be an eques-
trian statue Of the famous South American
liberator, Bolivar. The works will be COM
pleted on both statues in February and will
DO shipped to South America In the care of
Two men from the Ames works
Fred Clough of Warner N. H., found in
his pasture few days ago good sized bal
loon. Attached to it was postal card, with
the request that the finder would report the
place of its landing to parties at Swamp
scott Mass.
Carnegie Brothers of Pittsburg have taken
possession OF the iron mine at South Wal
lingford, VT.
Weathersfleld, VT, has voted to exempt
the cotton mill property at Perkinsville vii
lage from taxation for five years, provided
1t be put in operation at once.
Morrisville, VT, is anticipating increased
business activity In view of establishment
there of Stafford g. Webster's large tanning
business from Stowe, a process peculiar to
that firm enabling them to turn out
peculiar kind of tanned skins.
Lester j. Bradley, lately freight and pas
senger agent of the Derby railroad, New
Haven Ct, who was few weeks ago dis
charged, has been arrested on a charge of
embezzement and making false entries on
the books of the company. The amount Of
the embezzlement is unknown. Bradley de-
MES that he has embezzled any money.
The dredge of the Cape Cod Ship Canal
company at Sandwich Mass, has been re-
constructed and improved so as to double its
capacity The great ditch has now been ex-
cavated 571S feet long, 200 feet wide and
Is 1-3 feet deep 16, 9t1, 55S cubic feet of earth
having been removed by the operation
Plymouth, Mass, is to have a new shoe
factory, to be owned by stock company.
John e. Torrey of Rockland and John II.
Curtis of Plymouth will be the managers.
Probably the largest field of potatoes ever
raised in Plymouth county, Mass, is being
cultivated by Walton Hill, owner of the
Webster place, Marshfleld The field contains
80 acres and the yield will exceed 5000
bushels,