The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-18
new ENGLAND NEWS.

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TO 500 200. The par value OF the stock Is So
and the now shares are selling at $50 EACH
G. d, Whitman, the active manager of tn,
Vermont Maple Sugar exchange at Brattle
boro, has made his footings OF the season..
business and finds that up to July thu
sales amounted to 1928 gallons OF syrup 10,
O97 pounds of cake sugar and II, 4s9 pound,
OF pail sugar, Reckoning the syrup at L
pounds to the gallon, the standard weight
this shows total weight handled of about
is tons.
About sl5, 900 Of the $50, 900 wanted for tn,
establishment Of the new shoe factory II
Woburn, Mass, has already been subscribed
and It looks as IL the matter would be
brought to successful issue
August Rosenberg of Somerville murder.
Cd Mrs. Catherine Smith, with whom he was
living, and her two children, and then tool
his own life. Mrs. Smiths husband com.
mitted suicide about year ago by humping
overheard from ono of the Portland steam.
boats,
A bill has been introduced into the New
Hampshire house Of representatives incor.
porating the Franklin & Tilton railroad
to be built by the Boston, Concord & Mont
bal and Northern railroads The incor-
porators are A. w. Sulloway, G. A, Busial,
Fl. Crocker, and 6. Il. Morrison. The CAPT.
tai must not exceed $500 shares of 800 each.
Work on the Providence. r. l., cable
tramway is being rapidly pushed Nearly
one half of the track has been completed and
the remainder is being finished at the rate Of
400 feet day.
The ponds are overlooking at Higganum,
Ct, furnishing an abundance Of power to the
factories. This is an unusual occurrence at
this time in the season, when most of the
mills are running by steam.
The Naumkeag Street Railway company,
Salem, Mass, has petitioned the railroad
commissioners for permission to increase their
capital stock to $250,000 and for leave to
issue coupon bonds to the amount of 1850, 900,
secured by mortgage, to equip the road with
an overhead electric system, to provide for
an extension of the road, new turnouts etc.,
and to provide for the present bonded and
floating debt.
Peter e. Vose, Esq, who was reelected
urea, urer OF Dennysville, Me-, has held that
Office for 23 years, and during that time no
person but himself has ever written a word
or made figure in any town book except
ing the town clerks book or drawn an
order. In all, he has been selectman for
20 years, an assessor "a years, overseer of
the poor "a years and town agent for more
than 20 years.
The Androscoggin Valley Agricultural
association, incorporated in 1876 and elect
ahead this season t. hold fair September
"a, %, &C. The society has leased the Canton
driving park for a term of ton years. An
exhibition building 80 by so feet and two
stories will be erected at once at a cost of
about $780,
The plan of reorganization of the Rhode
Island militia, which board of officers
chosen from the brigade have been secretly
perfectlng for some time provides for dis
DaQlment of two commands o1tnpatbar
vides for the disbandment of the company of
cavalry, proposes to split up the artillery
and has finally a proposition to consolidate
the offices of adjutant general, commissary
general and quartermaster general, Irish and
colored quartermaster generals
Grossi, the italian, has been convicted at
Boston, Mass, of subornation Of perjury
In connection with the importation Of organ
grinders under contract.
Medford, Mass, asks for the free delivery
system, and post office officials will go there
and ascertain if the circumstances will war;
rant its establishment.
j; H. Crowell, chairman of the selectmen
of Tisbury, Mass, is taking the necessary
steps to establish a national bank at Vine
yard Haven. Considerable stock has been
taken and great interest in the project is
manifested at Cottage City and in Vineyard
Haven.
1t is understood that the will of the late
George B. Hyde Of Southbridge, Mass, be-
queaths after the death of his widow s50, 900
to Harvard college.
The largest keel ever seen in Bath, Me-,
has just been completed at the yard of A.
Sewall & Co. 1t is of the toughest kind Of
Maryland oak and is 27S feet long, 26 inches
deep and 151a inches thick.
Out of thirteen candidates for the position
Of principal of the Cony high school at
Augusta, Me-, the directors have selected
Mr.. j. H: Parsons of the Westbrook High
college, and was for nearly eight years prin-
cipal of the Maine Central institute at Pitts
field.
The water in the canal of the Underhill
Edge Tool works broke through an embank-
ment near Pennestock, N. H., and washed
out portion of the canal wall and nearly
wrecked the building, taking out portion
of its foundation. The damage to the COM
pany is $4,000.
road for the month of May were $12, 500. 66
against S12, 42299 for the corresponding
month of 1888. The gain in earnings for
eight months, to May 81, 1889, over same
months last year, was S919461.
A car recently manufactured entirely of
steel at East Boston, Mass, has been sent to
Laconia, N. H., TO be upholstered in fancy
leather. 1t weighs two tons less than the
ordinary passenger coach. 1t will be fitted
with ten compartments and is to be the di-
rectors car OF company of capitalists at
Denver, Col 1t is claimed that there will
be nothing about it that can take fire readi-
ly in case of accident.
The Grafton, Mass, National bank of
which Mr. A. A. Howe is cashier, is to wind
up its affairs, and will close up business
about October l.
Blackberry vines are loaded in New Hamp-
shire, and if the weather continues favorable
large crop is assured.
To show the value that American pro.
ducts possess among foreign nations the
Bowdoin Paper company, at Brunswick,
Me-, now supplies regular demand for
newspaper in Australia, and regular ship
ments are also made to Ireland Mexico and
South America.
The work of excavating for the new union
depot for the Bangor and Piscataquis and
Canadian Pacific railroads in Bangor is pro-
crossing finely.
The drives on the Penobscot river in Maine
will arrive at their destination this year
considerably earlier than last year. They
cantain about IS, 0O0 900 feet of logs.
The Massachusetts, railroad commissioners
have granted the West End Street Railway
company permission to use the electric over
head system all over Boston and over a
large portion Of Cambridge, and to make the
necessary underground and surface altera-
tions.
The total amount of duties assessed at the
port Of St Adams, VT, for the month end
ing June 30, 1889, was $40, 40795.
The new roundhouse of the Canadian Pa
cific at Brownville Junction, Me- is nearly
completed. 1t is the same size as the one
built short time ago Business is booming
and several new buildings will be put up
soon.
George H Grant has resigned his position
as treasurer of the Bar Hrrbor, Me-, Bank
ing and Trust company, and Fred G. Lyman,
formerly vice president, has been elected in
his stead.
The Bennington, Vt, battle monument is
now 100 foet high.
The Vermont Marble company Of Rutland
will build thirty gang mill upon the site of
the one recently burned.
At the last meeting of the board of trus-
tees Of Colby University, the board accepted
from Mrs. Edwin Noyes of Waterville, Me-,
gift of $500 as the beginning OF library
fund for Coburn Classical institute, to be
known as the Timothy Boutelle library
fund.