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

tees Of Colby University, the board accepted
from Mrs Edwin Noyes Of Waterville, Me-
a gift Of $500 as tha beginning Of library
fund for Coburn Classical institute, to be
known as the Flllothy Boutelle library
fund.
A new veneer factory win be built soon at
Greenyille, Me-, by Mr.. j. H. Searles. The
lumber for the structure is already on the
spot and work will be begun as soon as
workmen can be obtained. The factory will
be three stories high and 80 feet long by so
wide.
The Sangerville, Me, woolen company has
just started up his new mill. This being a
three sett mill, it requires about forty hands
to operate it. The other two mills in that
town are doing a fine business and keeping
up their well known reputation for fine
goods
A screen law, SIM lar in some of its provl-
sions to that upon the Massachusetts, statute
books goes into'eifect in Connecticut upon
the 1st of August 81
The New England Furnit1re company of
Saccarappa, Me, have begun to run their
mill night and day The mill is lighted by
electric lights.
Hon. Eben Coe of B lngor, Me-, has pur-
chased wood lot of 80 acres in Northwood
n. H., which by his gift will be utilized by
the aca 1emy in that town, endowed by him
and bearing his name.
AT meeting of the stockholders of the
Glen mills, at Fall River, it was voted to
build story mil from plans of D. Hart
well Dyer and equip it with machinery, to
contain 25, 900 spindles The capital stock is
$500, 900, which it was voted shall be paid in
instalments.
There are 900 children in the Brattleboro',
VT, village district between the ages of and
10. There are 1856 boys and 5O4 girls.
The whistling buoy off Granite point, at
the entrance to the 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 1885, Inside the harbor the black spar
buoy, half way up Browns shoal, is also
gone, and the Dicks fat buoy is missing.
These are all important marks.
About July 20 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 27 seconds.
a valuable pair Of horses, owned by B. p.
Pierce were poisoned at Hanover N. H., by
some one who broke into the stable and
mixed paris green with their feed. Both
horses died.
Mrs. Abigail White of Vassalboro, Me-,
has provided one thousand dollars and lit
tie more toward the cost of the dormitory
building now In process of construction for
the use of the Kicker Classical Institute,
Houlton.
The Ames Manufacturing Co., Chicopee,
Mass, have secured $40 900 contract from
the government of Venezuela for the con-
struotion of two bronze statues of heroic
size. Ono will be standing figure of Gen.
Rafael Urdaneta, the Venezuelan soldier who
died In 1845 and the other will be an eques-
trian statue of the famous South American
lberator Bolivar. The works will be COM
pleted on both statues in February and will
be shipped to South America In the care Of
two nien from the Ames works.
Fred Clough of Warner N. H., found in
his pasture few days ago good sized bal
loon. Attached to 1t was a 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.
Weathersfeld, 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
NULL iSf LIS, W., 10 anticipating Increased
business activity In view Of establishment
there of Stafford & Webster's large tanning
business from Stowe, a process peculiar to
that firm enabling them to turn out
peculiar kind of tanned skins.
Lester ]. Bradley, lately freight and pas
senger agent of the Derby railroad, New
Haven, ct, who was q few weeks ago dis
charged, has been arrested on a charge Of
embezzlement and making false entries on
the books of the company. The amount of
the enbeZzlement is unknown. Bradley de-
nie5 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 5719 feet long, 200 feet wide and
Is 1-3 feet deep, 1894, 558 cubic feet of earth
having been removed by the operation.
Plymouth, Mass, is to have new shoe
factory, to be owned by stock company.
John E. Torrey Of Rockland and John H.
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, Marshfield. The field contains
80 acre, and the yield will exceed 5000
bushels