Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-08

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Ct, where she lived alone, and was found
dead. Coroner Park rendered a verdict of
accidental death.
Mrs John F. Slater bequeaths the Nor
wich, CT, free academy 10000 for the re-
serve fund.
The Brockton, Mass, Street Railway Co.
has been granted permit from the city TO
use electricity for propelling its cars.
A. F. Merrill g. Co., spool manufacturers,
East Eddington, Me-, are daily turning into
spools from 2S to 30 cords of birch.
Bangs Bros, who transferred portion of
their sash and blind business from Augusta
to Wateryille year ago are soon to return
to the former city and carry on their whole
business there.
For several years there has been a bitter
fight between people and city council at
Newport r. l., over the question Of a street
railway. 1t is now definitely settled that
there is tSaAe one, and yesterday the mayor
and cit Epcil and a large number of
prominent zens went to Boston and Lynn
to see the vikings of the electric otor cars
in those cities. The Thomson-Houstonw works
were inspected.
The report of the town treasurer of Ips-
witch, Mass, for 1888 shows the expenditures
to have been $S2, 754.89; income beyond ex-
penses, 81, 2S9.93; total debt, s7597.25. The
selectmen estimate the expenses for the cur
rent year as follows Schools, $500; high
ways, $4,000; current expenses, $500; for re-
duction of debt, $500.
The Brown Lumber company of White
field, N. H., recently unloaded into its basin
in that town "a carloads of logs, measuring
$40, 900 feet the largest days work ever done
there.
The New England Fire Proof Gas Machine
company, largely composed of Boston bust
ness men, has been organized at Manchester,
N. H., with a capital Of S150,000 and Hon.
Harvey N. Shepard president.
Business interests in Springfield, N. H., are
improving. Last year there were nearly 100
empty tenements; now there are none. A
sewing machine shop, to employ 100 persons,
is likely to go there; also pulp mill and a
railroad.
PANEL Harmon has brought suit against
the town OF freedom, N. H., claiming dam
ages in the sum of $1,000 in behalf of his wife
for personal injuries received In being thrown
from sleigh on highway alleged to be i'm
perfect
Messrs. Frederick & Field of Quincy,
Mass, have been awarded the contract for
furnishing the material and erecting the
soldiers monument at Derry, N. H. The
monument will be eight feet square at the
base and stan 2515 feet above the founda-
ton, the statue being Z 1-3 feet high. The
lettered tablets and emblems and the sur
rounding figures will be of bronze.
Department Commander Grimes Of the
Grand Army in New Hampshire has issued a
general order announcing the appointment
of Daniel Hall of Dover judge advocate, Lib
erty w. Foskett of Keene inspector, and
William H. Trip of Tilton chief mastering
officer. The commander, with feelings of
deep regret calls attention to the large num-
ber of comrades, being 254, who are suspend
ed from the order for non-payment of dues.
Dandy claims to be the champion maple
sugar town of Vermont.
The town of Merrimack, VT, at their an
nual meeting will consider q proposition to
give the young people of the place an oppor-
tunity to obtain a high school education at
McGow institute.
The Green Mountain fish reservoir at Fair
haven, VT, has nearly 100000 brook trout
for distribution on account of the state COM
mission, and the proprietors half as many
more for sale to private parties.
Master Mechanic Corliss of the CONSOLIDATE
ed road has been arrested at South Norwalk,
Ct on the charge of stealing brass from the
road. He hal sold about $1,000 worth of the
metal for old junk, it is said.
The ticket drawer of which the Lowell &
Lawrence r. r. depot master at Tewksbury,
Mass, was robbed Feb. 8, has been found in
the woods. All Of the 200 tickets except
seven were found intact, also the pay check
of Depot Master Fairgreve.
If the trustees of the Storrs Agricultural
school obtain the appropriation which they
desire from the legislature, two new build
ings will be erected at Mansfield, Ct, one a
general lecture and recitation room building
and the other dormitory.
ThoY,oe MononoIJ aroJ GOV, % C+oto
Constable Mcdonald of Bath, Me-, was fatally
injured by blow on the heid with an axe.
1t is not known how the accident happened,
but it is supposed that while at work i'll the
woods alone his axe was caught by the limb
of tree and DETECTED upon his head.
A singular case of illness, and one which
puzzles the DOCTORS is that of Mr.. John Nc
Kinnon, Sr., of Castine, Me. He has no
control over his right arm and leg which
move about spasmodically, and at times vio-
lently. A watcher is with him const intly to
keep him from throwing himself off the bed.
At first he seemed to have but little pain,
but is now Eecoming more weakened and
shows signs of suffering.
At the last meeting of the Deep Sea as
Sembly, Knights of Labor, Of Gloucester,
Mass, the report of a committee was adopt
ed in which exceptions are taken to the claim
Of Capt. f. j. Babson, that only small per-
centage of those employed in American fish
cries are foreigners.
The Fall River Mass board of trade has
refused to close the mills of that city on st.
Patricks day.
Burglars blew open the safe in the depot at
New Canaan, Ct, aud $l25 was stolen. The
same gang made a big haul from John Wa
terbury's store in Springdale, and his loss is
about Sl300