Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-06
Gloucester aailp Spp,
New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


The water in Lake Cochituate has risen two
feet and ten inches during the past ten days.
"Templeton," of the Hartford Courant, infer
entially reflects on the Boston doctors by saying
in regard to Collector RusSelPs recent illness
"He had large attendance of physicians, bu
is likely fully to recover"
Moses Mellen, of Boston, in circulating peti
ton TO the legislature for an appropriation o
$4,000 in aid of the Washingtonian HON
building fund, obtained the signatures of sixt,
tax payers who represent capital to the amour
of nearly 100000 900.
The number of deaths in Boston for the weel
ending March 4was lis. From consumption q
Inflammation of the lungs 70, heart disease 4
old age l, Group 8. OF the whole number, 2
were under one year of age, and 46 under fiv
years o. 40. American parentage IS, foreign 81
The Boston market is now flooded with west
ern poultry, and almost every commission hous
is full. The mild weather keeps prices wei
down, and all kinds of western fowls are sellin
cheaper than at any time this season, many o
the heavy dealers who bad large consignment
being "stuck," and anxious to close out at som
price.
Fourteen hundred tons of coal are consumed
annually at the Boston city hospital. The Goa
is bought ut the mines in large quantihesj ana
shipped directly to the wharf of the institution,
which is Immediately in the rear OF the hospl'
tai.
In four DAYS of last week there were received
in Boston 500 boxes of eastern eggs, making in
all 600 900 eggs Western eggs were also re-
ceived in large quantities, and sOutherh eggs
from Virginia and Tennessee are yearly work
ing this way for a market.
The reeeipts of provisions in Boston market
for the month of February were as follows :;
1892 bbls pork, 1916 bbls SO tierces beef, 291
bbls, 653S terces $50 cases lard, 1879 bbls 1000
tierces hams and shoulders, 22S bbs 1858 ticrces
grease 574 bbls tierces tallow 442 bbls tongues,
20, 1858 dressed hogs, and Il PCS green hams.
The whole numbpr Of f0rpiO0 vessels arri vino
at Boston during the month of February was as
follows: Steamers 5, ships s. barques "a, briggs
4S, schooners 50, of which II were from the East
Indies, from Africa, from Liverpool, from
London, 8 from South America, II from the
Mediterranean Sea, and Al from the West In
dies.
An old man named John Sanborn, from New
Hampshire, went to Charlestown few weeks
ago and slept at the house of his nephew. Fri
day he complained at the station that he had
been robbed while intoxicated Search being
made, his watch was found in his nephew's
wfe's trunk, and she was arrested in a drunken
condition.
The fair, held in Boston, in aid of the Coon
sumptives' home" which closed on Saturday
evening, was a success. The amount realized
from the sale of the Webster autographs, given
bv Hon Peter Harvey was about 5000 large
number of the legislature, and other officials ut
the state house were present on Friday evening.
The pleasure of the occasion was enhanced by
the fact that the management allowed no
rafting, and visitors were not bored by impOr-
tunities TO buy articles.
Walter Brown, the champion oarsman died
at the residence of his mother, in Newburg, n.
Y, on Friday, at the age of twenty-eght years.
A violet cold, contracted about four weeks ago,
by oyer-eXertion at the time his boat house, in
Boston, was destroyed by the ice, was the cause
Of his death. The Boston physician in attend
ance, called his ailment an attack of Bright's
Of no Iii hnfi xuas bxy
the Newburg physician to be enlargement of the
spleen.
A Boston paper says: at is a little remarka
bic that whenever a count is taken in either
branch of the legislature the number Of absentees
will generally average one-third, sometimes
more. The house last year authorized thu
clerk to publish the names of those absent on
call of that branch, but this year this rule wa
stricken out. Some few may be absent on com
mittee work, but the majority are shirkers, whit
will no doubt accept full pay for their work a
so much per diem"
George c. Hatch of Cambridge, who has beer
missing for ten days, returned home on Mon
day. He says he remembers nothing after leav
ing home until he found himself in the New
York city hospital, when he was at once dis
charged on regaining his senses. Having ne
money he walked to Hartford Conn.,, on his
way home, and from there he was sent Il
Springfield by one of the posts of the G. A. R..
and from the latter place the post there sent hin
home.
The Boston Journal says: "The parrot, which
nearly all our merchants on State street are Sc
familiar with, died on the 2Sth ult., at the shoI
of Mr.. Quinn, ON Exchange street. This birC
was imported in 1920 by Capt. Brown of Bever
", and sold to Mr.. Tasigi in 1882, to be present
ed to the Turkish ambassador, with two Others
but arrived too late, and this one was presented
10 Mr.. Quinn, who has owned him since tina
time Polly was very fond of crying fire, and
at n
were on Elm street, near Wild's hotel, he
aroused the whole household, they supposing
that the house was on fire. He was supposed to
be upward of sixty years of age when he died"
The steady and wealthy growth of Boston is
very perceptibly felt at the City hall, where the
heads of the departments have an opportunity
10 contrast 1871 with the labor required even a
few years ago. The annexation of RoXbury and
Dorchester and the natural increase is nowhere
more fully eXemplitied than in the assessors de-
partment. In 1860 the number of pages on
which were inscribed the names of tax payers
and the real and personal estate of each was
7O11, and the number of bills issued Al 1866. In
1870 the number of pages covered was II ,527
and the number of bills issued 1896. The
assessors took the different wards in eighteen to
twenty days, but last year they were from forty
five to fifty days. In 1860 the total valuation
was S276, 1851 900, and in 1870 1884, 0S9, 400.
These figures show the increase of work in one
department, and it is relatively the same in
Others.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
George Francis Train has elevated the limo
cents of Waltham 10 the seventh heaven by
promising them that in 1872, "when he is presi-
dent" Waltham will be the banner town Of the
nation, its population shall be increased to
100 900, and its river lined with manufactures.
The Sentinel seems TO half believe it.
A seandalous affray occurred on Merrimack
street in Lowell on the 4th, in which John Bar
no and Charles Carey were shot nv ,IOspnh w
Purcell, a saloon keeper. The fracas was pro-
vOked by Carey, who assaulted Purcell, il is
said, with knife. Carey and Barnard's wounds
are in the arm, and are slight Carey was intox
icated when arrested. The examination will
probably be held on Monday morning.
ESSEX COUNTY.
An exchange says: Lawrence, with popu-
lation of 10000 is chiefly proud of the fact that
it can turn out an operate audience 1000 strong"
The total expense Of the Peabody obsequies to
the town was S5312 67, expended as follows:
COLLATION., S230T .19; coaches S1241 music, 1888;
mourning decorations, including funeral car,
$603.75; advertising and printing, S13215; floral
decorations, 500; and other smaller items TO
make up the amount The whole expense is
much less than was anticipated.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Rev. Mr.. Roberts has accepted the passionate of
the New Bedford North Christian church.
Rev. Dr. D. NJ. Graham, Of Chicago, was on
Thursday installed pastor of the Weir street
Free Baptist church of Taunton.
AT the New Bedford Institution for Savings
the funds reached the amount Of S6,000,000 one
day last week.
Dr. Ira Simpson died in Taunton Thursday
evening. He had been a resident of that town
Tor many years, and his loss is deeply felt.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A resident Of West6eld, who served in the
war, and who, for the past four years, has ab-
scented himself from his wife and child, recently
returned to visit his dying father. He found
ms wife married to another man, report
having reached her, and gained credence among
ms acquaintance, that the wanderer was
drowned about two years ago. He arrived Just
IN time TO see his father die. And now. it hap
pens that the father, believing his son dead, had
made will, in which he, the only lawful heir,
(Darrlng the widows thrd) is said to be left
out, while the property, variously estimated at
from $4,000 TO $4,000, is supposed TO be be-
queathed partly to his stepmother and her
children by a former husband, who have no
hereditary claim upon it. His wife finds herself
with two husbands, but it is said that the wan
dering soldier boy has no wish TO disturb the re.
lations last formed, and will leave the woman
and her two children, one by her second mar
rage, IN the charge of her second choice, al
though they are not legally married.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
In spite Of the large amount of snow and rain
WITHIN the last few months, water is still very
scarce at NOrtl0mutOp Tho nann1a faar thof