Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-04
New England Items.

New England Items.
Virginia Z. townsend, the novelist,
is stopping at Littleton.
Wendell Phillips and Anna DlcAi-
son are summering at Swampscott.
The trunk and valise business Of Bos-
ton amounts to over 81 100000 year.
Hartford companies lost $4,000 by
the recent Philadelphia fire.
The new theological school of the
Baptists at Lewiston will be opened Sep
TENDER 10.
Gen. W. S. Tilton has resigned bis
position as commandment of the national
military asylum as Augusta
The tantaizing intelligence comes
from Mount Desert that on the hot Sun
day of July II it was so cool there that
fires were required in the afternoon.
Fourteen acres have been added to
the grounds of the Yarmouth camp-meet-
ing association and other improvements
made, in preparation for the annual meet
ing, which commences on the 9th.
Royal Packard of North Brookfeld,
a man over seventy year of age, Is on his
way to Australia to teach the Australians
the art of making cheese in factories, as
practiced in New England.
"A man in Concord has in his posses
sion a biscuit which was set upon the Ia
bic at the collation. given on Lafay ette's
visit to that city in 1926. 1t is of oblong
shape, has stamped upon it the words,
Welcome, Gen. Lafayette" and many of
the letters can still be distinguished.
A Norwich farmer who had extern
sively used the fly paper of the period,
collected a couple of pounds of dead flies
the other day, and as an experiment gave
them TO his hens. The next day he had
fourteen pounds of dead chicken on his
hands, and concluded that poisoned fly as
dish didn't agree with poultry.
"A MiddIetown man recently pur-
chased a money order to send to friend
in New York, and soon after called at the
office in high dudgeon because the New
York party did not get the money. After
he bad somewhat ?999Iled eff an az slfeRj9a=
der in his own pocket, surprising it was
receipt for his money.
-Four members of the Dartmouth
scientific college recently made daring
EXPLORATION of the remarkable cave in the
side of Mount Willard, known as THE
Devils Dem" a feat which has only once
before been accomplished. Lowering
themselves over the precipice by ropes
about $50 feet, which they found to be
about IS feet high and broad, and %
deep.
RESTORATION OF PERSONS APPAR-
EMILY DRowNED.-The following direc-
lions for restoring persons apparently
drowned are issued by the Humane So
ciety, and should be known by all:
I. Send with all speed for medical aid,
for articles of clothing, blankets, etc.
II. Treat the patient on the spot, in the
open air, exposing the face and chest
freely to the breeze, except in too cold
weather.
III. Place the patient gently on the
face Ito allow any fluids to flow from the
mouth(.
l ". Then raise the patient into q sit
ting posture, and endeavour to excite re-
spiration-
/. By snuff, hartshorn, etc, applied tc
the nostrils.
2. By irritating the throat by feather
or the finger.
3. By dashing hot or cold water alter.
nately on the face and chest. If there be
no success, lose no time but
V. Replace the patient on his face, hi;
arms under his head, that the tongue may
fall forward and leave the entrance into
the windpipe free, and that any fluids may
flow out of the mouth then
l. Turn the body gradually but com
pletely on the side, and little more, and
then again on the face, alternately, Ito in
duce inspiration and expiration).
2. When replaced, apply pressure along
the back and ribs, and then remove it, (tC
induce further expiration and inspiration
and proceed as before.
3. Let these measures be repeated
gently, deliberately, but efficiently anc
perseveringly sixteen times minute only
Continuing these measures, rub all the
limbs and the trunk upward with warm
hands, making firm pressure energeti
cally. Replace the wet clothes by such
other covering, etc, as can be procured.
CELEBRATION OF THE BATTLE OF
BENNINGToN.-The anniversary of the
Battle of Bennington will be celebrated
on the sixteenth of August in the grove
> of the Hon. T. W. Park. Hon. Hiland
| Hall is TO he President of the day and an