Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-07-19
new ENGLAND NEWS.

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and the new shares are selling at $50 each.
c. D. Whitman, the active manager of the
Vermont Maple Sugar exchange at Brattle-
boro, has made his footings of the seasons
business, and finds that up to July 1 the
sales amounted to 1928 gallons of syrup, TO-
O97 pounds of cake sugar and IL 489 pounds
Of pail sugar. Reckoning the syrup at IL
pounds to the gallon, the standard weight,
this shows a total weight handled Of about
Is tons
About sl5, 900 of the $50, 900 wanted for the
establishment of the new shoe factory in
Woburn, Mass, has already been subscribed
and it looks as If the matter would be
brought to a successful issue.
August Rosenbery of Somerville murder
ed Mrs. Catherine Smith, with whom he was
living, and her two children, and then took
his own life Mrs Smiths husband COM
mtted suicide about year ago by jumping
overheard from one Of the Portland steam
boats.
A bill has been introduced into the New
Hampshire house of representatives incor-
porating the Franklin g. Tilton railroad
to be built by the Boston, Concord g. Mont
real and Northern railroads. The incor-
porators are A. w Sulloway, c. A. Busial,
George e. Todd, S. S. Kimball, Uriel
II. Crocker, and G.. E. Morrison. The capi-
tai must not exceed $500 shares of $100 each.
Work on tho Providence, R. l., cable
tramway is being rapidly pushed. Nearly
one-half of the track has been completed and
the remainder is being finished at the rate of
400 feet day.
The ponds are overfowing at Higganum,
Ct, furnishing an abundance of power to the
factories. This is an unusual occurrence at
this time in the season, when most of the
mills are running by steam.
The Naumkeag Street Railway company,
Salem, Mass, has petitioned the railroad
commissioners for permission to increase their
capital stock to $3.50, 900 and for leave to
issue coupon bonds to the amount of $3.50, 900,
secured by mortg ge, to equip the road with
an overhead electric system, to provide for
an extension Of the road new turnouts, ETC.,
and to provide for the present bonded and
floating debt.
Peter E. Vose, Esq, who was reelected
trea urer of Dennysville, Me-, has held that
office for % years, and during that time no
person but himself has ever written a word
or made figure in any town book except
ing the town clerks book or drawn an
order In all, he has been a selectman for
29 years, an assessor "a years, overseer of
the poor "A years and town agent for more
than 90 years.
The Androscoggin Valley Agricultural
association, incorporated in 1876 and elect
ing their officers last January, are going
ahead this season t. hold a fair September
"a, 25, 26. The society has leased the Canton
driving plrk for term of ten years. An
exhibition building 80 by so feet and two
stories will be erected at once at cost of
about $780,
The plan Of reorganization of the Rhode
Island militia, which q board of officers
chosen from the brigade have been secretly
perfecting for some time, provides for dis
bandment of two companies altogether, pro-
vides for the disbandment of the company of
cavalry, proposes to split up the artillery
and has finally proposition to consolidate
the offices of adjutant general, commissary
general and quartermaster general, Irish and
colored quartermaster generals.
Grossi, the Italian, has been convicted at
Boston, Mass, of subornation Of perjury
in connection with the Importation Of organ
grinders under contract.
Medford, Mass, asks for the free delivery
system, and post office officials will go there
and ascertain If the circumstances will war;
rant its establishment.
J, II. Crowell chairman Of the selectmen
OF Tisbury, Mass, is taking the necessary
steps tO establish a national bank at Vine
yard Haven. Considerable stock has been
taken and great interest in the project is
manifested at Cottage City and in Vineyard
Haven.
It Is understood that the will of the late
George B. Hyde of Southbridge, Mass, be-
queaths after the death of his widow $50, 900
to Harvard college.
The largest keel ever seen in Bath Me-,
has just been completed at the yard Of A.
Sewall & Co. 1t Is of the toughest kind of
Maryland oak and is 279 feet long, 26 inches
deep and 1516 inches thick.
Out of thirteen candidates for the position
of principal of the Cony high school at
Augusta, Me-, the directors have selected
Mr.. J. H. Parsons of the Westbrook High
school, Mr.. Parsons Is graduate of Bates
college, and was for nearly eight years prin-
cipal of the Maine Central institute at Pitts
field.
The water in the canal of the Underhill
Edge Tool works broke through an embank-
ment near Pennestock, N. H., and washed
out portion of the canal wall and nearly
wrecked the building, taking out q portion
of its foundation. The damage to the COM
pany is $4,000.
The earnings of the Knox & Lincoln rail.
road for the month Of May were $12, 599 &C
against S12, 422.99 for the corresponding
month of 1888. The gain in earnings for
eight months, to May 81, 1889, over same
months last year, was S9l9461.
A car recently manufactured entirely OF
steel at East Boston, Mass, has been sent tc
Laconia, N. H., TO be upholstered in fancy
leather. 1t weighs two tons less than the
ordinary passenger coach. twill be fitted
with ten compartments, and is to be the di.
rector's car Of company of capitalists al
Denver Col 1t is claimed that there vii
be nothing about 1t that can take fire readi-
ly in case of accident
The Grafton, Mass, National bank, of
which Mr.. A. A. Howe is cashier is to wind
un itc affoirc and will a1oca flr, bucfnaSS
about October /.
Blackberry vines are loaded in New Hamp
shire, and If the weather continues favorable
large crop is assured.
To show the value that American pro
ducts possess among foreign nations, the
Bowdoin Paper company, at Brunswick
| Me-, now supplies q regular demand fol
newspaper in Australia, and regular ship
ments are also made to Ireland, Mexico an6
South America.
The work of excavating for the new unio1
depot for the Bangor and Piscataquis anC
Canadian Pacific railroads in Bangor is pro
| crossing finely.
The drives on the Penobscot river in Maine
will arrive at their destination this yea
considerably earlier than last year. The,
cantain about So, 000,0 feet of logs.
The Massachusetts, railroad commissioner
have granted the West End Street Railwa,
company permission to use the electric over
head system all over Boston and over
large portion of Cambridge, and to make tn
necessary underground and surface altera
tions.
The total amount of duties assessed at th
port of ST. Albans Vt, for the month end
ing June 80. 1885, was $73 407.9
The new roundhouse of the Canadian Pa
cific at Brownville Junction, Me-, is nearl
completed. 1t is the same size as the on
built short time ago. Business is booming
and several new buildings will be put u
soon.
George H. Grant has resigned his position
as treasurer of the Bar Hrrbor, Me-, Bank