Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1855-01-20

On Wednesday evening, the seraglIo
of Mrs Batchelder. No. l76 Endicctt- street,
Boston, was seriously injured by an explosion
occasioned by gas which had recently been
introduced. A leakage was discovered in one
ofthe pipes, and girl named Craig going to
see to 1t, on opening the door, was badly burn
ed by the explosion which followed, the gas
taking fire from the entry lamp. One other
girl was injured, but the fire was speedily ex-
tinguished, and no damage was sustained other
than breach made in the brick WALL win
dow in an adjoining room blown out, and
door unhinged. The Craig girl will not prob
ably survive her injuries.
The receipts of the Boston and Prov
idence railroad last year, amounted to $544,-
S29 expenses $335.703, balance 5000, l26,
net income $lS9,566. In 1853 the earnings
were $50S,S26, expenses 1921, 6S7, excess of
earnings in 1854 $26,5O3, excess of expenses
$54,Ol6. The road has 20 engines valued at
$l02, APO, 26 passenger cars valued at $780,
$50, and $43, 693 worth of freight cars. S52-
270 persons were carried over the road last
year without injury.
From the report of the directors of
the Fitchburg railroad it appears that the last
years earnings amounted to $7O4, 633, of
which $30l,4l6 was from passengers and
$500, 1884 from freight, leaving about $l2 900
for the carriage of mails, sc, and the expen-
ses of the road were $43l, 522, showing bal
lence of $272,7l5 as profits. The earnings of
1854 exceeded those of 1858 by SI7, 1913, and
as the debt of the company comes due during
the year the dividends are Withheld.
Of over 1000 families called upon by
the visitors ofthe Five-points mission recently,
more than half were in most pitiful condi-
ton and the whole numbers were foreigners,
chiefly Irish. The larger portion were ascer-
tanned to have been paupers and beggarS ship
ped here by the scoundrelly authorities other
native country. If the money spent in feed
ing them this winter could be used in trans
porting them back again, it would be a judi
cious investment.
There are said to be in the different
savings banks in the state of New York some
millions of deposits that have been unclam-
ed for years. The depositors are probably
dead and neither left no heirs to claim the de-
posits or no proof by which such deposits could
be claimed. These sums constitute a large
capital on which these banks can make loans
and roll up intere t. The question is mooted
in the New York papers whether the state
ought not to claim them.
That pictures keep up their prices, if
railway shares so down, was proved the other
day at the sale Of the Barren de Mecklenburg's
collection. The following are some Of the
sums realized, as stated by a contemporary =,
Horse Market, by Wouvermans, brought r.
600 francs, ($l4,OOO.) A Landscape, by
Hobbima, $4,000 fr., ($l6,OOO). A Land.
scape, by Both, $4,000 fr., C$56OO), -EaglisH
paper.
Charles Henry Moore, brakemen re-
Gently employed on the Boston & Providence
Railroad, has been convicted of stealing freight
from the Gals on that road, and sentenced to
two and half years hard labor in the State
Prison.
A mad dog bit an infant daughter of
his owner, fin Marlboro, last Saturday. He
was not killed till after he had bitten 5 or 6
dogs in his neighborhood.
Coal is advertised at retail in Phila-
delphia as low as 81 per ton,-less than half
It's price here. The average retail rates in P.
are however, about 81 90 to So.