Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1831-06-15
SELECTED ITEMS.

a chap lately stopped at the halfway house on
the Salem Turnpike, and pretending fatigue, was
shown 10 chamber. Some one having occasion
TO enter, found him drawing ON his shirt over
three gowns, which he intended to wear of.
la Pro, dencc iiee school for colored children
has beea established.
In New York young man who had failed in
obtaining laudanum wherewith TO commit suicide,
war detected by the druggists in hanging himself
at his boarding house: lac is now doing we'll.
slip Of paper was found directed to Young lady
whom he had that afternoon visited, SAYING
"Nlary -, when YOU see this, and learn the
deed, you may think YOU have treated me bad
ly." What pity!
Mr.. Jackson, and son Of the foreman in
Rogers powder mill, NcwIury, \. y. were re-
ceatly killed by an explosion in the store house
the cause of which is unknown, but produced by
something un connected with the works
In St. Johns, near Charleston, one or two
crops of cotton were destroyed by hail on the 25th
ult. which also killed partridges and other small
game in the woods, where bushels Of had might
have been collected next day.
Ia Il late case of Tape worm near George
town, :. {. where the cause was unsupported,
sudden relief was obtained BY Il dose of Tartar
Many dwellings and stores are to be built in
New Rcdiord this season, besides Courthouse.
two churches, and two banks.
1t is estimated that the number of panes Of glass
destroyed by the hail storm At Portland, 3Oh ult
was 20 AGO; which at ) cents amounts to over
$4,000, all done in two minutes; the greatest
number in any building was 290, near OA-
ford-street: the :. w. section sustained the least
damage.
AT Moultonboro', y. H. much glass was brok-
en-.
\ homicide was lately committed in Wolf
boro, n. II. which ought to be investigated A
man bargained with another so years old. TO
give him a pint Of rum if he would drink another
pint. He drank it, laid down in stable, and
never rose again
The ancient steamer Fulton, is to be broken up
at New York and sold in lots to suit purchasers.
Mr.. w. Stangs, Jr. Of Gates county, n. c.,
lately killed bear weighing 1856 lbs.
a young man lately died in CINCINNATI, Of
hydrophobia, who had not been bitten. lie was
a tanner, and it is conjecured that as several
animals had died Of hydrophobia, during the past
winter, and it is believed he had some of the
hides to tan, and that some of the saliva had been
imbibed into his system through sore on his
finger
! A hail stone, in form oi'a compressed ellipsoid,
consisting of circular crystals, diverging from a
centre was picked up at Brunswick, Me. after
and inches. lis thickness between I've two
compressed surfaces l inch
The Oxford, Me. Observer states that James
Bucknlinster's wife, Of Franconia, n. II. has
had since 1924, mine chihIrcn, at three births:
three at the first, two at the second and four
us the last! all boys, all living and doing well.
Spotted caterpillars have stripped whole fore SIS
in Pennsylvania this season. They have also
attacked the fruit trees, especially plums, IN
some quarters here, and the trees being iarrcd
after shaking, the yermin have been found halted
in the tar
la relation to the dog tax in Augusta, Ga n
Young lady thinks there should be proportion i'll
the assessment, az her lap-dog is not bigger than a
kitten!
Steam has lately been advantagcously used IN
France in destroying yermin board merchant
vessels TIE halchcs &c. carefully closed,
and steam suddenly introduced.
Mr.. RusH, it is confidently asserted, is to he a
candidate for Governor of Pennsy ylyania. lie does
not write long letters for nothing.