Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-31

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| Augusta, last week, has excited good deal of
local interest A hog belonging to the defend
| ant, a farmer, living in the town of Benton, was
at large in the highway, some years ago, and
| frightened horse driven by the plaintiff Miss
| Annette Jewett Miss Jewett was thrown ont Of
| her wagon and injured so seriously that she is
| still lame After trial, lasting three DAVIS the
| jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff
awarding s2SS3 damages. AT the time of the
accident it is said the plaintiffs friends offered
TO settle for $50.
Edwin Dow, young man of Boston, has been
enriching himself to the extent of $1,000 by pre-
valllng upon farmers in Maine to consgn eggs
and other produce to fictitious firms in the city,
70 which he represented himself as belonging.
| When they arrived he would carry them some
| where else and dispose Of them. He was tracked
| out, arrested, and arrangements made for his
transportation to Maine, but it now appears that
| he is an old offender, and was wanted, two years
| ago, for swindng Boston firm. He will there
| fore be kept in this state and tried on the old
| charge.
A down east" paper, which appears to have
| got thoroughly disguised with the tame fish
| stories which are so prevalent just now, tells
one of its own, which it claims is just as good as
any. 1t says that a fish dealer in Bangor has
"a tame clam, which he has taught to come at
his whistle, and follow him all over the house.
The clam will stand up on his hind legs and
beg, or lie down at the command of his master
and will sing, whistle and count as high as
thirteen, and, if reports are true, is a most re-
markable example Of what patience will accom-
plsh.'
An old octogenarian miser died in the vicinity
of Lewiston, recently-an old bachelor, who de
MED himself everything in food and clothing
except what was most Indispensable. The adj
ministrator, in looking over his effects, came
upon an old wooden chest full of old papers. In
the bottom OF this chest was an old and rudely
constructed box of unpaned wood the top of
which was held in place by couple of wooden
pins. Removing the cover, a lot of rags was all
that was visible. Further investigation I'M
earthed four or five bags full of old Spanish and
English silver dollars. There was in the box
$3.50 in silver and Ss5 in gold. The old miser's
estate is valued at nearly $4,000.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
-Four thousand five hundred dozen of eggs
were shipped from Sedgwick on one day last
week.
The Baptist denomination of the S tate is MAX
ing an effort to raise funds for the purpose of
establishing new churches
The Episcopal visitors at North Conway are
to erect church in that village for their use the
| coming season.
An effort is being made by the citizens of
| Province Falls at Freedom to secure the cs tab
lishment of a post office at that place.
Edwin II. ketcham, young man attending
the scientific department of Dartmouth college,
broke his leg recently by falling from swing
| in the gymnasium.
The ruling prices of maple sugar in the New
Hampshire market is 10 to 10 cents for sugar in
bulk, and II TO 20 cents for cake. Syrup sells TO
| consumers for S1.25 to S1.50 gallon.
John f. Walker, merchant of Dover, has
| been appointed cashier of the South Berwick
| National bank, in place of Edward Hayman,
Esq, deceased.
II is reported that Judge Charles Doe, of the
supreme judicial court, intends to leave the
bench. He is one of the ableSt members of the
| bar in the state.
The Congregational church in Gambia will
observe its centennial anniversary, Wednesday,
April s. Rev. Jones H. Fits viii deliver the
address.
Henry Caverly of Strafford, was robbed of a
watch on Central street; Dover, in the evening
of the 2Sth, by Frank Woods. Woods was
soon arrested and bound over by Judge Hall
in the sum of $500.
The body of the man found at Suncook, on
Sunday, has been identified as that of man
calling himself Orrigan Flanders. He is said TO
have sister living in Manchester and another
in Nashua.
On Monday, George Hoyt, one of the most
respected citizens of Hopkinton, was taken vio-
lently insane and made attempts on his own life.
He had TO be restrained by main force, and was
| carried to the asylum.
e There are ten persons confined in jail in Exc
, ter. One of them is man from Deerield, in
e generated for non-payment of tax (S4.63) for
S the year 1867. He says that if he would "vote
right the tax was to be paid by politician
and that the latter is ready to swear the tax was
: paid
4 Annie Barry, girl eleven years of age, living
S in Portsmouth, was fearfully burned Tuesday
afternoon by her dress taking fire from the stove
e Assistance was at once rendered her by the in
mates of an adjoining room, and medical aid
sent for. Her physician thinks there is no chance
for her recovery.
n Dover elects as school committee Ward one
y |. Llttlefield, o. X. Hartford; ward two, Thos
: E. Sawyer, DR.. Ham, Alvah Moulton, Thomas
S }. Smith; ward three, j. w. Welch, John B
e Stevens, Jr,,, DR.. Bell, DR.. Pray, Thomas L
d Smith, J. w. Henderson; ward four, Aaron
" Pinkham, Ben Parker Pierce.
On the 29th a girl named Ella Libby, an OPP
eratiye in the Great Falls manufacturing com
~ pany's mills, while passing across the Boston
and Maine railroad track, near the counting
l. room of the manufacturing company, was strucl
4, by the engine of the II O'Clock mail train iron
. the east and thrown several feet from the track
5, Her injuries are very serious, but probably no
q fatal
Dr. Daniel A. Wendell died on Monday eve
d ming at the residence of his father, Daniel II
" Wendell, Esq., in Dover He graduated at Bow
l. dom medical college, was surgeon in the army
d during the war and practiced medicine in Taun,
+ ton, Mass, previous 10 his sickness. He was
|: talented and respected young man, and aged
d about thirty.
d A tippler called at farmhouse in Amherst
c the other day, and asked for cider "No, Tom
d said the farmer, you've bad enough to drink TO-
n day; no friend of yours would give you cider. y
o "0h good Lord, cried Tom, very weary leaning
l. against the fence, please send along some of my
is enemies"
&c Hamilton E. Towle, formerly of Exeter, has
n recently been employed by the Austrian govern
?. ment in experimenting the construction of
marine railway and dock, at a naval station
called Pola, in the Adriatic sea. Mr. Towle was
n instrumental in saving the Great Eastern during
e one of her early trips She lost her rudder and
Mr. Towle improvised a steering apparatus by
{ which she was brought safely to port.
On the 25th, in Warner Henry son of Mr.
Henry II. Clough of Warner was engaged in
drawing lGmber on four wheels 1t would seem
that some fastening was insecurity made, for
the tongue connecting the rear to the front
wheels suddenly flew back, and Young Clough
was struck on the head. The blow cut large
cash and rendered him insensibe for hours. His
condition is yet precarious.
Col. Thomas w Knox, the author, is a native
Of Pembroke, and in early life was engaged in
school teaching. Happening to meet with
Richardson, the latter impressed him so strong
~ by his accounts Of the attractiveness of jour
nalsm, that Knox gave up pedagoguery, and
going to New York. obtained position us cor
respondent for the Herald. He is now stock
holder of the SUI, and wrote much of his recent
ly published book on Siberia in the Sun office
On the 22d inst, Mrs. Charles Gilman, of
Wolieboro', made short call upon a neighbour
leaving child some three or four years of age
at home. On her return she found the room
filled with hot smoke, and the child on the floor
5 speechleSs. She carried the child out and laid
1t on the ground, and returning to the house with
: considerable effort succeeded in extinguishing
? the fire. The child revived, but had she been a
few moments later, both child and house would
have been consumed.
AT Concord, on the goth, large and spirited
meeting Of the republican state committee and
other prominent republicans, representing ali
sections OF The state, was held at the Eagle hotel
Hon. E. H. Rollins, the chairman, presided as
sisted by the secretary, Mr.. B. f. Prescott. The
object OF the meeting was for a consultation re-
gardlng the internal feuds and dSsensonS in the
party, which had so much to do with reducing
the republican vote at the recent election, and
for the further purpose Of arranging for future
campaigns. Short addresses were made by
many of those present, all evincing strong de-
termination to lay aside all past differences, and
to act in harmony hereafter. The meeting was
an entire success, and struck the key note for
the state and national campaigns for 1872.
Hosea Fessenden, highly respected and well
known citizen of Concord, and for many wears
one oil tue most extensive harness manufacture
ers IN New Hampshire, died on the Goth, aged