Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-28
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MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
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eiFectually checked by the efficient measures
taken by the board of health, the reports OF
cases showing in a week diminution and but
little fatality.
The installation of Rev. Mr.. Babcock as pas
TOR of the Unitarian church at Groton, took
place on the Goth. The invocation was made by
Rev Mr.. Nightingale of Groton, and reading of
tbe Scripture by Rev. Mr.. Young, OF Westford
The sermon was by Rev. DIR. Everett, of Cam
bridge, who announced his subject as "Beggary
elements" from Galatians, w., 9. This was
followed by the installing prayer by Rev. Mr.
Moore, of Greenfield. The charge to the pastor
was delivered by Rev. Mr.. Blanchard, of Lowell;
the address to the people was given by Rey.tMr.
Poison, of Dedham, and the right hand of
fellowship by Rev Mr. Tilden, of Boston.
ESSEX COUNTY.
O'2aldwin, the prize fighter, was released |
from the house OF correction, in Lawrence, on !
the 9th about eight o'clock, after an imprison-
ment of one year and three hundred and sixty |
three DAYS. He entered the institution Nov IS, |
1869 having been sentenced for prize fighting in |
lynnheld. O'Baldwin was offered pardon some |
months since on condition Of leaving the state,
but he declined to accept it on those terms.
His antagonist Wormald gave bail and escaped
at the time. When he was released he was taken
across the park to barouche, on Hampshire
street, and went off followed by crowd OF
about one hundred persons. O'Baldwin meas
ures six feet six in his stockings.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
There is nearly $4,000 paid out yearly for
sewing straw in Taunton and vicinity.
A libel suit has been begun against the New |
Bedford Evening Standard by Robert W. Farley |
on account Of certain advertisements published |
in that paper. The damages are laid at $1,000. |
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A correspondent of the New York Examiner, |
writing under the heading Of Massachusetts |
Kuklnx," pays the following compliment to
Springfield. He SAYS: "0n Loring street, in
Springfield, the colored Methodists, most of
them from the south since the war, have chapel
the old Soldiers Rest, which some of your
readers saw near the depot, remodelled and
moved away for place of worship. 1t makes
comfortable house, the rear being a parsonage
for the pastor. A man and citizen, not an
lrishman, bought the adjoining lots on both
sides Of the chapel, and to show his good will
for those lately out of bondage, built a tight
fence within two feet of the chapel on both sides,
high as the caves, and painted it black. There
1t stands to-day, and there it has stood for years,
shutting out the light of heaven; black on the
side next to the chapel, and white looking to-
wards the builders property-a fence twenty
feet high. And this in Springfield, MasSachu-
sets. If you can find anything meaner than
that in the round of chivalric outrages row in
hicted upon the workingmen of the southern
states, please mention it.
MAINE.
child of W. V. Libby, of West Framing
ham, was strangled to death during violent fl
Of coughing recently.
Lewiston paper says a young lady in an
AuouIu SnOe FACTORY earns GlN per week, DuI
she is Smart as chain lightning"
The Auburn young mems Christian associa-
ton has already secured subscriptions TO the
amount of $500 as a building fund.
The notes against the city Of Augusta, becom-
ing due the current year, and for which provis-
ION must be made, amount in the aggregate to
$50454
The Lewiston Journal says Mr.. Moses Bailey,
OF Winthrop, is going to put up a large oil
cloth factory on the same ground on which
hiC larrr
burned last year.
1t has been agreed by delegates from the town
OF Turner and Livermore, that for the next de
cade Turner shall have the representation six
years and Livermore four years, Turner having
the first two and also the last two years.
The Bangor Wing says at nine O'Clock on the
evening of April IL, Samuel Merritt, of Brewer
crossed the PeDobscot in the ferry boat from
Bangor, since which time he has not been heard
Of and it is feared that he has come to his death
by some unknown means.
Winter holds on well in the cold regions of
Maine. On Monday last teams were crossing
Chesuncook and Moosehead lakes on the ice
On Tuesday of last week six or eight inches of
snow FELL and still lies in the woods to a con-
siderable depth.
In Piscataquis county it was generally feared
when the snow took its early departure that the
grass would be extensively killed; but no such
result has followed. Grass is as forward now
and looks much better than on the both of MAY
last year. Hay, which was worth $40 per ton,
is now worth only SIS. Numerous small for
tunes are beautifully ruined.
DIR. Sabine, assistant professor of anatomy of
the college of physicians and surgeons of New
York, has taken the place of Prof. G. L. Ford in
the chair of anatomy and ply siology at the
medical school, Bowdoin college. Prof Morse
OF the Peabody institute and the Boston school
OF technology, is giving course of twenty lee
lures on comparative anatomy and zoology
there.
The alumni of Maine Wesleyan seminary and
female college will celebrate its semi-centennial
June s. An address will be delivered by Rev
Dr. Cummings, of the Wesleyan university, and
poem by Rev. Mark Trafton, of Boston. Lit
erary exercises in the morning; dinner and
speeches in the afternoon; reunion in the even
ing The anniversary and commencement eX- |
ercises of the school will take place June 5, 6 |
and7
In the supreme judicial court at Belfast, be- |
lore Judge Dickerson, breach of promise case !
was tried last week, which occupied two days |
The parties were Hannah E. Barlow, plaintiff |
and William Sibley, defendant. The plaintiff |
testified that defendant showed her attentions
and promised to marry her. Defendant testified
that be never promised TO have her, nor marry
her nor make her his wife. Last January he
married somebody else, and hence tits suit
Ihe jury returned verdict for plaintiff, giving
her $1,000, the whole amount of damages
claimed.
AM Alexandra (Va) paper saws that Mr.. |
hight from the state of Maine, has purchased |
llOO acres densely covered with fine oak timber,
at go per acre. at Herndon station, for the pur-
pose above stated. The slaves, or shocks, will |
De Shlpped to the West Indies for market |
lhis factory will contain the best machinery |
tndt can De procured, and propelled by an |
elsnly morse power steam engine The estimate |
cost o. building and machinery is $4,000
washington correspondent OF the Portland
fresS says; Quite a little ripple has oc-
CURED among the community of a quiet town
~ your state, by current report that a lady
resident Of that place is engaged to mulatto
connected with an educational institution IN
tnls city. The lady was a teacher in this in
sHIuuon until last summer when she resigned
ana went north, and during her connection with
the college formed the attachment referred to-
considerable Indignation is expressed by men,
bers of the family, for the lady In question
moves in the best society,""
In the Androscoggin county supreme judicial
court the grand jury has risen without present.
ing any bills of Indictment against liquor sell
ICE IN lewiston The Journal says at the JAN
uary term, 1870, eighteen liquor indictments
were io9nd against Lewiston rumsellers; April
Term, 1870, thirty indictments were found
asallst Lewiston rumsellerS; September, 1870
Iweny-mne indictments were found against
ESmis'o IN iuinselers; April term, 1871, not a
sihgie Indictment! The fines of liquor sellers
at tne supreme court for the past GEAR and A
nan nave been from $1,000 10 $4,000 each term
an average OF more than double the entire crimi-
ha' eosts OF the county-almost exclusively paid
py Lewiston rumsellers. rN
me augusta correspondent of the Boston
S S;,il says; larger number of state pc n
Gn o AZ 3slng received at the adjutant gener-
al once than were made last wear. under the
aet winch was continued in force by the last
Fglsiatare another year. Last year the whole
number of applications received was 7f9 Of
which 656 were allowed. Iris year the nnn,her
of applications will probably reach 1000 INT not
more than seventy per cent. of this number. Il
is thought, will be allowed The greatest nun
Der of applications come from Bangor, Port
land, Augusta, Lewistown and Calais. Thes,
pensions are for the benefit of disabled soldier
and seamen who served in the war of 1861 OIL
the quota of Maine, and their dependents TIL,
amount appropriated by the state was $50 900
OF $4,000 less than the amount appropriated
last year.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
W. 6. Silsby has been appointed postmaster
at Troy, vice G. w. Whitney resigned.
The trial Of b. F. Brown, indicted for,burning
6ls saloon at Genre Harbor is progressing al
Osspee.
The tax paid by the railroads in New Hamp-
SHIRE during the last year was 1924, sO6.35, Of