Connecticut western news., 1890-01-22

The Lowell, Mass., Board of Trade gave the annual banquet Jan. 16. The prominent guests were Gov. Bracket, Lieut.. Gov. Halle and Gov. Goodell of New Hampshire.
 The town of wenham, Mass, is solid against division.
 Certain influential Lynn, Mass, citizens remonstrate against the elevation of the rail- way tracks.
 The Maine Board of Agriculture is agita- ting the introduction of agricultural text books into the common schools.
 The Women's Board of Mass. closed It's session Jan. IT, electing Mrs. Judson Smith president, in the place of Mrs. Bowker, who resigned. The next meeting will be held in Hartford, Ct.
 The loss by the Brockton, Mass, fire is placed at about $6O 900.
 The valuation of taxable property in Frank lin, Mass, is $2 ,246 ,O35.
 The Woonsocket Rubber Works, in Mill vile, Mass, which have been shut down sew eral weeks, has resumed operations.
 Fred Perkins, one of the proprietors of the brick mill at Schoodic, Me-, was caught in the machinery and so badly mangled that his re covery is doubtful.
 The citizens of Bryants Pond. Me-, realiz- ing that the best way to benefit the business of town is to provide folks with work, are raising money to erect building and put in power for an inducement to some manufac- turer of wood. It is estimated that within a three-mile circuit of the village there is at posed of in some way.
 Out of a crew of A men at Berlin Mills, N. H., 2 are out sick.
 The pay roll in the Gilmanton Mills in Bel mont, N. H., last year amounted to $55,OOO.
 The docket for the February term of the Supreme Court to be held at Colebrook. N. H., contains 15O civil cases, 16 equity, 1 sessions and IA State.
 A large addition has been made to the help in the mills of the Land and Lumber Com pany at Bartlett, N. H., where there is a great demand for new houses.
 Boring for marble has been begun near Arlington, Vt., with good prospects of a successful find.
 Springfield has one of the best public libra ries in Vermont. It numbers about .6O9 volumes of the best works.
 Deacon Dyer and wife of Appleton, Me-, arc smart old couple. He Is S3 1-2 and she is in her sgd year. He carries on quite large farm, doing the labor himself, except some ing. The deacon chops and hauls his wood and fits it at the door, takes all the care of all his stock, which consists of 9 horse and eight head of neat stock, including yoke of oxen and four COWS. Mrs. D. does all the housework and has made this season over 800 pounds of butter.
 The annual convention of the Littleton (N.H.) Musical Association closed on Friday evening the 17th. The concerts were well attended and the gathering most successful.
 J. E. Henry X Go. have already hauled this season to their mill In Zealand, MIL, over 4,0O0, ,0O0 feet of logs, and are now receiving them at the rate 140, 900 day.
 The Directors of the First National Bank in Portsmouth, N. H., have voted to reduce the capital from $500, 900 to S2OO ,00O and to make a divi ion of one-third of the surplus.
 The Dartmouth Savings Bank at Hanover, N. H., makes the following statement: Due depositors, SS96, ,664.69; guaranty fund, $35,- GOO; surplus, S54 ,966.17; premium, on stocks and bonds, $39, ,0OO; total, $1 1,O2o, ,63O.S6.
 At the annual meeting of the First National Bank of Peterboro', N. H., the old Board of dend of per cent. was declared. The stock in this bank was sold for 136 per share. Frederick Livingstone (S9 years old) was elected President.
 Portsmouth, N. H., has voted to sell DOT tion, not exceeding $10OOO0 in value, of it's Portsmouth and Dover Railroad stock.
 Msrblehead, Mass, has had lilacs in full bud, dandelions In bloom, wild flowers in the Lower Division pasture and new potatoes, fresh from the soil, all sin Jan. 1, 1890.
 The Lawrence (Mass.) Board of Overseers of the Poor has chosen William Hinchcliffe clerk and re-chosen Frank s. Spaulding superintendent of the city poor farm and in- sane asylum.
 Swift X Co.,, the Western beef men, are building an immense ice house at Mirror Lake at Hudson, on tn, Mass chuetts Gen. tral Railroad, where they have acquired 8 considerable portion of the land about the lake.
 The amount of sickness at Vinalhaven, Me-, and the neighboring islands seems to be still upon the increase. Upon Hurricane Island there are hardly enough well on es to care for the sick. They have no physician living there, so every day they send across lifeboai for one of Vinalhaven's doctors. It is large whaleboat with eight pairs of oars, and the men are all glad to row SO as to keep warm coming across the bay. They row across to Old Harbor, and some of them walk two miles to the village for a doctor and medicines while the rest go into an old tumbled-dowr fish house and stamp their feet to keep warm. Serious charges of ineficiency are made against Frederick H. Prentiss, Town Clerk of Pittsfeld, Mass. It is said that he has failed to make . record of several important | town meetings.
 Henry A. Howard of Worcester, Mass, fnisher by trade, committed suicide Jan. 1t by cutting his throat. His mother was il with pneumonia and he was probably insane The Assessors enumeration of scholars in the public schools of Nashua, N. H., shows Males 1252 and females 1305. In 1889 the Concord, N. H., Horse Railroad | carried 293, PAS passengers, an increase o1 B ,2S0 over the previous year. | Ice IS inches thick is being cut at Joel Pond at West Danvile, Vt. The scarcity of snow in Vermont ha! proved D detrimental to the numbering inter | ests that hundreds of men who were at wOrl In the woods have been discharged. AS in all other kinds of business, nowa | days, in order to continue to manufactur, lumber at profit there is need of introduc | ing the latest and most approved styles o- | machinery. The circular saw took the plac, | gives way to the band saw, where three time the lumber can be sawed daily over the ole method, and at a considerable saving O. waste. In one pulp mill in Maine the re | chalmers have been changed twice within three years, at cost each time of $20, ,000 | This has been necessary in order to reduce the expense in this one department. Unde the methods of operation in use three year ago in retaining, the profits of pulp making would to-day be minus quantity.
 Richard Daley has obtained verdict fol S5OOO against the American Printing Com | pany of Fall River, Mass, for injurie received while In their employ.
 Some of the departments in the rubbe works at Franklin, Mass, started up the 15ll and the entire establishment will resum | operations as soon as possible.
 Thomas Nadeau of Fort Fairfield, Me. aged 21, was killed by tree falling on hin
 at Bearce's camp lately.
 Canadian squatters are taking possession
 of lands owned by Maine timber proprietor
 in the upper part of Aroostook County, an,
 it is almost impossible to drive them off.
 The Rowe, N. H., factory, burned in Sea
 brook, is being rebuilt.
 The Providence R. I. Commercial Club a
 it's recent banquet discussed the question o
 American Shipping" The guests and speak