The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1900-06-09
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QUERIES.
%. viii the editor of Notes and Queries
give me some particulars concerning the
law relating 10 Fire Buckets; when Vas
90 Recently the writer came across
a Christian sect called "Dorrillites.' Can
amy references 10 an account or sucn
sect? >. X. ,.
ANSWERS.
%. We have no early account Of an
Italian opera having been given I'm Provi-
dence. There came here group OF
Italian opera singers from New York and
gave concert at the City Hotel Few
attended. Signora Pedrotti probably
at that time here. The leading tenor.
as We should now call the voice. was
Signor Fornassari. There Were others,
but their names we do not know.
corporated in 1916. and IL died in 1882.
There has been no account of II pub
iished. Oliver Shaw, "A teacher OF music
and q composer was its first and only
president. The society gave. In the diff
fcrent churches. what u called select
oratorio, which consisted OF selections from
various oratorios, and To which Mr.. Shaw
added some of his own compositions.A As an
illustration. the society gave select ora
torio at the irst Baptist meeting house
ON the 5th of December 1S2l The music
"a
u. King, selections from Haydn and
Handel with two compositions by Shaw,
and one by Brahm. In lNs an attempt
was made 10 revive the chorus, but its
failed.
26. The Rhode Island Lace school was
established at Newport In June, 1S26. \
large number of women and girls at once
sought instruction. Within three months
n hundred and fifty girls were at work,
and late I'm September of that year a fine
sale was held of the laces made In
Providence. Two years later. In ISIS, this
school" had employed. with those acquir-
Ing the art, in all 500 girls and women
~ came 10 an end not much later, but
do not know.
27. The earliest mention OF India rub
bers In Rhode Island. so far as We now
know. was 1892. An original poem, Lines
to My India Rubbers." appeared In the
papers here In october. The Zines" were
very cleverly written and were signed
The Owner.
2s. Concerning witchcraft In Rhode
Island. some one asks the editor: Have
you forgotten the case OF Mrs Ann
Hiboins?" No. we have not forgotten
the case. liz can be found I'm the Manu-
facturer and Farmers Journal. July o.
1882. But IL IL not truly stated there.
Thus IL Is stated: "in looking over the
memoirs of Rhode Island. I'm course OF
publication I'm the Newport Republican,
we perceive that In 1855 Mrs Ann Hiboins
was executed for witchcraft." That re-
lates wholly 20 Rhode Island OF course,
but no such statement IL made In the
memoirs OF Rhode Island referred to.
Mr.. Bull Che was the author of the
Memoirs) wrote: This year Mrs. Ann
Hiboins was executed for witchcraft be-
ing. we believe. the second case of this
kind In Massachusetts,: n Mr.. Norton
facetiously said she was hanged for hav-
ing more wit than her neighbors.S The
reference. from Hutchinson's History
OF Massachusetts" vol. !. p. l13, edition
l1g5 The name was Hibbns