The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-01-09
new ENGLAND NEWS.

luz Jury III wv oultiiut NbAiN, III WV Nto'
of Thomas II, Hayorly against the l.aneas'
ter mills of Clinton, Mass, returned q
verdict for the plaintiff, assessing damages
at S6OO0. The suit was brought 10 recover
damages for the loss of an arm, The accl'
dent was caused by u picker, and il was
claimed that the defendant corporation did
not sufficiently instruct the plaintiff in the
use of the machine.
Mrs. Lizzie Brennan, under indictment
for murder in poisoning her son Thomas
last summer at Holyoke, Mass, for his life
insurance, recently died at the county jail
in Springfield,
GIUSEPPE Ignato DE Lucca has been
sentenced to fifteen years in prison for kill
ing Edward Cunningham of Milton.
The iour-masted Boston schooner, Mil
lie G.. Bovine, which sailed for MontevideC
was dismantled and waterloggei in gale
and abandoned, the crew ana two passen'
gers being taken off and landed at Norfolk
Actor James Nolan of the Boston Muse
um company has become insane. His wife
is another well-known museum player
Kate Ryan, aud he has family,
The sum of SS5O,O0O has been subscribed
for free public library and art museum fol
Hartford, Conn.
There is district school in Vernon,
which has only five pupils, They all come
from one family whose father is the school
committee and whose mother is the teacher
The Manchester On. H. government have
signed a etition praying congress to erect
over the grave OF the revolutionary hero
Gen. John Stark, in that city, an equestrian
statue, after II design by John Rogers Of
New York.
Isaac w, Shorey, a prominent lumber
man of Ban lington, Me-, was instantly
killed Monday by tree falling upon him
breaking his neck.
William Washburne of the Rockport
freight fell from his train i'll the Beverly
Mass yard, and sustained fatal injuries
He leaves family.
A strange disease has broken out at Stat
ford Bridge, n. H., among cattle owned by
knowlton Foss. Six weeks ago a man who
owed him bill, sent him two cows in pay
ment, and they were turned in with herd Of
80. At the first milking it was noticed that
they were sick, and he did not milk then
again. Recently both died, and he noticed
that the rest of the herd were similarly af
fected, He at once called upon the stat,
board of health to investigate.
Three boys residing in Hollis, n, H., each
about 10 years of age and named James Per
cival, Fred Golf and Henry Smith, started
to see life in Boston. They had combined
capital of 20 cents. Friends started in pur
suit and they were finally oyertaken il
Brookline, n. III.
Next spring work will be begun on
library building at Arlington, Mass, which
will cost when completed not less thar
$250,000. 1t is to be endowed with a large
sum of money and 900 volumes placed il
it as a nucleus and presented to the town
The giver of this princely gift is Mrs. Maria
Robbins of New York.
The Nantucket Mass. railroad has pre-
pared plan for the change of its location
which will be presented to the legislature
The new location will carry the line of track
inside of the several ponds lying between
Weweeder and the headland of Ton
Nevers, where it passes on to the beach.
The Androscoggin mills, Lewiston, Me.
have completed taking account of stock
and it has been found that they have done
the biggest six months work, ending Dec
Is, in the history of the mills. During thai
period 100000 pounds of goods have beer
manufactured. The mills give employment
to 1850 hands, the pay roll being Sll 500
every two weeks, while other expenses are
from $1,000 to 5000 for the same time.
The receipts for 1889 at the Boston Custom
house foot up SIS, 75i, 26S, or S2,4ll,0A les
than for 1888.
Hon. Frank Jones of Portsmouth, N. H.
has been elected president of the Boston 6
Maine railroad.
Gov. Goodell of New Hampshire has is
sued proclamation for the suppression o
intemperance in that state. 1t has mad
a decided sensation.
George p. Smith, Waterman at the Mas
sachusetts state prison, Charlestown
committed suicide recently by shooting
himself while temporarily insane from al
attack Of la grippe,
Peterboro n H., is to have a new publ
library building.
George S. Farnsworh of North Bridgton
Me-, pre- sident of the Bridgton Academ,
Alumni association, requests all who havt
been connected with the academy, either a
teachers or scholars, from its first openin
to write him of the time they attended thei
place of residence then and their Tesidenc
now.
Fail River, Mass, is to have new thea
tire.
shows a total of 1888 in the tribe, decreas
of two since the last annual census.
Mrs. Polly French of East Templetor
Mass, recently celebrated her Tooth birth
day.
The Massachusetts legislature was organ
lied with Hon. Henry H. Sprague as presi
dent OF the senate, and Hon. w. +. Barrel
speaker of the house, and the other officer
of last year.
Benjamin Thompson of Kennebunkport
Me-, IS 96 years old. Saturday he was me
by one Of his neighbors walking home fror
the woods with a big bundle of wood upo
his back. III load was heavy enough
buckle the back of most any man in tn
town Mr.. Thompson has splendid yok
of oxen in his barn, and when asked why b
had not used them to haul the wood he r,
piled that the road through the woods wa
bad and he was afraid of iniuring the ca
tie.
Much Indignation is manifest in Att,
bOro, Mass, against Rev. George r. Penney
who refuses to permit medical attendant
for his infant daughter who is i'll with t,
phoid fever and also from an abscess on he
neck. He is believer in faith cure. Meal
while the child is suffering intense agony.
Robert Mcfarland, aged CO. committe
suicide by jumping into the pond near til
shovel works at East Taunton, Mass. II
was unmarried.
The will of the late Farley Starr of Bra
tleboro VT, has been probated. There al
provisions for about 600 in special b.
que is, including $4,000 to the Universal
church society, while the balance of tt
estate goes to his four children.
Sheldon Sperry, master mechanic in C.. I
Dexter's paper mill at Windsor Locks, Conn
was caugntfn the shafting and killed.
The total deposits in Massachusetts savin,
banks amount to 1882 723, 6SS. 50, an increa
of more than seventeen and half million
over 1888
The winter temperature in Vermont thu
far is go degrees warmer than the avera,
since 1873
The Maine railroad commissioners repo
for tie past year shows it to have been
prosperous one for the roads OF that state
NEW5Y GLEANINGS.