News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-09

other severe injuries.
Annie Rogers, girl employed in the card
| ing room of Acushnet Mill No. 1, Newbed
ford, Mass, while cleaning a spindle drivel
had her hair caught in the upper drum anC
her scalp was torn completely off. Her con
dition is critical.
o. B. Warren of Rochester, n. H., an ex
postmaster of that place, has been appointed
United States Internal Revenue storekeepel
at Portsmouth through the unanimous in
dorsement of the New Hampshire delegation
in Congress.
Beverly, Mass, Selectmen have been enioin
ed from borrowing money under certain votes
of the town.
Lynn Aldermen are considering the ques.
ton of widening certain streets in the burned
district.
The Cambridge, Mass, Library Hall Asso-
citation has been organized in the interests OF
good government.
Concord, n. H., is to have a new public
building to cost $4,000.
New proposals for furnishing electric lights
to Boston have been submitted. They were
% per cent. less than the previous bids.
Moosehead lake, Me-, still shows open
water, the latest for many year. There is
good sleighing near it.
The Androscoggin Mills, Lewiston, have
completed taking account of stock, and it has
been found that they have done the biggest
six months work, ending Dec. 10, in the his
tory of the mills. During that period 3,0O0,-
600 pounds of goods have been manufactured.
The mills give employment to 1850 hands,
the pay roll being 81 800 every two weeks,
while other expenses are from $4,000 to $4,000
for the same time.
NJ. n. Rich, Secretary of the Portland
Board of Trade, in his annual report on the
business outlook in Maine, speaks In most en-
couraging terms Of the prosperous state of
affairs. There has been large increase of
various industries throughout the State, evil
denced especially by the great demand for
machinery and tools of all kinds. This Is
largely attributable to the numerous Boards
of Trade established all over the State for the
purpose of promoting local industries. Farms
have been brushed up and new lands brought
into tillage. Farm stock has been improved
and dairying increased, and almost every
thing connected with the agriculture Of the
State has undergone marked Improvement.
Speaker Barrett was renominated by the
Republican members-elect of the MasSachu-
sets House.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, de-
cides that q dealer in oleomargarine or any
kind of imitation butter must not sell it with
out a designating label or mark upon the
package, and the failure of his servant or
clerk to so mark the goods is no defence for
the proprietor of the store.
The receipts from the various fisheries
show a falling off of more than one-quarter
from the average catch.
The Board of Aldermen of Lowell, Mass,
have voted to adopt a police telegraphic sig
nal system and transferred $4,000 from the
reserve fund to the police appropriation
therefor.
Clark & Cole, the box manufacturers of
Middleboro', Mass, have just had completed
for them a new mill. They will turn out
about 900 boxes per day from the new mill.
Since the construction of the famous Marsh
field dixie, the river channel at Green's Har-
Dor, Mass, has filled up to such an extent
that houses are now being put where the
water once flowed.
The bingham, Mass, historian, George
Lincoln, states that more persons by the name
of Stodder have been lost at sea from that
town than from any other family belonging
there since the town was settled.
The seasons work at the Waldoboro', Me-,
Granite Quarry has closed. Some 20 work
men have been employed at the quarries and
shed all summer.
Great quantities of spruce and poplar are
being cut in Weld, Me-, this winter for the
manufacture of pulp.
Total shipments of shoes from Haverhil
for the year ending December 20, 1899, 269,-
S92 cases. Total shipments for the year 1885,
year 1889, S942 cases. Total shipment of hats
in 1888, 1905 cases.
Westminster's Gvt) new Town Hall will
Ex-Gov. ROBBIE has been elected President
of the Board of Trustees of the Maine State
Insane Hospital, and DR.. E. A. Thompson of
Dover secretary.
The Megunticook, Me-, mill, which has just
been completed, is "a by 70 feet in dimensions
o,,l fhv.na atn Isrh nil Ioh nor
early in January.
Pickerel fishing is reported good all over
Maine. Quite business is carried on in some
parts of the state in catching and shipping
them to Boston.
The wife of Rev. Mr.. Penny, the faith
cure believer of Attleboro, Mass, is now
reported to be i'll of typhoid fever, and, al
though she at first obtained the services of
physician, has, at the solicitation of her hus-
band, discarded the use of medicine. Both
mother and child are now suffering from dis
ease without medical attendance.
There is district school in Vermont, which
has only five pupils. They all come from
one family, whose father is the School Com
mittee and whose mother is the teacher.
George S. Fsrnsworth of North Bridgton,
Me-, President of the Bridgton Academy
Alumni Association, requests all who have
heen connected with the academy, either as
write him of the time they attended, their
place of residence then and their residence
now. Other papers please extend this re-
quest.
The Readsboro', VT, chair factory is turn
ing out 400 chairs per day.
The New England Press Association held
its annual meeting Jan. 1.
The Massachusetts Legislature was organ
lied Jan. l. Hon. Henry III. Sprague was
of hn 70
Barrett Speaker of the House and the other
officers of last year.
The annual meeting of the Massachusetts,
Historic Genealogical Society was held Jan. 1.
An $4,000 fire in Leominster, Mass.
The President of the Boston Common
Council will be Mr.. Horace G.. Allen.
The Episcopal parishes, churches and
clergymen in New Hampshire remained I'M
changed In number during the past year.
1t is understood that William S. Webb, SON.
in-law of the late w. Fl. Vanderbilt, will sue
coed Mr.. Phillips as President of the Fitch
burg Road.
The Loyal Legion held its regular banquet
New Years at the Revere House, Boston.
The new City Government of Nashua, N.
H., was inaugurated Jan. 1.
The census of the Penobscot, Me-, Indians
shows total of 1888 in the tribe, a decrease
of two since the last annual census.
The body of John Linscott, an aged citi-
zen of Appleton, Me-, was found recently
hanging to a beam in his wOodshed
He had been in poor health and Strengthened
for some time. He leaves a
widow and five children.
Peterboro', n. H., citizens are discussing
the question of new public library building.
The cites most talked of for 1t are the Con-
cord street corner lot and the old Academy
lot.
Gideon P. Brown, who has returned to
Boston, was too i'll to appear before the In
solvency Court at Dedham, and the case was
adjourned for two weeks.
The village of Caribou, Me-, expended
S136, $40 in new buildings and public improve
ments during the past year. Skowhegan's
new buildings for same period represent an
outlay of $50 900.
AthoPs (Mass.) building boom continued
undated during the last year, and at least
S75, 900 has been invested in new structures.
Some 40 dwellings were erected.