Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-05-05
New England Items.

Dover, n. H, has voted a reception
to John p. Hale, when he gets home from
Spain.
Huge snow drifts are now visible On
the line of the Vermont and Massachu-
sets railroad through Worcester county,
George NJ. Towle, formerly United
States consul at Nantes, France, and
Bradford, England, has become one of the
editors of the Boston Commercial BuUe.
tin.
jay has voted its credit for $4,000
in aid.of a box-making firm. who are thus
induced to move thither from Livermore
Falls, and who will also run a grist mill
The widow of Adiutant A. NJ Brig
ham, who was killed at Petersburg, has
been appointed post-mistress at Natick,
Mass, by request of the citizens.
Several young ladies in Hartford,
Ct, are under the surgeons care for dis
tortion of the feet-supposed to be caused
by wearing high heeled shoes, so fashion
able with some silly women.
Rufus Waterman was arrested in
Woonsocket, r. l., on Wednesday morn
ing, charged with the murder of Daniel
E. Lipham, who was found dead in the
street in front of Waterman's residence,
some days ago.
The $50 prize offered by Dartmouth
for the best Typographical plan of the ag-
ricultural college farm has been divided
between Charles II. Sanders of Baskerville
and T. H Wales of South Braintree.
The trial of Forsythe, the Tariffville.
Conn, saloon keeper, for shooting Cahill,
recently, has resulted in his acquittal, it
being shown that he committed the homi-
eide in self-defense. His victim belonged
to a gang Of rufians who assaulted his
house after all were abed, with the
avowed intent to drag him out and kill
him.
W. w. Thomas Of Portland, Ne, leaves
for Europe this week, to obtain a cargo Of
| Norwegians for ArOosto0k county. Under
his arrangements, they will be transport
ed for $25 each, including their mainte-
nance. The site of the Colony is to b.
| laid out into % fats Of 1000 acres each,
the State to clear three or four acres and
build a log cabin. They receive their
titles clear" at the end Of five years Of
permanent residence.
-Ihe grave anu 'sollA members q
the constitutional club OF Boston were
somewhat shocked on Tuesday evening
by being the subject Of a descent" from
| the police,-two Of them. The Officials
seized the cards, arrested the participants
went for the "Black Maria" wherein 70
take them to the Tombs and didn't come
back Tt is shrewdly suspected, now.
that the whole visit was a joke, and the
visitors not officers. But the club men,
who included the frst-class democrats OF
Boston and vicinity, as George Abbott,
Mr.. Woodbury.. John Quincy Adams and
George Lunt, do not easily recover their
equanimity.
"A lad of eight was playing with a
/ little brother of four on the Hartford and
/ New Haven track near Meriden, Conn,
the other day, when Conductor BromP-
toms train rushed upon them. The older
brother jumped and caught the little one
and attempted to get him of, but the En-
CINE being too quick for his movements
struck him and knocked him clear Of the
train. He held on to his brother, drag
ging him out of harms way, without tn.
Jury. The little fellow picked himself
up, and told the conductor that be did
not want any one TO 60 home with him.
He was quite, pale, and had a slight scalp
wound that bled freely, otherwise be was
uniniured.