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...Reverend G. E. Horr, D.D., President of Newtown Theological Institution, will deliver the second of his two lectures on "The Baptists," at King's Chapel, Boston, this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock. This lecture is open to the public...
...While the Wesleyan Senior Class crew was exercising on Tuesday evening, their boat struck a rock and swamped. Cyrus P. Marsh from West Newtown Penn., one of the crew, was drowned before any one could reach...
Cambridge, or Newtown, was settled in 1631. "About this time, Chicketawbu, the Chief of the Indians in the neighborhood, visited the governor with high professions of friendship, which rendered him less solicitous for a fortified town." An historian from England says: "Newtown was at first intended for a city, but was thought not so fit, being too far from the sea. The inhabitants are most of them very rich." Here we have our first picture of the affluent primeval Portchuck...