Springfield Weekly Republican

The strongest music of the evening was the chorus of dervishes from "The Ruins of Athens" of Beethoven. This is a part of a powerful imaginative sketch of oriental devotion, done by the greatest poet of music. Its strange chords are rife with suggestion. The Orpheus singers rendered it with very fine gradations of emphasis, and effectively, to the peculiar accompaniment of the piano by Mr Tucker—with barbaric clashing accessories: and Mr Tucker continued the impression with the better known "Turkish march."

WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

Rev Louis Muller of the Turners Falls German church has withdrawn his suit against one of his parishioners for slander, the latter having made a retraction.

G. Clinton Gardner, late manager of the tunnel line, is fully established in his new position as general manager of the Palmer-Sullivan, Texas and Mexican railway lines with head-quarters at New York. This is one of the greatest railroad enterprises of the times, involving a system of 2000 miles of road, all of which is to be completed and in operation in three years. Mr Gardner has excellent qualifications for an active part in an undertaking of this sort.

The estate of the late Dr Collins of Great Barrington is estimated to be about a quarter of a million.

The Berkshire railroad company re-elected their old officers last week. The year's receipts have been $43,711, and Treasurer Williams has a balance of $1263.

The body of Mrs Otis Reed of Westfield, who was missed from her home at an early hour Tuesday morning and traced to the river bank was found Wednesday afternoon in the flume of the Great River mills, about a quarter of a mile below where she probably threw herself into the water. She was a highly respected woman of about 50, but for some time she has been despondent because of ill-health, and frequently talked of taking her own life. It is thought that she quietly slipped out of the house about midnight, but her husband did not awaken until an hour later.

Rev Frank Bowler, formerly of Southwick and Florence, is visiting his friends in Westfield. He has recently been admitted to full ministerial orders, and will return next week to his church at Eastham, Cape Cod, where he has during the past year built up a flourishing society and gained a large congregation.—Rev Mr Palmer of the Westhampton Congregational church was dismissed by a council Wednesday. He has served the people with acceptance for five years, and goes to Maine for the benefit of his health.—Rev A. M. Higgins, for three years and a half pastor of the Lee Baptist church, has resigned, and will deliver his farewell sermon Sunday. He goes to Ashland.—The North Adams Universalist parish have voted to accept Rev W. F. Sprague's proposition for one service a Sunday for eight months in the year, in order to allow him more time for pastoral work.—Rev C. L. Cushman of the Jenksville Congregational church had a stroke of paralysis while at Dr Hammond's office Tuesday evening, and it is thought he cannot live. He has been pastor of the Jenksville church for some years.—Rev Mr Fullerton of Palmer has received a call from the Congregational church of Waltham.—A house full of the friends of Rev Mr Neal of Feeding Hills gave him a surprise visit on Monday, the eve of his departure for his new field of labor at Nahant, and presented him with a fine morocco-bound copy of Webster's Unabridged dictionary, and Mrs and Miss Alice Neal respectively with a silver butter-dish and pickle-caster.

The voters finished up their "March town meeting Monday, cutting down the appropriation $6000, thus reducing the rate of taxation something below $15 on $1000.

Sylvester Ashley, who died over in Ashleyville Saturday, was a very well known character in Chicopee under the name of "Vet" Ashley. He indulged his own appetites rather too freely for his good, but is said to have starved his family, and yet died worth $20,000 in first mortgage notes and bonds. Stories are told about his being the first to drive over the ice and the last to leave it when a toll used to be demanded on the bridge, and he lost his horse more than once trying to cross when it was unsafe.

The builders anticipate a lively season at Northampton this summer. Among the more important buildings to go up is the Catholic church and the music hall and library building at Smith college. The Catholics will build a handsome stone structure, costing over $75,000. Workmen have begun on the fine house to be built for A. L. Williston on Round hill, at a cost of about $20,000. Prof H. M. Tyler is to have a $10,000 house on Prospect street, Bank Teller Averell is to put up a substantial brick house on Paradise road, while there are many other private residences to be built.

The owners of the Round Hill hotel property at Northampton have recently had an offer from a person now living in Scotland for the whole property, which cost the 10 men who now hold it about $55,000. They have decided not to sell at present, and have leased the hotel to H. K. Olney for three years. Landlord Olney buys the personal property, which is worth several thousand dollars, and will keep the house open the year round. He has already taken possession.

Prof Young of Princeton college has recently ended an interesting course of lectures on astronomy at Mt Holyoke seminary. The observatory is finished, and looks well for the purpose, and Prof Young comes back from Princeton about June 1 to set up the new telescope, now being made at Cambridge, and give it its first trial.

At the meeting of the Easthampton seminary trustees this week the treasurer made an unusually good financial showing for the year, the deficit being some $1200 less than the preceding year. The number of new scholars is 27 per cent greater than last year, and 75 per cent greater than two years ago. The resignations of Prof C. A. Lador, teacher of French and German, and Prof E. G. Smith, teacher of chemistry and elocution, were accepted, to take effect at the end of this year. Prof Smith goes to Germany in the summer for a two-years' course at the universities. Rev A. M. Colton resigned from the board of trustees. H. G. Knight stated that he should not again be a candidate for the office of president. The young women of the town will be allowed the privilege of a regular course in Greek for $25 a year, and will be expected to finish the course unless prevented by sickness.—Easthampton has lately been somewhat stirred by the breaking of the school authorities with Landlord Hill of the Mansion house. Mr Hill, it would appear, was not willing exercise espionage over the boys boarding at his house, and so they have been directed to find quarters elsewhere.

Henry Sheldon of Greenfield has sold his farm at Leyden to Robert Strange for $3000.—The saw-mill and husk manufactory at North Hatfield, formerly owned by Dickinson Bros, was sold at auction Saturday to Francis G. Bardwell for $2950.—C. P. Coats, the miller, has bought Frederick Benson's water-power, including a grist and cider-mill, at Mill Hollow in Heath for $550. He thus controls the milling interests of the place.

William O. Taylor of Boston, a member of Gov Long's council, died suddenly of heart disease at St Louis Wednesday. Mr Taylor was born at Chicopee April 6, 1831. He had been in active business at Boston for many years. He was at the head of the firm of Taylor, Thomas & Co. dry goods dealers and a director of the national bank of North America. This was his third year in the executive council.

It appears to be the impression in Westfield, the home of President Yeamans of the Canal railroad, that that gentleman sold a controlling interest in his property to the New York and New Haven interest because he feared to be left out in the cold by an amicable settlement of the difficulties between the Boston and Albany and the Consolidated roads. This is ingenious, but it is not the truth. The fact is that Mr Yeamans, with characteristic shrewdness, took advantage of the war between the two larger corporations to bull his own stock and sell it for more than it is worth; in other words, to take care of himself first without much regard to other folks.
Holyoke's musical festival under the direction of Carl Zerrahn opens next week.

Miss Dimock, a girl of 17 from Nova Scotia working in the straw-shop at Westboro, was struck by a train the other evening and fatally injured.—Lorenzo Clark and a boy named Harry Aiken were struck by an eastward bound freight train on the railroad bridge at Huntington village the other afternoon. The boy was not dangerously hurt, though one of his shoulders was broken, but Mr Clark had a foot crushed so badly that it had to be amputated.—The team of Joseph McDonald of Lanesboro took fright near the Pittsfield depot this week and threw him out and broke his skull so badly that his recovery is doubtful.

The initial steps of organization of the Hampton coöperative creamery association were taken at a meeting of the stockholders at the lower town hall Saturday afternoon. The by-laws adopted are substantially those of the Hatfield creamery, and it will be run on the same plan. The full board of officers will be chosen at an adjourned meeting Saturday evening. Those elected Saturday are: Directors, Maj H. E. Alvord, Isaac Parsons, Theoren Pomeroy, Henry T. Hapnum and L. B. Searle; clerk, C. B. Johnson. It was voted not to begin butter making till September: meantime suitable buildings and machinery will be procured. The necessary outfit costs the farmer about $2.25 a cow.

A Connecticut buyer has just taken the product of five acres of tobacco of Z. A. Thayer of Easthampton at 14 cents through. It averaged over 2400 pounds to the acre and is called the best lot in the region, being finely cured. H. G. Taylor of Westfield has bought the product of two acres of Q. P. Lyman at 10 and 14 cents, and William N. Clapp has sold to the same party.—The creditors of C. T. Parsons of Northampton have sold his large lot of tobacco; but as it went through a second sweat its value was depreciated more than one-half, and the whole amount only brought about $2000.

Robert Andrews and Daniel Griffen, two young men employed at Cutler's shoe-shops in Greenfield, propose to go into business for themselves. They will start at Bernardston in the old Weatherhead mill, some of the citizens furnishing necessary machinery. They will make children's shoes mainly.

Ties are being laid over the big bridge across the South river on the Canal extension, and the construction trains will soon be through to Bardwell's Ferry.

The Fitchburg railroad will give Franklin county two refrigerator-cars this summer, one to be known as the "Greenfield butter car," and the other to be run from Shelburne Falls to take general perishable property. The farmers throughout the county are pleased with this new arrangement, which they have wanted for many years.

The late Elizabeth C. Clapp bequeaths $4000 to the Pittsfield house of mercy, and the same sum to the Atheneum, the income to be expended for books for the library. She gave $1000 to the library about a year ago. Some missionary societies are also remembered in the will, and the balance of her estate goes to relatives.

Miss Alma A. Donner of this city, a normal graduate and for several terms a successful teacher in the intermediate schools, has gone to Pittsfield, and is succeeded in West Warren by Miss Cleveland of Amherst.

The Worcester and Nashua railroad directors have offered to lease the Boston, Barre and Gardner road, at a rental of $40,000 the first year, $45,000 the second, and $50,000 thereafter, and the matter will be acted upon by the stockholders of the latter road on May 10. The lease will probably be made, though the Nashua people want it to run 99 years, while the Barre and Gardner directors prefer to limit it to 25 years. The result would be that the Barre and Gardner stockholders would probably be able to divide among them an annual stock dividend of 1½ per cent after paying the interest on their $31,000 bonded debt and providing for the floating debt of $100,000, which would be a better showing than the road has ever made. The Cheshire road would like the lease, as it would preserve to them their two outlets to New York.

The well-known "long bridge" about three miles east of Athol was burned Tuesday afternoon by a fire set by a freight engine. The bridge was over 300 feet long, and the railroad will be forced to "carry by" for about 48 hours.

The marriage of S. W. Lee, Jr., and Miss Emma Dimock Wednesday afternoon at the Leeds house of the bride's father, Lucius Dimock, was the social event of the week.

Judge Lord gave little encouragement to those seeking divorces at the supreme judicial court in Greenfield this week, but the lawyers succeeded in getting many continued. Emily Innis was granted a divorce from C. W. Innis for cruel and abusive treatment, and divorce was made absolute in the cases of Charles J. Parks against Jane W. Parks and E. C. Hill against R. B. Hill.

The Belchertown Methodist church steeple, which has been threatening to fall every high wind for three years, is at last being taken down, greatly to the relief of those living near it.

George Boss, overseer in the Haydenville cotton mills, has resigned, and will leave May 20 to start a variety tent-show, which will have 20 horses, and will exhibit this summer through the Connecticut valley towns.

Purrington Bros of Pequabuck, Ct., have sold a good-sized tract of land, situated on Burnt hill at Heath, to Albert I. Burrington, who will utilize it for a sheep pasture. The vacated farms in the hilly districts are being slowly turned into grazing lands, and the lots that have been cleared of their timber are said to be worthless, so far as the present market value is concerned.

The Ashfield stage went through from Shelburne Falls all the way on wheels Monday night, for the first time since November 30.

There seems to be a distemper prevailing among the swine in Franklin county, and farmers in several of the hill towns have lost some of their porkers. A "cow complaint" has come to light in Heath and vicinity where two or three farmers have lost valuable milch cows from some unknown disease.

C. C. Francis is to take the place of R. B. Bardwell as teller of the Pittsfield national bank when the latter becomes cashier of the new Third national.

Prof Southworth returns to Williamstown to spend the term with the juniors in chemistry. Prof Hitchcock, formerly of Dartmouth, begins his duties this term, having the seniors in geology and the sophomores in zoology. President-elect Carter has been in town this vacation.—The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity has established a chapter at Williams. They have about 15 men, chosen from the junior, sophomore and freshman classes, and have bought the house of Mr Maynard at the upper end of the town, which can easily be converted into a neat society house.

The old Catholic church at the corner of Main and Park streets, Williamstown, has been demolished, and is to be replaced by a new structure at a cost of $5000. Curtis & Maynard will finish the work in June.

EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS

At this distance, it looks as though private schemes were grinding their own axes by opposing before the Boston city government the extension of the Boston and Albany docks at East Boston. The state harbor commissioners approve the plans, but certain wiseacres, interested in making a market for dock front in other quarters, are making a great hue and cry against it. The harbor commissioners looked after the public interest well in the sale of the flats and may be depended on to know more about this than Scotch steamship agents and old sea captains.

The flax mill in Frye village, Andover, owned by John Smith and leased by the Smith & Dove manufacturing company, was burned last week with machinery and a large amount of material: loss $75,000, fully insured. About 50 hands are thrown out of employment.

Fall River manufacturers are reported to be looking up locations for cotton mills in the South, with the intention of removing their machinery there and building a large factory.

A meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard college was held at Boston last week, and these appointments were made for the current year: Henry Champin Jones, A. B., to be proctor: Drs Thomas Buckminster Curtis, Edward Hinckley Bradford and Oliver Fairchild Wadsworth, instructors in the medical schools; Carrol D. Wright, university lecturer on the factory system.

The late Stephen N. Stockwell of the Boston Journal made a bequest of $5000 to the Massachusetts homeopathic hospital, to establish a perpetual free bed for the use of such sick and destitute printers as shall be designated by the Franklin typographical society of Boston; and $1000 each to a number of missionary and benevolent associations.

Bradford W. Angell of Boston, who has been employed a number of years in the office of the superintendent of the Eastern railroad, has been appointed superintendent of the western division of the Atlantic and Pacific.—F. B. Pickerell, who has been chief clerk of the New York and New England railroad, has resigned, to become assistant commissioner of railroad accounts in the interior department at Washington.

Henry K. White, Jr., of Boston has failed, with liabilities of $12,450 and assets little if anything.—G. Herbert Cushman of Lynn, shoe manufacturer, has failed with liabilities of $30,000 to $50,000.

Three firms are now engaged in canning Boston baked beans, and their annual production is not less than 4,000,000 or 5,000,000 cans.

Judge Devens, late of President Hayes's cabinet, held his first session of court, since resuming his position as judge on the Massachusetts supreme bench, in Lowell this week.

Anent the Andover burglary: "This is rather a sad affair," remarked Officer Griffin to Luther Foster shortly after his arrest. "Well, I should smile if it wasn't," was the unconcerned reply.

William A. Parker, the oldest printer in Boston, died this week, aged 86. He served in the war of 1812, and was one of the charter members of the Franklin typographical society.—William C. Tower, a promising American tenor, died in the Massachusetts general hospital at Boston last week, aged 33. He was to have taken part in the festival at Holyoke this month.

Oliver Ames of Boston is about to build for himself a house on the corner of Chester park and Commonwealth avenue which is expected to be one of the handsomest in the city.

The reunion and dinner of the members of the House of 1880 at Boston Wednesday evening gathered 113 men from all parts of the state. Speaker Noyes presided, and the motion to take from the table was carried unanimously. The list of speakers was long, and the gathering parted at a late hour.

The directors of the Gen Warren monument association held a meeting in Boston this week to consider how public interest in this project could be best awakened. The association was founded in 1873, but has only received one subscription of $500, though the city has given it a site for the monument, and the government has presented it with 11 bronze cannon.

The old 6th regiment association celebrated the 20th anniversary of its march through Baltimore at Lowell this week, about 100 comrades being present besides the Lowell members. The next meeting will be held in Stoneham.

The annual meeting of the national academy of sciences opened in All Souls church, Boston, yesterday. Prof William B. Rodgers of the Massachusetts institute presided.

The owners of the dory Little Western, which sailed from Gloucester to England in 1880, will attempt the feat of returning in their dory, leaving England May 1. It is the smallest boat that ever made the trial.

The defalcation of the late John O'Neil, secretary of the Taunton saving fund and loan association, amounts to $3718.

Nantucket expects an unusual rush of visitors this season, and great preparations are being made. More houses have been built or enlarged than for 10 years.
VERMONT

Owing to the increased demand and ready sale of Merino sheep throughout Addison county, the listers in several towns are appraising them at $15 per head for entire flocks, which makes dissatisfaction among real estate owners, who are well aware that these Merinos will sell readily at from $20 to $50 per head for entire flocks. Single sheep in some of these flocks are worth $500 to $1000 each, and the owners in several instances have refused to dispose of them at those prices.

There is some complaint among farmers that an unusual number of their dairy cows have "gone farrow" this season, which is attributed to drouth so prevalent last summer.

The new tax law seems to be doing its work well, though in many places there is much friction, as is inevitable. The valuation of personal property will be greatly increased, especially in the large towns and cities, Burlington reporting an immense increase, while real estate also is rated at considerably higher figures than before. Of the many devices for escaping taxation that of investing in government bonds is a favorite one, but it is claimed that these are taxable, and the matter will have to be settled in court. It would seem that the time allotted for taking the appraisal will hardly be sufficient, as in not a few towns the listers have resigned on account of differences as to the construction of the law or other reasons, and new ones will have to be chosen, who will find it difficult to get through by the 25th.

The Troy conference which opened at Glens Falls, N. Y., Wednesday, voted that the action of the last general conference was illegal in its course toward the Vermont brethren in the matter of territorial bounds. A commission of five was appointed to go to the Vermont conference now in session and ask them to appoint a commission to settle the matter. The Troy conference unanimously voted sympathy with and support of the Burlington district clergy and people.

Charles T. Sabin of Montpelier has accepted the superintendency of construction and motive power of the international cotton exposition to be held at Atlanta, Ga.

Gov Farnham and Judge T. P. Redfield have decided against the legal points in the petition for a reprieve of Royal S. Carr, under sentence of death, and the governor has denied the reprieve. He will therefore be hung the 29th.

Diphtheria is raging at Montpelier again, and there have been three deaths within a week. Advertised entertainments are given up, and there is talk of closing the schools.

The Connecticut River lumber company began operations Tuesday on their raft at McIndoes Falls. They will drive 80,000,000 feet of lumber down the river this season, much more than the usual quantity, and it is expected that with a good flow of water it will take 90 to 100 days to put the lumber into the booms at Holyoke, Mass., and Hartford, Ct. The daily expenses are over $3000, 1000 men being employed.

The present sugar season has never been surpassed either in quality or quantity of the product. Farmers report four pounds per tree in large orchards.

S. M. Waite's creditors at an adjourned meeting were presented by Receiver Price with some $350,000 of claims in favor of the ruined Brattleboro bank, which were referred to Judge Stoddard, L. M. Reed and J. H. Merrifield, commissioners. The claims of A. J. Gleason and F. A. Nash for $1971 and $16,253, respectively, were also referred to the commission. The claims of W. H. Rockwell and the Monson (Mass.) and North Bennington national banks for $3293, $9000 and $10,000 respectively were allowed.

The bondsmen of the Middlebury postmaster have contributed $240 each toward the "support of the government," and George Hammond accepts the position of postmaster, at a salary of about $1500. J. M. Tripp, one of the five bondsmen, has gone West for his health.

Prof Abel E. Leavenworth, late principal of the state normal school at Randolph, will assume control of the normal school at Castleton.

Byron Smith and Horace Gorham of Addison county have returned from a visit to Vermont's missing cattle drover, Tom Shackett. They found him at Kansas City, Mo., where he has already become the largest dealer, and is doing a big cash business. Shackett says he shall pay every man every dollar he owes, and in conversation with him they discovered that many who had been supposed to be his creditors for large amounts, were not his creditors, and in some instances the amounts actually due persons have been largely exaggerated. They returned with some of their claims liquidated, and confident of his honest intent. Meanwhile Shackett's assignee at Middlebury is paying off his creditors in bankruptcy, their dividends being on the small amount of property available.

The house of E. H. Lathrop at Coventry, with most of its contents, was burned this week; loss $3000, insured for $1300 in the Farmers' mutual.

The returns of the savings banks for the first quarter of the year show an increase in deposits of $662,745. Perhaps the new tax law has something to do with it.
CONNECTICUT

The story of President Garfield's calling the attention of ex-Treasurer Spinner to James Gilfillan, then clerk in the treasury department, but now its treasurer, and getting him promoted, brings up the fact that Gilfillan used to publish a lively little weekly republican paper in Rockville, then the home of ex-Congressman Loomis, who procured him a $1200 clerkship in the treasury, and thus paved his way to success.

The Connecticut Legislature adjourned last week, after a session of three months and one week, the longest in the past 32 years, and probably the longest continuous session ever held in Connecticut.

A $2.50 gold piece was found in the gizzard of a Meriden boarding-house chicken the other day, but it failed to make it any way tender, legal or otherwise.

Mrs McErnery of Birmingham, while looking over some old papers belonging to her dead husband recently, found $63,000 in bonds, of which no record had been kept.

John J. Jourdan, under arrest at New York for the past three months charged with the robbery of the Middletown savings bank, escaped last week and is still at large.

F. A. Warfield, a well-known citizen and business man of Stafford Springs, has just been appointed to a first-class $1200 clerkship in the government pension department at Washington, through the efforts of the two Connecticut congressmen, and folks think it is quite a compliment to Mr Warfield in view of the fact that there were nearly 100 others after the same position.

The three new directors of the Canal railroad are President Watrous, ex-President Bishop and Director Charles M. Pond of the Southern railroad. Joseph E. Sheffield of New Haven has not sold out his entire interest in the New Haven and Northampton, holding still in the family over 1700 shares of stock. It is said that no present changes will be made in the officers of the road.

The Harvard boys have finally concluded to row at New London as the Yale boatmen wish.

Burglars have been at work in Stafford Springs and Suffield. At the latter town the store of W. S. Graves was robbed this week of $50 worth of goods.

Rev T. S. Childs, formerly of the Hartford theological seminary, is the new president of the Wooster (O.) university.

Mrs Martin Coffe of Wethersfield was burned to death Tuesday by her clothes catching fire from some burning brush and leaves.

The First Congregational church of Meriden has called Rev Dr Hepworth of New York city at a salary of $5000 per year.—Rev R. R. Converse has been called to St John's church in Waterbury.

This is how the Legislature was adjourned according to the Hartford Courant: After the two houses had met in joint convention, the governor arose and looking around inquired, "Is Mr G. present?" Some person responded, "No, but Mr F. is here." The governor then inquired, "Mr F., have you any more companies that you desire to have incorporated?" Mr F. replied, "There are no more ready at present." Thereupon the governor turned to Mr Searls and said, "Mr Secretary, let the General Assembly be adjourned."

It is said that the wife of the late Joel H. Guy of Meriden, who left an estate of some $250,000, will contest the will on the ground that he did not leave her $20,000, as he promised.

"Chip" Smith, who has been on trial at New Haven for killing Daniel J. Hayes, chief of police at Birmingham last December, was this week found guilty of murder in the first degree. He heard the verdict without apparent emotion. Smith shot Hayes while the latter was trying to arrest him for a breach of the peace and disorderly conduct.

Col Charles W. Lay, formerly of the Rockville house, has moved into the Tolland house, and the court folks will have another resort.

William W. Converse is chosen president of the Winchester arms company, to succeed the late O. F. Winchester, and Thomas G. Bennett becomes treasurer.

The Trinity college cricket association have employed Mr Russell, a professional trainer who has had charge of several cricket teams in the English universities, to train their team. A match will be played with Harvard in May.

The estate of the late Elijah H. Owen of Hartford is estimated at $400,000, all of which is left to the family.

Gen Wright will preside over the 12th annual reunion of the society of the army of the Potomac, to be held in Hartford June 8, while Daniel Dougherty of Philadelphia, who nominated Gen Hancock for the presidency at the Cincinnati convention, will be the orator, and Col Sumner of Bridgeport, the poet, President Garfield, and Gens Sherman, Sheridan, Slocum, Hawley and others will be present.

Montowese, near New Haven, is excited over small-pox, a girl having died of the disease and two or three others being down with it.

A meeting of the bondholders of the Valley railroad who have not entered into the recent reorganization is called for next Monday at Hartford.

Catherine Healy of Hartford, charged with manslaughter in causing the death of James Farrell, has been found probably guilty and bound over to the superior court in $1000 bonds.

Edward F. Shumway, a well-to-do farmer of Windham, committed suicide this week by shooting himself through the heart. He was to have been married next week.—Waldo Pierce of New Britain, 35, committed suicide at Plainville Saturday by taking laudanum.
EpGAR T. PAGE, Esq., Druggist, writes us from Chicopee Falls that Mr Albert Guenther, under Wildes Hotel, has used that remarkable remedy, St Jacobs Oil, for a severe case of rheumatism, and it cured him as if by magic. He also used it with great success among his horses, in cases of sprains, sores, etc., and it cures every time.—[Springfield (Mass.) Republican.]

GIVEN UP BY DOCTORS.—"Is it possible that Mr Godfrey is up and at work, and cured by so simple a remedy?"

"I assure you it is true that he is entirely cured, and with nothing but Hop Bitters; and only ten days ago his doctors gave him up and said he must die!"

"Well-a-day! That is remarkable! I will go this day and get some for my poor George—I know hops are good."—[Salem Post.]

Four or five years' trouble with a rash and rush of blood to the head, followed with an excessive nose bleeding, left me at once when using D. R. V. G. Words cannot express my gratitude. JAMES B. BROOKS, attorney, Syracuse, N. Y. Guaranteed by all dealers.

D. H. BRIGHAM & Co (the Clothiers) had their Spring Opening last week, and without doubt it was the largest and finest display of choice goods that Springfield ever saw; and our readers will always do well to read their advertisement in our columns.

The Peruvian Syrup has cured thousands who were suffering from dyspepsia, debility, liver complaint, boils, humors, female complaints, etc. Pamphlets free to any address. SETH W. FOWLE & SONS, Boston.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Portsmouth brewed 224,304 barrels of malt liquors last year, Frank Jones alone making 106,777 barrels.

The farm buildings owned and occupied by Annie C. James of Guilford were burned last week; loss $3600, insured for $1500.—The steam saw-mill of Seth L. Lowe in Chandlerville has been burned, with most of its machinery; loss $3000, insured $1000.

Leroy Salisbury, who was made an imbecile because of heavy losses by the Waite collapse, has just died at Chesterfield.

It appears that Lady Blanche Murphy, who recently died in North Conway, did not elope with her husband, as has been stated, but her father was present at the wedding and gave her away, and wanted to help her in her new life. This she always refused, however.

The 52d session of the New Hampshire Methodist conference began at Claremont Wednesday, Bishop Bowman presiding.

A discrepancy of some $30,000 has been found in the accounts of the Cheshire provident institution of Keene, but it is not attributed to any dishonesty, but to inaccuracies unavoidable with the small clerical force employed. The bank has deposits of $2,000,000, with a handsome surplus, and is perfectly safe, it is claimed.
RHODE ISLAND

A post-mortem examination shows that Silas Crandall of Richmond was not murdered, but probably died of apoplexy, induced by a fall from his carriage.—The investigation of the death of Collins Chace of Providence, suspected of being poisoned, discloses nothing to warrant that opinion, but the recommendation is made that the use of arsenic for preserving dead bodies be prohibited by the Legislature.

Roger Sherman of Pawtucket, William S. Haines of Providence and George A. Wilbur of Woonsocket are the Rhode Island commissioners to join with three from Massachusetts in settling the boundary dispute between the states. The eastern line is settled, but the northern has been in dispute for over 200 years, and an effort will now be made to finally fix it.

The Newport municipal contest Wednesday resulted in the re-election of Stephen H. Slocum (democrat) over Robert S. Franklin (republican) as mayor by 50 majority.

James R. Keene's new villa at Newport will cost about $60,000, and the plans will be furnished by Peabody & Stearns of Boston.—Charles Wheeler of Philadelphia has paid $21,000 for a building lot near the beach.
MAINE.

Mrs Alfred Staples of Belfast, 70 and slightly insane, committed suicide the other day by cutting her throat and hanging herself.

The Eastern telegraph company has organized at Augusta with $500,000 capital.

The capital stock, $40,000, for a new woolen mill at Sangerville has been subscribed, and work will begin immediately.

It is estimated that Auburn shoe manufacturers will save $30,000 a year by the expiration of the McKay patent for sewing shoes next August.

Charges of cruelty to his wife and defaming the church by publicly stating that every member of his church is a "cider guzzler," etc., will be presented against Rev O. M. Cousens at the coming Methodist conference at Portland.

William Eaton, who has been connected with the Maine Farmer 37 years and is now 82 years old, has retired from his position.