Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-01
New England Dispatches.
American Missionary Society - Annual
May Trhining-HOteI SwindIer Arrest
ed-FataI Accident, etc.


Boston, May 31.-The American missionary
association adopted the following resolution:
Resolved, that this meeting expresses its heart
felt sympathy with the loyal people of the south in
the suerings they endure for their loyalty to the
Union and their adherence to the principles of true
and impartial liberty, and pledge TO them and the
national government our hearty cooperation in
every constitutional and Christian effort for their
lief and protection.
A convention of the Boston eight hour league
was held in Horticultural hall, at which resOlu-
tons were adopted: Declaring that labor reform
is based on the principles lying at the root of
democratic institutions. and is, therefore, a
problem of national concern; favoring co-opera-
ton, but regarding it as unpracticable until the
poverty and Ignorance of the laboring class and
the excessive wealth Of the employing class
have been reduced; affirming that reduction
of the hours of labor will gradually equalize
wealth and not increase the cost of production /;
and endorsing the woman's rights movement as
a part Of labor reform Wendell Phillips re-
ported the resolutions, and was the principal
speaker. The aim of his remarks was to show
the usefulness and the necessity of the eight
hour reform, as illustrated by the recent events
in Paris. The more he reflected on the question
of the labor reform, the larger, graver and the
more important it seemed He did not join in
the universal voice of the American press in
their indiscriminate condemnation of the con-
duct of the revolutionlsts in Paris. Certainly
he felt disgust at the vandal destruction of
gle between Paris and Versailles, Paris repre-
Sented, what every American ought to love, the
desire OF the French people to govern them
selves. The PariSians know that Theirs was
seeking the restoration Of the Bourbons or the
Orleans branch, while other cliques were striv-
ing for the restoration of the Bonapartes. The
effort of the Parisians was 10 republicanize
France, and it was an honorable effort, and one
hat is to be honOred. There was no other peo-
pie in Europe that had done one-half the SER
vice to science that France has within the last
hundred years. There was no other in Europe
that, in the last two hundred years, had done
one-half what France had for art. In science
and art FTancesleads Europe to-day, and when
you come to consider the question of liberty in
cOrpolated in institutions, there is no other
country in Europe except England, that is en-
titled to he named in the same month with
France. When Prussia had abased herself be-
fore one who was not entitled TO be called
despot but kin2ling, France was giving lessons
to Thomas Jefferson, and II we, in this country,
had escaped, since 1901, the narrowness of the
policy of the federalist who had launched the
government we owed it to France. 1t was q
debt to be remembered by us, and one that
could not easily be paid. He proceeded to speak
of the growth of great cities as compared with
the growth of the country. Boston was grow
ing twice as rapidly as Massachusetts;
New York city was outstripping, in greater
ratio the growth of New York state, and a sim
liar condition was true of London, as compared
with the increase of population and wealth in
the rest of England The city had thus be-
come hive, in which are gathered the very rich
and the very poor, and from such condition of
classes, permanently fixed, come insanity and
crime. The dangers which will beset this
American government in the next generation
will be those rising from the congregation
OF masses in the great cities OF the land ,iand
the condition of Paris may be possible if a
proper safeguard be not taken in due season.
The solution of this, the problem of the future,
lay in part in the establishment of the idea that
the labOrer shall work less and get more for il.
The success of our institutions in the future was
wrapped up in this proposition that the mass of
mankind should work less and enjoy more,
Faust was sung at the Globe by Kellogg, Viii
lani and Customary, The latter had the role of
MephiStOphiles, and it was for him that Guonod
wrote the score. He is one of the greatest lyric
artists everin Boston, and he has created an I'M
precedented furore.
Boston, May 31.-The annual May training
to-day brought out a fine military display.
AXel Vonberg was before the criminal court
to-day and held to bail, charged with swindling
hotel keepers. The st. James of Boston aud
st. Nicholas of New York have claims against
him for board,
John Welch and an invalid son were knocked
down and, it is feared, fatally injured, in the
street to-day, by runaway horse.
The funeral of Orrin +. Frye, of the firm of
Rand, Avery & Frye, printers, who died Mon,
day, will be attended tomorrow by the New
England Franklin club and Others employing
printers in hoSton,
SPRINGFIELD, May 31.-The soldiers monu-
ment at Westfield, designed by NJ II. Mosman,
of Chieopee, and cast in bronze at the Ames
works in that town, was dedicated to-day, with
imposing ceremonies, in which the entire second
regiment of militia participated The attend
ance was very large, Gen. Fitzpatrick delivered
the Grafton, in which he strongly denounced
jeff, Davis for his recent speeches in Georgia,
these remarks of the general being vocilerously
applauded. Gen, Fitzpatrick said;
1.-THE papers of yesterday full Of the shouts Of
appreciation from the disloyal people of Augusta,
am willing, for one, to forget the past, when rebels
cease to remind me of 1t, and not before. Com
rades the time may come when an ungrateful peo-
pie may forget all those bloody years of war;
when the traitor will be pardOned and
his crimes forgotten; when Libby, and Belle Isle,
and Andersonyille will be mentioned without a
single passing thoughtj when no distinction will
be made between the traitor and the patriot who
fought to preserve his country; when towering
monuments will rear aloft from Capitol square, at
Washington erected by southern pride, to perpet.
uate the memory of her false hearted sons; when
breckenridge of Kentucky the bitterest rebel, will
be allowed to return to the United States capital
from whence he was driven by the terrible denun-
Citations of Baker; when Davis, the arch-traitor,
who long SINCE should have passed from the scafod
once again witt his foul presence the halls q con-
gress, there TO make laws for you and me- while the
immortal Lincoln sleeps in his tomb Comrades Of
Massachusetts, this may come with time, but, BY
the Eternal God, not if we can prevent IT. (Great
cheeringl
CONNECTICUT.
HARTFORD, May 31.-A very interesting edu-
catlonal meeting was held at Allyn hall, in this
city, tonight, under the auspices of the state
board OF education. Gov. Jewell presided, and
briefly addressed the meeting. Addresses were
also made by Rev. DR.. McCosh, OF Princeton col
lege, Rev DIR. Cummings, president of Wes-
leyan university, Rev. Dr. jackson, president of
Trinity college, Rev. Wm NJ. Taylor, of Liver
pool, England, Gen. Hawley, of Hartford, and
Prof Thacher of Yale.
Mrs. John Cogau, of West Hartford, attempt
ed to light fire by the use of kerosene oil,
Tuesday, and an explosion was the result. Her