Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-04-13
Northern New York Items.

Mottville has postmlstress.
A free museum has been opened at Al
bany.
The city debt Of Auburn is from $685.
600 to $4,000.
Dunkirk is to have the Holly system OF
water works.
The Albany police are on the war path
against the "cacklers."
The new drawbridge at New Hamburg
is progressing rapidly.
A new railroad bridge across the Cen
esee is projected at Rochester.
The new Rochester theatre is to have a
capacity for seating 1000.
The Waterloo Observer says the peach
buds in that region are entirely killed.
The perpetrator of robbery committed
in Hoosac, in 1864, has just been arrested.
The American dental convention will
pull together at Saratoga during the flrst
week in August.
A man and boy were thrown under
the cars at Syracuse, while trying to steal
rides, on Thursday.
The new State street M. Z. church, at
Troy, was dedicated with appropriate
exercises on Thursday.
Tim Kelley, of Albany, wanted to love
girl up stairs, but his wife wouldn't let
him, 80 he beat her.
The trustees of the yillage of Newark
offer a twenty-five dollar bounty for shade
tree mutilators.
Frederick W. Tolley, a respectable
young man of Athens, committed suicide
on the Both, by shooting himself in the
mouth.
A lady passenger on the afternoon train
from Rochester to Buffalo, the other day,
died before she reached her destination.
The residence of A. J. Warner, Ro-
chester architect, was entered by burglars
on the 29tb, and goods TO the value of
5000 carried away.
A young lady of Ontario county
drowned herself in Mud Creek the other
day. Mud Greek is a gentle stream and
does not deserve such treatment.
The Hudson Jail is said to be SO open in
its combining qualities that the prisoners
keep themselves warm by hanging blank
cts over the apertures in the walls.
The new extension to the Long Island
College Hospital, at Pacific and Henry
streets, was opened on the 31st, by sppro-
pirate exercises in the hall of the build
ing.
A public meeting was held last Thurs
building railroad from that place, via
Hammondsport, Branchport, etc, to Lake
Ontario.
A farmer of Scipio, n Y, has turkey
that has laid one hundred eggs in one
hundred days, never missing a day on &C.
count of sickness, circus in town or any
other excitement.
The Buffalo Board of Trade has ap-
pointed twelve delegates to attend the
Commercial Convention in New York, to
consider the future management of the
canals and the reduction of tolls
AT regular meeting of the Brooklyn
Yacht Club, it was decided to alter the
club signal from the present swallow-tail
to pointed pennon, in conformity with
the signals of all other clubs.
The fare to Brooklyn on any of the |
boats of the Fulton Ferry Company will
be reduced to one cent on and after the |
first of May next, between the hours of
3 and 7.3O, morning and evening.
The 18th annual meeting of the Brook
lyn Mercantile Library Association was
held on Thursday evening, in the library, |
on Montague street. The treasurer made |
a report of the finances, showing receipts |
and disbursements amounting to $50, 900 |
Over 80 military and civil organizations
in Brooklyn, E. D., including the 2Sth
and 32d militia regiments, and number
OF benevolent societies, lodges. and Schut-
zen companies, were engaged in making
special arrangements for a peace jubilee
on Easter Monday.
Auburn deserves place among our
leading manufacturing cities. During the
past year there were manufactured there
moving and reaping machines to the
value of 81, LOG, 900; planes and reaper
knife sections, $232. 900; agricultural
tools, 100000.
The freedom of the press is again threat
ened. The editor of the Peekskill Adoer.
tsser has received the following:
PEKEscEL 10 March.
Mr.. Editurs-What did you print NV
family matters in yur papur for it is none
OF yur bizness if my wife did have twins
pays for them and yeul git yur he'd
punched you had best tend to yur own
bizinis is the advice of
J-P-.
A serious accident occurred near Roches- ,
'er on Thursday afternoon. A large arch
;wenty feet long, twelve feet wide and
fourteen feet high, had to be built for the {
purpose of burning brick, in the ALBANIAN 4
inc Press Brick company's works. The j
work was nearly completed, and work. d
mem were removing the timbers from the
inside, when the side Of the arch gave
Fay and six men were buried in the q
Minis. None were killed outright, but ,.
II were severely injured. .