Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-22
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Hon. Samuel Merrill, governor of Iowa, has
been IN Boston for a few days past on private
business.
Tue Cunard steamer Siberia, which arrived al
Boston on Monday afternoon, brought % cabir
and $50 Storage passengers.
There was busy note of preparation ii
Eliot hail. Boston, on Monday, for the Spirit
uahsts' fair, which opened successfully in tn
evening.
The Boston custom house, will not be opel
for business on Wednesday, on account o
It's being the anniversary of Washington's birth
day.
The fourth annual meeting of the Massachu
sets association of classical and high schoO
teachers, will be held in the hall of the Englisf
high school house, Boston, next Friday anC
Saturday.
Ri. Rev. Bishop Williams has requested thu
reverend clergy Of Boston and vicinity to taxi
up a collection in their various churches on thu
first Sunday in Lent Feb. 26, for the benefit o
the "Childr, MS Home" now in course of cree
ton The money is entirely exhausted, and the
directors rely upon this collection to aid them
in completing the new building.
The Worcester is considered one Of the finest
and fastest vessels in the American navy. Her
keel was laid at the navy yard in CharlestowD
during the rebellion, in 1868, and she was
launched in 1865. Since that time--the war ana
the demand for large navy ceasing-the WORE
upon her was not pushed, and was nor com,
ship of 1000 tons, with powerful engines applied
to pro 5eller, but spreads canvass enough to
make a passage anywhere should any accident
befall her motive power.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin says: "The
volume of trade in the wholesale boot and shoe
market, the past week, does not vary much IRON
the preceding week, though the shipments foot
up 1858 cases less, or 29,6S2 cases this week
against 30,045 cases last. Buyers from remote
secuons of the country continue to arrive, and
about the same number are now here, as usual
at this season, from the south and west.
The manufacture of carpet slippers began in
Boston about ten years ago as an experiment,
and the goods being well received have been
steadily growing into popular favor since that
that time. 1t has now assumed large proper
tons, and takes it place in the list as perma-
nent business. At first these slippers were all
made by hand, and sold readily at wholesale for
81 rs per pair the whole weekly production in
Boston in 1862 only reaching fifty or sixty cases.
But with the aid of machinery, the business has
been greatly increased, the weekly production
of the eight or ten firms now engaged in the
business amounting to between 500 and 600
cases, and the average price about ffty-tive
cents per pair
In response to a call for meeting of the fish
and salt dealers, at Boston, few days ago,
about fifty gentlemen assembled there, for the
purpose of forming an association for promOt-
ing the interests of the business and the opening
of a fish and salt exchange. Some valuable
statistical information respecting the quantity
of salt used IN the United States annually, was
Civ, n, from which it appears that it amounts to
100000 bushels, and the average rate of duty
is PA per ent ad valorem; making the average
cost per Eushel fifty cents, while under free adj
mission ii would not be over twenty-five cents;
making s10000,000 difference in the cost to the
people. The receipts to the government are
less than 81 900 900 clear duty. Another OBJ
ject set forth was that a necessity existed for
charity, which should be dispensed for the
hon mt of widows and children of lost fisher
men.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The eighth annual levee of the Lowell high
school association was held on Monday at Ne
chanics hall. The exercises consisted of instru-
mental music, impromptu addresses by home
members OF the association, and dancing. The
attendance was unusually small. Gen. Butler
was chosen president of the association for the
ensuing year.
ESSEX COUNTY.
John Murphy, an Irishman and a stranger,
applied for shelter at the HaYerhill station house
THURSDAY night, being sick. He was taken to
the city farm, where he died Of lung fever on
Saturday.
Joseph Blanchard, the Frenchman who fell
through the Haverhill railroad bridge on the
night Of the 18th, and remained on the ice all
nisht without protection, died Saturday morn
gestion of the lungs. He leaves a wife and FIVE
children
On Saturday last, at II A. NJ, T. c. Peabody,
twenty-nine years of age, died at Lawrence. On
Sunday, at l P. NJ, his wife, Dolly G Peabody,
followed him 10 the spirit land. She was TWEEN
ty-iVe years of age Mr. and Mrs. Peabody
were highly respected by all who knew them.
Their deaths were produced by pneumonia
Fifty gallons of liquor seized in transit by
Russell & Co.'s express, and belonging TO drug
gists in Haverhill, have been ordered by the su-
perior court to be destroyed. One hundred and
forty-seven gallons, seized last September, owned
by Alonzo NJ. Shute, were also ordered to be de-
stroved, and the officers are soon expecting
decree from the court ordering the bungs TO be
knocked out.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
On Saturday evening a gentleman in New
Bedford, who expected some ladies OF his family
by the owl train employed a hackman to take
him to the depot to meet them. The ladies ar
rived as expected, and after giving the checks to
the hackman, the party seated themselves in the
ladies' room, while the hackman obtained the
baggage. Their wait was a long one, for the
haekman placed the trunks on his hack, drove
to the genteman's residence, and did not dis
cover that be was without passengers until he
opened the carriage door at the house. He made
good time on the way back.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
At the town meeting in Dennis, last week,
four women were elected members Of the school
committee.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The county commissioners have decided TO
build a new court house at Springfield.
Twelve thousand pounds of pickerel have
been caught in the town of Holland this season
Only one mill at Thorndike (Palmer) can be
run all the time, on account of low water
Holyoke has new fire company composed
wholly of Iiishmen, commanded by John ODon-
nell, and approximately named Emerald
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
NORTHAMPTON has elected the following board
of water commissioners: ID. w. Bond and Oscar
Edwards, TO serve until March, 1872; ]. S. La
throp and Lucius Dimmock, 1873; NJ. NJ. French
and Luke Lyman, 1874.
MAINE.
Senator Morrill, is better and is coutemplat.
ing an early trip to Florida, with his wife.
Edward A. Potter of Bristol, N. H., slot him
self at the Commercial house at Portland Mon
day morning.
The United States court at Portland has sem
fenced q. w. Eveleth 10 ten years Imprisonment
for stealing money from a registered letter.
The supreme court decides that no railroad
can legally agree to do the business of any
one express company TO the exclu ion of others
The first locomotive ever run out of Boston,
on the Boston and Worcester road, is now run.
ming on a road in Maine.
A step has been taken by the directors of the
Boston railroads and those of the Maine Central
railroad with view TO secure through ar
rangements" for passengers ana freight.
The pneumonia is prevailing very extensively
and fatally at North VassalDOro. Several per
sons have died suddenly of it, while large
number are sick.
Walter Hatch, formerly conductor and SUPER
intendent of the Portland and Kennebec rail.
road, died in Augusta Saturday morning. His
disease was consumption,
An ingenious teacher down east, evidently a
cute Yankee school marin, has hit upon the ex.
pedient OF Keeping her pupils interested in their
work by using magazines as a reader. In this
school at Bath, sixty copies of Scribner's Month.
ly are daily in use.
The shoemlkers' cooperative association at
Getchel's Corner, Yassalboro, have STONED
work. 1t is found impossible to make sales ad
vantageously in competition with large capital
lists in other places, and it is feared that The
movement will prove failure. This is TO b,
regretted, because it is believed to be the ouly
cooperative association in Maine
John Given, landlord in the hotel at Nortl
Auburn, attempted to commit suicide Thursda,
evening. He made a cut with q razor on hi.
neck six inches long, but the blade fell too low
on the neck TO do execution, and he will recover
He was laboring under temporary fit of in
sanity.
Last week Rufus Witherill of Monmouth
while engaged in loading hay in his barn, fel
on the load to the floor, striking on bis head
his phfsciin had great difficulty in stopping