Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-29

! The Welden house at st. AlbanS VT, VIII
reopen May /, under the management of Mr..
Fred Be be, formerly of the Van Ness house,
Burlington, and the Memphremagog house,
Newport.
Gen. George r. Cruft Of Bethlehem, N.
H., has gone to Florida for a visit of several
weeks.
All the stock for a cold storage company
to furnish cold storage for the Vermont
board of trade at Bur ington has been sub,
scribed for, thus assuring the success of tho
board the coming season.
! Samuel H. Dow, a lumber operator OF
| Warner, n. H., who has been confined to his
residence for several months on account Of a
broken limb, is improving and hopes to be
out again soon.
The city of Vergenues, Vt, expended dur
ing the fiscal year just closed $9500 in round
numbers. The bonded debt is S5S, 900. The
totll property valuation of Vergennes, as re.
turned by the listers, is $3.50, 900.
AT Whit field, N. H, lately Browns Lum-
! Der company hauled to their landinG
sled 10, $40 feet Of timber.
The "New England Trout and Salmon
! Club" has been or anized at Brattleboro,
/ VT, with Col Geo. w. Hooker as president.
! The Marlboro South Pond has been bought
by the club for fishing purposes and it is pro
posed to erect club house near the pond
| next season. The membership of the organ
| ization is limited to 100 and the capital stock
! is placed at $4,000.
| G. S. Perry, Of Danvers, Mass, who is
| packing up to sell out and remove to Yer
mont, recently found in an old bureau
drawer 800, and a few days ago found near
| ly $1400 in a closet, where it was secreted by
his ancestors years ago.
| The land has been given and over $100, 900
subscribed for cotton mill at Tiverton, R.
l., and it is expected that the mill will be
erected during the coming summer.
The four-year-old son Of William K. Lam
bert of Georgetown, Mass, was swinging on
gate, when the gate fell over on him and
killed him instantly. He had not been out
of the house ten minutes when they found
him dead.
The stock of logs in Maine this year is very
much less than an average. Logging opera
tions began very late ON account of the heavy
fall rains, and have been curtailed during
the winter by frequent thaws, and finally
terminated early by reason of an early
spring. In the eastern part of the state
there has been but little snow during the
winter, and operations there in consequence
have been very seriously interfered with
On the Penobscot river the cut is less than
usual although it will be partly made up by
logs carried over. The cut on the Kennebec
will be barely 100, 900, 900 feet, which is 25,-
! UUU,OOO leeb ltSS ULdll ldSL year dllu
feet less than the year before,
An outrageous assault was committed at
Beverly, Mass, on Lewis Durkee, the driver
Of baker team. In lonely part of Centre
vile, as he passed two men, one of them car
| rying gun, he heard report and felt the
shot about his head. He jumped from the
team, but the man who fired the shot disap-
peared. Investigation showed the side Of the
team to be full of shot, and many of them
| lan To- ,;ol,
| Durkee wore. Durkee was dangerously
wounded. No cause for the assault is
known. The men were strangers to Dursae
John Howard aged IT, and John DAILY,
| aged 49, are under arrest at Lowell, Mass,
for assailing lady, and robbing her of her
! handbag containing So in money and small
articles They admit their guilt. small
portion of the money was recovered.
veteran residing in Rockport, Mass,
who received a bullet in his left lung, re-
Gently coughed up piece of led which had
lain there for-27 years.
A forest fire at Foxboro, Mass, burned
over ten acres of woodland owned by John
Tyler Carpenter and Warren Carpenter.
Soma of the supplies used per year by the
Merrimack Manufacturing Co., Lowell, are,
$4,000 600 pounds of cotton, $4,000 tons of
coal, 1900 bushels Of charcoal, 200 cords Of
wood, 16, 800 gallons of oil, 900, 900 pounds Of
starch and 800 barrels of flour. The works,
which are among the largest in the country,
employ 81 steam engines, with six fve-feet
turbine water wheels
The J. G.. Aver Co. are to enlarge their
manufactory building on Middle street, Low
ell, by an additional building having 'front.'
age of As feet The building will be five stor-
les high and will be devoted to offices and
storage
The Morrison & Corey heel factory, Au-
burn, Me-, has been temporarily closed. The
suspension is due to the action taken by the
railroad management relative to the ship
ment of goods containing naphtha, an in
gredient used at this factory and others in
the manufacture of heels. Efforts are being
made to have the matter adjusted SO that the
business may go on.
Gov Ames of Massachusetts, has signed the
bill authorizing the Boston & Albany road
to Issue $40, 900, 900 of new stock for construc-
ton and other purposes.
AS an outcome of the differences at Mar
blehead, Mass, between Harris & Sons and
the Lasters' Protective union, the firm has
begun packing its machinery, preparatory
to moving its entire business from the town.
The firm has employed $50 hands
In Robbinston, Me-, two old people have
died, who all their lives had lived together,
and even death did not long separate them.
Mary Stanton, aged 101 years months, died
March 5, and her husband, John stanton
aged so years 6 days, followed her in only
three days. For many years they had lived
alone, doing all their own work. Their only
son was killed in the war.
A suit for $4,000 has been entered against
Michael Burns the proprietor of the Burns
house, Taunton, Mass, by John Conway for
personal injuries received from an alleged
assault.
The Saturday balf-holiday system which
vas adopted last year by the Nashua, N. H.
manufacturing corporation will 60 into of
feet there again ON the Sth of April. TIL,
employees will ask for change, allowing
them to go a little earlier in the morning, 81
that the 60 hours Of the week will end on Sat
urday noon
The Lydall & Foulds Paper company Of
Manchester, Conn, and A. Kingsbury o.
South Coventry, have bought q large paper
box factory at Whitman. Seventy hand
are employed in the work. and 25 tons o
paper per month are used in making boxes
The Manchester mills will supply the paper
EMPTY WHALERS.