■Notice! All persons indebted to the Amherst Cotton Factory, either by book or note, are hereby called upon to make payment by the first of August next. Should anyone neglect this call, they may expect their accounts will be put into other hands for collection. – Israel Scott, Treasurer.
■A free negro in Georgia, lately arrived from New York, has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment in the penitentiary with hard labor, and then to be sold as a slave for life, as a punishment for attempting to liberate a slave from his master.
■John J. Brennan, president of the Pontiac Construction Co., who is here to build the foundations for the nine buildings of the Veterans’ hospital, said today that he had had a great many applications for work from Northampton men. Mr. Brennan says that his plans are already well under way.
■A team of horses, left standing on Court Street, became frightened and started to run. They turned into Gothic Street and were headed directly for a crowd of children playing near the Gazette office, when Joseph Sincage jumped on the team and succeeded in pulling the reins enough to bring the horses to a halt.
■The city’s policemen this week got ready to enforce a state law giving pedestrians the right-of-way on Northampton crosswalks. As soon as warning signs are installed at city crosswalks, police will start ticketing drivers who do not stop for pedestrians on crosswalks.
■The Northampton School Committee has approved job descriptions for a business administrator and a foreman of building and grounds as a step toward getting those positions filled by school opening September. At the same time the committee abolished the positions of assistant superintendent of schools and supervisor of buildings and grounds.