Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-09-01
has occurred on the road for nearly five

years.
The first death of child in Enfield,
Mass, for the past three years occurred on
Thursday. - e
Three lunatics who recently escaped
from the asylum at Northampton were re-
captured by the Boston police on Friday
and Saturday.
-Brimfeld, Mass. academy has de-
cennial celebration this week Friday.
John B. Cough delivers his first lee
ture this season at Paxton, Mass, Septem-
Der 6.
Travel over the Hoosac mountain is
constantly increasing, and one day last
week 157 were carried over, the largest
number ever taken in one day.
-Keene has appropriated $4,000 for the
erection of soldiers monument in Gen.
trail Square.
New Bedford complains that sick
| people are humored too much there, the
streets being boarded up for patients of
every description. ..
| Senator Sumner has decided TO lec-
ture before the meeting of Congress, and
will speak on Lafayette, the Faithful
One," and also on some phase of our for
eign relations.
Illinois editors, to the number of so,
accompanied by few ladies, will reach
Boston, Wednesday, on an extended ex-
cursion, via Montreal and Portland.
-Portland's Gagged brotherhood" num-
bers 100 members, whose average age is
70, the Oldest member of the organization
being 90.
R. B. Dunn of Waterville has lately
girsr the Wesleyan seminary at Kent's
Hill $lo'Ooo f0r the support of normal
department.
While grasshoppers have ruined the
corn in all other localities of Parkman,
the farms surrounding a large sheet OF
water, known as the Bennett pond,
have thus far been quite free from their
attacks.
"A Boston marketman, the other day,
emptied barrel of brine from bridge
on to passenger train. Result: bills
presented to the superintendent for some
hundreds of dollars worth of spoiled
dresses and injured "pheelinks."
The damages to the rolling stock oi
the Vermont and Massachusetts, Railroad
by the recent accidents prove to have been
over-estimated, and will not exceed SO,
600 for the freight train collision neaI
Grout's Corners on the Sth, and $1,000 tc
the engine which was disabled at the tun-
mel on the 9th.
The first frost of the season was no.
ticed in some of the lowlands in the vicin-
ity of Hartford, Conn, Monday morning
The dwelling house and adjoining
buildings of Albion Dudley, at Six Mile
Falls, Conn, were destroyed by fire Oh
Monday.
i Paul A. Chadbourne, formerly oi
Williamstown, and latterly President oi
the Wisconsin State University, left Mad.
ison with his family last week, to resume
his residence in Massachusetts,.
-Catharine Z. Beeoher has recently
been engaged as principal of the Hartford
female seminary. She will be assisted in
the management by Harriet Beechel
Stowe. and Prof Stowe will lecture OF
Biblical literature, in connection with tl,
study of history.
The Fitchburg passenger train ran
afternoon, obstructing the road for three
or four hours. Half a dozen persons were
injured slightly.
Richard Savage, who worked up the
case of the Westfeld, Mass, incendiaries
convicted at the last criminal court, has
received the $1,000 reward offered at the
time of the fire. OF this sum $500 was
offered by the selectmen, the bylaws of
the town not allowing a larger sum, while
the remaining $500 was raised by sub
scription among the business men of
! Westfeld.
R. n. Watrous of Boston, postal car
agent, was thrown from the express train
from Boston for New York at Westboro,
Monday morning, while about to hang out
the mail bag for that place; and strange
to say, although the train was at full
speed, he was not hurt severely, but re-
ceived only bruises on his face.
The small town of Westhampton.
Mass, with a population of sos, claims to
have furnished a greater number of Hber-
ally educated men than any other COM
munity of like population in the State.
Thirty-eight of her sops have graduated
at college, among whom were seven
Clarkes, six who were clergymeD, of
whom four were doctors of divinity-Rev.
| Drs. Orange Clarke of San Francisco, j.
L. Clarke of Waterbury, Dorus Clarke of
| Boston, and Perkins L. Clarke of Ohio.