The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-04-18
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.


1. D. HAGEN of st, Johnsbury, Vt, has
sold large tract of timber land IN Victory
to the Olcott Pulp Manufacturing company |
The sale amounted to over 500 OJO.
Edgar Swan of Lynn, ex-teller Of the Lynn
CITY B nix, ha been sentenced to the Law
renee jail for Ave years for embezzlement.
Charles W. Varney Of Hill, N. H., was re- |
Gently sentenced by Judge Allen to the state
prison for 90 years for an outrage upon Mrs. |
Mary A. Brown Of Sanbornton,
Work has commenced on the nsw electric
street railway to be operated from Attleboro
to Plainville, Mass, through North Attic
| boro at the northern terminus toward North
Attleboro, 1t Is expected that the line from
Atlleboro north win be in operation by June
or July,
The i3-year-old daughter of Samuel Shat
tuck of North Danville, VT, has caused a
sensation by marrying boy Of A.. She was
! kept under the close surveillance OF a vener-
able grandmother being refused the liberties
| of schools and church, and the society of the
neighbors, When she gained the reins she
started away with her lover, and the two
fount some one willing to marry them The
groom's mother has taken the children home,
and viii take good care Of them.
/ Joseph H. Wright, clerk in the Harris
Lime Rock works, Lincoln, r. l., was killed
by the accidental explosion of dynamite
cartridge Whion ne was preparing ior
blast His head was blown off an several
Of his limbs broken, and the building in
which he was at work was wrecked.
Boring for oil at Southbury, Ct, has failed
to prove profitable enough to warrant the
further continuance of the project. The cost
OF boring 1000 feet has been $40, 100, and the
result has been the finding Of crock oil, a
useless product and substance resembling
coal, which will not burn.
II A peculiar bicycle accident recently hap
pened in New B dford, Mass. A man was
dog ran out and came into collision with the
wheel. The man was thrown off, and in
4 his fall knocked down Bryant M. Brownell,
the ten year-old son of Albion 7. Brownel.
The man escaped with 81 ght injuries, but
the boys skull was crushed by contact with
cobble stones. 1T Is thought he cannot re-
cover.
The directors Of the Concord, N. H., horse
railroad have voted to ask the city council
for permission to use electricity as motive
power and to extend the track.
T A number Of prominent business men have
been engaged in soliciting subscriptions to
the stock for another cotton mill at New
Bedford, Mass. 1t is understood that about
500, 600 has already been subscribed.
The famous ancient .grasshopper vane
which for nearly one hundred and fifty
Years mas SurnOunueu Fdneull Hdll III bOSUol
and faithfully registered the tickle changes
of the wind, and which was accidentally de-
tached and thrown down from its old-time
resting place in lowering the American flag
on the evening of Evacuation Day, has been
replaced, though with no attendant cere-
monies.
The plant of the Standard Oil Co. in East
Providence, R. l., is being rapidly enlarged.
A stable 1873 feet long and 40 feet wide, two
I $50 l. {c, ,.1y nn,,, cd hnI
to the stable is an Office 1890 feet. Two
tanks holding about 5000 barrels, one holding
5000 barrels and another holding 1900 bar
rels have been completed, and two other
large tanks are being built A paint shop,
10x50 feet has been completed and is used for
painting barrels only. A wharf, 20ox2O
feet has been constructed along the river
front and dredges have been at work widen
ing and deepening the channel.
At Barnstable Mass, Philip Cotelle plead
ed guilty of assault with intent to kill Min
ME L. Chapman, March g. 1885, He was
sentenced to the State prison for four years.
His crime was that Of shooting the fifteen
year-old girl in the back because she refused
to continue their friendly relations. She re-
covered, though the bullet has never been
got out Cotalle, according to expert testi-
I mony, was not of strictly sound mind, but in
, q state of frenzy was able to recognize the
, nature Of his act.
, The proposed new city building at Concord
n II. will be OF brick, two stories high, witt
, basement and will cost $40, 900. On the first
! floor will be the offices of the mayor, city
, marshal and guard room 24la by 26 feet
and also lavatories On the second floor, the
assessors water commissioners, tax collector,
iicer and police justice will have Of
he first floor Of the rear part of tn,
.. will contain eight cells and Other
nts, and the second story Will b
police court room.
1airmont Manufacturing company,
), uonsocket r. l., has asked Tor charter q
3 manufacture cotton goods, with capital o
| 1925 900. 1t is proposed to build mill
500 to 600 looms One hundred Thousand
; dollars has already been subscribed.
Ten farm buildings on the well know
1 Open Ridge place, Springfield, VT, wer'
lately burned. Loss $4,000.
| The suit for damages against the Main
! Central railroad, brought by Dwinel ALLIE
: of Topsham, Me, for personal injury Will
: driving across the railroad track in Bath, re
. suited In verdict for plaintiff in the sum 0
4 $500.
s The Sunderland Lumber Co., on the Gree
Mountain in Sunderland, N H., has jus
finished very successful winter.
W. w. Greenough, who retres from tn
< treasurership aud general management of tn
e Bottom Gas Co after being connected witt
it for the past so years, has been presented
= an address beautifully inscribed and bount
Z in a portfolio, by the employees of the com
q pany.
IS The child prematurely born in Worcester
It Mass to Mrs. Quisaime Busette, and whicl
Il DR.. c. H. Darling had kept alive In an incu
! bator for eight days, is dead. 1t weighe
IS 2sl pounds at birth, and everything cor
y sidered, DR.. Darling regards the experiment
!. as encouraging
f The Maine Central railroad has Just issue
6 the most ironclad orders to its station agent
u in regard to the game laws The order fol-
g bids the agents to receive for transportatio
is any moose or caribou or deer betwee
If the first day of October and the frs
~ day of January of each year. As all the res
of the year is close time this will wholly prt
il hibit the shipment of game. The gres
o Maine railroad is certainly doing its share
h add to the efficiency of the Maine game law
Il and is entitled to credit for its stringel
% regulations.
IS Stacey Huntington of Richmond, Me-.
d lad of 10, in trying to dig out dynaml
# cartridge with knife, exploded the ca
! blowing off the ends of his thumb and for
Z finger and inficting other wounds.
y The subscription for stock Of the Lewiste
lie MeA mills has been closed. This insur
t, the purchase and early starting up OF Il
,r mills.
d The directors of the Biddeford & Sat
IS Horse Railroad company have decided not
! Adopt electricity as motive power this seaso
u Charles H. Andrews Of Biddeford, Me-, hi
l. been elected superintendent
- Ths bAyqus George s. Homer Capt. We
y land, has Arrived at New Bedford, Mass,
81 days from San Francisco with one Of t
largest catgoes Of oil ever brought here, co
N sisfing Of 5000 barrels. It is from q mort
~ 6rn whalers, and represents the catch Of Ia
year. Capt. Warland says that during t
Of voyage he experienced the toughest al
D. heaviest weather Of his life. Three seve
=. gales were encountered.
. Among the laws passed by the Mai
Legislature, just adjourned, was one pl
hitting the use OF stoves for heating p,
sanger cars under penalty of S40O for ca
rs offence. and the use of naphtha or any 9th
- fluid that ignites at lower temperate
u than 300 deg. F. was forbidden under Ii
t. penalty.
90 Mrs. Turkey of Old Orchard, Me-, has
c. ceived back pension money to the amount
t. a little over $1,000.
er Collector Leavitt has appointed ex- Nav