Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1895-07-11
New Hampshire News.

student.
Mrs. G. J. Piper of Franklin, Mass,
has donated bell for the new Baptist
church at Laconia.
1t is expected that 2000 men will be
in the American Mechanics parade in
Portsmouth next August
1t is asserted that every liquor saloon
in Manchester will be closed by the
police commissioners within the next
three months.
Mrs. Sarah Fiske, aged nearly so, OF
Manchester was probably fatally burned
last week, her clothing catching fire
from naphtha stove.
The condition of eX-Gov. Frederick
Smyth is reported improved. Special
lists who have been in consultation eX-
press the hope that he will recover.
The Concord railroad paid last year
for salaries of its officers, $40, 800; for
clerks, S47, 900; for legal expenses, SOL
600; and for other general expenses,
$4,000.
Thornton A. Norton, the S-year-old
son of j. Herbert Norton of Greenland,
was run over by a wagon last Thursday
evening, and received injuries from
which he died.
The sum of SO, S05.76 in the name of
Samuel Lord, is advertised by the Som
ellsworth Savings bank as of unknown
ownership. The original deposit was
made before the war.
The managers of the Nashua Driving
Park have leased it to H. A. Worthley
of Haverhill, and there are to be ar
c,pclnIa6 for foI,r RI oyc,
trotting meeting this month.
Hon. B. A. Kimball of Concord has
been chosen permanent trustee of
Dartmouth college to succeed the late
eX-Gov. B. f. Prescott. This election
gives Concord three trustees, Messrs.
Kimball, Chase and Streeter.
William H. Clough, a prominent cit
izep of Mortified died at his home in
that town last week Tuesday, aged
about Y years. He represented North
field in the Legislature of 1887 and was
prominent in Odd Fellowship.
Principal Wendell P. Brown of the
Whipple school at Portsmouth has
been elected principal of the Essex
grammar school in Lawrence, Mass,
at a salary of 81 400, with a maximum
of 81 1000, and has accepted the Offer
J. E. Field and Harry Lawler of
Milford were badly injured by the eX-
plosion of an open key of powder in a
blacksmith shop at Amherst last week,
spark from the forge causing the
trouble. Field had leg broken in
three places and Lawler was badly
burned about the face.
Three men giving their names as
Will Davis of Laconia, Harry Heath of
Concord and Moses Germaine of Man
chester were arrested in Plymouth last
week for burglary. Stolen goods were
found on their persons and it is thought
they came to Plymouth with the inten-
ton of operating in that vicinity.
The old steamer Lady Of the Lake
was buried in the waters of Lake Win
nipiseogee Monday afternoon of last
week, her hull being filled with stone
to send it to the bottom. She is now
in 80 feet of water, nearly opposite Lake
Shore park, and is down SO deep that
she will not interfere with navigation.
Thomas l.. Whitton, aged "a, and
his housekeeper, Mrs. Mary Brownson,
aged 63, were married Sunday by Rev.
Mr.. Hooper of the Methodist church at
Sanbornville. The groom is promi-
nent farmer and although an octogena-
rian, he is active and well preserved as
a man of half century. His first wife
died fourteen months ago, after being
his companion in life for 65 years. The
bride of Sunday is a good-looking,
matronly woman, who wears her age
as well as her husband does his.
The recent contract to construct 800
fpn 1T no 1. h.
Car Co., means extra work for the Cole
Manufacturing Company at Lakeport,
as this company will make the car
aXles. Each car calls for four axles, or
24O0 in all, and as each axle weighs 500
pounds on an average, the aggregate
amounts to 100000 pounds, or 800
tons of iron. The shrinkage through
melting, forging, etc., will be about 25
per cent, which added to the above
figures, gives an aggregate of $50 tons.
To work this it will require about eight
months time with two gangs working
night and day.
Deputy Sheriff HI. G. Brown of
Dover, died Tuesday night of Bright's
disease, aged IS. 1t was he who
watched in the corn-field near the
Warden barn with Prof. George H.
Whitcher and saw Frank G.. Almy,
the murderer of Christie Warden, come
out from his hiding place. After a con-
test in the legislature and the courts
for nearly three years over the $4,000 re-
ward offered for the murderer's appre-
hension, the full bench at it's recent
law term sustained the decision of the
lower court in dividing it equally
between Whitcher and Brown, after al.
lowing Mrs. Warden $500. Brown re-
! ceived his money four weeks ago.
Commencement day at Hanover,
visitors and the faculty at Dartmouth
missed the hands of the old college
clock, which for over 80 years had told
| the hours in the front gable of old Dart
mouth hall. The clock was still run.
ming and striking, without pointers. II
has since leaked out that one of the
last acts of the class of '95 was to APP
point committee of three to get into
| the attic, remove the hands and divide
them into So parts, and that each OF
the graduating class has a souvenir
which would be highly coveted by
thousands of the alumni They were
of pine wood, over three feet long, and
made stable pieces even when divided
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