Connecticut western news., 1889-09-18
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

The Worcester Grand Army will give Gen. o. o. Howard reception on Saturday, Octo- Der 5.
 Miss Minerva F. Whittier, who was Prin- cipal of Salem Street School, at Worcester for eleven years, has accepted position in the Sandwich Islands as Principal of the kohala Seminary.
 Shoe shipments from Haverhill for the week ending Sept. F, 1892 cases: correspond ing week last year, 43I5 cases. Shipments of hats for the same same per,Sa' 1ssa st l cases.
 The Fifteenth Maine Regimental reunion will be held at Presque Isle on Wednesday, Sept. 9.
 Mir. w. H. Dyer, graduate of the Port land High School in the class of 1889, has ac- cepted the position of instructor i'll physical | culture at Phillips Exeter Academy. One school district in the town of Monson, Maine, is reported in an unfortunate predica- l ment. They can have no school this fall be- cause nobody will board the teacher. | The annual town fair in Rindge, N. H., vii be held on Sept. p. John P. Bullock, Collector of Taxes in Grafton, died recently, aged 56. Isaac P. Abbott of Milford, N. H., an ex- Representative in the Legislature, died recently.
 The First New Hampshire Regiment will have it's annual field day at Rochester on Sept. 2s.
 The mills of Train, Smith ts Co. of Bristol, | \. H., are turning out daily five tons of fin | ished paper.
 J. W. White has been chosen President of the White Mountain Freezer Company of | Nashua.
 It is said by pilots that the last job done by l the United States Government on the Kenne- | bee River was wasted and the channel is not so good now as it was before. Navigation between Augusta and Gardner is a sort of a l lottery. If the boat has good luck she gets through all right, and if she doesn't she is stuck in the mud.
 Augusta people propose to build a railroad between that city and TOgus, and later ex- tend it to Cooper's Mills. The company will undoubtedly be quite large one in number, as many have offered to subscribe as soon as the new company shall be organized.
 Sheep in the vicinity of Presque Isle, Maine, have been severely preyed upon>by dogs dur ing the summer. About 100 have been killed. Within the past three days 40 sheep within radius of few miles have been slaughtered | by the canines.
 early this year. Six crews have already start ed from Bangor and vicinity. It is becom- | ing the custom to begin work earlier than formerly in order to get much of the cutting done before the deep snows comes. l Jennings lS Stevens are removing their shoe business and machinery from Ripping to Haverhill, Mass.
 Benjamin Thompson of Durham, N. H. has given $500 toward improving the village cem- etery ill that town.
 The Amoskeag Veterans of Manchester will hold their annual field day at Lake Mass abesic on Sept. 24.
 The Selectmen of Hindsdale, N. H., have | contracted for the laying of additional con- | crete walks, to cost 5000. | The Eourth NaxU Hamnchiro Par;,oant Veterans will hold their annual reunion at Nashua on Sept. P.
 A Durham farmer named Mcdaniel is re- | ported to have been fleeced out of S2OOO by Bunco men.
 An association of horse breeders has been organized at Newport, N. H., with Col. Seth M. Richards President.
 The Green Manufacturing Company is building dam across the Androscoggin Ri yer in Berlin, to cost $5OOO.
 The annual meeting of the N. H. Pharma- ceutical Association will be held at Manches ter on Sept. IS and 19.
 Lyndon, Vermont, Institute has opened with 125 students.
 St. Johnsbury village has population of of 52OO according to the latest census.
 The receipts at the State Fair held at How ard Park, Burlington, Vt., were $20OO more than the current expenses.
 The Willard Manufacturing Company of l St. Albans now employ 60 hands, but it is unable to catch up with its orders.
 The new Government Building at Mont pelier, Vt., is nearly completed on the outside to thesroof, on which the work will begin at | once.
 Mir. J. S. Kennerson of Barnet, Vt., is the owner of three Durham calves weighing 1S2 1S' and 194 pounds, respectively. The trip 1 lets were born May 3, and are well matched and perfectly formed.
 The present indications are that the Ben nington Battle Monument will not be dedi- cated until August 16, 1891, as there is no appropriation made for dedicating it next | year, and no session of the Legislature will be held until October, 1890.
 The new union passenger station just com- pleted at Wells River, Vt., by the Boston and Maine Railroad is handsome and con- venient structure, and will be much appre- ciated by the travelling public in that section
 The Deertield River Company of Reads boro', Nt., of which Moses Newton is Presi- dent, D. H. Newton Vice-president and John c. Newton, Treasurer, all of Holyoke, is to build an addition to the pulp-mill at Reads borO', which will make it the largest mill of the kind in the State.
 Fairs will be held as follows in Vermont during the next three weeks Rutland county at Rutland, September 17-19; Orleans county at Barton, September 17-19; Lamoile coun- ty at Morrisville, September 17-19; Dog River Valley at Northtield, September 17-19 Windsor county at Woodstock, September 2L26; Western Vermont at Fair Haven, September A-27; Valley Fair at Brattle- boro', October ? and 3; Worlds Fair at Tunbridge, October and 8.
 At Norwich, N. H., last week thieves stole $500 worth of watches and jewelry from the house of James l.. Hubbard and $25O worth from the house of George c. Spoford.
 The General Assembly of Connecticut. at | ffS fSyn fIn of rlo Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statis- tics at $30OO, an increase of 5000. A constitutional amendment prohibits the in- crease of compensation of any State officer during his term of service. To meet this ob- jection Commissioner Hotchkiss resigned his office August ], and was immediately reap pointed by Gov. Bulkeley to fill the vacancy Occasioned by his resignation.
 Nearly 1000 Swedes gathered in Mechan- ics' Hall, Worcester. to celebrate the 25Oth anniversary of the landing of the Swedes in America. Music by the Brigade band solos by Ludwig Baechman. A. Thaen and Mrs. Agnes Setterwal and several glees by a double quartet made up the musical part of the programme. Speeches by Senator George F. Hoar, Hon. J. H. Walker, Mayor Winslow and several of the Swedish pastors followed. The entertainment closed with stereopticon exhibition of scenes in Sweden and Norway.
 P. J. Murphy. Plymouth barber, hired team last week. Both are missing.
 HODart IS. RlcnardS, DOOk-keeper, commit ted suicide by shooting at North Attleboro last week.
 Second annual excursion of New England Railroad Agents Association to Newport took place recently.
 George Whittenden was found dead in a barn at Wrentham. He has been missing since Aug. 4.
 Eben D. Shaw of Carver, Mass, died aged 66. He had been in foundry business and a town official