Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-11
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New England News summary.

New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Osgood & Co., of Boston, have placed some
10000 volumes for sale at the annual fall book
trade sale opening in New York next Wednes-
day. Donahue, of Boston, has line of Catho'
lie works for the same sale.
Grace Clough, the girl arrested for persistent
attempt to blackmail well known ciflzen OF
Boston, has confessed that she was forced TO
play the part by one Thomas r. Stafford, VINO
threatened to kill her unless she would assume
to be his wife, and complain that the citizen
aforesaid had grossly insultcd her both parties
to the swindc have been arrested.
Ii is said of a late member of the Boston bar,
that once meeting, in the season OF dog days,
The estimable son Of father of rather equivocal
reputation, in an absent minded moment he
amazed him by iuquiring how the old gentleman
stood the heat. The old gentleman had been
dead two months.
A provision dealer at Boston has Just received
an unsigned note lin the handwriting of ic
malc) acknowledging that he kept a very nice
market, but expressing surprise that he should
pass back and forth tfrOm his house TO his store
with his white frock on, the writer regarding il
rs an insult to the ladies" in the neighbor
hood.
The number of deaths in Boston for the week
ending at noon Saturday was ll3. of these II
were caused by couSumpti0hs 16 by cholera in
fantum 9 by typhoid fever, s by marasmus,
by accident, 6 by diarIhea, each by heart dis
ease, disease of kidneys, and premature birth, .
each by inflammation of the bowels, brain dis
ease, diptheria, debility, whooping cough, in.
flammaton and congestion of the lungs, and
tumor. There were So males and SIS females,
and IS were of American and rs of foreign pa
rentage.
AT a meeting of The executive committee OF
the Massachusetts woman suffrage association,
Thursday, at Boston, it was voted TO address
memorials on behalf of woman suffrage 10 the
state conventions of every political organization,
asking each to express an opinion IN laYor OF
woman'S right 10 vote, and TO take steps 10 pro-
mote it. A Subcommittee was appointed, CON
sistinr of Rev James Freeman Clarke, Dr. AleIs
cv r. Jackson and Henry B. Blackwell, with
instructions " so TO frame these memorials as TO
t,lace the application on the highest grounds of
principle and public welfare, and thus TO repel
beforehand the possible charge that the woman
suffrage party offers a pledge, express or i'm
piled, in exchange for an act of justice"
On Friday evening the jury appointed to in
ycstigate the catastrophe met at the Revere sta
ton for the purpose of trying certain expert
lncnts with lights on the Chelsea curve and at
the Revere station. About quarter past eight
O'Clock, a car containing superintendent Pres
colt and Edwin Ashcroft, drawn by the locomo-
tive d. A. Neal, left the Eastern station and
proceeded to Revere, where the Jury was as
sembed. The car, with two tail lights at
tached, was then left upon the track as nearly
as possible in the same position as was the rear
VI bNNOii ~ bldiii lliG iilit Vi dCCl-
dent. Three of the jury remained ON the car,
and the other three stood in the cab of the en-
CINE, which ran back to Chelsea until it was lost
sight of. The engine was then reversed land
ran up towards the car at Revere. Immediately
before it got up to the tide bridge. which is
about 600 feet distant from the overhead
bridge and 2,400 feet from Revere, the whistle
was blown. 1t was about this point that the
tail lights were first seen from the engine and
the head light OF the engine was first seen from
the train. 1t was thus shown that the tail lights
on this occasion were seen some distance before
they were seen on the night of the accident
MDDLEsEX COUNTY.
AT an unusually large caucus at Waltham, on
Saturday night, resolution instructing the del
egates to vote for Butler in the state republican
was promptly voted down.
Rev. Smith Baker, Jr., of 0rono, Me-, will be |
installed as pastor of the First Congregational |
church. Lowell, on Wednesday evening next. |
This society is one of the most Furnishing in our
city.
The monthly payment of Lowell for last |
month is S126.746 A, a larger amount than for |
any month since the incorporation of the city. |
The fire alarm telegraph, the water works and
streets were the main cause for this increase
Mr.. Craig, of LcominsteT, who was injured at
Lowell, Friday evening, at the Northern depot
by being run over by an engine, died shortly af
ter at the st. Johns hospital, where he was car
ried after the amputation. The unfortunate man
leaves wife and family.
The receipts of the New England fair were
nearly $4,000; last year, nearly S2S, 900. The
bills are not yet all in, but it is probable the net
receipts will be fully equal TO 1870. The total
number of single admission tickets sold during
the fair was 552; for single horses, 172S; sea
son horses and exhibition tickets, Sol, and rail-
road tickets IA 900.
John Taylor and James Davis, arrested the
second day of the New England fair while tax
ing the cars for Boston, charged as pickpockets,
were examined in the Lowell police court, Sat
urday morning, and both held in $1,000 each for
their appearance in the superior court in Octo-
Der.
The freight train over the Stony Brook road
on Friday evening, became unshackled, which
was unknown to the engineer, and on the down
grade between West and North Chelmsford, the
detached part of the train run into the other nm
loading a granite block and throwing some
dozen cars from the track. No person was in
jured, but trains over the road were delayed.
The horticultural school for women in New
ton, opened last year as an experiment, has
proved a success in the education of young la
dies, for the carrying on or superintendent of
garden farms or greenhouses During the year
the eight young ladies of the class have spent
from SIX 10 eight hours daily in the garden or
greenhouse, doing all the work except the
heaviest and coarsest, and as the fruit of their
toll have supplied the families of dozen or
more amply with vegetables. Each has given
from thirty TO forty minutes daily to Rotations
in botany, &C. Now one of the young ladies is
about TO start a greenhouse and garden at ia
maica Plain, and another at some other point
near Boston.
ESSEX COUNTY.
AT Lynn, the returns for last week show that
47G7 cases of boots and shoes were shipped
against 40S4 in the corresponding week of last
year, showing an increase of 677 cases.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The proposition is seriously entertained of
ppO ff,tr bn
on the narrow gauge plan, with track three feet
wide.
BRISTOL COUNTY
At Taunton, on Friday, Richard Prtchard
fell from the roof of house he was Stating, in
consequence of the staging giving way, and
broke his neck. He was twenty-seyen years of
aye.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Bernardston sends Washburn men to the state
convention at Worcester.
MAINE.
Speaker Blaine authorizes the editor of the
Kennebec journal to sell his "princely" property
in Washington for $4,000, and to pay a very
large commission to anybody who will get that
price for it.
The wife of Mr. Eben Milliken, of Brdgton.
presented him with a daughter on the ID inst,
the twentieth child with which providence has
favored Mr.. Miliken.
The people of Norway are agitating the pro-
priety of building a railroad from that town to
Mechanic Falls, there to connect with pro-
posed road to Lewiston.
The annual meeting Of the Dexter and New
port railroad company was held in Dexter last
week. The old board of directors was re-elect-
ed. No other business of importance came be-
fore the meeting.
A citizen Of Skowhegan, while charging the
cellar OF his house, came across the entire skel-
eton of man, in an erect position. How long
1t had been there or how it came there, he could
NOT tell. The tenement nearest to it, says the
reporter, was at one time occupied by physi-
clan, who has since moved TO the west.
Palermo correspondent of the Belfast Age
mentions an amusing political incident which
happened in that town on the 21st inst. II seems
that the caucuses of both republicans and dem
ocrats for nominating candidates for represent
alive, were, by some misunderstanding, called
at the same time and place, and both parties
met in the same room. At the suggestion of
some person both parties remained in the room
and the business was gone through with the
republicans making their nominations first and
the democrats looking on, and vice versa. The
best of order and good feeling was NANTES led
The Journal says: "a new industry is carried