News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-12-26
new ENGLAND NEWS.

The Penobscot River has closed to naviga-
| ton.
The full amount of stock necessary to build
| the Peaks Island Portland HarDor Railroad
| has been subscribed.
| North SmithfieId, r. l.. has voted to intro
| duce electric lights.
A butter-tub factory is soon to be started
| in StarksbOro, Vt.
| Inc futile Company of Rutland, VT, is
puDnshng new geography and history of
| the State of Vermont. They are to be made
| the text books in the State school.
| The Columbia Falls Company has nearly
| 2,00O.C00 feet of felled hemlock yarded on the
various townships of Pleasant River, Maine.
| The receipts at the office of the Maine Sec
rotary of State will be almost enough this
year to pay all the salaries of the State House
| officials, being nearly $4,000.
The following is summary of the GUS
| toms business of the district of Vermont dur
ing the month ending November 80: Do
| mestlc merchandise exported to Canda, $780,
| 5S6; free goods imported and entered for
consumption, SlS6,231; dutiable merchan-
disc entered for consumption, $404 $50,
| duties 1914 ,5O231; merchandise entered for
warehOusmg of direct importation, 1904,
| duties SS4.06; brought from other districts
| and entered for re-waTehOuSing S164S, duties
| S164.S4; withdrawn from warehouse for
| transportation to other districts 1923, duties
| S225.95; entered for warehouse and imme-
diate transportation $111,S3S, duties $685.
334.5S; entered for transportation and eXpor-
tatlon to foreign countries $4S2,210, duties
| S140,500.SS.
| The Atlantic, Williams and East Haddam
| Duck Companies of East Haddam, Conn,
have been asked by Philadelphia company
representing, it is understood, an English
| syndicate, to fix a price on their respective
DrOnprtlpS and
panies have complied. The syndicate has
| four months to decide whether to take the
properties at the prices named.
| At the last dinner of the Boston Merchants
| Club the subject of BoSton's danger from fire
was discussed by the~1yre Commissioners
an" 5o sepf'1 Dow of usu ,to< H., the his
| to run.
The citizens of SauElls. Mass. held a mass
| meeting for the purphse of securing better
railroad facilities and double track on the
| Saugus branch, Eastern r. r.
The New Hampshire State Grange is hold
| ing its annual meeting at Manchester, the
| Massachusetts, and Northampton and the
Maine at Belfast
| At a largely attended town meeting in
| Beverly the Selectmen were authorized to
The ACCESSIBILITY of introducing the trolley
electric railway system in Gloucester is being
discussed.
The will of Hector P. Lynn, Lawrence,
Mass, leaves almost all his vast property to
his sister, Mrs Margaret A. Burns. To the
hospital, to St. Mary's church and to the
orphan asylum he gave $1,000 each.
The real Russian influenza seems to be
gaining fOothold in Boston.
by the cars near Springfield, Mass.
Nearly $4,000 has been subscribed for the
general hospital building project at Marlboro,
Mass, and it has been decided by the COM
mittee in charge of the matter to petition the
legislature for an act of incorporation.
A. W. Bartlett has been chosen President
of the Suncook Valley, n. H., Fair Associ-
alton.
Horatio G. Chamberlain has been elected
President of the Durham, n. H., Mutual Fire
Insurance Company.
The Rutland, VT, Board of Trade has fit
ted up the finest suite of rooms in the State
On the recommendation of Representative
Boutele, Capt. Henry l.. Wood of Dexter
has been appointed abstractor to gather
statistics of recorded Indebtedness for the
Census Bureau in the Fourth Maine Con-
gressiOnal District The salary is $3 a day
and expenses.
A grange with W. A. Partridge, Master.
has been organized at Factory Village in
Chesterfield, n. II.
The new Brewster Town Hall and Public
Library Building in Wolfeboro, n. H., will
be dedicated on Feb. II.
The Laconia Car Company, Laconia. n. H.,
has been reorganized with Perley Putnam
President and General Manager.
The shoe factory of the Kimball Brothers
at Manchester, n. H., soon to be enlarged.
will give employment to 800 hands.
Loren Young of East Charleston, VT, cee-
brated his seth birthday December :. He is
member of Chamberlin Post, G. A. K. of
st. Johnsbury, and Undoubtedly the oldest
War.
The State National Bank of Pawtuelet, r.
l., was robbed of 5000.
Gideon p. Brown- the absconding wool
assist IN Settling ig Of Of his Szf firm anu
VIM. Fl. Winston of Providence, is arrested
for illegal voting.
Store of E. S. FayA Portsmouth. n. H.,
damaged by fire to the extent of $4,000.
Circulars issued by boil the firm of A. w.
Shaw & Co., and the stirling shoemrkers of
Freeport, Me. There is little change in the
condition of affairs, and little prospect of a
settlement
There is a story from HOlyoke that alder
men of Massachusetts cities are to unite and
petition the Legislature to place the matter of
granting liquor licences in the hands of an
other BODY.