Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-01-25
NEWS IN GENERAL.

While she contributes freely both land and
money for public enterprise, the stipulation
Is always made that the land shall revert to
her whenever liquor is sold upon it.
Wagenhurst, late captain of the Princeton
college team, and more recently of the Phil
the New York club. Wagenhurst is about %
years of age, five feet 10 inches in height,
and weighs about 165 pounds
The New Jersey & Pennsylvania Concen-
trating works have incorporated at Newark,
| New Jersey. The incorporators are H. NJ.
Livor, Joseph Hutchinson and A. G. Tate, all
Of New York The capital is $50, 900, the
place Of business South Orange, and the bus
tness Is the electric refining and smelling Of
ores
There are 62, 900 women in America inter-
ested in the cultivation of fruit, and there
are numbered among them some of the most
successful Crchardists of California. Women
indeed are more successful than men. 1t is
one of the most healthful occupations, there
being no cramping in close rooms, and the
physical exertion is not severe.
Naval Constructor Philip Hichborn has
been promoted to the rank Of captain in the
navy in consequence Of the retirement of
Naval Constructor Pool. Constructor Hich-
born has been in the service "a years. having
started as an apprentice at the Boston Navy
Yard and passed through all the different
grades to his present rank.
A fine marble statue of BENJAMIN Frank
lin, Of heroic size, which has lately been
placed upon an appropriate granite pedestal
in the space formed by the intersection of
Pennsylvania Av. and d St., Washington, was
unveiled Thursday by Mrs. NJ W. .Emmory, the
great granddaughter Of Franklin. There
was no public ceremony The statue and
pedestal are gift to the city from Stilson
Hutchins.
The ]. E. Potts Salt and Lumber Co. Of
Oscoda, Mich, expects to put in 10000 600
feet of logs this year. Last year it put in
10000, 900 feet. 1t operates 125 miles of log
ging railroad, has ten locomotives, and its
operations are about 40 miles above Oscoda
on the Au Sable river
Natural gas was discovered in Indiana
about two years ago, and since that time 70
Ell maluIGot RIGS have been established in
that State, with n capital aggregating 4500-
OOO employing all told, $500 men.
There is an effort making in England to
provide with employment women who are
discharged from prison who wish to amend
their lives. This comedies with the work Of
Mrs. Meredith who has conducted 10 institll-
tions Of the kind known as the prison mi, sion
laundry. During 1885, 9Ol discharged prison
ers have been given work; 4745 nights lodg-
ings have been provided, as well as 20, 228
meals.
Messrs. Cramp & Sons, the builders, re-
Gently gave the new twin screw boat York
town, preliminary trial trip Of about 100
miles run. Their object was principally to
demonstrate that better results could not be
obtained by using bituminous instead of
anthracite coal, in testing fast vessels and
they claim that the trip was entirely salts
factory in this respect. A naval board to
give the Yorktown an official trial has not
yet been appointed.
The nomination Of Walter L. Bragg to sue
ceed himself as interstate commissioner was
favorably reported in executive session of the
senate.
Work on the new electric railway at Gin
cinnati O., Sprague system, which is being
built for the inclined system of that city has
begun. The road will be equipped with 20
cars to start with, the new Boston type
Sprague moter being used, with separate
trucks This design of car will enable the
cars to be run In winter as closed and open
In summer.
The fact that the emperor Of China has
30 physicians and surgeons in his household
renders his arrival at the age Of 19 a subject
for wonder
The Vandala has been ordered to Samoa
Orders also have been received to prepare
the Mohican for saa at once 1t is believed
she will proceed to Panama and there re-
celye new crew from the east and possibly
go to Samoa. An order was received recent
ly to fit out the store ship Monongahela and
despatch her to Samoa as soon as pos ible
with supplies for the fleet.
The American Field has made arrange
ments for a series of articles on each of the
breeds ot dogs popular in England and Amer
lea. The articles will be virtually on the
pillars of the English stud book, and will
show what strains have produced the modern
bench and field trial winners. The articles
will be written by well-known English breed
ers and authorities on the respective breeds
of which they write, and will be illustrated by
the well-known English artist, r. H. Moore
The articles cannot be otherwise than OF
the greatest interest and value to owners OF
dogs both in America and Eng and, at the
noted dogs on both sides of the Atlantic have
descended from the dogs which will be writ
ten of in these articles
The army board of which Gen Benet is
president will report to the secretary Of wal
that Gen. Swain is unfit for active duty and
should be retired, and this action will un-
doubtedly be followed by the remission OF
the unexpired portion of his sentence and his
retirement. Gen Swain was very happy to-
day when DR.. Jedediah Baxter, his personal
J friend, assured the other members of the
board that the condition of his kidneys was
such as to warrant them in reporting in
favor of his retirement.
This has been great wint T for snakes in
Illinois. The largest haul SO far reported
was in Union township, eight miles east Of
Mason, where men dug out 123 rattlers, some
of them five feet in length and about 60 black
snakes and Cther reptiles. Pansies are yet
blooming in dooryards
The 14th annual dinner of the Associated
Pioneers of the Territorial Days of Cali
J fornia and reunion of Forty-niners took
place in New York Saturday night. 1t was
the 10th anniversary of their departure fol
the gold fields Gen John G. Fremont, who
was to have responded to the toast, '"Iht
army and navy sent letter of regret al
his inability to attend. Similar letters were
received from Gen. Sherman, Demas Strong
and William H. Hampton.
Buck Ewing says that, If the New Yorks
secure anybody In case of the departure Of
Ward, he would like to see Sam Wise as thai
man. This causes one to ask, IL Boston doe
not get Ward, why wouldn't Sam Wise bt
Just as valuable to the Boston club as hi
. would be to the New Yorks?
. About 100 Alsatian men, women and chill
dren, who were steerage passengers ON thu
steamer La Campagne, from Harve, and de
tained at Castle Garden, New York, pending
inquiry as to whether their case comes undei
the contract labor law They are bound fol
Florida, where they are TO rent houses an(
tobacco plantations owned by New Yorl
Slkui hauuloSOuiluS llul, uud uIul dblSellk
to buy tho tobacco they raise
Capt. Dahm of the brig Alice Bradshaw
} which left Aux Cages Jan. and arrived IL
New York ON Saturday, reports that Gen
Paul OF Legitime's force has deserted with hi
army Of 5000 men and joined his fortune
with those of Hippo'yte outside Of Port al
| Prince.
Electoral messengers from two state
reached the capitol at Washington on Tues
day of last week Il. w. Pou, Jr., trans
mitted, with all due solemnity, the II vote
of North Carolina for Cleveland and Thur
man. Later in the day Robert s. Green ar
rived with nine votes for Cleveland anC
Thurman. Senator Ingalls, accepted tn