Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-08
d0turtcstcr Daily spp.
New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

his own on Lincoln street in that city.
A Boston artist took an instantaneous photo
graph of the torpedo explosion in the harhor on
Thursday last aud in the evening exhibited a
transparency OF the scene, eighteen feet in di-
amcter.
Lisa Weber, one of the original Lydia Thomp-
son troupe, has become insovent and her case
was before the court of bankruptcy in Boston,
Saturday. Her assets are 1905, and liabilities
S26S2.
Three murderers were arraigned in the SUI
preme court at East Cambridge on Monday
Thomas Herter for killing Fanny Coulter at
Maiden, last spring; Sullivan, indicted for stab
hlng man IN Somerville, and a woman named
Birmingham, for the murder of her infant child.
The cases will probably be tried in January.
1t is highly probable that report will be
made to the Boston board Of aldermen, at its
next session, to day in favor Of taking the Bca-
con hill reservoir site for n new cuurt house, BY
the law of 1867 the board Of aldermen has the
night TO take land for this public structure, but
ne que ions appertaning TO the building must
be deci d by the city council The taking of
the Ian for the ediice, on the part of the board
OF aldermen. will be absolute, and it will not re-
qure the assent of the other branch. If the
board votes to take the laud, and the common
council refuses TO appropriate the unreg the
owners of the land who have beer dispOssessed
OF their property, can obtain their remedy by
snltS OF law, and verdict, against the city for
tht amount The committee will simply recon-
HSnd the taxing of The site, so that the reports
ro,, Wy ~, is""s loI eT'ciiiS ';,e
are bnre invention. The buildings on Mount
Vernon sutct, included in the square, are est
mated by the assessors no be worth 1927, 600.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The stockholders of the Byston and Maine
railroad will meet at Lawrence to-day TO elect
board OF directors. Mr.. Coggswel and Mr.
Homer have declined to serve longer, and u is
understood thai Mr.. Nathaniel G. White of Law
renee wifi be uhe next president.
IL tt1rlx~ who
tea4ou9 paPeI s"AS: ~ ~ pO''J 49, !" ~ ~
nave haa Vcctslou 10 Nish lIie EssGA 3epol ~
inns toWh, nave iVI souie liiie lolISeu uut-Ool-
oreu doS, VINO alNionsiS "atenes ttie l''Sse''o,S
" t9ey ailglt as tnouSH SeeNlhs oi s"l NJ Pa,
hcuar person; Inns dQg pei2'f@eu 70 Nj u, a,l
nest o Merril' one Vi 'e Nlc5'is ~ tle ~,
disastet. men Young MeIrlIl ic,' iH'so loi ny ny
last tlne ms o9S ielL MN AT l!ic ueP1sl ,t
lalIhiul doS SIM WSteess lor MS hi"S'0i' NV
VIII never come pack
BRISTOL totNtf. -, ,r,o,;
Inc couH'y meethg OF lhe stase 9V vi " a.,
culture VIII De hsl9 t.ls year III faH T'cis on
Inc list ga ana z9d VI NoNeI'9cl, ~ ~ =;
gramme lnctudes lectures alu ulSeussIo" ' ~,
Whlch all are luNlteu 10 pdIinCip1'e' tI0uT ~
lecturers are froi; I a. CnaupouIue ~, oaS'
~ NiCnoIs' MS i.uu"h - S"VlteS VI" -;
tural equcatloh OF Wonei' IT. w. d. '''ii''-
ana CoInhTl +; W arlHs. ,... ,rLo,,,.,, Or .
me ran RIVER news says INC pau OF d
grld@e Tor railway ana conmon traVel over tne
taunton IlVer az niaue Ferry Is on eAn"ltlou
IN that city Inis plan requires nFe spans Oh
I'5 leet each, and draS'TlaSe, WIN Passage-
way lor NeSselS 6O leet Wlue on eaeh sue Vi lnc
turn-ia0ie, ana TWO spans Oh o. lSet ehch oEeI
inc hlShway at each end' IL + desiSuea loi
railway cars to pass on the Top surface a,lu Cu''
flages 1nueIhcat whlch passaSe - 70 9o oc SS
Sied. Tue esliulateu cAp'lsG Is put AZ SzUo,-oi'
tne intention Is toaccolhhlouate lhe Olu Co'ony
AWAY II II cuoosts 70 run ut"n lte "ee' ~ =.
from SOMERSET inc ffoNhehee IallWay, IL 1t
should choose 10 6htd up 70 IT, ana any new
railway that may NC projeetea te"uu o'hei
points west or northwest
HAhfDEN COUNTY; -.
spIr1tuauSt d0cuess VINO nad roohiS .tdi
tuS corner ol prlu@e ahu MINI sieGiS, 2pIiuS
ngIu tuIheu crazy, tle otneI gay, auu oiohe out
az me WINDOWS OF ner ONCE one was '"Aen u
Nouhcctlcut 10 ner Iflehus'
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
INC opIln%held hepunllcah says louhS
MI burleiSh, VINO has taken editorial charge OF
me northampton flee IIeSS, Is DoIh Journal
Isl ana radlcal by inheritance, Delhg the son OF
ID, n burIelSh ana hepnew ol Cnas. y
butlelgh Vi flofence, ooth OF Whouh, lhouEh
more Known as rel0rmeTs ana radicals lhan
JourhalstS' haVeyct daohled more OF less III tle
newspaper business. louu9 MI buIlcl@n mas
aIso had pIachce IN Journalism, al New lolk,
Snleaso ana ELSEWHERE ana SO, oy DotD cApeIl'
ence and individual quality, promises to give to
the FreSs Press a character that 1t never yet mas
had heretofore
BkRhshiRE COUNTY.
Inc Lee Doot ana shoe company nave madc
existence. lhey nave nlled ail thelr orders and
sun uo"h lor snoIt llhe 10 await inc spIlh@
trace
MAINE.
Nearly thlr5yf9ar mlIllon ieet more lunoer
was surveyed III bangor during rae ten m0utus
ending Oct. VI, than III the same months OF last
year, ana ABOUT tDlrty-seNen mllon 1eet more
than ID me corresponding months IN 1857.
According 70 an Ola legend, II young lady
goes down cellar BACKWARDS at twelve O'Clock on
the night OF the last day OF October, holding a
mirror before lef, sne VIII see IN II inc lace OF
hGr lutule husband A young lazy at Lewiston,
VINO Irled me experiment, made a mlsstep ana
leu 10 tue DoUom alnid streams oil Kerosene ana
showers OF broken 9iass, causing racket winch
Drought the whole family to the scene.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
me tresoyterlan churcheS IN New Boston and
htGhheid are without pastors.
Manchester cases oil smallpox and Vanoold
nave neen cateIullY isolated.
IL. =. 1Quldlng mas resigned the general agen-
cy OF the Monadnock railroad, and the business
VIII now oe conducted DV Jonas Livingston, the
president ana superintendent
Leuluel H. loung, merchant tailor OF Laco-
ma was thrown from a wagon on me Stree', on
Ihe ~, uragSed some distance ana Killed He
was ABOUT lortl-nYe years Old, ana leaves fam
lily.
Charles Witham of Northwood arrived in
concord on Saturday from Rockingham county
and was committed 10 prison. His se1tence is
three years Tor burglary.
uO Nuil-lcId'l oHdi church at NauDOr0lOn Gel
ebrates ITS centennial on the 18th and 18th inst.
Rev: DIR. ) G. Bodwell Of Hartford theological
seminary VIII deliver the discourse.
gravestone was found foul feet below the
surface in digging the cellar of barn in Man
chester, few days ago, which was broken in
taking out Its history is unknown.
The new Phillips academy building, Exeter,
is expected to be completed next February. The
sum of $3.50 has been donated by Jesse Seig-
man OF New York city TO be applied 10 the pur-
chase of "A clock for the tower.
Last week Albert Nichols of New York was
tracked to Wilton by an indignant wife. Albert
had taken second wife to his bosom but the
Tear OF the law made coward of him, and so
ne was last seen making extraordinary speed for
down east"
Mrs Hannah Cox of Holderness was born in
Preston, Conn, June %, 1776 and was one of
the family OF twelve, OF whom she is the only
survivor. Her health is excellent, mind clear
and memory retentive.
house and barn in Windham, owned by
Hemphill Clark and occupied by a Mr.. Wood
man, was DESTROYED by fire on The 9th, together
with two valuable horses cow bog. large sup