Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-23
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.
oston claims 500 LAWYERS.


Joe Jefferson plays brief engagement IN DOS,
ton in May and il Is stated that he Will also Visit
Providence at that time.
A Boston book publisher who recently dunned
a delinquent gentleman in the south, received by
return mail letter from him, saying that JUS
at present he is out of funds, but he expects &c
be elected mayor of his city, and then can easily
satisfy the little demand.
The Boston Traveller says that ''the first hal
of the present month was by far the warmes
first half of March within forty-seven years, anC
four and half degrees warmer than that o
1912, the next warmest.
About four O'Clock Sunday afternoon Samue
Martin was found dead in his carpenters shop
on fuckers wharf, Boston, having shot himsel
with gun. His clothes were on fire, and hi
immediate discovery prevented the destruction
of the building. He was sixty years old. Tn
cause is unknown.
Pearson at the Olympic theater Boston, Oh
Saturday night, before the curtain rose, tn
beneficiary was arrested in his dressing room
for debt Of &f2S, for services and materials IN
his late horse on Harrison avenue lie gave
bon6ayin $500 to appear and take the poor debt
oath, and the performance went on.
"a ne new professional nine of Boston Is thus
Nt3mposed: Harry Wright capt. c. f.; George
al rIght I'd; Charles H. Gould LIST; Calvin ALVIN. a. a
HMcVeF 7. f.; David S. Birdsall c.; Harry Z
Schafer 3D.; Albert G. Spalding p. Roscoe =
Barnes S. s.; J. Fred Cone / f.; Samuel JACK
son, substitute The two Wrights, Gould and
McNey came ffom tue heu SIochIhss! pPd1ui"S
Barnes and Cone from the Forest City club of
Rockford, H., Schafer from the Athletics of
Philadelphia, Birdsall from the Unions of
Morrisiania, and jackson from the Flower City
of Rochester. The nine will soon take the field
for practice
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
At Lowell, on the 21st, William A. Stearns a
Juror from Bedford, in attendance at the supreme
court, was stricken with paralysis in the jury
room about noon, having inst previously been
1teaharCrnl A O'Clock in fbp pvaniOU his
recovery was pronounced hopeless. He was the
town clerk of Bedford, and siXty-two years of
age.
Sol Hewes Sanborn, an eccentric old halter of
Medford has made one of the oldest of wills,
and, anxious TO enjoy the notoriety of it in his
life time has published it. He gives his body to
Prof Agasss and DR.. o. W. Holmes to be placed
in the museum of anatomy at Cambridge. But
he wants two drum heads made of his skin, on
one of which shall be ndelibly written, "Popes
universal prayer" and on the other the declara-
ton of independence; and on these drum heads
shall be beaten the national air Of Yankee Doodle,
at the base of Bunker Hill monument, annually
at sunrise on the 18th of June. The parts of his
body useless for anatomical purposes are to be
compostedfor a fertilizer "to nourish the growth
of an American elm, to be planted or set out on
some rural public thoroughfare, that the weary
wayfaring man may rest, and innocent children
playfully sport, beneath the shadow of its UNI
brageous branches rendered luXuriant by my
carcass.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The following particulars are given of an affair
mentioned recently: On Friday of last week
during a sQuall, four men landed on Salisbury
beach, in a small boat, which was capszed and
stove in while landing. The men had four
large chests and large dunnage bags, which they
hualed ashore. Subsequently they broke into
one of the summer houses on the beach, where
they spent the night. The next day three of
the men walked to the village and sent team
hoo r.
at the railroad depot they all took the cars for
Portland They appeared to be foreigners, their
answers TO questions were eyaSive, and their
stories did not agree. 1t is thought that they
belonged TO vessel that was found abandoned
in the harbor last week.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
There is graveyard in Monson in which are
buried nine brothers, all of whom had arrived
at mans estate, the eldest being seventy-nine
and the Youngest overweight wears old All
but one leaving family. And what renders it
more remarkable is that they are all buried
within forty rods of the spot where they were
born; we doubt if this case has parallel in the
state.
Upwards Of fifty men were discharged from
the construction department of the Kittery navy
yard on the Doth.
They are picking May-howers nearly all over
Maine and believe that the summer has come
upon them, without any danger of a relapse
SuUilts 1AOHpSOu, d CONVICT IN the staff
prison, on a five years sentence for larceny has
been found guilty of an assault upon the deputy
warden without intent to kill, and sentenced II
four years additional Imprisonment.
Bids for erecting city buildings in Lewiston
have been opened but the award will not be an
nounced till Tuesday. Several Boston ant
Portland builders entered proposals for tn
erection of the buildings for which S15O,OOO ha
been appropriated.
Commissioner Thomas is making sucb ar
rnnppmpnts that he is in honas OF Oh
ly TO the Swedish colony in the state the comm
season, now considered a success. 1t is believe
that the colony by next fall will number not ia
from one thousand persons.
The policy of eXempting manufacturing er
terpriseS and new hotels from local taxation iC
acertain term of years is becoming more gcner,
IN the state. AT the recent elections several ,
these enterprises were exempted from taxation
which by many individuals, particularly whe
1t embraces hotel property, is considered unwi
and unwarranted.
The Republican says it is a good time to o
married now at East Machias. Some two wee
ago newly married couple were called up
by a gang of boys who went through a Oh
Torrance called Serenade, but unlucli
broke some windows and were arrested a
fined, since which order has reigned
An exchange says that few weeks ago ru
ners from Boston bought all the eggs they con
pick up in the country towns in Maine, payil
80 and 80 cents a dozen for them in anticiU
ton of great demand for them during the Sc
son of Lent. To break this "corner" in hen fru
the biddies commenced laying freely, and no
good fresh eggs can be bought in Maine at rs
20 cents per dozen.
At Hallowell, on the 21st, the powerful raj
caused considerable rise in the Vaughan strean
carrying away the upper dam. The food {
water came rushing down in such volume as
carry away the bridge on the main road thr
cutting off travel between Hallowell and Gard
ner. immediately below the bridge stood NJ
Kings wool shop the lower story of which wa
torn away, the top stories dropping down an
floating of into the river. Mr.. King was in tn
building at the time, and so sudden was tn
crash that he had not time to escape and is sti
missing. Ii is feared that he was killed by tn
falling building. Considerable damage wa
also done to Mr.. Clinch's blacksmith shop.
"lOby CanddoP' writes as follows to the Bos
ton Journal "Ihe Legislature at its last sessio
passed supplementary act to the school law
allowing towns at their annual meetings tbi
spring to transfer the employment of teacher
II they wished, from experimenting committee
as the law provides, to district agents. Will
quite number of towns have seen fit to ell
power their agents to employ teachers instead c
the committee, the opposition TO the preseu
system does not prove as formidable as was reI
resented by its opponents in the Legislature,
we may Judge by the returns which have bee
received. 1t is also worthy of note to state tina
IN several instances towns have gone so far i
educational progress as to abolish the distriC
system, thus giving equal educational faciltie
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The governor and council have appointe
Thursday, April6, for the annual fast.
The Laconia Democrat estimates that s5O
was paid out for sheep killed in Beknap count
last year.
Grass, six inches high, has grown this sprinc
in the yard OF the Great Fails manufacturin
company.
DR.. Trevitt, of Wilton, was severely iniure
by the collision Of his team with another fe
evenings since.
Mrs. Dorcas Rice, Of Jaffrey, was 1O1 yea
old on the 10th Of last December, and retains b
eyesght, memory and general faculties of mil
and body wonderfully.
The governor and council have appoint,
Hon. Hiram r. Roberts Of Rollnsford a meI
Der Of the state board of agriculture, vice Ho
Charles Jones Of Milton resigned.
Miss Lizzie Dame aged sixteen, daughter
Amasa Dame of Rochester, disappeared fro
her home Friday morning, the 10th inst, an
was last seen on her way to the factory, sine
which there is no trace of her She had on h,
mill clothes, and took no Others
Mrs. Weston added oue 20 tho =. -,