Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-31
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.
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BOhTON AND NiClNlT1s
The list of dividends payable in Boston Al
Gust 1, amounts to over 81 100000.
Mr.. W. G. Tousey, acting junior pastor {
the church Of the Redeemer, Chelsea, has n
signed TO accept a professorship at Tufts college
of which he is graduate.
James Rogers, at Boston Highlands, celC
brates his 102d birthday next Tuesday. He wa
born in Rockingham county, Va, August 1
1859. He never used tobacco, but takes hi
"tod" regularly.
The number of deaths in Boston for the weel
ending July 20 was 147, of which 25 were b.
consumption and IS by cholera infantum; 5S o
the deceased were under one year of age and .;
from one to FIVE; so were of American and " OF
foreign parentage.
AAmong the bids recently submitted for build
ing side wheel steamer for the use of the light
house service was one of Jabez X. Montgomery
of Chelsea for SOS 900, and of Foster & Leighton
of Boston, for SO, 500. Mr.. Montgomery ais
bids $4,000 for building a propeller stea mer
The award will be made in a few days.
On Friday afternoon, as Miss Sarah r. Mich
OILS, belonging in Stoneham, was sitting in tn
ladies' waiting room at the Boston and Maine
railroad depot, Boston, strange woman witt
sat near her succeeded in securing a small
package which Miss Nichols had laid down b
her side, which contained $500 in bills, and es
Gaping before the robbery was discovered. The
money was wrapped up in some newspapers
and it is probable that the thief scarcely antici
pated such haul when she "pulled the bun
die.
The funeral of the late Gen. Edward n. Hal
lowell took place at the family residence, Yves
Medford, Friday afternoon. Among thost
present upon the occasion were Gov. Clafin and
his staff Lieut.. Governor Tucker, Messrs. VIM
and Stoddard of the executive council, Rev
John Weiss, Rev. D. A. WATSON, Wendell Phil
lips, William Lloyd Garrison, and other promi-
nent gentlemen. The funeral exercises were in
wifi ba M OuakerS
which sect the deceased was member. After
sitting for some time in silence, Rev. Mr.. Weiss
asked permission to say few words. he paid
a glowing and deserved tribute to the many
high qualities Of the deceased, reviewing his
military and social life, and placing him in the
same rank with Lowell, Shaw and Putnam, all
martyrs to the great idea of human freedom.
He was followed in the same strain by Wendell
Phillips and Rev. d. A. WATSON. The bearers
were Gen. A. B. Underwood, Gen. James L.
Bates, Adjutant Gen. Cunningham, and Col {.
II. Taylor, of the governors staff, and Color
Sergeant Lennox and Corporal Biddle of the
54th, Gen. Hallowel's old regiment. No cere-
moniesIOf services took place at the grave, the
deceased having expressed wish to that effect.
Preparations for Gilmore's world picnic jub-
lee, at Boston, are satisfactorily progressing.
The proposed coliseum is TO be, on the ground
plan, parallelogram, 1929 feet wide, by 1921
feet in length, covering an area of nearly eight
acres. The roof, without the elevations for win
dows, monitor, ETC., will have the appearance OF
an elongated dome. There will be four towers
120 feet high, one in the centre of each end, and
one in each side, on which will be emblems rep
resenting the four-quarters of the globe. Six
teen towers, each sixty -eight feet high, will be
over the different entrances, ornamented with
the flags and coats-of-armS of the different ma
tionalities. There will be two towers, one on
each extremity of the roof, 216 feet high; and a
grand central tower 240 feet high. The auditO-
sAf 1irarin
the higher 112 feet and the lower seventy feet
from the parquette floor The capacity of the
structure is to be for chorus of 10000, an or
chestra of 1000, and an audience of S,000,-
making 100 900 in all. There will be balconies
of galleries on the two sides, and on one end of
the building. Independent of the capacity for
audience, orchestra and chorus, there will be
four halls, each one hundred feet square; four
eighty feet by 140 feet; four eighty by 100 feet,
and four eighty by 100 feet, each Of which can
be subdivided into as many apartments as de-
sired. The height of these halls can be made
twenty feet.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY. ra
Mr.. Smith, Of Lowell, undertook to light his
pipe by a kerosene lamp. He has to cut up his
meat with his left hand now, his right being
gone.
The members of the old 18th Massachusetts
regiment, to the number of nearly four hundred,
including ladies, had reunion at Harmony
The Lowell Citizen, says, the state commits
sioners under the liquor act find it a rather diff
cult task to apportion the seventy deputies which
the law allows, so as TO satisfy all localities. 1t
complains that there is but one constable ap-
pointed for Lowell, with its 10000 inhabitants,
and six fair sized towns added.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Cape Ann paper discourses of the mackerel
season as follows: "The mackerel season has
now commenced in earnest, and good returns
are anticipated, as the season bids fair of being
a prosperous one. The prospect at the bay is
very encouraging, many of the feet having al
ready landed good fares. American vessels are
subject to the same treatment as last year, if
caught fishing within the limits; but they have
liberty to ship mackerel home, and purchase
supplies this season, which will greatly add to
their chances of making a good years work.
The shippers will undoubtedly keep a sharp
lookout and give the Dominion cruisers wide
berth, and we do not anticipate any difficulty in
those waters at present. Later in the season,
when the mackerel tend in shore, il may be
little more difficult TO obtain fare; but we do
not believe the Dominion cruisers intend to an
noy American fishermen in the manner which
characterized last season. 1t is evident that the
price of mackerel will not rule as high as last
year, which will tend to bring about quick sales,
as people can afford to eat these fish when the
price is brought within their means, and the
prospect for lively market is quite encourag-
ing. Altogether, the mackerel season, both off
the shore and at the bay, promises well, and we
hope that good trips will crown the efforts of
all engaged in this branch of the fisheries.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The 5Sth Massachusetts regiment has re-
union at New Bedford to-day.
Corn eight feet high is pretty good for New
Hampshire, but Taunton is doing better than
that, according to the Gazette.
During the year 1870 the number of passen-
NaxrrR nd and lTaxry W.
1000. About 5000 were by the way of Fall River
and the steamers, about 1000 by the Stonington
line, and 1000 by the shore line.
As New Bedford team was loading q hogs
head of molasses, the other day, the front of the
wagon was tipped up by the weight of the cask
and the king bolt detached, the body of the
wagon being at the same time forced forward
The hogshead fell from the plank on which it
was being rolled, and the front of the wagon
fell on the horse, the king bolt striking him on
the back. The animal started, and the bolt
tore terrible cash, fifteen inches long, in his
rump.
The New Bedford Mercury says: For day or
so past Capt Eldridge, of sehoolship Geo. M.
Barnard, at this port has noticed symptoms of
characterization and mutnouS conduct among
the boys on the ship, and it was evident that
plans had been laid by several of the worst char
acters to make considerable trouble. Dissatis.
1actlon appeared to exist among the boys in re-
gard to the close confinement of two recovered
runaways, and, determined 10 be captain of his
own ship, and believing that an ounce of pre-
vention is worth a pound of cure, Capt. e.
bridge placed Mulyey, Murray and Townsend,
three boys who lately ran away and were cap.
tured, in the hands of the city marshal TO answer
70 the charge of desertion, and officers Dayton
WILDER and Hathaway took them from the ship
Yesterday. At the same time seven of the ring
leaders IN the preliminary movements of in
snDordination and mutiny were placed in irons,
The number of boys on the ship is 40, and there
are but twelve men TO control them
DUKES COUNTY.
Camp meeting at Martha's VINEYARD will be-
GIN August q and continue one, week. The isl
and will probably be in telegraphic commun lea
tionswith the main land by that time, The old
cable is TO be mended.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY,
No more beer in Pittsfield SUNDAYS eouoo
of special police is employed to enforce this or
der. S VI
The new pumps at the central shaft of tine
Hoosae Tunnel are in place. and will prohahlv
De started next week, and work will Commence
each way from the shaft soon after.
The Berkshire Eagle reports the cron nros
poets in the western part of the state to he on
the whole good. The rains have broughtnn the
grass IN the meadows SO that the crop will he
better than was expected, though not I'D TO the
average. Corn, oats and rye are looking well
20 are potatoes, but the apple crop is failure:
s and Of the farmers themselves, the Eagle saws.
w VIZ oouot whether on the face of the earth
ssa,'t ean oe found more thriving and intei-
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