Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-06
General News summary.

The factories on the Chicopee and
Agawam rivers, have been able to run but
few hours for several weeks past. The drought
has checked the production of so large num-
Der of mills, that it has helped the market for
manufactures A great rock i'll Connecticut
river, opposite West Springfield, has showed
itself above the water only twice for more
than half a century, once in 1901, and again
in 1916, and last Saturday it was ten inches
below the surface of the water.
An optician of New York has just
secured letters patent for a valuable invention
in spectacles, which readers with weak sight
will be glad to hear of; he has made single
pair of spectacles with only one pair of glass
es in them, of the usual form, by some scien-
tifc management in the grinding of the lens
es, that objects near the eye and those at
distance, can be seen equally well through
the same glasses.
The st Louis papers complain of the
great African exodus from that city by the
underground Railroad to Chicago. The
names of prominent citizens of Chicago con-
nected with two underground arrangements
have been ascertained, a number of steamboats,
are charged with conniying at the escape of
negroes, and some of the citizens of st. Louis
are said to have furnished them with means
of conveyance.
Chicago is in the full tide of prosperi-
ty as a city. She commenced in the race for
commercial prosperity only II or 10 years
since, and now stands unrivalled amongst the
cities of the West for the construction of
great public works at their doors. Over two
hundred trains of railroad cars arrive and de-
part daily, at and from Chicago.
L. g. Mead, Jr., a lad at Brattleboro',
has executed a bust in marble, very creditable
to his talents as an artist. A brother of this
lad died a few years since, who had superior
artistic powers. His illustrate ons of Longfel-
lows "Village Blacksmith" We're greatly adj
mired.
A man named Hodge, keeper of a
hotel in Great Falls, n. H., killed man nam
ed Maxwell, on Saturday evening, with club.
Hodge was arrested. The trouble grew out of
an attempt to get into the hotel, and refusal
on the part of the landlord.
In Chicago, Illinois, tin-pan seren-
aiding party was fired upon by young mar
ried man named Larkin, whom they were
honering, and Edward Adams was killed.
Both parties had been considered exemplary
young men,
In the month of August, the quantity
OF rain which fell in Boston was very small
0.5S of an inch only-the least in any August
since 1928, when it was but three eighths of
an inch. The wettest August was 1926, in
which II. 10 inches of water fell.
Rev. VIM. A. Stearns has accepted
the Presidency of Amherst College. Mr. S.
has. for long term of years, been connected
with the First Congregational Society of Cam
bridgeport.
Mrs. Samuel BeIcher, of E. Randolph
was killed instantly on the Fall River Rail
road, at Assonet depot, on Saturday afternoon.
She fell from the platform of the cars, and
was horribly mangled by being run over.
On Tuesday last, about % men and
boys drove a school of Blacklist on shore at
South Truro, numbering SO. They will yield
100 barrels of oil.
The Savannah Courier has suspended
publication in consequence of the great
amount of sickness in that city, and the diff
Guilty of obtaining hands.
The tobacco crop now growing in
Connecticut river valley, is fourshing in spite
Of the drought, and is one of the finest ever
raised there.
A woman has been committed in Villa
Vico, in Portugal, for numbering nine infants
She made trade of destroying illegitimate
children.
The late rain has not extended far to
to the eastward AT Portland there has not
been enough to render any service to the crops.
The Portland Advertiser characteristics
the interference of the Boston Journal in
Maine politics as "mildly impairment.
The new Freshman class at Harvard
is remarkably large, numbering one hundred
and five.
The man that "Oh'd for lodge in
some vast Wilderness" has paid up.