Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-11-03

The venerable Israel Washburn OF
Maine has been seriously sick for some
weeks and there is little hope of his re-
covery.
Patrick Ackerly, an Irishman about
go years of age, was run over and killed
by freight train on the Cocheco road,
near Dover, n. H, on Thursday after
noon.
Warren Dodge of Salem, n. H, IA
years old, while shooting ducks with two
comp enions in the harbor, Friday after
noon, was struck by the jlb, knocked over
board and drownd,
-Mehitablo Pitcher, widow of revol-
utionary soldier, lives in Sufield, Conn,
and is lO2 years old.
The Henchman house at Amherst, n.
H, which was the oldest building in the
town and. in the early days of the settle
ment had been used as "a fortifcation, was
burned on Tuesday.
Joseph Estes, an employe on the Bel
fast and Moosehead Lake railroad, OF
Maine was fatally injured Monday morn
ing while unshacking cars.
The most prominent candidates for
i
| NJ d. l.. Lane of Cumberland County,
| Charles Buffum of Penobseot, and Reuben
Foster of Kennebec, who was speaker OF
the House at the last session. +. A. Pike
OF Calais Is the most prominent candidate
for speaker of the House.
The Poor Asylum at Woodstock, CT,
was burned on Saturday morning at two
| o'clock, and pauper named Hubbard
Bartholomew was burned to death III b IF
bed. The cause Of the fire is unknown
loss $4,000, insured for $4,000.
Rev. G, orge Richards, who was dis
missed from the pastorate of the North
| Congregational church at Bridgeport, CT,
last summer, died in that city on Thurs
day eyening. He graduated at Yale Col
Iege in 1870, and was settled successfully
in Boston, Litcbfield and Bridgeport. He
was dismissed from the latter place on ac-
count of familiarities with some of his
lady parishioners, but his friends excused
his conduct on the ground of a dsordercd
mind resulting from i'll health, and the
church subsequently invited him to return
to his pastorate.
A sad accident occurred on the Knox
and Lincoln Railroad at WALDORF, Maine,
Sunday morning. In making a dirt ex-
cavation, the bank oaved in, burying four
men. Elijah Coudan Of Friendship was
crushed by a rock weighing about a ton
aud half, and lived but few moments.
Zenas Coudan, his brother, had his back
broken, and will probably die James
White of Nova Scotia had his thigh
broken, and James Donovan had leg
and arm badly fractured, the latter re
curing amputation near the shoulder,
Both the Coudans are married men, with
families, but White and Donovan are I'M
married.
The bark Harrison Gregory, J. B.
Gregory captain, from Rockiand. Maine,
for New Orleans, with granite, went
ashore ON the Florida reefs, on Monday
night, aud lost three of her crew.
The famous dressmaking case con-
tinues to excite a good deal Of attention
and talk at Boston, and there is general
satisfaction at the verdict. Mr.. Coolidge
had the popular sympathy on this trial,
not only from the nature of the case, but
because, few weeks ago, he tried to
bring about settlement outside of the
courts, and offered to leave the case out to
three dlsinterested persons, a proposition
that was CURLY refused by Mrs. Flynt,
who also showed great deal of temper in
the court, and thereby, undoubtedly,
damaged her case. OF her original bill OF
81, 800, 81 ,OS6 were for work alone, and
the verdict of the jury shows that they
thought that sum large enough to cover
the bill for material furnished also. Mrs
Flynt's lawyers were Howes & Smith,
while the case was conducted for Mr.
Coolidge by Ell. D. Hyde and NJ. f,
Dickinson. Jr., the latter formerly Of
Springfield.