Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-24
New England Items.

! Arthur Wellington Tyler, son of the
late principal of Maplewood Institute at
| Pittsfeld, is now editor of the Meadyille
pa Daily Republican.
ST. T. P. o. G. T. A. is the frightful-
ly ominous name of a new secret society
at Boston.
Mr.. Henry W. Peabody, an old ship
ping merchant of Boston and resident
of Salem, has gone to London to complete
arrangements for entering the great bank
ing firm of J. S. Morgan & Co., formerly
George Peabody & Co. He is not, how
ever, a relation of the old head of this
distinguished house.
-Silas Gallup of East Brookfeld, 20
years old, was crushed to death between
the cars of a wood train at that place.
Tuesday morning. He had just stepped
from the main track to avoid a coming
freight train.
"A couple were married at a Lowell
church, Sunday, who began a war of
words, in which oaths were plentiful, i'm
mediately after leaving the church. The
bride finally passed down one street and
the groom another, followed by crowd.
This is a shorter honeymoon even than
Lord and Laly Byron's.
The Eastern Express Company left
with the State Treasurer of Maine, at Au-
gusts, on Monday, little package con-
tanning S47S, 900, the amount which Mas
sachusetts recovered from the United
States on her war claims dating back to
1912, and which she made over TO the
European and North American railway.
The express charge on the package was
$311.
Coupons No. 1, on the first mortgage
bonds of the Ware River railroad, are
payable December 1st, in gold, at the
banking house of Farnhan, Gilbert & Co
New York, or at the Treasurers Office in
Ware.
John Mason, assistant clerk of the
Worcester, Mass, County Courts, by
mistake took ten opium pills, while suf-
feriDg from an attack of collie at Fitch
burg on Tuesday, and soon sank into
stupor which terminated. few hours
after, in bis death.
The British schooner Bessie, detained
at Eastport, Maine for Illicit trading, at
last week, to run away and take
prisoner the inspector of the port, who
had been placed on board the vessel. Blu.
the United States revenue cutter gave
chase and overtaking her before she got
outside the barbor, and towed her back.
Wild beasts are unusually common
in western Massachusetts,, this fall.
lynx four feet long was captured on Sat
urday in North Hatfield; several large
have lately been shot in South.
ampton and Huntington and q large
moose, az we have already mentioned, has
been seen in Royalton.
The gigantic elm near Hoekanum
ferry, the largest tree in western Msssa-
,husetts, is fast going to destruction,
having been cleft by the roots by the
winds. It has long been celebrated for it's
siZe, its circumference just below the
branching of the limbs being nearly forty
feet, and its downfall is to be regretted.
Edwin Z. Rowland of milford, Mass.
has been committed for lack Of 5000 bail.
% await trial for committing a felonious
assault on girl thirteen years old.
Strange stories are afoat as to a fire
which destroyed 1. s. Nichols barn al
West Amesbury, Mass, On Monday morn
ng, and the popular belief is that mur.
Ter was committed and the body placed
n the barn in order that the fire might
conceal the murderer's guilt
A very fine example Of the natural
publication of water by filtration through
sand has been lately shown at Cape Cod
An iron tube has been sunk fifteen feet
through the constantly shifting sands Of
the Cape, fifteen or twenty feet from high
water mark, and not more than three feet
above it, and the water in this tube rises
and falls with the tide; yet. strange 10
say, although more than one hundred bar
rels of water have been pumped from it at
,ne time, the water is all fresh, and not
the slightest trace of saline taste is per-
eeptible in il. Indeed, so excellent is the
1uality of the water, that outgoing vessels
supply themselves with water from this
we'll.
John w. G. Hamahan of Stoneham,
Mass., man worth $4,000, bss been
10 prison to await trial as a
ben-thief.