Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-07-28
New England items.

The semi-centennial anniversary OF
the Colby (Waterville) University, will be
celebrated next Tuesday.
AT the Tip-Top House OIL Mount
Washington, the thermometer stood 40
degrees at 3 o'clock on Monday.
Indian Commissioner Parker is in
springfield, Mass, personally superin-
ending the purchases of goods for the
Indians.
The Trustees of the Bates College
have voted to make the new Baptist Theo-
IOgical School department of that Col
ege.
John D. Bigelow of Marlboro cele-
rated his hundredth birthday on Satur-
lay, with a gathering of relatives and
leighbors.
Thomas Kelley, of Boston, challenges
Hanley or any man in America to fight
for $1,000 and the feather weight cham
ionship.
The Cuban Junta of New York City
lave received dispatches from Gen. Cor
1elio Perro, reported to have been assassi-
nrted by his own men.
The new city directory of Hartford
contains -, COG names, an Increase Of 1913
during the last year, from which the pop
ulation is estimated at $4,000.
Michael Riley, who killed his wife At
Manchester on Saturday, has been COM
mitted to Jail TO await the action of the
grand jurT at the September court.
Collector Russell of Boston delivered
the address at the fourth anniversary Of
the dedication of the soldiers monument
in Brighton on Tuesday.
Tie New England yacht fleet arrived
at Portland at o'clock on Tuesday, and
were saluted by the Portland yachts.
Nineof them have anchored in the inner
harbo-.
Walbridge A. Field, OF Boston, has re-
sigued the office of assistant attorney
general, and, after a short vacation in
Maina. will resume the practice of law in
his old firm of Jewell, CASTOR y rIaTd.
The anniversary exercises of the Ban
gor Theological Seminary are III progress
julius II. Seelye of Amherst College ad-
dressed the Rhetorical and Inquiry So
eieties.
Gen. J. T. Pratt of Wethersfeld has
been a member of the Legislature for IA
sessions, and during them all has only
been absent ten days, when he was called
to attend the funeral of near relative.
DR.. R. J. Cutting, inventor of the
Cutting gun, and Capt. B. H. Seerbee, of
Colts armory, at Hartford, will sail for
Europe in a few days, for the purpose of
l. he !, l
various crowned heads. They will first
visit England; then Turkey, which is
now negotiating for a number of the guns
and, afterward, Austria, Italy, Prussia,
and possibly France.
Mrs. Wilkins, an insane woman of
Salem, procured some laudanum on Mon
day, and gave each of her three young
children a spoonful. She, however, imme.
diately told a neighbor, who at once gave
the childr, an emetic, and their lives
will probably be saved. The necessary
papers for Mrs. Wilkins removal to the
insane asylum had been procured previous
to Monday, and she has been since taken
there.
NV Sweden Is the appropriate lame
of the town ia Aroostook just settled by
the colony of ScandiuavIaus. The colony
consists of % families, numbering about |
100 persons, nearly all of whom can read |
and write. The remainder of the colony |
will arrive the latter part OF next month.
Each family receives 100 acres Of land, |
five of which are to be cleared, and log |
house to be erected by each family, and |
in five years from the tine OF occupancy, |
the settler is to receive from the State a
clear title to the property.
w. G. Rice's house in Winchester
was entered, Saturday night, by a man |
who found his way up stairs, where he
was met by the servant, Mrs. Sarah Litch-
field. She thrice demanded hisname and |
business, but receiving no answer, she
called Mr.. Rice, when the intruder rushed |
down stairs and fed. Suspicion rests up
On James Brown, who worked for MIR:
Rice until about week ago, and he was
arrested on Monday and examined before
Justice EIlery Albee, who bound him over
in $500, in default whereof he was jailed
at Keene