News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-03-20
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Joseph Fifield and wife of Langdon have
celebrated their golden wedding.
Capt. John Clark, one of the oldest ship
masters in Portsmouth, is critically i'll.
Hon. W. S. Davis has been chosen Presi-
dent of the Republican Club in HOpkinton.
Capt. jesse Wilson of Pelham, an ex-officer
of the old State Militia, died on Sunday, aged
so.
EIbridge Triton of Deerfeld, an ex-Repre-
sentative to the Legislature; died recently,
aged 80 years.
The Odd Fellows in Ashland have pur-
chased lot and will erect a block to contain
stores and hall for their use.
C. W. Herbert of Rumney has been ap-
pointed Commissioner of Grafton county to
fill a vacancy.
The Concord and Montreal Railroad will
soon have in operation a telegraph system of
its own, with headquarters in Concord.
In Derry last year 1900 yards of flannel
were distributed to 100 persons on account OF
the DR.. Brown legacy for that purpose.
Nathan Schoff of Columbia who was rep
resentatiye in the legislature in 1866 and 1868
died few days ago, aged Ga years.
A corporation with a capital of $4,000,
and with Hon. Frank c. Churchill, president,
has been ornaniZed in Lebanon for the man
ufacture of shoes.
F. H. George of Concord, member OF
Sturtevant Post of the Grand Army, has
been appointed an aide de camp on the staff
of COmmander-in-Chief Alger.
Albert Blake, Jr., of Bristol, has been ap-
pointed mail agent between Plymouth and
Concord, to succeed Charles Wright, who
has resigned on account of i'll health.
r. Halliday's Sons of New York have filed
in the office of the United States Circuit
court in Portsmouth bill in equity against
the Sawyer wooden mills of Dover to recover
damages for an alleged infringement of pa
tent.
In Kingston this season carriage manufac-
turing promises to be brisk. All the shops
there are running with the full number of
help. 1t is expected that $1,000 carriages OF
various kinds will be made there this year.
Major Charles Ii. Bartlett of Amoskeag
Veterans of Manchester has added to his
staff, Rev. w. II. Morrison as Chaplain, and
Hon. Henry +. Burnham Judge Advocate,
both of that city.
The Concord and Montreal Railroad has
made the following reductions in the rate OF
coal from Portsmouth: To Triton, 80 cents a
ton; Meredith, Ashland and Plymouth, 81
cents: to points along the Pemigewasset V al
lev, so cents; Warren, A cents; Woodsville,
20 cents, Lisbon and Littleton, 70 cents.
Edwin Hodgman and wife of Mason have
celebrated their golden wedding.
The Berlin Lumber Company of Berlin is
spending 100000 in improving its plant.
The salary of all the members of the Fac
ultv of Dartmouth College has been consid-
erably increased.
Major Charles II. Bartlett, the new Com
mander of the Amoskeag Veterans of Man.
chester has made the following staff appoint
ments Adjutant, John Cannon, Jr.; Quar-.
termaster, Moses Wadleigh; Sergeant Major,
MarceIus Gould; Quartermaster Sergeant
| Eugene S. Whitney; Paymaster, Charles L.
| Harmon; Surgeon, George ID. Iowne, MD.
| Commissary Sergeant, II. w. WEIGH; Stand
| ard Bearers, Noah w. Goss and Benjamin +
| Lake.
Samuel NJ. Currier has entered upon his
thirty-seventh consecutive year as pOstmas-
| ter at West Henniker.
| John Wood of Washington recently gath
| cred ful-Dlown wild azaeas on the shore OF
! Half Moon Pond.
Will E. Reed of the present senior class OF
! Dartmouth has been elected principal of the
/ High School at Weeping Water, Neb.
The reappointment of Col. j. w. Crosby
| as postmaster at Milford gives him his fifth
consecutive term as an incumbent of that
| office.
The citizens of South Hampton contem
1 plate I'm 1892 the publication of a town his
/ tory and the celebration of the 150th anniver-
| sary of the settlement of the place.
The docket for the April term of the Su.
| preme Court, to be held at Lancaster, is the
| largest in that district Tor several years, con-
| tanning 279 civil actions, 80 equity, sessions
and 30 State.