Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-18

The operatives in the wooden mills in Spencer
have contributed $50 TO the Wisconsin, sufferers,
and have sent it to the governor of Wisconsin
There is a pair tree upon the old Wheeler es-
tate, in Croydon, N. H., 1Ol years old, which
was carried to that town from ROyalstOn in ITO.
In Holden, j. N. Ross and Chas. L. Parker
have been appointed delegates to the councillor
convention; J. N. Ross and Ethan Davis to the
senatorial convention.
Al u Chicago relief meeting held in Broolfeld
Monday evening, $3.50 was subscribed and a
committee was chosen to canvass the town and
collect garments and money.
In the first district court, at Southbridge YES
terday. Martin Bartlett paid So and costs for
assault and battery, and SO and costs for drunk
enness. AT Webster Edward Louison and Ste
phen Medge paid So and costs each for drunk
enness.
The citizens of Holden met Monday evening
to take actonin regard TO sufferers in the late
fires at the west, and organized as follows
President Rev. VIM. p. Paine, DID. secretary,
Capt. J. II. Gleason; treasurer, Col. J. n. Ross.
A committee Of twelve was appointed to cam
yass the town and report at an adjourned meet
ing, the 23d inst.
Lowell Sylvester of Westminster, on the 18th,
while out cunning in Winchester n. H., acct
dentally shot himself. He was standing look
ing into a tree, His gun breech on the ground,
when from some unknown cause the gun dis
charged, the charge entering his neck and sew
ering the carotid artery. He died Immediately.
Two companions were with him.
AT a parish meeting of the Evangelical church
and society, held in Leominster on the 10Th,
Deacon F. A. Whitney acting as moderator the
subject of building a new church was considered.
The sum of $4,000 having been subscribed, the
following named gentlemen were chosen as a
building committee: William Tilton, William
Rowland, George Hall, John Shed, Sawyer Por-
ter, F. A. Whitney and J. A. Kendall The com
mittee is empowered to dispose of the old church
Cdifice, and to clear the ground for new one.
THE District Court SYsTEM.-It has been
supposed by some that the district court estab-
lshed in the southern part of this county would
prove failure, on account of the great expense
necessary to maintain it, but the facts are other
wise. This court has been established ten weeks
and during that time the amount of money re-
ceived, payable to the county, exceeds all ex-
penses, including the salary of the justice, over
three hundred dollars.
PAXToN.-At a meeting of the republican
voters of Paxton, held Oct. 10th, delegates to
the councillor convention were chosen as fol
lows: Silas D. Harrington and Dwight Esta-
brook; senatorial convention, VIM Mulligan
and Thomas B. Robinson; representative con-
ventiOn, John c. Bigelow and Nathaniel Clark.
Before choosing the delegates to the representa-
tive convention, the following resolution was
unanimously adopted:
Whereas, it is understood that the republican
voters of the tenth district desire to return our
present representative, William Mulligan, Esq
and, whereas, the honesty, integrity and ability
which has characterized his course the present
year, entities him to our fullest confidence and con-
tinued support; therefore
Resolved, that our delegates be- and are hereby
instructed to present his name to the convention as
the choice OF the republican voters of Paxton.
The republican town committee for the ensu-
ing year consists of Dwight Estabrook, David
G. Davis, Hiram z. Bemis, Charles Dodd and
Lewis kilburn.