Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1833-05-23


nous vote Of the Corporation of the City
of Albany, on the evening of the 26th
Of April lit was determined that no license
should be granted for retailing ardent
spirits, to te drank in stores or groceries
the coming year.
The most seasonable and abundant
rains have fallen within the last four or
five days.
| About the middle of last week, two
chul ches, the Presbyterian and the Re-
formed General Baptist churches, at
Trenton, n. j., were entered upon the
same evening, and robbed ofvarious ar
ticles-the pulpit Bibles, carpeting, sc.
Appropriate rewards have becn offered
for the recovery Of the aticles.
Teller, the murderer of Hoskins, late
keeper of the Connecticut State Prison,
and Reynolds, his accomplice, have both
had their trials, and been found gully.
A number of domcst animals and sew
eral persons have been bitten by mad
dogs, in the county OF Columbia, ". Y.
and great excitement prevails there,
upon the subject
A bill is now before the Parliament of
Great Britain which proposes to regulate
the hours Of labor in Mills and Factories,
throughout the kingdom.
Great .News from Nantucket!--The in
habitants of Nantucket, lsoon after the
late Temperance Meeting, at which a
bove 200 signed the pledge,) convened
in annual town-meeting, and voted re-
quest to the merchants to abandon the
sale Of Ardent Spirits, which request has
already been complied with, OH the part
OF the merchants, with few exceptions
Several merchants in New-Yor and
Boston, Of whom the purchases had been
made, consented to receive the liquor
back again, and some of them are SO
strongly impressed with the propriety Of
the course taken by the Nantucket mer-
chants. that they intend soon to initiate
their example and withdraw from the
traffic. The Nantucket packet masters
volunteered their services to transport the
poison off from the Island, freight free;
some Of them declaring that they would
not, at any price, convey any more to
the Island. The Temperance effort, as
we have occasion to know, took a new
start there, about six months ago, and
many Temperance papers were introduce
cd among them about the same time.
". Y Temperance .Agem.
THEvEs.-1he New York papers enumerate
their thieves by hundreds. The Gazette OF Sat-
urday says" Several hundred small thieves yes
terday, took possession Of the ruins of the late
fire, carrying off every thing they could iind.'
ABRIsx BUSINESS The Pennsylvania in
forms US that thirty "afars Of the heart,' were
arranged to the satisfaction Of mothers, SC. Oh
May-day, in Philadelphia.
The Senate of New York, non-concurred with
the House in the passage Of the bill repeating the
law lbolishing Imprisonment for debt--and post
poned it indefnitely-yeas l l, nays g.
A Judge in Canada has decided that a man
cannot be allowed to give evidence in court Of
justice in those colonies, who denies the divinity
of Jesus Christ.
1t is stated in the U. S. Telegraph, that Lieut..
Randolph had an engagement to attend u we'd
ding, to fulfil which he left Alexandria Immediate
ly after his attack on General Jackson-and that
he will return in few days and surrender himself
to the civil authorities.
! AN OLD ApAGE.-A Mr.. John Smith of Bal
timore, was lately mulcted in the sum of two
thousand dollars for breach of promise Of mar
riage to Miss SDords, Of the same city. This
is another proof of the old adage, that those peo-
pie who play with sharp tools, should take care
of their fingers.
Bickncll's Counterfeit Detector, notices among
others, counterfes of the Bank of Rhode Island,
at Newport, payable to VIM. ROtch, let
ter b. dated Jan. IA, 1881, $. Fowler Gardner,
Cashier, Audley Clarke, President.
Counterfai, bills, (3's) purporting to be Of the
Phoenix Bank at Nantucket. have been detected at
Worcester (AIass) The plate is represented as
well executed, but the signatures Of some of them
have very little likeness to those of the genuine
bills, while Others are so well initiated as TO de-
ceive a person not familiar with them.-The
charter Of the above Bank expired two or three
years since, and probably but few if any Of the
genuine bills remain in circulation.
a young man recently married, named Fuller
ton, druggist in New York, was killed on Satur-
day afternoon, by the exploding Of a copper soda
fountain, which he was filling with gas.
1t is said that the body Of Capt. Paddock, who
WAS shot at Valparaiso, was suspended from n
galows "a hours-t was then given TO the ship
company, who conveyed it outside the hnrbor,
and buried it in the sea. The persons who were
wounded by him had recovered.
So rapid is the travelling between New York
and Philadelphia, that gentlemen breakfastms at
the latter place, arrive at the usual hour OF dining
in New York-3 o'clock. We notice gentlemen,
says the New York Daily Advertiser, transactins
business on 'change at the usual hours, who left