News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-01-16
NEW ENGLAND MEMO.


master at New Haven, has again been ap
pointed to that office.
The Boston Electric Light Company, whose
contract with the city ext ired, has made al
agreement with Mayor Hart to temporarily
continue their lights.
Judge Field of the Supreme Court decide!
that Miss Dodge is not entitled to pass from
the Boston and Providence Railway Com
pany.
Steamer Pilgrim renovated for the winter
has replaced the Providence of the Old Colo
ny Sound Line. The Providence replaces
the Puritan, leaving the Pilgrim and Provi
dence the winter boats,-,r-
Eight young ladies have flledh the veil a
st. Joseph's Catholic Convent 1t Rutland, Vt
Dunn & Elliot of Thomaston, Me-, have
launched Il three-masted schooner of S24 tons
register, named Benjamin c. Firth, to be
commanded by Capt. James T. Fales, of st.
George.
William L. Strickland, arrested at Chester
Vt, for attempting to pass bogus checks
was bound over for bis appearance at the
County Court in the sum of $500. He Is
wanted ut Massachusetts for similar offence.
A remonstrance is being circulated in West
| Springfield, Mass, against annexation to
Springfield.
shire Cattle Company Jan. 7, the following
Directors were elected: Z. G. Leach, Paul
r. Holden, George A. Fernald, John II. Bar
ron, Charles G. Danforth, Frank p. An
drews, Howard A. Dodge, Nahum T. Green
wood, Fsrwell p. Holden; E. G. Leach,
Clerk. AT a subsequent meeting of the
Directors John II. Barron was chosen Pres
ident; Pau r. Holden, Vice President; j. E.
Fernald, Treasurer.
The Quarantine Commissioners state that
no typhus fever cases were reported aboard
the steamer Westernland on Dec. 8. The
Commissioners discredit the statement ema-
mating from Augusta, Me-, that the New
York Board of Health has warned the whole
country against danger from such cases.
In Manchester, NH, there ere 37S7 pupils
| recorded in public schools, 1897 in the paro-
chial school and 81 under private instruction.
About $4,000 is annually paid out for logs
In Lincoln and Bristol, VT.
President Buckham of the University of
| Vermont is to be one of the speakers at the
| first annual meeting of the college graduates
| of Rutland county, to be held at Rutland the
first Wednesday evening in February.
Miss Clara NJ. Fowler of Boston has pre-
sented collection of Stratford scenes to the
Shakespeare room in tie Public Library build
ing in Concord, n. II.
Edward Schade, German, of Adams, n.
| H., about so years old, committed suicide by
| hanging himself with his suspenders Jan.
6. He was insane.
A. F. Moulton, '73, will be the orator, A.
| W. Tolman, 'SS, poet, and Orlando NJ. Lord,
POSTMASTER, at the Dist annual dinner of the
Bowdoin Alumni, to be held at the Falmouth
Hotel in Portland, Me-, on Jan. 16.
From reports received from several por-
lions Of r. 1. by Secretary Fisher of the State
Board of Health, it is learned that the infu-
enza has been of the most severe type along
the Blackstone and PawtuXet Rivers, inclu-
ding Providence and vicinity.
Conclave No. %, knights of Sherwood
oRn toI IAr-
of Pawtucket, rendered reception to Mayor
Hugh j. Carroll of Pawtucket, r. l., Jan. 8,
and it proved pleasant affair.
Mrs. William Callagan, 101, the Oldest citi-
zen of Ansonia, Conn.,, Is dead.
Sixty Wesleyan students are down with la
grippe, many of them being seriously ill.
Professors Winchester, Crawford and Coons
are also victims.
The people of Bangor, Me-, witness now a
spectacle which has never been seen before
in the history of the city-a steamer lying at
a wharf In the harbor in January in clear
water. Four times this winter the ice opera
tors have staked out their fields, and as many
times have the stakes, ice and all, fioated out
into the bay. A thin covering of ice formed
during the night, upon which the snow of
Sunday, 9th inst, fell. This sunk the Ice a
little and made five or six inches of slush.
Monday a tug was sent into 1t and she
punched the ice out of the river for ten miles,
so that it Is now clear and ready for another
freeze.
The United States Fish Commission
schooner Grampus has been employed since
Oct. 10 in collecting eggs for the hatchery for
Ten Pound Island, during which time IL, O00,-
900 pollock and from 1000 200 to 100000 cod
have been Matched and liberated outside the
island and off the outer harbor. 1t has taken
from five to seven days for the pollock eggs
to hatch, and from eight to sixteen days for
the Goldfish to hatch. The spawn takers from
the Grampus and the island have taken a
large part of the eggs from the net fishermen.
The work of collecting eggs, Matching and
liherating young fry will be continued so long
as the fish is found in spawning condition.
TIE Lawrence Riding Park Directors, Jan.
s, declared dividend of per cent, after a
most prosperous season.
Two little girls have collected over $50 for
flag on the DanverspOrt, Mass, school, and
flags will be placed on other school buildings
in town.
The Bay State Lumber Dealers Assoca- |
ton held its regular monthly ba quet Jan. s |
in Boston.
The annual meeting of the Homeopathic |
Dispensary was held Jan. In Boston.
The annual meeting of the Massachusetts |
Fish and Game Protective Association was
held Jan. s in Boston.
There was falling off Jan. in Boston's |
death roll as compared with the It'll.
1t is hoped that compromise will be eff |
fected in the Woburn, Mass, strike, and that |
work will be resumed next week.
William Mains, aged II, was instantly killed |
Jan. I, while sliding OH Bridge Hill in Ben
ton, Me.
A freight train was wrecked near Bowdoin-
ham, Me-, on Monday evening, Jan. 6, and it |
took several hours to clear the track. Five |
cars were demolished.
The first Farmers Institute of the season,
under the auspices of the Marshfield. Mass,
Agricultural and Horticultural Society. was |
held in that town Jan. I, with good weather |
and very large attendance. The meeting |
was called to order at 10.15 o'clock by the |
new President of the society. Mr.. George w. |
Emery, an Ex-Governor of Utah, and the
speakers were Hon. Edmund Hersey of |
bingham, DIR. j. B. Lynde of Athol, and
others.
The adjourned annual meeting of Merri-
mack County Pomona Grange No. 3 will be
continued with Rumford Grange No. 100 at
East Concord, n. H., Jan. 10. Installation
of officers and discussion Of amendments to
the bylaws will be in order.
The plant of the Nashua, n. H., Iron aud
Steel Company covers nearly 10 acres They
employ over 300 men, have a monthly pay
roll of $4,000 and the annual productions
amount to about 5000
The Portland Argus reports trouble in
Deering, Me-, over the action of part of the
Board of SeIectmen. One selectman Is accus-
ed of ignoring the other two and spending
money according to his own fancy, sometimes
to the loss of the town. A new keeper of |
the poor farm has also been appointed bv one
Selectman and the old one notified not to
leave by the others.
An ice-cod spring has been discovered on
a farm at Stonington, Conn.,, whose waters
have peculiar but transitory effect on he
person partaking. The veins swell, and one
feels as II he were about to explode for about
10 minutes. Then the sensation gradually
subsidies to buzzing in the ears and disap-
pears entirely. 1t is the talk of the neigh
bOrhood and, as there is no harm in it. every
one has tried it. A sample has been sent to
Boston for analysis.
George r. Medbury, formerly Superntend-
ent of the Lewiston, Me-, farm, was arragn-
ed in the Police Court, Jan. 6, on the charge
Of the larceny from the city of long list Of
articles, found and seized by the City Mar
shall at the Ham farm, to the value of S112.20.
He pleaded not guilty, waived examination
and was ordered to recognize In the sum of
$500 for appearance at the January term of
the Supreme Judicial Court in Auburn.
The statement of the Oxford. Me-, county
officials shows that of the $ll .i97.72 tax AS
sessed upon the several towns in 1889, all but
$500 has been paid The total receipts of the
County Treasurer were S16,962.42 and the
total expenditures SIC, 1923. 49, leaving a bal
ance in the treasury Jan. 1, 1890, of S663S. sc.
The resources of the county amount to
8 7421.04, and the liabilities TO $0I9.15, or
SO more resources than liabilities.
DIR. J. r. Cogswell of Warner, n. H., has
been chosen President of the Kearsage Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Association rpnre- |