Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-04-19

ceived back pension money to the amount Of
little over $4,000
Collector Leavitt has appointed ex-Mayor
M. N. McKusick deputy collector at Calais,
Nc, in place of c. r. Whidden, resigned.
Ada Armstrong, aged Is, the daughter of
a respectable family at West Ansonia, Conn,
left home several days ago and cannot be
found. She is an expert bsnjo player and is
supposed to have eloped with member of
an opera company. The girls mother is
nearly crazed with grief.
A dangerous prisoner named James Brown,
who has been serving q life sentence at the
Charlestown, Mass, prison, for numbering q
shipmate In 1885, has left Boston heavily
lroned in custody of United States Deputy
Marshal Mcdonald, for Columbus, O., where
he will serve out his sentence.
There has been a charter granted for
national bank In Mansfield, Mass, and the
shares are being rapidly taken and the bank
will soon open for business.
The first earthwork on the Dexter and Pts
cataquis railroad has been begun at Dexter,
Me- 1t is OILY question of a few DAYS
before work is commenced along the entire
line.
The Manchester N. H., Manufacturing
corporation has voted to erect new mill
145 feet long, 81 wide and five stories high
A Garland, Me-, man has yearling heifer
which he has broken to harness and drives in
little wagon built expressly for that pur-
pose, The animal is so well trained that she
will stand i'll front of the village stores like
staid old horse while her driver is transacting
business inside. 1t Is one of the unique teams
of the county.
The former residents OF Franklin county,
Me-, now living in Portland have form d
permanent association to be known as the
Mount Blue association of Franklin, with +.
ID. Eastman pre,ident and G.. H. Oldham
treasurer.
The Boston & Maine road has opened a
new and very handsome passenger station at
Lynn, Mass. The Boston and Maine officials
report that the earnings of their system have
been making very satisfactory gains of
late.
The old Hampden Mass hat factory has
been leased for three years by W. G. Dewey,
and operati+ ms will be at once b gun for re-
modelling the interior for use as a spinning
mill The machinery Is expected to be run
ming by June IS, and a new boiler and en-
gine will be put in. Employment will be
given to about 80.
ford and Saco, Me- is to be very active this
season, large quantities of brick being sent
from these towns to Boston.
Warren, r. l., has voted to build new
town hall at an expense of $35, 900. A move
ment to reconsider this action failed.
Bristol R. l., is sending out circular
which gives a vote of the town that any
corporation who may establish itself in busi-
ness in the town Of Bristol within the coming
three years be exempted from taxation for
the period of 10 years to date" A statement
of the towns advantages accompanies the
circular.
AS a son Of j. P. Hatch Of North Castine,
Me-, was playing In the farm yard recently
he noticed q great commotion among flock
Of crows In an adjoining field, and running
to the spot found two of them so busily en-
gagged in fight that he picked them up be-
fore they were aware of his coming.
Sunday afternoon Robert Costello, ex-cap-
tain of the North Adams, Me, police force,
was badly scalded while lifting a boiler of
hot water from the stove.
Some of the friends of John D. Stevens,
manager Of the Vermont Live Stock COM
pany, are growing nervous over his long
absence in Texas and Mexico, where he went
to buy cattle for the company Dakota ranch
Mr.. Stevens wrote from Mexico about @
month ago, saying he would write in a day
or two. Since then no letters have been re-
ceive1, though his friends indulge the hope
that some may have been miscarried.
In special town meeting the voters of the
historic town of Lebanon, Conn, decided by
an emphat C majority not TO accept as q
e TT the famous Old war office of Governor
Jonathan Trumbull on condition that the
town put the building in COOL repair within
one year and so maintain 1t as long as posi-
BILE. This adverse action was due to the fact
that it would cost tho town from $500 to
$1,000 to keep it in decent repair. The me-
mento Of Governor Trumbull and revolu-
tionary times has so changed in appearance
since it was used as a 'war office" and
across whose threshold stepped Washington,
the two Adamses Franklin, Rochambeau
andother revolutionary celebrities, that tho
taxpayers Of the town do not deem it worthy
Of preservation. 1t is thought that some of
Lebanon's public spirited citizens will form
an association with capital Of $1,000, which
would acquire possession of the building, put
it in good repair and SO preserve 1t as a me-
mento of olden times
The Westbrook (Me) Electric Light COM
pany will begin work at once on dam
across the Presumpscot river short dis
tance above what Is known as the upper
covered bridge at Smelt Hill. When the
dam is completed the rapids will be covered
and channel will be blasted through them.
It is proposed to run small steamer from
Saccarappa down through the dam by means
Of lock and around by the harbor to Port
land. The electricity will be conducted by a
submerged cable down the river to Martin
Point Bridge, and thence to Portland.
In the case cf Marshall L. Adams of
Provincetown, Mass, ex-county treasurer,
against George Otis, publisher Of the Cape
Cod Item of Yarmouthport, which was con-
t!nued over to the present sitting of the supe-
ror court at Barnstable, the counsel for the
plaintiff was non-suited, and the case YVES
taken from the docke+, with payment of
costs. This was an action brought by Adams
to recover $4,000 damages for the publication
Of an alleged libelous article.
Ashland, Me-, boasts Of woman who be
sides managing a family Of children and a
refractory husband, carries on large lum-
bering operation. The Herald says she re-
Gently made trip 40 miles into tho woods
to hor lumber camps, settled with her men,
examined the landings of logs and timber
with critical eye, inspected an extensive
dam made for driving purposes, and made
arrangements for driving out the lumber
Sho can boast of having been farther into
the Aroostoo& wilderness than any othcl
white woman.
The trustees of the Maine insane hospital
! have elected Hon. Frederick R1bie, of Cor
ham, Me-, president, and DR.. L. A. Thomp
son of Dover secretary.
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