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The Portland daily press., 1897-04-06
Foreign Ports

Ar at st Pierre Mch H. sch Nellie.T Morse.
Goldthwaite. New York.
At Port Spain Mich IA, schs Harold Cous.
inst, Davis, and Hattie Luce. FIN Ferriandina ;
Sarah Fuller, Brown, st Pierre; Celina, Muir
ay from Portland
At Port Barfos Apr l. barque Nellie M slade.
Montgomery, from Sabine Pass.
Sid i'm Halifax Sd, steamer Scotsman, from
Portland for Liverpool
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FALL RIVER, Mass. April 5, 1997.-Print
clio hs quiet, steady at 2 9-lec.
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HARPSWELL STEAMBOAT co.

On and after Monday, March 18th, tho
steamer MERRYCONEAG will leave Port
land Pier, Portland. daily, Sunday excepted.
as follows:
For Long Is, Chebeague, HarpswelI,
Bailey's and Orr's Is.. 2.30 p. NJ.
all landings, 100 a. m. Arrive Portland, $50
a. m.
For Cliff Island, Mondays. Wednesdays
anu Frldays, leave Portland, ESQ p. N.
oc5t dtf
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no the First Mortgage BOnst-
holders of The street Railway
Company of GRAND Rapids

ing been now deposited with the State Street
Safe Deposit and Trust Company, Boston,
Mass. under The bondholders' protective agree
ment OF December 2S 1896, notice is hereby
POSTS OF bonds will be received unless the
same are accompanied by deposit of per
cent of the par value thereof.
Copies of the agreement to be signed by de-
posting bond-holcers will be furnished upon
application TO said Trust Company or 80 any
member of the Committee.
BYRON d. VERRILL. Chairman,
Portland Me- Bondhold-
WILLIAM BLODGET, Boston, Sers' Com
W. j. HAYES. Cleveland, Ohio.
mar3o eod2w
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EXCHANGE DISPATCHES


Ar at Moyille 4th, steamer Laurentian, from
Portland for Liverpool
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OF enlng. .........
Closing.
New York Quotations on STOCKS and Bon $

The following are to-day's closing -quoiau
or Bonds.
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y. Rockland H A Holder, Belfast; Lizzie B,
Spoken. =

Spoken.
April 2, GA miles of Sandy Hook, barque
Adam w Spies, Meyer, from 'Singapore-for New
York.
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OCEAN STEAMSHIPS.
DOMINION LINE,
Royal Mail Steamers-Liverpool Ser
vice via Londonderry.

Steamers sail on Thursday after arrival of all
trains due in Portland at noon.
Boston to Liverpool via Queenstown:
Str. Canada from Boston Fri Mar. 10, at
1880 a. m.
Str. Canada from Boston Fri. Apl. %, at
$50 p. m.
! Str. Canada from Boston Fri. May %, at
$50 a. m.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
First Cabin. $52. so to $500. Return 500
to $3.50, according to Steamer and accommo-
dations.
Second Cabin. To Liverpool, London. Lon
donderry and Queenstown, $34 to $4,000.
Return, $66.75 to $76, according to Steamer
and accommodations.
Steerage. To Liverpool, London. london
derry ey Glasgow, Queenstown and Belfast,
ABBY TO +. r Reating 81 ~ 1l9 Tyrbanaa
street, T. P. McGowan, 418 Congress street, j.
W. Peterson. Exchange street, Or David Tor
rance & Co., general agents, 10 Commercial
street.
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Print Cloth Market.

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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
Conductor Alfred Adams.

Alfred Adams, the last of the old time con-
ductors on the Connecticut river division of
the Boston 4 Maine railroad, has retired from
active work. He has been running up and
down the Connecticut valley as passenger
conductor "a years, and began his railroad
career 81 years ago in the freight yard of the
Connecticut river road in Springfield, Mass.
He was soon transferred to the Chlcopee Falls
freight-house. While the first Holyoke dam
was building he was a trainman under Con-
ductor George Burroughs, who afterwards
became division superintendent of the New
York Central, and Mr.. Adams went with him
to that road and afterward to the Wabash.
He did not remain in the west many years
and soon returned to New England, where
he took regular run on the northampton
branch of the New Haven & Northampton
road, going later to the Southern road. In
October, 1873, Mr.. Adams moved to Spring
field, and was made conductor of the "Owl.'
Conductor Adams will reside at Spring
field, Mass where he has made his home for
the past 20 years.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
THE TIMES.
WEDNESDAY DEC. l, 1897.
Vermont News.

Corporal Tholan of Capt. Dodd's famous
troop at Fart Ethan Allen has been left a
fortune Of $lb0,0OO by his uncle, John Pinch
of Malvern, Pa.
Four-fifths of the national banks in Yer.
mont are said to be petitioners to the presi-
dent for the retention Of Bank Examiner
ElishalMay of st. Johnshury, who, though an
old-line democrat, voted the gold ticket in
the last presidential election.
John w. Titcomb, president of the Ver-
mont fish and game league, has just issued u
pamphlet in which he makes several sensible
suggestions COZ corning Vermont forests and
game. Among other things Mr.. litcomh
would have Vermont follow the example of
New York in considering the question of a
game refuge and forest preserve, There are
large tracts of forests in Vermont which have
become stripped of merchantile timber and
are practically worthless except for the pur-
poses of game preserves, and here might be
allowed to multiply certain species of birds
and animals once plentiful in Vermont which
are now nearly extinct.
A woman arrived in Burlington the other
evening to whom New York ticket agent
had sold a ticket to Shelburne, VT, telling
her, as she says, that it was near West Hall
fax, where she wanted to spend her Thanks
giving. Her informant told her she could
reach Halifax by electric road. The woman
was short of money, so the railroad employees
helped her to secure transportation back to
the town in Windham county, some $50 miles
south of Shelburne. Evidently the ticket
agent in New York had mixed Shelburne in
Massachusetts with the other town of the
same name in Vermont.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
Regarding Insurance Rates,

The report that the fire insurance agencies
in Montpelier, representing stock companies,
have been notified by the New England in
surance exchange of 20 per cent reduction
of rates on all buildings in that city which
are under hydrant protection within 500 feet
and occupied for mercantile, hotel, office, So
ciety, school and minor manufacturing pur-
poses, furnishes other Vermont towns good
ground for asking: Where are we at Why
should not the same reduction in insurance
rates be made here !? The signs of the times
are that before long the demand for reduc-
ton of insurance rates by those Vermont
towns which are fully entitled to it as is
Montpelier will prove a serious problem for
the consideration of the New England ex-
change. Brattleboro's voice will be heard
among the rest. The investigating commit
tee who were appointed at the last village
meeting have not been inactive; on the con-
trary, they have collected such data as, in the
language of one member, twill knock the in
surance companies clean off the face of the
EARTH" AS is well known, Brattleboro has
been afflicted recently with a firebug and for
that reason the present is considered mop
perfume for broaching the subject of reduc-
ton in insurance rates, but the demand will
be made in good time and if it is not attended
| with success then some other plan, possibly
| local insurance, will be tried. Twenty-siS
villages in New Hampshire have local in sur
auce at an average cost of 81 hundredths of
| per cent.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
BRoOKLINE.

Earl Dean is able to be on the milk route
again.
School commenced in district No. l on
Monday with Ella Willis again as teacher.
Casa Marsh and Ethel Mack were at their
homes on Thanksgiving.
A. A. Austin and family went to his
brothers in Townshend Thanksgiving.
Mrs. M. c. White spent Thanksgiving with
her late husbands brothers family in Wards
boro.
The warm rain OF Friday took away the last
of our new snow and the weather wise proph-
cts don't expect much more before the new
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Martin of Northamp-
ton, Mass, and Hugh Allbee OF Hartland
were at their fathers, L. M. Allbees, Thurs
day to partake of the good things provided.
Our Young Bird managed to make it warm
er than was agreeable to him here and al
though his wings are not yet grown, he
deemed it expedient to betake himself to
more congenial cline.
The horse sheds which have been so long
needed are about to materialize. Last week
a large number of those interested met on the
ground and laid the foundation wall and dc
other necessary work, while the ladies
provided bountiful dinner. The ladies also
made and put down new carpet which they
had purchased for the platform extending
| across the church, which generally Improved
that part OF the room occupied by the pastor
and choir.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01

ensign of "Cspt. Wells company in the 23d
regiment, commanded by Col. Whtcomb, in
the army OF the United Colonies raised for
the defense of American liberty and for re-
pelling every hostile invasion thereof" Not
only is the document valuable as such, but
because it bears the handwriting of great
American patriot. The letter has also brought
out the fact that Gervis Barstow of Guilford
Center, who is over so years old, furnished u
coffin of his own manufacture in which Dor
ri was buried.
PROBATE COURT BUSINESS.
The regular session of the probate court
for the district of Marlboro was held Satur-
day, and the following business transacted :
The respective accounts of Oscar M. Newell
administrator of the will Of Ozro f. Newell
of Brattleboro; of s II. Lazelle, administra-
tor of the estate of the late Mary M. Moore
of Dover; of L. f. Pettee, administrator of
the estate of the late Lucy b. Patch of Will
mington of Warren w. Brooks, administra-
tor of the estate of William Brooks of Brat
tleboro, and of Sarah M X, Bullock, admin
istratrix of the estate of the late John A.
Bullock of Gulford, were allowed, and dis
tribution of the balance remaining in their
hands was decreed to the heirs of the various
estates. The estate of o. l.. Miner of Brat
tleboro was left open for the present, adver-
tised for the final settlement of the account
of the administrator. The account of H. w.
Sargent, administrator of the estate of Eliza
G. Stearns of Brattleboro, was allowed, and
the balance remaining in his hands decreed
to the legatees under the will. The wills of
Clarissa Clark of Halifax, Clara NJ. Wiuches-
ter of Wilmington and Gilbert d. Stedman
of Newfane we're probated and allowed,
George l.. Clark, Mary F. Winchester and
j. H. Merrifield being appointed executors
and executrix of the respective estates.
License was granted to L. j b. Cudworth,
administrator of the estate of Sanford W
Wilson of Dummerston, to sell part of the
| real estate.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01

rest and many relatives and friends are deem
ly afflicted The deceased is Leon ID. Carl
ton, youngest son of Mr.. and Mrs. X Carl
ton, and a native of this place, and an exem-
plary young man. In March, 1887, he went
TO Brattleb ,ro to work and faithfully did his
duty one year and six months, In 1883 he
went to Connecticut and since the last Of that
wear helhas worked for w A. Leonard in New
town, Conn. He was superintendent of Mr.,
Leonard's livery business nearly eight years,
persistently doing his duty until within one
week of his arrival in Chester, November "a
One year agu he was very sick with a cold,
which he never completely recovered from
Last September he became somewhat dehili-
tated the effecLs of another cold, which caused
consumption, but his lungs being so weak,
pneumonia was the final cause of his decease,
He passed away on November u in Chester,
among his relatives. Medical aid could not
prolong his life. The obsequies We're held
Tuesday in this place at his parents home.
Rev. G, w Perry otliciated. The interment
was in the cemetery in this place. Much SYM
pathy is extended to the bereaved relatives.
HE CAME HOME TO DIE.
He came home to hearts who loved him well,
Came home to die so soon None can tell
The sadness and loss we feel each day
For Leon, the pride of home Away.
He came home to us for a few days,
but in that eternal home always
He will reap rewards for work "well done,
Faithful in youth and manhood, Leon.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
FIorlds, Augusta, Aiken-the South.

The season is open for southern travel.
The Southern Railway announces the most
perfect dining and sleeping car service for all
southern cities and winter resorts for the sea-
son of l897-98. The two limited trains-the
Washington and Southern Limited and
United States Fast Mail-are operated daily,
every day in the year, giving the most superb
service. New York to New Orleans, Aiken,
Augusta, Ashville ("the Land of the Sky,')
Savannah, Jacksonville, st. Augustine,
Tampa, Atlanta, Memphis, Chattanooga. and
in fact, any point south or southwest. Effec-
tive January 18th, the "Florida Limited"
will be resumed = most magnifceuty
equipped train built especially by the Pull
man company for this service and will be
operated solid between New York and St.
Augustine, composed exclusively of dining,
library, observation, drawing-room and com
partment sleeping cars. Leaving New York
daily, except Sunday, at IL 10 noon, reaching
st. Augustine following afternoon for lunch /;
also attached to this train will be most per-
feet service New York to Aiken and Augusta
also Brunswick, Ga, and Jekyl Island. For
full particulars, ETC.. call on or address Alex.
S. Ihweatt, Eastern passenger agent, 27l
Broadway, New York.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
Abandoned Farms.

There is a vast amount of truth, says the
Springfield Republican, in the recent state
ment of prominent Vermont farmer who
said that elf all the old buildings on unoccu-
pied land in Vermont were burned or torn
down we would hear great deal less about
abandoned farms in Vermont The old I'M
tenanted shacks are continual reproach to the
general thriftiness of a community, besides
being conspicuous ard unsight1y. Land
marked by an empty building is an abandoned
farm. Without it it becomes apasture, a use
full part of the agriculturist's domain If
every Vermont farmer would be made to feel
the force of these utterances and would re-
move or apply the frebrand to every aban-
doned building within his domain, not only
would he add materially to the beauty of the
state, but Vermont's uner,viable reputation as
state of derelict farms, which is without
foundation in fact, would be speedily sup
planted.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
CHARLESTOWN.

Miss Matilda Walker was in Springfield
last week visiting her sister, Mrs. Ed Taylor.
Elliot Hubbard of Boston, Mass, was in
town briefly last week.
The Unitarian sewing society will meet
next Thursday afternoon at the church par
lors.
James Davidson slipped on ladder, cut
ting his wrist to the bone, while working
Monday.
Mrs. Cushing, who has been visiting her
mother and other friends in Boston and other
places, returned home Monday.
Quite delegation of the Y. M. G. A. went
to Claremont Sunday to attend the conven-
ton held at that place.
Mrs E. West and Miss Annie have closed
their home on Main street and have gone to
Rutland to spend the winter with Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles West.
The friends of Mr.. Straw of Acworth are
sorry to learn of his death at his home Thurs
dav, November %. He was stage driver
between Acworth and Charlestown a great
many years
Horace Stearns met with an accident sun
day morning near Thomas Colbridge's by his
horse taking fright at the electrics. He was
| thrown violently to the ground, striking on
| his head and face. hruising him severely and
partially severing his left ear He was taker
| to DIR. Young for medical attendance and al
present writing is as comfortable as could be
| expected.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
CAPT. l.. A, LOWERING.

The trial of Capt L. A. Lowering by court
martial at Chicago has created considerable
interest in this town, where he was reared.
Lowering came here with his parents and
sister from Bradford, Vt, at the age of 7, and
attended the public schools until his appoint
ment by Hon. H. w. Parker for examination
Capt. Coverings father died.
During Coverings boyhood days he was
considered rather duh scholar, but he
grew older the mettle which was in him be-
gan to develop until he stood at the head of
his class in nearly every branch. He was
particularly bright in mathematics, and the
| boy who was considered slow bv his assncia-
| ties disappointed every one and became one of
| the brightest young men in town.
| Lowering was possessed of a fine physique
| and his gond nature made him the victim OF
many boyish prank. In those early days
| before the lawn mower was known, grass
grew high in the school yard and was only
moved once between spring and fall. Strands
of grass were frequently tied together, max
ing what was known in those days "Trip
up" and Lowering was the boy usually Sc
lected to lead through the ''snare." The
| boys while leading the candidate would cal
the attention of the victim to some outside
object until the"trip-up' was reached,when s
| fall was the usual consequence. Time anC
again the game was practIced upon Lowering
| and he was always good natured.
| 1t seems strange to the people of Claremon
that Capt. Lowering should be accused o
| cruelty, for he was always good natured anC
| kind hearted.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
ATHENS.

Mrs. F. D. Stevens has returned from Proc
torsville.
Mrs. A. G. Cotton has not been as well fol
a few days.
Sylvia Powers came home from Randolph
Centre for the Thanksg vacation
Otric Bali and family of Alstead, N. H.
are visiting at W. M. Balls.
Martin Bailey of Ludlow spent Thanks
giving with his daughter, Mrs. A. S. Powers
F. L. Smith and wife of Fletcher and II
w. Smith of Marsh6eld have been spending
a few days with their father, George Smith
William Glynn and Charles Willis have
recently laid the foundation wall for MIR
Farnsworth's new house near Saxtons River
James Brown, Jr., F. P. Durham and q
w. Smith are at work getting out the ston
for the abutments to the new bridge at Sax
tons River.
Rev. NJ. II. Smith and Walter S. Pierce ar
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
ANDOVER.

Mr.. Bragg has moved into Mrs. Martha
Evans house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fleury spent Thanksgiving
with her daughter at Chester.
May J. Stoddard came home from Provi-
dence, r. L., last Wednesday.
Miss Nellie Dunbar of Jamaica is at work
for Mrs. c. S. Leonard.
Abbie Waite returned to her home in Wes-
ton last Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Davis of Londonderry
took their Thanksgiving dinner with her,
mother, Mrs. A. A. Hutchinson.
Mr. and Mrs. w. w. Ward and c. E.
Spaulding spent Thanksgiving at =. ). Leon
ards at Simonsville.
Mrs Fleury's daughter and granddaughter
of North Adams, Mass, came last Thursday
to stop for the winter
Schools in town begin on Monday with
Mrs S. A. Roweil at Peaseville, Miss Jennie
Chapman of Gsaftea at Simonsrille, Miss.
Ruth Sergeant Of Chester IN district No. 4.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Fuller and Charlie
have moved on to the farm which Charlie
lately purchased of Mrs. Fleury, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Fleury have moved up into the house.
they vacated.
We were panied to hear of the sudden
death On Saturday of Leon Carlton, who has
been in Connecticut for several years, at the
home of Mrs. Percis Baldwin at Chester,
where he arrived last nuISudy. We cAIcuu
our heartfelt sympathy to the family in their
aff1iction.
LINES ON THE DEATH OF ADA PINNEY.
Dear sorrowing ones. in this your darkest
hour,
Through all these dreary days of grief and
pain,
Believe that some bright hope your hearts
| shall raise,
| AS surely as the sunshine follows ram.
Gods grace is wide, His mercy infinite.
And though the bright face and loved form
| you miss,
Prehaps He sent this sorrow unto you
TO save you cen a bitterer pang than this.
Before she bore such anguish as you bear,
In all her pnrity, untouched by sin,,
The angels called her to the other shore,
Swung wide the gates of pearl and let her in.
And when we. too, shall lay life's burdens
4 down,
God grant that we may meet her there at
last
To know each other as the angels know,
With earth storms washed away and sorrows
past.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
Married a Lhlnaman.

Jim Lee, the Chinese laundryman at Ran
dolph, married Miss Jennie, the 16-year-old
daughter of 7. t. Butterfield and wife, Tues
day of last week. There has been consider
able talk over the affair and from some
sources it has caused much unfavorable COM
ment The ceremony received the entire
appreciation OF the girls parents and it was
performed by Rev. George w Morrow.
Jim Lee has run laundry in Randolph for
the past two years until within the past two
weeks when he has been in Montpelier to
establish branch there and his brother, who
has been here, has now gone to take Jim's
place there, while Jim comes back to Ran
dolph to live. Jim Lee writes, speaks and
reads English quite well. He dresses like
Americans and is quite an intelligent fellow.
Previous to the wedding ceremony he had
his promised wife cut off his queue. Those
who witnessed this said that he trembled
considerably, as it forever shut him off from
returning to his native land, or seeing his
parents again. 1t was a trying ordeal 70,
him.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
CLAREMONT.

Messrs. Weed of Harvard Law school,
Pierce of the Boston Dental college, and
Brooke, Gould and Long of Dartmouth, spent
Thank giving in town.
The last entertainment of the band fair
took place Friday evening, and was well at
tended. After the program came dancing
supper was served during the evening.
The football game Thursday between the
Windsor and Claremont town teams resulted
in tie by the score of 6 to 6. 1t was the best
game of the season, both teams playing for
all they were worth. The scoring was made
in the first half
At an early hour Friday morning an alarm
of fire was rung in from box II for fire at the
| house occupied by H. S. O-good on East
Pleasant aud South streets. The fire made
| rapid Roadway hut through the efforts of the
| iremen the flames were confined to the
house, thus saving the barn. The house was
one of the finest in the south village, and wa:
owned by Hemon Holt and H. G. Osgood
Mr.. Osgood figures the loss on the house a
about $4,000 with $500 insurance, and on thu
contents $1,000, fully covered BY insurance
The cause is believed to be defective chin
ney.
Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-01
Pages Calendar for '98.

Pages Calendar tor 1898 is larger than
ever, being 20 2 inches long by 20 inches
wide. By an exceedingly ingenious patent
ed device, which will be found of real prac-
tical value, each of the IL sheets of the Calen-
dar shows the day of the week of every day in
the year. The popularity of Pages Cal
endar is shown by the fact that in 1894 the
issue was 20O0;i 1895, 5000; in 1896, 5000; in
1897 ,9O00;w while in 1898 it W i'll be 10000
The growth in number is only equalled by
the growth in its size. The Calendar for '9S
is "a per cent larger than the issue for '97.
Until the supply is exhausted it will be sent
prepaid to any address upon receipt of ten
cents in silver. Do not send stamps.
Most Vermont postmasters will receive and
forward the money without charge to sender