Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-01
New England Items.

Providence consumes nearly one
quarter of all the milk produced in the
State.
-"Professors' of swimming do a good
business on the beach at Newport.
John P. Hale is slowly recovering
from his recent attack of paralysis.
The Turkish and Austrian ministers
are stopping at Newpot this week
Gardiner, Maine, shipped eight car
goes of ice to Philadelphia. in four days
of last woek
-Wallingford, Conn, has voted TO nold
its bi-centennial celebration on the 14th
of September.
West Stockbridge recently voted, So
to s. to return to the district system in the
management of its schools.
The United States survey party for
the State of Maine is now encamped at
Dresden, on the Kennebec river.
Gov. English, of Connecticut, has
been honored with an invitation to per-
sonal interview from James Wilson, the
murderer of Warden Willard.
Ice was made the thickness of win
dow glass one night last week on the Che
mo BURBERRY plain, about dozen miles
above Bangor, Maine.
Gen. Fremont has purchased s. Bald
Porcnpine Island" at Bar Harbor, Mount
Desert, Maine, and proposes to erect on II
a cottage for a summer residence.
-Ex- President Lord, of Dartmouth
College, has been for three weeks confined
to his bed and is gradually failing, his i'll
ness being purely the result of old age.
Nathaniel Warren and wife of East
Hartford, Conn, celebrated their golden
wedding on Wednesday. OF their nint
: children. all are still living, and sever
s were present at the anniversary.
: Yarmouth, Maine, which has an ex-
e cellent water power, voted at a recen
:. town meeting to exempt all manufactur
y ing establishments having a capital o
). So, 600 or more from taxation for tern
of years
Quite real estate fever has broker
L out at Newport within the last month
Is and several prominent villas have changed
l, hands One real estate agent reports tn
r sale of 100000 worth of land since tn
: 1st of August.
Il The Hartford and New Haven rail
], road is experimenting with peat, obtaine
Il from the beds on the line of the road be
le tween Newington and New Britain, an
use it as fuel on two freight and one pa:
senger trains daily.
It The drouth is so severe in Southwic
I'd that pasturing has almost entirely failed
Y, and people have been obliged to put thei
"A cattle up and feed them. All the cror
:, are almost failures, with the exception
IT, tobacco, which will amount to about ha
s' a crop.
- "A man in Stamford, Conn, sowe
some cotton seed in hotbed in April, S,
W. out the plants about the middle of Ma
as and now has a small crop of very promi
of ing cotton, which well illustrates IL
Of tropical character of the present sur
zoo mer.
~ Lewiston, Maine, manufacturers r
A. ioice over the fact that, although the A
~ droscoggin river is unusually low, the
on have reserve supply of two thousar
he acres of water in Lake Auburn, fe
mt miles north of that place, which is alol
;re sufficient to run all the mills for thr
I'd weeks.
,o II. q. Durant, Vice President of t
q Pacific Railroad, was arrested the 9th
no day at Providence, on a railroad suit i
'ss. volving about $3,000,000. For some re
son he was unable to procure bail, and
- is consequently attended by the sheriff
i'm his yacht cruises, he having gone
= Providence ON an excursion in his vac
CO. adler"
- The cabbage crop in many parts
On Cumberland, Sagadahoc and ,Lincc
vas counties, Maine, has been almost CO
ces plete failure this year, owing to the ray
ere ges of the green worm-a pest from viii
bile that region has suffered for several yea
h. and which threatens to cause the aba
" Comment of ell efforts to raise that We,
nit- table.
i'n Harding, of Lee, Mass, has raised
en- his garden this season cotton pls
ard which promises to mature and bear in
ace most approved style. Oliver s. Dupar,
nod the same town, Notwithstanding
~ drouth, has raised two crops of potat
0 upon the same piece of ground, diggi
ave the first crop late in June, while the s
and ond is now ready for use.