Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-30
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New England News SUMMARY.

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public schools, having been told that reptile
s's an animal that creeps," on being asked TO
name one on examination day, promptly re-
piled, "the baby"
free soup from Feb. 10th to March 27th at cost
of $500. The article supplied was fish or clam |
cbowder and of excellent quality.
The Boston Journal says: "The subscriptions
for the museum OF fine arts are coming in we'll,
and as yet very little personal solicitation has
been used. 1t is hoped that the sim of 100000
will be completed in the next sixty DAYS. The
success of the institution will thus be secured"
The workingwomen's league, having dedi-
Gated and formally opened its rooms at No. IS
Hanover street, Boston, is now in operation. 1t
maintains at the same place an intelligence
bureau, where workingwomen can register their
names for employment without expense to them
selves, and it makes a special feature of in
structing women in different branches of skilled
labor. Daily PRAYER meetings are held at noon.
The annual meeting of the Massachusetts tenn
perance society was held on Tuesday, at Boston,
the president, Rev Andrew Bigelow, in the
chair The report of the treasurer showed a per-
maneut fund of S10,400. The death of Captain
Robert B. Storer, treasurer Of the society, was
then referred TO By the president, and the Gus
tomary resolutions of respect TO his memory
were adopted. Officers of the society for the
ensuing year were then elected as follows Rev.
Andrew Bigelow president; Isaac Sweetser, sec
rotary and treasurer; Ezra Farusworth, W. H.
Spooner and Tileston, councillors. The meeting
then adjourned.
Isaac B. Sawtell, better known as yankee
Doodle" is Boston institution that early risers |
can see any morning, betweed seven and eight |
O'Clock, perambulating Washington street, |
whistling the national air. The propretorsof |
this whistle is a cobber by trade, and the tune |
he has adopted as his trademark, and by it
heralds his coming. He is man of sixty, sim
gularly dressed, and when he has gathered a
back-load of boots and shoes that need mend
ing, he happily trudges to his shop, away up
among the 1000s on Washington street, whis-
ting the same tune all the while, and duly
whistling them back to their owners when re-
paired. He has been thus engaged for thirteen
years, and has acquired quite a fortune by his
industry.
ESSEX COUNTY
An absurd story is going the rounds of the
press to the effect that gentleman of Peabody
was i'll for about fifteen months with what APP
peared to be paralysis of the throat when one
day, to the astonishment of himself and friends
he coughed up an entire upper set of false teeth
He swallowed them while AISLE p, fifteen months
previous, and looked in vain for them the next
morning. Next
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Erastus Glover, young man, employed at the |
Quincy almshouse as barber, was found drowned |
in ditch at that place, Sunday morning, hay- |
ing fallen from intoxicaton Saturday night
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Monday forenoon the large pulley which |
drives the weaving department in the Durfee |
mill broke and two pieces of the face each |
800 or 400 pounds, were thrown off into the en- |
CINE room. NJ. Thomas Burgess, head ma |
chanist of the mill, was in the engine room at |
the door leading into the mill, when one of the |
pieces struck him on the back, inhcting Sc
we're flesh wound, and knocking him down, and |
falling upon his left ankle produced compound |
comminuted fracture. AT the same moment |
one of the flying fragments broke a two-inch |
steam pipe, filing the room with a dense vol |
ume of steam Mr.. Burgess though terribly in |
Jured, had the presence Of mind to crawl to- |
ward the north door of the engine room, some
twenty feet distant, dragging his broken limb
after him. No other person was injured. The
entire mill is stopped in consequence of the ac-
cident, but will probably start in day or two.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The town OF Southwick has paid SOB, interest
on its proportion of the state tax for 1867 1868 |
and 1869, for delay in payment
Preparations are being made by the North |
blandiord cheese company for making up the |
milk of 800 cows the coming summer.
Mrs. Scott Siddons bad full house at West |
field, Monday evening, and will read there again,
this time for the 7. M. c. A, April 49,
The 800 Catholics in Westfeld did as much |
last year toward contributing to the coming gen-
Grafton as the 5000 Protestants. There's food for
reflection.
country merchant in Maine, who has been
bored by runners" has declared his intention
when more than ten of them fellers come into
my store at once" to hand them over to the DO
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NEW HAMPSHIRE
The dwelling house of Samuel Hannux in
Lancaster, was burned on Monday night. Cause,
bad chimney; loss $500; no insurance
Edward Brown and Edward Evans were ex-
amined at Franklin, before Justice Kendrick, on
Monday, and bound over for appropriating S78
from companion during social carousa on
Sunday last. Brown gave bail, but Evans is
likely to GO to Jail for want thereof.
The Statesman says: 1t is not less than forty
years since an lnhabltant of Concord became
member OF the church with the idea that the
act exempted him from military service He |
was greatly surprised when an orderly sergeant |
handed him an obong piece of paper, with the |
effigy of a soldier on one end and feld-piece |
on the other.
A singular accident occurred at North Bar- |
rlngton on the 10th. Mr.. Frank FeIker and |
Henry Gray were digging grave, when having |
eccasiCn to blast d rock premature discharge
took place, blowing off two fingers of the right
hand Of Felker, and badly burning the face and
hands of Gray.
Pomfret Parry, of Darlington, is now in
ms nlnety-SlXth year, is still strong enough 10
go into the moving field every summer. His |
three sisters died at the ages of 96, 95, and "a
respectively, and be has a nephew in Dover who |
is 80. ""'
InhN inaugural the new mayor of Nasbua
says: Il deem thorough system of sewerage |
and drainage, more particularly in the compact
part of the city, of the most vital Importance to
the general health and welfare of the CITY
thlnk there should be careful survey of the
city, made by competent, civil engineer. with
NEW 10 establish uniform system of sewer
age and drainage, and that whatever money il
hereafter expended upon sewers and drains
should be with reference to the perfection of |
such uniform system. ] think it NAV be said
WITH truth, that we now have one of the best
equipped and most efficient fire departments in |
the country. At great expense a LARGE and com.
moolous nre-proof engine house, stable sheds
ETC., was erected the past year. with two steam
sls; one volunteer hand engine, hose company,
Migrant company and hook and ladder COM |
pany, manned by Jealous and earnest ireman
under the control of competent board of en-, |
gineers Our citizens may rely with con6dence
that no effort will be spared to protect life and
property"
snow on the mountains in Bennington couu-
usual una"
A coarse-wooled buck, being taken to market,
escaped from the car at Sharon, and found its
way BACK TO his home at North Royalton nine |
miles, the same day. ---'
. The farmers of Randolph are all going into
h ae esry business; for years past sheep have
cedenee, and wool will doubtless have rise and
butter a downward fall W
William Davis, the Waterbury hank rohher
Ss ss nI ba ms tal postponed untilfa and found
9oOoO Daii, SO that he is again free some neo- /
pie Imagine that he has gone 10 lool, aftar b.
has been heard. "S YET hothlng
scb In xermonts early days the learning of the
;Scston "S ri not quite SO much priced as quail
Judee Re1 1es 81 important offices as at present
but onite }lite r seock9ridge was good farmer
me legislature fourteen years, was chief indg 1
o. o. minosor county court thirteen years and
M aau Jnv TERN IN eSngress. When Hon, Charles
- al congress be voted to raise the pay
:. members from four to six dollars per day
Judge Reyes was very much dissatisfied and
called to see Mr.. Marsh upon tie subject He
told him he could not see how he could vote to
raise the pay. Mr.. Marsh replied that every
thing cost more at Washington than in Vel
mont; showed him knife and told him he paid
q dollar for it at Washington. Judge Keyes
took the knife, examined it carefully, and said
Mr.. Marsh, did you pay dollar for that
knifeW Mr.. Marsh replied, 81 did," "rhen,"
said Judge Keyes, ''you are not fit to 60 to con.
gress."
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