Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-26
COUNTY NEWS.

The Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg railroad
company has just put new locomotive on its
road, called the George L. Towne.
The Vermont and Massachusetts railroad COM
pany intends to manufacture its own cars at its
Fitchburg shops hereafter.
Rev. o. Cosson, formerly pastor of the French
Catholic church in Webster, is in charge of a
church in Spencer. Rev. A A. Landry is the
present pastor of the Webster church.
An exchange is funny, and says -"The old
Hillside church in Bolton, which was once the
scene of SO many sharp discussions, is now used
by Mr.. Jonathan Forbush as a vinegar shop"
While engaged in painting the railroad bridge
in Charlton recently, one of the workmeu fell a
distance of sixty feet, and striking the shore,
was severely injured. The fall was occasioned
by the staging giving way
A class of eleven will graduate from the
Fitchburg high school on Friday, the SOth
Three Of the number will Immediately enter
college.
The semi-annua dividend of FIVE per cent,
justdeclared by the First national bank of Gard
ner is the largest ever declared By that institu-
ton, which fact gives indication of prosperity
Barney Flynn, who caused the death of Pat
rick Foley in Milford, last Monday, hy striking
him on the head with some hard subst ance, re-
turned TO that town at eleven O'Clock Tuesday
night, and gave himself up to the officers, and
is now awaiting examination.
The Pratt's Junction and Princeton stage,
which connects with the early afternoon trains
on the B. G. and f. railroad from Boston, Taun
ton and Providence will be again placed on the
route Tor the accommodation of summer tour
lists, commencing Saturday, July list.
The American institute of instruction will
hold its next annual meeting in Fitchburg,
July 26, 81 and %. Eminent educators from
diffe' ent parts of the country are expected to be
present, and the meeting cannot fail to prove
highly interesting and profitable.
The ladies of Cherry Valley will hold a straw
berry festival in the vestry of their church
Wednesday evening, June 2S. They will uu-
doubleday maintain their fame for such enter
prses, and make the last of these festivities the
best of the season.
George Dutton, young man Of about nine
teen years of age, residing on Leicester hill,
y,
was in some manner thrown violently out, strik-
ing upon his head, and receiving severe and
possibly fatal injuries. He was alive on Sunday
morning, but in a critical condition.
Almond the patents just issued are the follow
ing to parties in this county: Nelson D. White
of Winchendon, for apparatus for coloring
warps; Henry Marshall Putnam of Fitchburg,
bench hook; George Draper of Hopedale, for
device for holding spinning bobbins on spindles :;
George. w. May of Baldwinsville, assignor to
himself and Daniel L. Thompson of same place,
for sawset.
A hail storm visited the north part of Milford
on the 10th, The path of the storm was not
more than three hundred rods wide, but an
abundance of hail stones fell, doing great dam
age to potato fields and ,1sSeh, gardens as it
touched. The trees wheFe &he centre of the
storm passed along, were pelted very hea vily
as they show by their torn leaves and by the
ground around them covered with green leaves
and broken twigs.
The town of Milford will celebrate Indepen-
dence day in the grandest style of which it is
capable. In the morning procession of San
tiques and horribles" will antic and horrify, and
during the rest of the day the celebration will
call out the military of the town, the Templars,
Freemasons, temperance societies, Sunday
schools, lyceum, fire companies, Grand Army,
Crispin lodge and Knights of Pythias. The har-
monizing harmony of these elementary ele-
ments-aS Daniel Pratt would say-will strike
the reader as peculiarly peculiar"
Two young men from Boston, with three of
their Athol friends, went off to the south part
of the latter place last week on fishing ex-
cursion, and were rewarded with a goodly
weight of fish. Being elated with their success
and not wishing to reveal their fishing grounds,
they, on their return, stopped at Ellis'S Pond,
and embarked in beats, "the same with intent
to deceive" They were capsized, lost their fish,
came near being drowned, and thereby pub
hshed the story of their uncommon smartness.
The editor of the Worcester West Chronicle of
last week lashes its Contemporary in this style,
which is worthy the editorial pen of ''Potts"
of Eatanswill, in Pickwicks time: "Our cotem-
porary again opens masked battery in his
issue Of last Tuesday, but he is to be excused
for fighting under cover, not having either pluck
or ability to manfully meet those whom he dis
likes. In the item referred to he speaks of "a
huge mastiff, kept in the confines of the Upper
Village, which disguised a certain man, &c.
But he neglects, for once, to say whether the
necessary medical aid was rendered. We have
been informed that the only dog that seems OBJ
noxious to the people of the Upper Village, is
one which is sometimes seen prowling around a
printing Office"