Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-04
aalurtester 4aiIp Spp.
New England New. summary.


The boiler had been subjected TO hydranllc
pressure, and stood a test in excess OF the Supu-
lated pressure, but a slight blow OF the hammer
broke the iron entirely through"
'fTbe Commonwealth" began its tenth vol
ume last week, and we congratulate Mr.. Slack
on his signal success.
The number of deaths in Boston for the week
ending Saturday noon was 100. CT the deceased
81 were males and 93 females, There were %
deaths by consumption, 40 by cholera infantum.
Under 1 year of age, "A; to 5, %; of Amcri-
can parentage, "A; foreign, 1O6.
Boston paper says: "We notice that a Bos-
ton bank is issuing bills signed by the assistant
cashier, Section % of the bank act says, all
notes must be signed by the cashier.
The amount of gold received for duties at the
Boston custom house during the month of Au-
gust, was 81, 900, 223.77; a larger amount than
was ever before received in any month.
Mr.. jeremiah Prescott has retired from the
office of superintendent of the Eastern railroad,
in pursuance of his resignation, to take effect
September list, determined on some time ago,
and which he has declined TO reconsider, owing
TO the personal sacrifice involved. We under,
stand that Mr.. John Thompson, master mechan-
ic of the Eastern railroad, has addressed letter
to the president and directors of the road de-
Ginning the office of superintendent, to which
he was appointed few days previous to the
late calamity at Revere.
Not for many years in midsummer, and in
fact all through the hot weather, has there been
such an abundance of all the different kinds of
poultry, game ETC., in the Boston market as
this season. Turkeys, chickens, fowls, geese,
mongrel dncks and blackbirds come in freely
from home, while the west is beginning to sup
ply mallard ducks, prairie chickens and snipe
WoOdcOck arc not very plenty. The demand
has held out well, and with the hotels at the
various watering places filled with guests large
quantities have been worked off.
The Boston Traveller wants the next nation
al republican convention TO be held in Boston,
saving: The last convention of the party when
Gen. Grant was nominated, was at Chicago,
9 Ia n
the same city, when President Lincoln was made
Inc standard-beareT of the party for the first
time. His nomination for second term was
me work OF the convention at Baltimore in ,64.
Ieneral fremont was nominated st Philadelphia
IN 1885, and here it was that the national repub-
hcan party was first organized. IL the rule of
rotation is adopted, the next convention will be
held at the east, and no eastern city presents
So sgcn claims as Boston. No national convention
OF any party has been held in this section, and
II IS due to us that the republican party shon ID
mus recognize its Indebtedness TO New England
Ior the earnest support it has received here in
ever, Seat struggle, first with the slave power,
and afterwards with rebellion at the polls in re-
sistance to the measures for carrying on the
war, and for securing equal rights to those
whom the war had made FREE"
MIDDbESEx COUNTY.
At Lowell, the exercises attendant on the
dedication of the Second Primitive Methodist
church were held on Friday evening. Rev
Messrs. +. K. Morse, Owen Streer, g. Z. Mallory
and F. Wood of that city, and Rev. MIR. Gould
of Brooklyn, conducted the services.
Twenty-Five of the state constablery force have
been detailed for duty at the New England fair,
TO act in connection with the City police. They
are to be auartered In Converse building, near
the Washington house. Local constable G. Ii.
Morse will be in command.
Aman named Cawley, of Lowell, was caught
in some gearing attached to a steam engine at
the central shaft Of the water works on Satur-
day morning, and was so badly mutilaied that
he died in about ten minutes after the accident.
At Lowell, the body of woman was discOy-
cred on Saturday morning floating in the ma
chine shop canal. 1t was taken out, and
Coroner Huntington called a jury of inquest.
The body was identified as being Mrs. Theresa
Perkins, residing in rooms in Simpson block,
MerTimac street. She has been missing since
Wednesday night. Two severe scalp wounds,
cutting across the head, are all the injuries
shown. Mrs. Perkins was about thirty years of
age, and not of an enviable reputation. Her
husband, Charles Perkins, charged with INSIDE
meanors, is somewhere out west. She leaves a
SOC eight years old, and relatives in Lowell
The cause of her death is in doubt, and the in
quest adjourned.
The arrangements for the eighth exhibition of
the New England fair, which is to be held at
Lowell this week, are all perfected, and they arc
upon the most liberal scale. 1t needs only
week of good weather, such, for instance, as we
had on Friday, to make the fair grand success.
The entries in all departments are unusually
large, and the pens will contain some of the
very b st stock in the country. The control of
the grounds and track during the week will be
in the hands of Col. J. A. HARDWOOD, the chief
marshal, who will spare no efforts TO secure
the pleasure and safety of all who may visit the
fair.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Lynn Reporter states that the shipments
of boots and shoes from that city for the month
of August reached 2O,2s6 cases-against 1874
for August, 1870 The number shipped iOr the
week ending Friday was 1920 cases-a gain of
55S cases over the shipment for the correspond
ing period Of last year.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
1t is stated that the receipts of the Mount
Washington railway this season are already up
ward Of $4,000.
The great China mill at Suncook is putting in
steam for power. All the mills in town are
short of water.
There are five farms in Stratham which have
never passed out of the original settlers name.
-Four are now owned and iarmed by persons
named Wiegn and one by James w. Rollins
High sheriff Rowe has taken possession of the
jail in Portsmouth, and will make the dwelling
attached to the jail his residence.
VIM. F. Sayory, who was an active man in the
formation of the know nothing party, and who
was elected by that organization to the Office of
register of deeds of MerriInac county, died at
Henniker on Friday night, aged about fifty
years.
The pleasure travel to the lakes and noun
tains over the Montreal road is now much heav
Ter for the time of year than has ever before been
known on that route.
The new shoe factory in Keene is nearly COM
pleted, and when fully occupied will give en-
ployment to about two hundred persons. The
capital stock is $4,000, and was all subscribed
by the liberal citizens of Keene.
The AmoSkeag steam fire engine manufactur-
ing company, of Manchester, despatched last
week engine to Saco Me. The engine weighs
six thousand pounds, and can play four streams
to the top of an ordinary dwelling. She has q
finish of German silver, an elegant silver Ian
tern bearing in cut glass, her name, and the
coat of arms of the state of Maine and other
rich ornaments. The cost of the engine is
$4,000. The machine has arrived safely at its
destnatlon, amid the reloicings of the SacOites.
VERMONT.
The New Haven cheese factory of Addison
county, are using 1000 pounds of milk per day,
and turning out superior quality of cheese.
They are unable to meet the demand for their
cheese, wbichis marketed at good figures.
L. q L. Fairbanks & Co., the celebrated scale
makers of Johnsbury, purchased recently of one
firm one thousand tons of pig iron, to be deliv-
cred before navigation closes, to accommodate
their rapidly increasing business.
AT Highgate the other day. Mrs. Kingsley
Stelnhour was set upon by a swarm of bees and
nearly stung to death. She lay for some time
as il dead; and her whole flesh became purple
as though mortified. She is now recovering.
1ulan H. Dewey, a lawyer Of brilliant talents
anu Wluely known throughout Vermont, died
at st. Alhans on Friday, at the age of thirty-six
years. Mr. Dewey was elected states attorney
IN 1868 and again in 1865 During few years
PAST ne mas acted as attorney for the Vermont
Central railroad. He was a man of spotless
character, and highly esteemed for his many
excellent qualities of head and heart.
The st. Adams Messenger of last week says if
the surplus quantity of an article affects its
price in the market, butter must fall, for il was
coming in from all quarters. Prices were. for
common, 20 to q cents; fair TO good, % to q
cents; prime, % to 20 cents; and extra, 80 to 81
cents. As there is prospect of large supply
Of fall feed, and of cheap corn meal, we surely
ought 10 have some reduction of the worse than
war prices which have rulen for some time past
The Bradford mackerel kit factory is a -four
ishing establishment. The machinery is S,
varied in il that a man can turn out a complete
mackerel tub from the rough slaves, grooved
smoothed, lined, hoped and headed, all com
plete, and fit for brine and fish, in twelve min
utes head can be whirled out as quick a
one can say "head" six times. The hoops ar
made from ash wood, soaked, and thus RENDERED
hliaDe; The slaves are from sapling wood
A9 BOAT 1900 of these kit are made annually.