The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-10
new ENGLAND NEWS.

new ENGLAND NEWS. ,
The government appropriation for extend
fng the breakwater at the mouth OF the Stco
rNes has become exhausted and work
stopped. Eight hundred feet have been com
pleted and 20 feet more have been partially
built
George Meredith OF Greenfield, IA years
cid, fell through the ties on the Connecticut
River railroad drawbridge at the entrance to
Hampden Park, Springfield, Mass, and is
thought TO have sustained internal injuries
which will prove fatal.
A French boy at Bidde' ord, Me-, was ao-
cidentally shot in the right eye by man
who was handling q revolver, Ii was
thought at first that the revolver was loaded
with blank cartridges, but II was learned
yesterday that ball penetrated the eye. 1t
Is feared the boy cannot recover
John W, Novel;, merchant of Eliot, Me-,
whose store was burned May "a, has been
arraigned on charge OF arson.
The bedroom of Charles Fowler of West
field, Mass, was entered by a burglar, who
escaped with $50 watch and S25 in money,
Win Lamb, aged 10, West Randolph,
VT, accidentally shot himself with a re-
voNer, lie pointed it at q young lady
twice, but it did not work; then he pointed
Ut nltlseil, wien IL was ulsCuaTSSu, tie
bali entering his eye. He lived but short
time.
A New Auburn (Me.) man took q novel
way of advertising the other day. He man.
aged to catch large snipe, and placed him
in his store window among a lot of Saudy
looking fireworks, with placard about its
neck bearing the following inscription: "a
genuine Australian duck
w. II. Brown, an elderly farmer of Keith
Hill, Grafton, Mass, while driving loaded
wagon, was struck and thrown out by
freight train at the Wilkinsonville crossing
of the Providence & Worcester road, and
probably fatally hurt
A factory with an output of 20 tons day
is to he established at Fair Haven, Ct, for
the manufacture of artificial ice.
A crowd of drunken French Canadians
assaulted Conductor Thomas on the White
Mountain division of the Maine Central rail-
road. Two Portland officers arrested IL of
the assailants.
George Galley, who fell on an iron bar
which ran through his body, at West Bill
erica, Mass, about week ago, has died
from internal hemOrrhage resulting from
his injuries.
Some Rhode Island farmers complain of
potato rot, which has attacked many fields.
The disease has attacked the late va iet:cs
even before the vines have blasted, which is
an unusual occurrence.
The office OF Hiram Clark's carriage shop,
Augusta, Me-, was burglarized night or
two ago and SH taken. The safe was
broken open.
Deputy Sheriff Graham through John j.
McDonough, placed an attachment upon the
Tribune Publishing Company's plant ut Fall
River, to recover 5000 which Eugene Sui
livan, president of the Progressive Viewers
Association, demands because John Coonlev,
laborer agitator, called him names IN a
communication which the Tribune recently
printed.
If one-haf the charges Of corruption made
by the Rutland Herald are true. Vermont
politics are in ali exceptionally | all condi.
ton. The Herald is wide-awake paper and
claims to have positive evidence of bribery
in the congressional fight between Power and
Batchelder.
The heavy raft is still at Rockland, Me-,
and the exact date Of its departure has not
yet been decided upon.
There is quite a furry 0! excitement in
Great Darlington, Mass, over the supposed
discovery Of tin mine, an English miner OF
experience having tested the ore and pro.
nOunced it to be very rich.
A fire in the dry house and one OF the dye
houses of the Slater mill at Jewett City, Ct,
caused loss of $4,000; insured.
Lamp WIN iltelar! luLh ol hi.llu ar
liNeu III pans1I, Mg;, receh'T; from hiheo'
CAGE consiste1 IF =, small satchei With co5.
tainei] occor,]ino to tbe Ean@or News
The Confessons of Jean Jac9,Ies Rons
soar )" tho works Of Ralzac- Dumas, nSIay.
ering Case conv If Shates, carc aid
Homer,s lad.
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leo 10 ,Iers at Uolvokc Mass shovel tho,
one was short anywhere fr,,m II n O.
Mounds and another was short half n Mound
In hve mounds, None Of those cyaminaj
were found to overweight the fractional part
of an ounce.
Union in ToIland county Of has M doc
tor NO lawrer amI no m,nistor in cbar,,o ~,
nsrish The only minister ia an ..eider !,
With a license 70 nreach who 6evotes him,
self to agriculture.
The rnmor that Eno,sb svndcatas .re .+-
temptin@ to buv nm Rhode island industrial,
is discredited by the Providence journal
Farmers in southeastern Massachusetts ro.
mort that nrosnects are GOOD for large no :,
rron in that section eN eo N'S
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the present.