Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-28
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.
o., uoeSnan WAS in BOSTON on Wednesday


Gov Hoffman was in Boston on Wednesday
en- route for the White Hills.
The prospectus of Mr.. Gilm0res great
"World's Peace Jubilee" will be made public
this morning. The country will receive it
gladly and heartily respond to it.
Mr.. Lysander Jones, of South Boston, for
over twenty years connected with the express
between Boston and Hyannis, has resigned that
position on account of his health. Mr.. Jones
has won many friends upon that route, and his
loss will be deeply regretted.
At meeting Of the Massachusetts temperance
alliance at Boston, on the 26th, the merits OF the
several candidates for governor were discussed.
Rev. Dr. Marvin said he had talked with General
Butler, who would soon publish manifesto,
wherein he would plant himself firmly on the
prohibitory platform, and in case OF his noml-
nation and election, if Boston cast her vote
against him, he would make the city as hot for
rumselers as he made New Orleans for rebels.
There was a disposition to indorse the general
on the spot, but the alliance finally decided to
wait his written pledge.
MlDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Mrs Observation-Disclosures was in Lowell on
Monday, the guest of Rev, Henry Blanchard of
the Unitarian church.
A Lowell man, who had taken out marriage
certificate one day last week, was so disconso-
late at finding the bride to be dead drunk when
he called at her house, that he at once proposed
to another woman ten years younger, was ac-
cepted, got new certificate and was married,
all on the same day.
Herbert W. Mellen, son of c. B. Mellen, re-
siding on Carleton street, Lowell, shot himself
on Tuesday evening, but whether accidentally
or otherwise is not known. He was in his
chamber preparing for change of clothes TO 90
out, and his mother was in the room with him
at the time The ball entered the right temple,
and was taken out on the opposite side, near the
top of the head His age was twenty-one. lie
was machinist and young man of excellent
habits.
The reports which have been sent abroad re-
garding the prevalence of small poX in Lowell
have caused no little feeling on the subject, and
the authors of the articles are subjects of severe
censure The lofiical records, as examined
daily from the time of the report of the first case,
six months since, show of small poX and vario-
loid 161 cases and 81 deaths. This, in city of
a population of over 10000, is less than the re-
ported deaths of consumption during the same
period.
The democracy of Lowell having endured
ten years experience of inorganic life, is now
awakening, and two full-dyed democratic daily
and weekly organs are promised. Charles Hunt,
formerly publisher of the Advertiser and on
whose hands it expired, proposes to resume its
publication, and has in aid received substantial
assurances from the party. James Smith, the
present owner of the Dover, N. H., Gazette, will,
on the first of August, or on some subsequent
day, begin the publication Of a daily, probably
to be called the Middlesex Democrat. Mr..
Joshua Worster, formerly connected with the
Portsmouth Times and States and Union, is me-
gotiating for the purchase of the Gazette.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Arrangements are being made for the public
library of Plymouth to be in Pilgrim hall"
Six large double bookcases have been placed in
this hall and in a short time it will be opened
for that purpose. 1t is suggested that by this
arrangement the entrance fee now charged
strangers will be done away with.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
In speaking OF the statement, published Tues
day in our dispatches, regarding the recent re-
gatta, the Springfield Republican says: "This
statement will doubtless be received with in
credulity, on the general ground that it is i'm
possible TO row three-mile siX-oared race in the
time here recorded-16 minutes, 46 10 seconds
But the remarkably favorable conditions under
which the race of Friday was rowed should not
be forgotten. The water was as smooth as
glass; the race was pulled with the current; and
there was no stake to turn. Besides, the Am
herst boys pulled like grim death, causing their
boat to shoot through the water at a velocity
which seemed to all who saw it utterly unex-
ampled. Then the question arises, if Harvard
can pull three miles and turn stake-bOat in
17.4S ~, and Yale can do likewise in II Az 1-2-
both which achievements are matters of record
cannot the stalwart Amherst crew pull three
miles without turn, and with every condition
eminently favorable, in minute less2 The
timekeepers believe that it is not only possible,
but that it is an accomplished fact These
official figures place the time of the agricultural
crew ahead of any other ever made, and gives
them glory such as no one would have thought
possible before the race"
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Professor Seelye of Amherst college, who has
preached with great acceptance at the Second
Congregational church, Norwich Conn.,, has
been engaged to fill that pulpit during the
month of August.
VERMONT.
Capt. Hinckley has for many years run the
ferry between Charlotte, VT, and Essex, n. Y,
and knows every inch of soundings between the
two points. A few days since as he was cross
ing the lake, the keel of his boat struck some
thing three times heavily. II created no little
alarm, fearing that the craft had struck sunk
en- rock. But there is abundance of water at
that point to float the largest vessel on the lake.
so the mystery remains unexplained.
On Monday afternoon last the proprietor of
the Lake Memphremagog house received dis
patch asking that rooms might be reserved for
General Sherman and party. Ii was at once
supposed that General w. T. Sherman, who
once made a somewhat memorable march to
the sea, was shortly to reach this well known
resort. The patriotic landlord and other in-
dividuals at once held a small mass meeting,
and it was determined that the general should
be received with all the honOrs, Unfortunately
to the residents of Derby Line. telegraph
was dispatched to bring down the national en-
blem by the next train. II was also concluded
that salute would be in order, aud piece of
artillery was soon brought into position be-
tween the depot and the hotel As the train
came in, bang, bang, bang, went the piece to
the utter astOnishment of the passengers on the
train, who at first imagined that a nitro-glycer-
Inc explosion had taken place. A succession of
bangs followed, which destroyed some thirty
panes OF glass in the hotel, besides frightening
half the horses in town. The hero of this grand
ovation alighted from the cars, and when he
registered his name as F. T. Sherman of Chi
eago there was another grand explosion, and
some one exclaimed ''sold" so loudly that il
woke the echoes of the old Memphremagog.
They have been laughing all along the line at
this grand ovation. The genuine W. I. S. is
quietly enjoying himself at st. Adams.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
A four year old boy at Manchester found a
pint bottle of whiskey in the attic of his fathers
house day or two ago. He is dead.
The graduating class in the scientific depart
ment at Dartmouth will hereafter have a part in
the commencement exercises.
Another shock of earthquake occurred in
New Hampshire about II O'Clock on the oath,
according 10 reports from WOlfboro'
Mr.. Israel Foss of STAFFORD goes to the head
OF the heavy weights. He tips the scales at $40
pounds. His age is seventy.
OAoAAf HAs AeJOlheOu NdSuudb Tetlrlnq civ
marshal, was given a gold watch and chain
worth $3.50, by his friends there, on Monday
evening.
Rev. DR.. Barstow, for thirty-seven years past
q trustee of Dartmouth college, has resigned
that position, and is succeeded by Rev. Josiah G.
Davis, ID. D., of Amherst
Two hundred guests dined at the Tip-Top
house on the 2lst of July. There was a little
snow squall about five o'clock Monday morning
on the mountain.
Asa T. Cate of Mortified, has been confirmed
as Judge OF probate for Merrimac county. and n
new sheriff for Rockingham, and registers of
probate for Sullivan and Carroll counties win be
appointed next week
Professor Hitchcock and his party recently
discovered beautiful lake about two hundred
feet below the summit Of Haystack mountain. of
winch nothing was previously known. This
lake has an altitude of 1881 feet above the level
Of the sea, and is paralelogram in form.
measuring some eighteen rods in length. II 4
hemmed in by craggy bluffs and thick foliage.
A Concord express Office has a coffin 10 dis.
pose Of 1t was ordered for a man i'm a neioh.
boring town who was deadly sick as his friends
thought, but who, after the coffin was ordered
Immediately began TO mend, and is now likely
10 get well. The party ordering the coffin don't
think it handy thing to have in the house
and expects the express company to find stor,
age for it until wanted
Mrs. Chloe b. Cummings, wife of the yenera
Die Kew, DIR. CumminOs in Conaord 1;ad su1