Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-10

District. He attributes the defeat to party dis.
organization, apathy, bad management, and tc
the opposition of the anti-prohibitionistS to the
nominee for governor.
The railroad workmen at Claremont are max
ing quarter mile cut through the fair grounds
II is twenty-five feet deep.
Rochester has calf thirteen weeks old thai
| weighs 800 pounds, having gained three pounds
day since born. 1t is part Ayrshire and part
| Durham.
1t Is currently reported that the Cocheco man.
ulacturlng company propose purchasing the
new print works at Ashland, and move their
machinery hither. In that case the present
buildings will be male into cotton factories.
| The property has been offered at forty per cent
on the cost and this company has offered TWEEN
| ty-6ve.
Several matters in relation to the adminstra-
ton of affairs at the state prison are undergo,
| ing an investigation before the governor and
council. The officials of the institution are
| charged with negecting and -treating GIDEON
| Silver, convict who died recently. one oInceI
who resides outside of tine prison is charged
with privately carrying letters for the conVlcts,
which is against the regulations OF the institu-
| ton.
There will be meeting of the surviving mem
bers of the 4th regiment, N. H. ", at Memorial
Hall, Manchester, on Wednesday, April 26, at
II O'Clock A. NJ, TO make arrangements for re-
union and transact any other business that may
come before them. Every member of the regi-
ment is earnestly requested TO be present.
A New Hampshire widow, who sold neigh
Dor some hay and then concluded that she had
not charged him enough, ordered him away
when he came for it, and on his refusal to 60
attacked him with cudgel, and pulled his hair
until by flight he saved himself from aunihila-
ton.
The Rochester Courier locates the following in
that town: "a worthy woman who thought
her daughter rather TOO young TO receive calls
from very young gentleman, the other even
inO them broad hint ~ hot foot
first by calling the girl out of the room and
sending her to bed; and second, by taking into
the room huge slice of bread and butter, with
molasses attachment, and saying to the youth
in her kindest manner, There, hubby, take
this and go home; it is long way, and your
mother will be anxious"
There is considerable interest in the pension
| agency matter for New Hampshire. Judge
Cross of Manchester having held the position
ABOUT the usual time, new appointment will
probably be made soon. The number of PEN
| slonerS in the state will increase considerably
this year. A leading pension solicitor in New
Hampshire estimates the number of pensioners
of the war of 1872 in the state at about 500, of
whom perhaps one-tenth are widows.
The town of Bristol lately voted to raise $1,000,
If needed, TO pay an agent for the legal sale of
liquors, and resolved, by division of the house,
only three or four voters dissenting, that il is
the opinion and moral sentiment of the town
| that all good citizens should, under any and all
| circumstances, abstain from the illegal sale Of
| Intoxicating liquors, so soon as the town shall
provide for the legal sale thereof.
Mr.. Howard johnson, son of Hon. James H
johnson, of Bath, graduate of the Dartmouth
| scientific school, and lately connected with the
| engineers department of the Connecticut Val
ley railroad, has just sailed for South America,
under an engagement with great railroad cor
| poratOn in Peru, now constructing long line
| of track up into the mountains. He is to receive
$500 month and expenses in his new engage
ment.
John Proctor, Esq, of Audover, offered to give
the town of Andover $1,000 towards eXtinguish
ing the town debt, if the town would pay off the
entire debt of $50, 900 during the coming politi
cal year. He further proposed, if the town
| would pay one-half the debt this year, and the
remainder next, to give 5000 towards it the first
year and S11O0 the next; or if the town would
pay the debt in three years, one third each year
he would give $500 the first year, 500 the
second, and $500 the third. The town accepted
the last proposition.
CONNECTICUT.
Manufacturing items: New silk mill, Gurley
vile; table factory Daren; silk mill at Rock
vile enlarged; factory, New Haven, enlarged
paper mill, Norwich, running night and day.
The Stonngton Mirror having lively sens
of the uncertainty of the late gubernatorial cleo
ton in Connecticut and being short of "roost
ers," parades the cut of buffalo.
The Norwich Bulletin objects to the statemen
III tue opy, lew Gays ago, that Wlndhan
county, with perhaps a single exception ha
given larger majority for the republican candi
date since 1860 than all the other counties pu
together, and says: ooh, mol Give Windhan
| county due credit, but do not exagrerate.
two elections since 1860 New London count,
alone has given larger majority for the repu6
| Gcan candidate than Windham county," The
estimate did seem rather large, but the state
| ment was made on the authority of an editorial
| IN the Wlndham county republican paper and
| we have been under the impression that. on
| such matters at least, the Transcript cannot
| tell lie"
The smuggling of bay oil and rum from the
| West Indies 10 New Haven has been carried on
pretty extensively for the last year, and the can
tain of avessel which recently arrived there, be-
| ing warned of danger, threw $1,000 worth of the
stuff overheard in the harbor, to avoid detec.
| ton.
| RHODE ISLAND.
Manufacturing items: New mill at Woon-
| socket; resumption of hosiery mill Greepyille:
| jewery factories Providence increased, fire en-.
| gine supply factory enlarged new assaying and
| and smelling works.
| A dispatch from New York says that "Johr
| Stebbins, alias Mosey Stebbins, the celebrated
forger, released from the Rhode Island staff
| prison, was arrested in Putnam county, N. Y.
and brought to this city for passing forged
| check"
The Woonsocket Patriots map of the new
towns, like that published in the Providence
Journal has no mention of the famous OLE
Branch Village" which contains one of tn
best water privileges in the state, and was ono
the home of some of the most prominent mel
| in that section.
IT H. STOCKWELL, OPT1c1AX