Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-15
New England.
MAINE.

At meeting of the directors of the
Portland, Saco and Portsmouth Railroad
Company Thornton K. Lothrop was elect
ed president.
Three men, 8. E. Verrill, N. 8. ]. @.
Baker and Robert Edgecomb, were
drowned in Thompson's Pond, Oxford.
Friday afternoon, by the upsetting of q
boat. Their bodies have not yet been re.
| covered.
It is stated that the State has now sc.
cured all but about $4,000 of the 1914, 900
it lost by the defalcation of State Treasu-
rer Peck in 1869. The sureties of 1858
have until now contested the question Of
their liability for their share of the loss.
The sureties of 1869 paid up promptly.
The law court has now given final de-
cision against the sureties of 1858. They
are Neal Dow, Ezra Carter, jr., Isaac Dyer
Allen Haines. Thomas Abbott, J. B.Cum-
mings and William Chase. The amount
claimed from them is about $40 900, or if
interest be added, about $4,000. A..
The Turner Congregationalis Society
has invited Rev. Mr.. Jordan, a graduate
of the last class of Bangor Seminary, to
the passionate of that church.
Lewiston will have evening concerts in
the park during the summer. ...
The Rev. Henry f. Harding, pastor of
Centre Street Church, in Machias, has
resigned.
The Rev. A. Gunnison of the Univer-
salist Church at Bath, has accepted call
from Brookline, N. 81.
MASSACHUSETTS. .-
The New Bedford city council has ap.
propriated $4,000 10 introduce Gamewells
automatic fire alarm telegraph.
Henry B. Mead of bingham was or
dained pastor of the Congregations al
church in Terryville, Conn, on Wednes-
day.
Sheriff Raymond of New London has
ascertained that Hamilton, the wounded
burglar captured by him, belongs in New
York. The other, Smith, belongs in Ban
gor, where his father and brother reside.
It has also been found out that they are
the burglars who broke into the stores of
Williams g. Getchell and ]. T. Rines 81
Co., at Bangor, Me-, and stole about $45,-
600 worth of silk.
} A sugar beet factory will be built this
summer at the Amherst Agricultural
College, just in the rear of the chemical
laboratory. Five acres of beets are under
cultivation on the farm this year. Other
buildings for swine and poultry will be
, put up before winter, and glass house
{ built to allow increased attention to hot
house and vine culture.
. The public examination at the close Of
| r Ho1xnta Ia.
male Seminary at South Hsdley will begin
on Tuesday July 4th, and the anniversary
exercises will take place on Thursday,
July 9th. beginning at II o'clock a. m.
q There are now 276 pupils in the seminary
Chased as follows: Senior. 81; senior mid
> die, "a junior middle, 76; Junior, 1919.
The Williams College crew is hard a
work training and dieting for the sum
i mer races. They will row against tn
Polytechnics of Troy, next month.
Thaddeus Clapp of the Pontoo.uc Wool
en- Manufacturing Company at Pittsfeld
n now in San Francisco, has received from
Pittsfeld a piece of water proof cloth
O made from wool shipped from Californi
=, en- the 28th of March.
II Green peas from North Dartmouth wer
:, sold in the New Bedford market Thurs
day, the earliest for thirty years.
:. The Hope steam fire engine company Z
i' Norfolk. Virginia, have extended an invi
tation to the Excelsior hose company c
Lowell to visit them and become tbei
Al guests at any time during the summer.
b. Henry A. PAUL., of the firm of J. Pau
- & Co. Weir Village, accidently shot hin
: II rphfla DR. vii -
" charge from a gun. de died instantly.
Rev. L. B. Eastman. jr., was Unstable
on Thursday as pastor of the Plymoui
Church at Pennington. The sermon WI
o. by President Stearns of Amherst Colleg
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Newburyport baseball club bel
the Portsmouth club at Portsmouth,
to so. The visiting nine came and r
n turned in four-horse carriage, distant
ali of 40 miles.
Gu The Lynn infantry company, with
~ Providence band, spent the night
" Portsmouth at the Rockingham House.
The Glen House at Gorham, recent
sold by auction, was resold yesterday |
account of the former purchaser, w
lin failed to take it, and bought by s.
Cummings of Portland, and others,
SOL, 900. 1t will soon be re-opened.
Two men, over 80 years old, met in
1as Office in Manchester, few days ego, W
les served in the last war with England,
w Portsmouth, in the year 1913, who b
-. not met each other for 81 years.
The cotton mills at Newmarket ha
woven 100000 yards of cloth in the p'
tic. six months.
an J. L. Foster, Esq, late of the Por
mouth Times, has become editor of
Se' New Hampshire Patriot.
90 Chiefs Sanger of the bureau of civil
nn cheering, and Isaiah Hauscon of
10 bureau of construction, from Washingt
are visiting the navy yard at Portsmou
veal and the heads of the other bureaus
oon expected to make their annual visit 6
inspection. 1t is engineer Macomb,
,.4 Newcomb, who is ordered to Key West
thy RHODE ISLAND.
tain The Providence and Worcester R
r IN road Company will erect new frei
-ork station of stone at Woonsocket. The
,n,y passenger station will be remodelled.
Their Newport has determined to stop Sun
+ is liquor-sellipg, but the regular eating
"a looms and restaurants will be allowed
n. open.
ii The Housatonic Railroad has contr
'ies' ed to transport within the next year
leets 600 of marble from the Ingersoll gus
, by in Lee for the Catholic cathedral in
Col York city. .s....s-
n his The Hartford and New Haven rail-
lisb. has adopted the Westinghouse pa
Ia brake and electric signals
ad. Mr.. Riggs has sold his penny paper
-. New Haven, the Neps, to G. 81. Far
JUS. once city editor of the New York He
ke OF and late of the Free Press. The I
lver- will have dress of new type and wi
inner published on Sunday morning as an Ell
"A - page sheet in the interest of the labo
:. formers. $3.50. Is s-.A H. "'.' '
A son of Mr.. Zelus Shore, of Z
Doft"- L;llad his sistar with a gun recently,