Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-11
New England Items.

-Charlestown, Mass, has been suffer.
ing severely from open liquor traffic and
Sunday brawling.
The State police of Massachusetts, ha s
been more than usually active all over the
commonwealth for some weeks.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is summerine
at Stockbridge, where she is stopping with
her daughter, the wife of Rev. Mr.. Allen
of the Episcopal Church.
A post norton examination showed
that the recent death of young lady al
West Waterville, Me-, was caused by the
use of a lutte "switch," the insects bred il
it having eaten through the skull and at
tackled the brain. ..--....
The extensive works of the Falrha
ven, Conn, keg company, were burned
early Thursday morning. Loss, Sl4U,
600; insured for $4,000.
William A. Hatch, of West Water
vile, Maine, a graduate OF WatervliI'
College in the class of '61, has been ap
pointed professor in Girard College, a.
Philadelphia.
Fifty acres of heavy woodland neal
York, Me-, were burned on Wednesday IL
two hours, and the services of 200 mer
were required to arrest the flames iron
doing further damage.
The soldiers and sailors monument
now in course of erection by the State o
Rhode Island, cannot be completed by
September II, and the ceremonies ap
pointed for that day, which the President
had promised to attend, will therefore
have to be postponed.
"A colored boy, who took the yaledic
tory in the last class at the Hopkln
grammar school of New Haven, ranked
highest of the $50 applicants at the recen
examination for the next freshman class
-Bierstadt's last painting, the Emerald
Pool, is now on exhibition at Boston, ant
is spoken of in the highest terms by al
the art critics of the Hub. Although i
includes nearly every feature OF Whit
Mountain scenery, the composition Is re
marhably harmonious.
ID. n. Farren's contract for grading
Atlantic avenue, Boston, is now abou
three-fourths completed, and the WORK
will doubtless be finished by the specified
time, about the first of September. During
the work with the aid of a powe rfuI
steam-shoyel, between 10000 and 10000
cubic yards of earth have been removed
Peter Vigoreaux, who died last week
at the age of 90, was the oldest inhabit
ant of Farmingdale, Me-, and the Oldest
Free Mason in the State, having joined
the order in 1921. He was native Of
Laurent, France, entered the Frenzy navy
and was on the admirals ship in the en-
gagement between the French and Eng
lish fleets at st. Domingo, where he wal
slightly wounded, and came to Tho 00"n
try in 1907,
The Shepard Congregational Churcl
of Cambridge, Mass, has Just reared
granite monument in honor of its nint
deceased pastors. The church was estab
lished in 1888, and among its minister
have been Rev. Thomas Shepard, who wa
ordained in 1886, and was considered thu
most effective preacher of his day; Rev
Abiel Holmes, father of Oliver Wendell
Holmes, who was pastor for forty years
from 1892 to 1882, and Rev. Nehemiah
Adams, who was for a few years MIR
Holmes colleague.
"A few years since, DR.. Calling, The
Hartford inventor, exhibited his revolv
ing gun, which trained bullets" with ter
rible power, to the French military au
thorities, who protested themselves
pleased with it, and, having procured al
the necessary drawings, as well as two Of
the guns, commenced manufacturing
them, without any further dealings with
Calling. In some minor particulars they
altered the gun, but they took its Princi
pie and it is really the Calling revolving
gun, which, under the name of the mi
trailleuse, worked wonders" according
to the cable accounts, in the recent en-
gagement at Saarbruck.