Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-18
New England Items.
rter Is at Newport.


-"Bradford H. & Rebecca G. Spinner"
is the title of Lynn shoe firm.
Secretary Boutwell, still retains his
position as a member Of the school COM
mittoe of Groton.
Not a child has died in West Brook
field since January, and there has been
bat very little sickness among children
The Norwalk, Conn, iron works are
MAKING p monster engine, to be used IN
heating and ventilating the Senate cham
Der at Washington.
Gen. Marcy and daughters, and Mrs.
Gen. George B. Mcclellan are stopping at
that populnr summer resort, the Mansion
House at Northampton.
Benjamin Silliman, professor Of
Chemistry in Yale College, has resigned,
aud Prof A. W Wright of Williams
College will lecture in his place, next
year.
-Jaffrey, n H, has a centenarian, IN
the person of Mrs Rice, who celebrated
her hundredth birthday on the 10th Of
last December, and remembers events
which happened in the revolutionary
davs IF 171h whom she lived at Oxford,
Mass.
"A duel is reported to have been
fought on the sands of Watch Hill, Conn,
on Wednesdays between two gentlemen,
one from New York and the other from
Boston. Both were wounded, one in the
arm and the other in the breast, but
neither dangerously.
-Boston's police telegraph has been
entirely useless since the severe storm OF
the 8th of last September, and the chief
of police backed up by Mayor Shurtleff,
appeals to the city government for its re-
establishment on a larger and better
scale.
- The Democratic State Conve ntion Of
Maine, which adjourned over from Port
| land, met at Bangor ON Tuesday, i. f
| PiIIsbury in the chair. A letter was re.
ceiyed from Gen. Franklin Smith, deClin'
ing denomination, and Gen. Charles W
i Roberts of Bangor was put in nomination
for governor, receiving all but 2 out o.
672 votes.
An obstruction which had for some
time existed in Cambridge, Mass.
sewer. proved, On examinations, to arls'
from mass Uf roots which had come
from =, willow tree, some 30 feet distant
land rene,rated the brickwork at the toI
Of the sewer, filing almost the entlr'
space with mass Of earth and roots.
Thu mystery connected with tn
assault upou Miss Whttemore OF Fitch
hurs. Mss, the Gr,ftuu school teacher
who qy4- warned 20 letve the town anC
.uh-, Qu,u'ly lit on the head by stone
, about d mouth go, ia still unsolVed, ant
Mis- Whit.rmorn sliii remains ia very
Dr,c ri. US condition, both physically ant
mentally, Tr,In me injuries she received
With the exception of a few manu-
featuring centers, and outside OF Arostoo
comfy. Maine, the census reporters al
r most nvaria biy show falling off in poE
0 D1,t1on. and the State, which has couute
. nm 700 zoo Inhabitants against 62S,COO l
), 1850 will have to be satisfied with go
900. if indeed it is 20 fortunate as to reac
that number.
The assistant draw tender al the Charlie
: river bridge, Cambridge, Mass, attempte
}, to save time Monday afternoon, by lettln
/ two vessels pass through the draw at tt
: same time, and as a natural consequent
= they became wedged together, and coul
not De separated uhVll Cu0 wv AC--'
'e ing a suspension of all travel betwee
d Charlestown and Boston from o'clot
le until 43O.
lel A Lawrence, Mass, man has an Ill
h fortunate habit of losing his companion
by death, in rather singular manne
About a week ago, a woman, with who
he was walking, was run over, und
/ rather peculiar circun stances, near Ha
! erhill, and on Sunday evening, he retur
- ed 10 Lawrence from boating trip,
u which be went with another man in t
le afternoon, stating that his companion hi
of been drowned. He was arrested, al
!, held for examination. II not guilty,
:. is certaiLl ~ unfortunate, and is not like
l ; to be troubled with travelling companio
10 hereafter.