Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-02
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New EnElnnd News summary.

enulnG SATURDAY, dec. 81, was lO5 VI tnls
number twenty-one died of consumption, foul
Of Group, FIVE of dropsy on the brain, five oi
scarlet fever, and four Of heart disease. Of the
whole number TWENTY-FIVE were under one yeai
Of age and forty ,snder five years. American
parentage, thirty-four; foreign parentage, sixty
nine.
The jury in the case of Joseph w Dale OF
Lowell, against VIM. G. Harris of Boston, to
recover $4,000 for slanderous epithets applied
by the defendant to the plaintiff, after an alb
sence from the court room of about one hour
returned with verdict for the plaintiff, assess.
ing damages to the amount of S210O. The supe'
Iior court then adjourned until one week from
to-day.
In his valedictory- Mayer Shurtlef saws; "The
three years that l have presided in this hall
form an epoch in the history of our good city
unsurpassed, if not unequaled, by any number
Of years that have been comprised in any other
administration. Peculiar circumstances have
led TO this Great public Improvements have
been commenced, most of which have been pros
ecuted to completion, which will make the dc
ings of your board and those of the two imme
diately preceding remembered in the future an
mails of the city as the years Of progress. Many
of these have cost much money, as well as
thought and labor and | do not hesitate TO say,
most emphatically, that no good citizen, let him
hold as tight as he pleases to his purse-strngs,
will wish the work undone and the money back
in the treasury. These works have been for
good, and will stand the test of all coming time.
Let me congratulate you then for the good at
tanned; for know that / reflect the sentiments
Of all good citizens who have the welfare of our
city and its people at heart when do so. What
these works of progress are | need not recount
TO you nor partieularize. You know them well
They can be seen all over our beloved city with
out finger point, and they speak most conalu-
sivelv for themselves. You have made the
crooked ways straight; the narrow you have
widened and the abrupt and short you have
graded and extended"
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The ice in the Merrimac is about nine inches
thick, and cutting viii begin by some parties to-
day.
The closing of the past six months, in many
of the cotton mills of Lowell and other places,
is said TO show a better condition than was an
ticipated. The decline in cotton, it was feared,
would materially affect them, but more rigid
economy may possibly have couuterbalanCed it.
The water in the Merrimac river is very low
and causes some anxiety for the manufacturers
as TO the winter supply. The flow of water is
less than at any time since 1857, and the reser-
yoirs are exhausted The utmost economy is
enioined on the corporations by the agents of
the Lowell water power company.
The elegant new Green grammar shool house
on merrlmac street, Lowell, was dedicated on
the 31st ult. by exercises, addresses being made
by Dr. John Z. L. Green, for whom the school
is named, c. Morrill,, Esq, superintendent of the
public schools, Mr.. Lawton, the principal, the
mayor and Others. DIR. Green's address was
quite lengthy, and full of interest, he having
been identified with the public instruction in
our common schools since 1928. The structure
is the most elegant of our public buildings.
ESSEX COUNTY.
On the Both ult., VIM. Cleveland, about fifty
eight years of age, committed suicide in Ando-
yer b. throwing himself into well head fore
most. The deceased was a native of Dover, and
had removed to Andover from Providence re-
Gently Pecuniary losses are supposed 10 have
induced insanity, under the influence of which
the act was committed.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
Eel fishing is quite remunerative in the town
of Chatham. Eighteen dollars worth of cells
were taken out of Oyster pond on the 23d inst
by one man.
Maine has produced a saving machine which
the other day sawed a cord of wood in five min
ntes and half, cutting each stick twice.
The population of Alfred is twelve huRdrcd
and nineteen showing a decrease of thirty-six
since 1860
The ice business on the Kennebec river has
already created large demand for the article,
giving it positive commercial value.
Mrs. Polly Newell, of Winslow, aged about
eighty years, was found dead IN her bed Thurs
day morning, terribly burned. She probably
suffered death from burning and suffocation.
Arrangements are being made for a billiard
tournament to be held in Bath in few weeks.
Two Of the best players in the state will exhibit
their skill.
The only fuel used in the steam mills of the
kennebec land and lumber company in Augusta
and Pttston, is the sawdust produced from the
manufacture of lumber.
Nequasset bridge, on the line of the Knox and
Lincoln railroad, was crossed for the first time
last week by a train consisting of eight cars, two
of these being fiat cars laden with fifteen tons of
railroad iron each, being transported ahead OF
the engine. This test was perfectly satisfactory.
The Limerick academy was destroyed by fire
TvtaHu Nfn laNan
near the steeple. The building had recently
been extensively repaired. Loss over $1,000.
There was a school of eighty students in attend
anee this term, and its loss will be much felt in
that locality.
The Portland Press SAYS that the number of
prosecutions for violations of the liquor law
have been much more numerous in that state
during the past year than ever before, and that
the amount OF the fines imposed and collected is
also many thousand dollars larger than for any
year before.
The Bath Times says a large and vicious rat
which had troubled an establishment in that
city, upon being caught in a trap was doomed
10 the tender mercies of a noted rat-terrier. The
dog was brought-the cage was opened and the
combat deepened. We will only say that that
rat is still at large enjoying the holidays, having
whipped that dog, four broomsticks eighteen
bTickbats, and two small boys very easily
The following particulars are given of the
tragedy already mentioned in our dispatches =
Geo. Page colored man, and Increase e. Wat
son, both employed in Whitman's agricultural
works in Winthrop, had an alteration which
resulted in the killing of Page by Watson. The
quarrel arose from the refusal OF Watson to
allow Page to saw up some lumber which had
been prepsred for the manufacture of wheel
l,9rrn;,s. Watson struck Page with hard wood
stick, from which blow he did not recover, dying
about six O'Clock in the evening. No scars APP
pear on the head. There had previously been
no tiou5le between the parties concerned in the
nnF ton aYalh hot
munity.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Simc0ok lodge of Odd Fellows at Pittsfeld
which has been suspended for some years, has
been revived The new lodge was opened with
appropriate exercises
The Manchester Spiritualists are said TO be in
fourisbing condition, having engaged large
hall for Sunday services.
VIM F. Fernald of Portsmouth has ship on
the stocks, the only one, it is said, from Maine
TO Florida. He has just sold the vessel for $780,
000
0thniel Cross, one of the few remaining vet
Grams of the war OF 1872, died at Contoocookyille
on the 10Th ult, at the age of seventy-nine years
and seven months. Mr.. Z. lost an arm at the
battle of York, Upper Canada.
b. F. Brown Of Moultonboro, charged with
setting fire TO his house and two barns in Centre
HaTbor for the purpose of gaining the insur-
ance, is now being tried at Sandwich. The
proof is said to be conclusive
Inc ulutl1-slAJu DlfInuay OF capt. seth w 00d-
bury, Of Goffstown, was celebrated in an appro-
pirate manner on the 9th ult. He is a native
Of Gloucester, Mass, and was born in 1774. He
followed the seas many years, and was long
time citizen Of Beverly, Mass.
Jonathan Celley, who had been about thirty
years resident of Manchester, and who was in
the ninety 9th year of his age, was found dead
in his bed on the morning Of the 81st ult He
was awake at six O'Clock and appeared as well
as usual. He was a native of Ware and had al
ways enjoyed remarkably good health He was
the father of twelve children and survived them
all.
VERMONT.
Edwin Hammond, ESQ.,, prominent citizen
of Middlebury, died on the 31st ult., at the age
of seventy years. He was the most celebrated
Of American sheep breeders, and was largely
identified with the agricultural interests and as
soclations of the county, and founder of the Yer
mont state agricultural society The funeral
will be attended to-day.
CONNECTICUT.
joint stock co npany is forming at Meriden
with the object Of prosecuting liquor dealers
under the new law, which makes "adulteration"
a crime
Walter House of Glastonbury, whose house
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