Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-11-08
new ENGLAND NEWS.

English parties want to form q lewelry
trust in Attleboro', absorbing about 81 ,000,-
600 of capital. There would be no difficulty
about the absorption but il would be hard
to find the firms to enter the trust"
All the piping and machinery in the old
Pollard tannery and currying shop on
Eastern avenue, Woburn, Mass, is being
removed. The buildings have been unoccu-
pied for several years aud were 40 years old.
The Bangor (Me.) Electric Railroad is
success, it having cleared $296l60 over all
expenses, including fixed charges, in the last
four months.
A strange animal, described by a boy who
saw it as having a long, gray body, short
legs and a tail about three feet in length, is
devOuring sheep and calves and soaring the
partridge hunters around Pennington, Me.
The United States Fish Commission have
just finished putting into Green Lake, Maine,
over 10000 yearling landlCrked salmon. In
addition to these they nave put in several
hundred rainbow trout from Michigan.
A man in Bangor who tarried in a ceme-
terry after dark in order to finish up a job of
digging had an encounter with ghost. 1t
was OF the regulation whiteness, and groaned
Just as did those encountered in similar
places by some of our great grandmothers.
The Bangor man was frightened and started
to run, but managed TO run against the ghost
and both fell to the ground together. 1t was
an innocent white calf that first recovered
its feet after the collision.
Mrs. Isabella A. Orr, a Boston music
teacher, has been arrested at Montreal on
charge of obtaining money under false pre-
fences.
There have been employed the present
season in Comic, y. H., 600 men in brick
making, the production being 100000.
The late DR.. T. j. w. Pray of Dover, be-
queathed to Dartmouth college $1,000. the
income to constitute prize for the best
scholar Of four years standing in mod
ern languages.
The Connecticut Riv Lumber company
has enlarged its dam at the outlet of Second
Lake in Pittsburg n. H., raising the water
eight feet. They will raise the water at
First Lake six feet
The receipts ofthe Cottage hospital at Ports
mouth, n. H., during the last II months
were S2746.27, and expenditures, including
Sl00 paid to the permanent fund, f26S9. 20.
The building fund, which was commenced a
little over year ago, amounts TO $3345.M.
Harvard beat Yale in the first champion
ship football match of the season score, 35
to Q.
There are now 81 soldiers in the home at
Bennington, n. II.
Marble is being shipped in large quanti-
ties from West Rutland, VT, to Chicago,
Ill.,, over the Central Vermont and lake and
rail routes.
The Rhode Island Ballot Reform AssoCia-
ton sent committee to visit. the polls in
Massachusetts to observe the workings of
the new voting system.
North Anduver, Mass, has petitioned for
grade crossing on the Boston d Maine.
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grades separated. The matter is yet under
adyisemcnt.
Wilson Barrett closed a most successful
engagement at the Boston Theatre on the I'd
before one of the largest audiences that the
Boston Theatre has.evcr hold Gov Amos
and Mayor Hart were present.
Will Tozier, Il years, while hunting near
Bangor. Nc, was killed by the accidental
discharge Of his gun.
| The Deaconess Home, authorized by the
! last Methodist conference for the training of
deaconesses, is ready for business. Numerous
applications have been made and accepted.
D. f. Stafford of New Hampshire has been
appointed special pension examiner in
Maine, in the counties of Lincoln and Saga
dahoc.
At the close of the last performance of
Wilson Barretts engagement at the Boston
| Theatre he presented little Olive Homans
with gold Elgin watch in token of his ap-
probation Of her ability.
A new postal car route is to be established
on the Newton Mass, circuit railroad.
It is reported that G. W. c. Hill. Har-
ward sophomore, has been arrested for steal
ing from the clothes Of his fellow-students
while they were in the gymnasium. He re-
fused, il is said, to give any reasons for SO
doing, as his folks are wealthy. Some of
the other students allege gambling as the
cause.
A warm meeting is said to have taken
place at the West church, Boston, at which
the resignation of DIR. Bartol was accepted.
Talk was had on the subject of discontinue.
ing services and disposing Of the church
property. The whole business is reported to
have been transacted Y l6 pcwholders.
A Boston police officer saw a little figure
in white moving along the sidewalk recently
and found it to be child of 5 years oi
thereabouts, III oare feet, clothed only in 9
night dress. He was greatly surprised tC
find that the walker was asleep. When
awakened the somnambulist frightened vi
and offered to go home unassisted. He was
taken TO the station, as he could not tel
where he lived.
For some two years past the employees ir
the car shops of the Boston & Maine rail
road, on both the eastern and western diyi
gions, have been in the habit of working
only eight hours on Saturdays, while thost
on the Lowell division of the same roat
have been obliged to work nine hours OF
that day. Considerable feeling has beer
Capsed by this, and it eliminated last Satur
day, when all the employees in the Lowell
division shops, numbering about 100 men
dhit work at the end of eight hours ant
went home. The result OF this action is no
vet known, but the road will probably con
cede them the privilege of working onl,
eight hours on Saturday in the future.
II has been fully decided TO wind up tn
Rhode Island Choral association, which TO
saveral years has been popular musical or
ganization. This leaves the aris ocratic ant
olstime Arion club the conspicuous musi
cal organization of the state.
A large amount of petty thieving has beer
going on in the country towns recently il
Maine, and several citizens have lost sucl
articles as robes wagon cushions whifile
trees, onisus etc. These articles were evi
deptly taEeh, most of them, by parties goin
Though on their way TO the woods 70
winter,
The Littleton, N H., Musical Association
has engaged Carl Ierrahn to conduct il
twenty-second annual festival in Januar
next,
Nellie Blomberg, domestic employed b
Dr. A. K. Wallace at Nashua. n. H., wa
frjghIuly burned recently and died fror
thS effects She was about to retire whe
the lamp accidentally fell from the table t
the floor and broke. The oil caught fir
and she attempted TO smoother the fame
With her clothing, which was set on fire an
burned from her body, nearly roasting he
She suffered terribly until her death,
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