Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-06-08

The Northampton gas company will
soon increase its capital stock from $685.
600 to $4,000, and expend $4,000 in en-
larging their works and extending their
mains to Florence.
The temperature on Sunday in New
York averaged 81 deg, and several prom
inent preachers omitted their sermons.
Four cases of sunstroke were reported,
one of which was fatal.
In all the Roman Catholic churches OF
New York and Brooklyn the annual COL
lection for the Pope was taken on Sum
day. At st. Peters church on Barclay
street, about $500 were received.
The new railroad between Baltimore
and Chicago will be an air line to Pitts
burg, wehre it will connect with the Con
nelsville road and strike the Baltimore
and Ohio main road at Cumberland.
An address to the Pope is circulating
in the provinces of France. 1t expresses
hope that regulated France will soon
lend an avenging hand to the Holy Faith
er. The petition is freely signed.
The Northwestern Synod of the Re-
formed Church, now in Cleveland, is pre-
pairing thirty young men for the ministry
in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Seminary, and
has lately sent out four missionaries.
Count de Gasparin, friend of reli-
gious liberty and negro emancipation, and
vindicator of the Union cause during the
civil war in this country, died recently in
Geneva, switzerland, aged 81.
Five thousand special invitations
have been issued by Tillotson & Co., for
the mplimentary excursion to the tele-
graphers on the day of the inauguration
of the Morse statue, in New York, on Sat-
urday.
"A Chinaman named John Ar Wo was
held in $4,000 bail at New York, Monday,
by Commissioner Shields, for attemptin g
to murder Sidney Baldwin, an officer of
the brig Thomas Owen, of Portland, Me.
Byron A. Squires, an old telegrapher,
and formerly superintendent of the tele-
graph line from st. Louis to st. Paul, fell
from the train on the Northern Pacific
Railroad on Friday, and was fatally in
jured.
notwithstanding the extreme heat,
more than the usual number of savage as
saults with iron bars, knives, clubs and
revolvers are reported in New York, John
Cofan was fatally pounded with cup by
his wife in self defence on Sunday.
Australian George, who murdered
Miss Mcdaniel because she refused TO
marry him, was hunted out of his hiding
place in the mountains near Cherokee
Flat, Cal, on Monday, and shot. His
body was burned to ashes by the citizens.
Nelson Warner of Ellington, Conn,
was threwn from a wagon in Spring feld,
on Saturday forenoon, and received severe
and probably fatal injuries. His horse
had become frightened, and while Mr..
Warner was insensible all his money was
stolen.
The DR.. Cook house at North Han.
son, occupied by Thomas Brewp, was en-
tirely burned with its contents on Thurs
day. Loss $500. The fire was caused by
two year-old "fre-bug," who lighted a
match and threw it on a bed, and then
tottled down stairs to await the result.
Joshua Hewins, colored man, was
drowned on Friday afternoon between
Palmer's Island and the Beacon, near new
Bedford. He had been a member of the
ffty-fourth regiment Massachusetts, Vol
unteers, and belonged to the Schopler
Guards. He leaves a family His age
was about 30 years,
On Tuesday last severe tornado
passed over the north part of Washington
county, Maine. In the town of Cooper
the barn of Mr.. George McPheters, con-
tanning six cows, horse and calf, was
blown down. A barn on the Low place
was blown down, one barn unroofed, and
fences generally were Frustrated.
An Cfficer of revenue cutter Mocassin
seized on board vessel in Newport har-
Dor, day or two since, from New York,
bound for Salem, large quantity of mo-
lasses, sugar, etc, not on her manifest,
said articles never having paid duty to
the United States Government They
were probably smuggled on board from
some vessel at sea.