Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-25
New England Items.

President Grant and Mark Twain are
among Newport's expected arrivals, this
week.
Over 500 persons spent last Sunday in
the Glen House, in the White Mountains.
A factory at Lebanon, N. H, is doing
large business in the manufacture of
mattresses, pillows, cushions, ETC., from
common sponge.
DR.. DIxi Crosby has resigned his
professorship in Dartmouth college, to
devote all his time to his medical practice
in Hanover, where he will continue to
reside.
A new town, called Huntsville, was
organized in Cheshire County, n. H., last
week.
The New Haven police are enforcing
the dog law with the most extraordinary
zeal, and have gone so far, in two cases,
as to enter private houses and kill CANNES
found in them.
Worcester had its third case of vio-
lent death, last week, on Wednesday,
when a child of Patrick Flynn, fifteen
months old, fell into a washtub and was
drowned.
Athens, Maine, has one church edi-
fee, which is owned by four societies, and
occupied by each every fourth Sabbath,
while the four sects live together in
peace, and support large union Sunday
School.
Elijah Hedges of Mortified, Mass, is
the happy owner of pair of boots made
in the year 1928. For thirty years he
wore only on Sundays, June trainings,
Fourth of Julys, etc, while for the last
twelve years he has worn them occasion
ally.
The census reports prove Cumming
ton an exception to almost every other
town in Hampshire county, Mass, off the
line of railroads, inasmuch as its popula-
ton has increased, during the last five
yN:rs. its present number of inhabitants
being 1ooo ~sainst $50 in 1885.
DR.. George B. Lorlns of Salem had
very valuable cow struck by lightning
and instantly killed, during a storm, last
week. She was imported in 1850, was
the highest prize animal of her time, and
was considered the best Ayershire cow
ever brought to this country.
The mean temperature at New
Haven at 2 o'clock, p. m, of 50 conseou-
tive days, from July 10 to August IA, &C,
cording to the Yale college records, was
| 50 degrees. Since President Stiles com
menced these records in 1878, no season
has shown SO many consecutive days
when the thermometer stood so high.
The hottest day, this season, was July II,
when the thermometer marked 90 degrees,
which temperature has been only four
times exceeded in the last 90 years, viz
one day each in 1871, 1900 and 1915,
when the thermometer stood at 100
degrees, and one day in 1893, when il
marked 101.
Providence, r. l., recently assigned a
body of police to examine the condition OF
residences where the occupants are spend
ing the not months out of the city, and
the investigation is showing the grossest
carelessness and neglect in many places.
Out of ninety houses thus far visited,
doors or windows have been left open in
eleven, affording splendid opportunities
! for burglars, which it is strange have not
been generally improved
Rev. Morrill, Allen of Pembroke,
Mass, who died on Wednesday, at the
age of 81, was born in Dover, graduated
at Brown University, and was settled at
Pembroke, December %, 1901, where he
continued as pastor for forty years. He
has resided there ever since, and preached
sermon, four years ago, at the age of 80,
to the survivors and successors of his OLD
I practitioners He served both as Senator
and Representative in the Legislature,
and gained so much repute by his writ
ings and practical success as an agricul-
to him in public address as 1.-The model
farmer of Plymouth county"
BY invitation of Dr.. J. r. Nichols,
on the Goth of September, four weeks
from next Tuesday, the MASSACHUSETTS
editors and publishers association will
visit his delightful Lakeside farm, OF
Lake Kenosha, Haverhill. and settle the
important question whether two hundred
editors, with their wives, can eat as many
grapes as hundred doctors. The party
will leave Boston by train at 8 o'clock or'
Tuesday morning, and arrive at Haver-
hill at 9:15; then take steamer and sal
down the Merrimac as far as Amesbury
This will occupy two hours or more
when the party will return to Haverhill
and take carriages TO Lakeside, where
dinner will be provided upon the lawn
and it is quite possible there may be somt
speaking, after the "grape cure" has beer
fully tried.