Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-28
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New England News summary.
RosroN AND VICINITY.

paign was held at Hyde park last Monday
evening. After wrangling for over two hours
the Butterflies got control of the meeting, and
the anti-Butler men bolted. Both factions
elected delegates, the Butler men choosing Ii.
b. Terry aud Charles F. Gerry by reclamation,
and the boilers II. r. Cheney and T. A. Eaton.
The boilers caucus threw Dos ballots, and the
Butler caucus 1853.
The ease OF James W Converse ct al. VS.
Henry n. Farwell, came up in the supreme court
at Boston, on Tuesday. IL is petition by the
receivers asking that the respondent be required
to deliver up certain coupons held by INN as
beng the property of the Hartford and Erie rall-
road company. The defendant denies that tue
coupons are the property OF the company, out
alleges that they were transferred TO him by A.
4 W. Spraeue of Providence as collateral Sc
eurity for the payment of certain accounts,
There was a brief hearing, when the case was
sent to j. T, Redield as master. The same dis
position was also made Of similar petition
against person named Long.
Inc Boston Herald says: con one of The
main th0rOughlares ut the West end stands ,
block recently built, known as model tene
ment or lodging house, owned by wealthy
citizen, who, it is understood, let his rooms by
the week or month. On Tuesday morning il
appears that one OF his tenants, poor widow
with large family failed to come down witt
the usual weekly rent Though, as she says, II
was not due till Tuesday EVENING" and im
mediately this kind-hearted az landlord re-
moved her little stock of furniture ON 10 Tue
sidewalk, rendering a whole family homeless
and subject to be gaZed at and commented
upon by large mob who had assembled
About six o'clock, when the crowd became
demonstrative in its sympathy for the poor
widow, he allowed her to 90 to housekeeping
again, after keeping her all day in the street.
MfDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Henry H. Wilder has resigned his position as
Lowell water commissioner, on account OF the
Of. bu HI
has been elected 10 Gil the vacancy.
ESSEX COUNTY.
A boy named John Donnelly, about four years
of ace. son of Joseph Donnely, was drowned AT
Lawrence, on Tuesday, by falling from the
bridge on Spring street into the river.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Salem literary club has Pound parties"
A new band is 10 be organized in Rochester.
Mitchell Gilmore was elected state librarian
on the Esd, in place of W. II. kimball.
Efforts are being made TO raise 500 600 for
Kimball union academy ut Meriden.
The Methodists of SandOwn are without
preaching this year for the first time since early
in the century.
VIM H. Dorothy of Enfield had his thumb
cut off and hand badly mangled in circular
saw few days ago.
Mrs. Asa Richardson of Manchester was ran
over by a team Monday evening, and it is feared
fatally injured.
inches in circumference from one of his trees re-
Gently.
Miss Mary Nichols Of Paistow has been pre-
scented with gold watch chain and pin, because
she is "modc Christian woman"
A grandson of the Earl Of Dartmouth, for
whom Dartmouth college was named, and a
grandson of Rev. Dr. Wheeock, first president
of the college, accidentally met at Hanover a few
DAYS since.
Sullman c.. Davis has been appointed post
master at ContoocOok, in place of Il. A. Curtice
resigned and NJ. Josie de Rochemont, at New
ington, in place of w. II. de ROchemont deceased.
In Newmarket on the 21st, the house of Rev.
De Witt c. Dnrgin was entered and robbed of
clothing TO the value of 500, in the absence of
his family.
John H. Fountain of Great Falls and Frank L.
Wood have been committed 10 the state prison,
the former for an assault with an attempt to
kill, and the latter for robbery.
Lebanon village has doubled in population
and wealth in the last six years, was never
growing so rapidly as now, and in all proba-
billy will double again in the next six years.
When the Haverhill knights Templar were
riding 10 the clam bake from Dover they passed
five cemeteries in going five miles, whereupon
one of the party rema kcd that "there are more
dead folks living in Dover than any other place
/ was ever in. E"
Mr.. Joseph Keen of Kittery fell dead at the
navy yard on Tuesday afternoon, of heart dis
ease. During the late rebellion he was MEM
Der OF Co q, 10th New Hampshire regiment
The mayor OF Concord publishes card deny
ING rumor OF the existence of small poX there.
He states that the board of health have made
careful Investigations of the localities indicated,
and find that not a single case, or any reason
for experimenting one, exists.
The New Hampshire state fair was opened at
Dover on Tuesday, by an address from its prcsi.
dent, Gen. Matt Head. The show of stock is
large, especially horses, and the agricultural ant
other productions of the state constitute an ex
cellent exhibition.
An Exeter couple went to Haverhil, Mass, tt
he married, Friday evening, intending to spent
the night at the hotel there. A HaVerhil clergy
man duly performed the ceremony, but at tin
motel they met with disappointment, for every
room was engaged by Jim Fisk's Ninth regi
ment band, and the bridal pair were compelled
10 wend their way back 10 Exeter
serious quarrel in relation to some pigs oc.
CURED at Portsmouth on Tuesday, between
Richard Kingsley and David Berry-Kinasley
as he asserts, in self-delence striking Berr,
three times on the head with the butt Of heayi
ly-loaded whip, and following up the blows by
an eye-opener with his fist. Berry's recover,
is considered doubtful. Kingsley has the rem
tation of being bully. He has been arrested
The governor and council have made the fol-
lowing appointments: John w. SanborD o.
Wakefield, David NJ. ClOugh of Canterbury
VIM. W. Burey of Nashua, trustees of the arr
cultural college; Paul A. Stackpoe of Dover
John W. Slmonds OF Franklin, and George A
Bingham of Littleton, trustees of the norma
school, with Rev. E. II. Greeley of Haverhill
trustee at large; Joseph Kiddcr of Manchester
superintendent of public instruction.
Ibe newspaper consolidation of Concord, o
which we spoke few weeks since, gues int
effect october LIST. The Statesman, hitherto
published by MacParland & jerks, and the In.
dependent Democrat, published by the 'Inde.
pendent Press Association" are TO be combined
the new paper To be called the independent
Statesman. The Daily Monitor will be pub
lished as heretofore, only it viii now proceed
from the new association Hon. George G.
Fogg, editor Of the Independent Democrat, will
be chief editor, assisted by b. p CogswelI. of
The Monitor, aud j. Il. johnson, of the STATES
man. The politics of the new association will
ne inc same as the old papers, republican, and
they VIII probably lind that in their case the old
proverb is true, "Union is strength"
The trial of DR.. Charles P. Wood of Man.
CHESTER indicted by the grand jury for bro
curing an abortion on the person of Elylra
woodward, in April last, opened before the
supreme judicial court in Nashua on Tuesday
and VIII probably occupy the attention of the
court for a week or ten days to come. If is aI.
legged that the young woman died under the
doctors treatment, and that he and a brother of
the deceased, to screen the guilt Of her seducer.
and preserve the good name of the family.
made false statements concerning the cause of
nef death, ana caused the body TO be taken TO
Vermont for burial, under an assumed name.
The duplieity Of the parties to the transaction
and the loose manner in which the affair was
conducted gave rise to serious suspicious on
the part OF the authorities, and caused search
ln@ investigation, post mortem examination and
me subsequent arrest Of the doctor. On the
other hand the doctor maintains that the young
young woman was operated on before She came
under ms treatment, and that knowing her TO
DC poor he Kindly gave her shelter during her
sickness. He pleaded not guilty, when the
counsel Tor the state proceeded with the tes-
timony. VS.
CONNECTICUT
A striped bass weighing thirty.thrpe nornds
was caught in the river at Hartford Saturda,,
c. I. DriscOll, of New Haven, is ment1onar ~;
the prospective candidate for town CLERK
A little son Of Mitchell Duprez of CoiiinsviI,o
fell into hogshcad of water the other dav AMI
was drowned. ""N
There are seyenty-seyen pupils at the normal
school, and the prospects Of the school for the
year are very encouraging.
New Preston academy teacher. one Of tho
first citizens Of the town, is in trouble for seduc
ING girl Of thirteen.
Aquartcrly dividend of three dollars on the fuu
stock, and 81 so on the scrip stock of the Hart
lord and New Haven railroad company is de-
clared payable after October 3D.
Inc state industrial school for oirls NJ Afar;do,,