Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-07-14
New England Items.


Only sixteen oarrela OF ale were car.
ried to the grove where the Catholics OF
North Adams held their picnic on the
Fourth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marcus Phelps OF
Southwick, celebrated the 50th anniver-
sary of their marriage, Monday, with four
generations present.
The weavers in P. Blackinton's fac
tory at South Adams refused, on Tuesday,
to work at the reduction of 10 per cent on
their wages.
The house of Nathan Briggs of
Marion, struck by lightning, last
week, and he was instantly killed.
Lyman G. Preston, of South Hadley,
Mass, has a Bantam rooster that has
hatched brood of chickens, and makes
more fuss taking care of them than we'll
educated hens think necessary.
There were two fires at Chicopee
Falls, Mass, on the afternoon and night
of the Fourth, caused by fre-crackers,
calling out the whole fire department, but
causing little damage.
Murray and Ebeu Tourjee will join
Mrs. Murray in the Adirondacks next
week
Rev George II. Hepworth attended
mass at the Church of the Immaculate
Conception in Boston, on Sunday.
During the last six months, there
have been manufactured and shipped
from Lynn, Mass, 1872. .480 pairs of shoes,
valued at over $10,000,000-th largest
half years business ever done in that
city.
"A Winsted, CT, lady, who was lately
struck by lightning, lay for some hours
unconscious and apparently dead, and but
for the persistent efforts of her brother to
restore her she would have been buried
alive.
-Rev. Washington GLADDEN. of North
Adams. Mass, is in luck with theme for
his next winters lecture. "What shall
we do with the coming Chinsman ?" is a
timely topic, which he cannot fail to treat
with intelligence, spirit and sense.
Massachusetts, needs Bergh as we'll as
New York city. A horse was driven one
hot day last week, from Millbury to Wor-
cester, for $25 wager, so rapidly that it
died in great agony shortly after reaching
its stable.
The birthplace of the late ex-Presi-
dent Pierce, and the homestead of his fa-
ther, Gen. Benjamin Pierce, in Hillsboro,
n. f., was sold recently for $3125 The
purchasers will retain the antique furni-
ture with the relics, and make it sum-
mer boarding establishment.
The Massachusetts, Society of the
Cincinnati held their annual meeting and
eighty-seventh anniversary at Boston on
Monday, and admitted five new members,
descendants of revolutionary officers. The
society is in a prosperous condition, and
its fund for the relief of widows and or
phans is increasing.
The Providence school committee, to
accommodate parents who cannot send their
children into the country during the
summer, but wish to keep them out of the
streets, has decided to open five vacation
schools. The teaching is to be chiefly oral
and by object lessons, and the time will
be so deyided up as to avoid long sessions
of continuous study.
An itinerant singing master and
book peddler has recently done" the
unsuspecting of Pittsfield, Mass, and left
for parts unknown. His chief occupation
seems to be keeping out of the way of un-
paid board bills. The congregation whose
singing he led for a few Sundays are yet
in doubt whether he is a natural, sharp
or fiat.