Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-12
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New England News summary.
posToN AND VICINITY.
The captain Of the ship Mindora, when ar
rived at Boston on Sunday morning, Ion
MANILA while near the entrance OF Boston mar
nor discovered a vessel in sinking CONDITION, ,
and on reaching the wreck found her 70 DC t.e
schooner Maria Jane, from Halifax, oounu ~ ,
Boston. For the past three days she hau GU,
countered heavy gales, which carried away ail
her sails and spars except small piece OF the
mainmast The water was six feet deep IN her
hold and gaining rapidly. The captain oil the
Niudora took the crew, consisting oil seven men, |
aboard some of whom were considerably
hrTised one man having his leg badly broken.
No surgeon was on board the ship, but the cap
tan hound the unfortunate mans limb together
MS skillfuIly as possible, and brought him, with
his comrades, to Boston, where they were prop
erly cared for
count of the fire at Hyde Park, Sunday MORN
ing: At about four O'Clock in the morning, fire
was discovered in the building used by the
Union wise company for a mandatory in this
town. An alarm was promptly given, but be-
fore the hre department could get TO work the
flames had not only enveloped the building of
the wise company, but had spread to the curry
ing shop ofMessrs. Eastou, close by. Assistance
was asked for from Dedham, but when it ar
rived the fire was under control. The two FAC
tories named were burned, with nearly all their
contents. The loss of the Union wise company
is estimated at about S35 900, on which they are
insured to the amount of $4,000, distributed
mainly as follows: National and Union, Ban
COR, each S2250; Suffolk, Hide and Leather, IRE
mont and Equitable, Boston, each S2250; Hope
and Merchants, Providence, each s225O; Nara
gansett, Providence, $3.50; Lancaster, Lancas-
ter, Pa, $3.50, and $3.50 in London, England,
Office The loss of the Messrs. Easton is esti-
mated at about $4,000. Insured for SS450-At-
lantic, Providence, SS750; Merchants, Provi- |
dence, $500; Connecticut, Hartford, $1,000; |
Security, New York, $1,000. The fire is sup |
posed to have originated from spontaneous COM |
bustion. 1t will throw about 100 persons out of |
employment.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Nathan Pratt of Arlington has given $4,000 to
the home for aged females in that city.
birmingham has voted to erect soldiers
memorial hall and library at a cost of $4,000.
BARNsrABLE COUNTY.
Deacon Andrew Leach, of Searsport, can
truthfully be called meeting man. He has
been in his pew 2, 59S out $500 consecutive Sun
days, covering period of fifty years If he at
tended in the afternoon as well as in the morn
ing, he must have listened to {, 196 sermons, to
10,302 prayers and as many beDedictons, and
to the singing of over 10000 hymns. Taking
the sermons alone, what an enormous expert
ence he must have had of interesting, dry,
bright, stupid, short, long, exploratory, per-
suasive, doctrinal, and funeral dscourses. Such
man of course will attend church fast and
thanksgiving days, which further adds to the
knowledge he must have received from the Sa-
cred desk.
HAMPDES COUNTY.
Judge Oliver B.. Morris, whose death at
Springfield, on Sunday, was briefly announced
by telegraph, was the Oldest man in that city,
having been born in 1872. His father was sci
der in the revolutionary war, serving princi-
pally in Canada, and his mother was the daugh-
ter of John Bliss, of Wilbraham, who was an
officer in the Massachusetts militia that served
at White Plains. Judge Morris at the age of
fifteen went TO Williams college, graduating in
1901, and at the time of his death was the oldest
living graduate of that institution.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
During drunken row at Greenfield, on Fast
day, Richard Newton, about forty years of age,
was struck in the stomach by stone, thrown
by John j. Pervere, and died the next day. A
post-mortem examination showed such a dis
eased condition as to indicate that his death was
not greatly FASTENED. Pevere has been arrested.
Michael McInharna, South Deerfeld Irish
man, was knocked down and perhaps fatally
injured, the other night, by the sideboard of his
wagon getting entangled in the wheels and
striking him with great force on the head.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Hoosac tunnel progress for March is as fol-
lows: East end, 1853 feet advance; from central
shaft eastward, 40 feet, and from central shaft
westward, A feet West end, 104 feet; Ga 10
feet in length of brick arch was completed, max
ing a total of 405 IL feet advance in the work
The water in the central shaft is now about
sixteen feet above the bottom of the shaft, but
OILY dDOuI Jour lCGI above Tue MOOR OF the
working heading. The additional flow from
the water-bearing vein recently encountered, is
estimated at about thirty-siX gallons per minute.
The pumping and bailing appliances that have
been in use were not sufficient to remove this
additional amount, but others, that were on the
ground, but not in use, will shortly b. EN-
ployed, and will be able to empty the shaft until
more permanent arrangements for pumping can
be effected.
The agent of a Skowhegan marble-cuttng es-
Enlistment went quite distance TO profession
ally visit man, who had been reported as los
ing his wife. After talking around and finding
that the bereaved man was able 10 pay the bills,
he tendery announced bis mission. He left
when the breyet widOwer Informed him rather
tartly that ''the id cuss that run off with her
might buy the grave stones when she died, for
he wouldn't"
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Ranlet car company of Laconia pays out |
$4,000 monthly to its workmen.
Additions are in progress at Bears Head
hoel at Hampton, in anticipation of dog DAYS
and rush for cool place
II Is sad that negotiations are pending for
IN. lease OF the Northern railroad TO the Yer.
mont T. 'utral; and that charter for a new
railroad iro,.p Concord to Manchester will be
asked for when lie legislature meets.
The steamer Naus9tuck is to run on Lake
Winpipisseogee the COMING summer so as to hit
the late Saturday and early Monday trains, 10
the convenience of business men VINO have TO
leave business late and early.
The Republican says that new school house
in Lancaster, which was completed about a
wear ago at a cost of 100000 has been so out
rageously defaced that thorough repairs and
renovation are necessary already.
Lieut.. Hollis B. Hill. now in command of Fort |
McClary in Portsmouth harbor, is grandson |
of Major Benjamin Hill, who was in command !
of the same fort in 1872
Less than ninety years ago Colebrook was a |
dense forest; fifty-two years ago the population |
= was 1852; twenty-five years ago the population |
was 90S, and to-day it is not less than 1906.
West Lebanon is TO have new hotel on the |
site of the old one and building is soon to be- |
gin. The Free Press says the main building will
be Sc 90, with hall in the second story.
On the 30th ult., in Litteton, an elderly lady
named SWEET, fell dead while in her sons sugar
orchard, attending to the boiling, in his alb
sence. She sat down on log, fell over and
died. Some large internal blood vessel is sup
posed to have been ruptured.
very small island in the Osspee river con.
stitutes part of four towns, three counties and
two states. The towns are Parsonfeld and
Porter in Maine, Freedom and Effngham in
New Hampshire. The counties are York and
Oxford in Maine, and Carroll in New Hampshire
Several matters in relation TO the administra-
ton of affairs at the state prison are undergoing
an investigation before the governor and coun-
ell. The officials of the institution are charged
with neglecting and i'll treating Gideon Silver, a
NOuftSl NlO hAOu OnC OiHCCI WilO IT.
sides outside the prison is charged with privately
carrying letters for the convicts which is against
the regulations of the institution.
VERMONT.
The Rutland Herald, of Monday, saws: Gan
extensive fire has been raging in the woods
owned by Mr.. John Cain on Pine Hill since Fri
day last and still deies all attempts to check its
progress. A large tract of land has been burned
over, and the damage must already be serious,
but we have heard no estimate of the actual
amount. 1t is supposed to have originated from
the carelessness of boys. The brilliant lipht Of
the fire is distinctly visible from this PLACE.
The following particulars are furnished of an
affair already mentioned in our dispatches:
horse belonging to d. w. Closson, of North
Thetford, was stolen on the Both ult. Suspicion
rested on two chaps who were about in the vi.
cinity of the railroad the day before. Deputy
Sheriff Berry got track of the team at Wash
ington. At that point he obtained the services
of Sheriff Collins and Barron, when all three
followed and succeeded in capturing the team
and thieves, Friday night at the Plainfieid
Spring house, in Plainfeld. They were taken to