Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-07-25
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| By order from the Post OifIcc De-
partmcnt, an additional daily mail is de
spatched to Boston from Taunton, leav-
ing at 6 10 o'clock, A NJ, and returning
at I l-2pM. The mail is now forwar-
ded daily from Taunton to Bristol, II. 1.
instead Of tr-weekly.
In Portland, Me. a coal mining COM
pany has been formed. The indications
Of coal at Cape Elizabeth are so strong,
that the company have purchased seve-
raj farms, or the right ofminng on them,
and the shares arc at 100 per cent ad-
vance.
The Jewelry store and watch makers
shop Of Mr. Peter Fields, Greenwich-st
New-Y York, was entered by false keys
on Sunday afternoon, and robbed of 200
watches, and some Jewelry, amounting
in all to between $4,000 and 5000. MIR
+. never leaves the store without some
person being left in charge of it, except
a few hours on the afternoons Of the Sab
bath.
The receipts for toll on the New-York
Canals, since the opening Of navigation
to June 80, were $500, ,2l2, being $685.
94l more than for the same period last.
In the Supreme Court, New-York, in
the case Of the owners of the steamer
Washington, vs.. owners Of the Chance!-
lor Livingston, for running down the W.
on Long g-Island Sound, in 1881, a ver-
dict of $50, 900 was rendered for pills.
A new trial has been asked, and grant
ed, on the ground that the jury came to
their decision by splitting the difference.
Accident ai.-One of the fremont line Of
stages was upset in Pawtucket, one day
of last week, by the breaking of the AK
letree. There were eight passengers,
and all escaped injury excepting lady
who had her arm broken.
In Frankfort, (ky. y chickens and 9TH
er fowls, are said TO have died in great
numbers, with all the symptoms of the
Cholera. A gentleman recovered a
number, which were apparently near
death, by administering spirits of cam
phor.
1t is ascertaned that the immense
ledges Of rock in New-London, Conn. !,
are of granite. a large Church ard 2
Academies are now building ofths stone.
During the prevalence of the Cholera
at Wheeling, (Va.,) it is stated that moi
only the martins but the pigeons desert
eG the town.
The United States ship Vandalia, and
schr Shark arrived in Hampton Roads on
the 18th inst
The Choiera.--Thc cholera appears
to be raging with unabated violence, in
almost every part of Kentucky, and sew
eral places in Louisiana, PENNSYLVANIA
and Virginia. The interments in Nash
vile, for the month of June were SO, of
which 20 were Of cholera.
Upwards of twenty buildings were dc
stroyed by fire at Ithica, N. Y. on the
night of the l1th inst.
The History Of the Hartford Conven.
ton will probably be ready for the press
in two or three weeks, and will be pub
lished in as short time thereafter, as
the nature of the case will admit.
Interesting Fact.-Comparative length
OF life of drunkards and sober men,.
During the last six months thirty-eight
adults have died in the Boston Aims
house. Ofthese twenty nine were in
temperate drinkers, and their average
ages were thlty-eight years. 1t is be-
lieved that the other nine had lived So
ber lives, and their average ages were
seventy-one years. Bos. Jour.
Ciough has been retaken-he was found in a
wood near Mount Holly.