Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-25

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| fowls are from Massachusetts,
| The Hillsbolo county farmers and mechanics
| association held its seventh and last meeting of
the season at Milford on the 22d. The attend
ance was much larger than usual and the dis
cusslon upon the subject, GLOW shall we make
our farms so attractive as TO retain upon them
our young men and womenW was animated
ana OF character and earnestness calculated to
stimulate the best interests of the farming dis
tricts, A DOuntitul farmers dinner was served
by the ladies of Milford, and the meeting was
interspersed with choice selections of music by
the Hutchinson Family and Choral Union.
| The new Pennacook grammar school house, |
| in the lower portion of Concord, was dedicated
| on the 23d. There was large attendance of |
| people. After music, prayer was made by Rev. |
J. H. Eames, D. d. The presentation of keys |
was made by Geo, A. Pillsbury, of the building |
committee The keys were accepted by Samuel |
Q. Eastman, of the board of education. A hymn |
of dedication, written by George Kent of Wash |
ington, ID. G., was sung, after which The pro |
ceedings closed with addresses by various gem |
tlemen. The building is of brick and all its APP
poinments are such as to make ii one of the |
finest grammar school houses in the state.
The private room of Frank Philbrick at the
Atlantic house, Rye Beach, was entered on
Wednesday afternoon and robbed of Il gold
watch chain sleeve buttons and other iewelry of
the value of five hundred dollars. Information
was at once furnished to CRY Marshal Kent of
Portsmouth, and suspicion fell upon a man who |.
had been in the vicinity, and officers were dis
patched in different directions Assistant Mar |
shall Entwistle succeeded in arresting the sup |
posed party in Kittery, and all the stolen prop |
erty has been recovered. The mans name is |
Chas. H. Bancroft, but he has been by the name |
of Bernard, Beard, Barnes, &c. From informa-
ton gained by the officers it appears that his |
relatives are influential and wealthy
The Amoskeag Veterans have, for some
months, been resolved on a new organization, |
with new uniforms. Meetings have been held |
and steps taken with that object in view. AT |
recent meeting the old officers rendered their
resignation, to take place as soon as successors
are elected, and it was determined to make an
election in two weeks. A new code of bylaws
has been adopted, and new uniforms to the num-
Der of seventy have been ordered. pattern of
the uniforms was presented at the meeting.
There is evidently good spirit manifested in
the corps, which will result in increasing the |
efficiency of the battalion.
Cyrus Moore, of Tamworth, has COW which |
was taken lame some three years ago in the fore
leg, and upon examination was found TO have a |
sore on the side just under the brisket. About
one year ago piece of wire was discovered
pr0truding from the sore, andI was with con-
siderable difficulty pulled out, and proved to be
common pail bail, five inches in lentgth. On
the 18th inst, he extracted another piece of
wire, six inches in length, from the same place.
The last piece was bent, and protruded in two
| places, and had to be broken before it could be
drawn out. 1t is supposed that the COW must
have swallowed the wire at some time.
| CONNECTICUT.
Charles y. Birney, who went TO New York
from Hartford to invest 500 in $500 counter
feits, and lost his money as he deserved to, has
returned home, thoroughly disguised with life
| in the metropolis.
The New Milford bank was broken into. Tues
| day night, by burglars. They got into the
vault, when the noise attracted the attention of
| some persons in barber shop near by, who fired
| at the watch the burglars had set outside and
the shot alarming the burglars they made of,
leaving some OF their tools behind them.
A bottle, securely corked, and containing
small scrap of paper, was picked up, Monday
on the beach near East wharf, Madison, by Dea
Alanson Redfeld. On the paper was written The
following statement:-"Gulll Island March 18th /;
schooner Vesper sunk last night. All hands lost
except myself have just strength enough to
, write TINS. Lord have mercy on my soul j g..
Schnapp, mate
The New Haven Journal thinks the political
n prospect in that part of the state very encour-
! aging to republicans. 1t says ''we have returns
: | from number of neighborng towns and the
success of the republicans in the addition of new
voters is unprecedented. In New Haven for the
first time in many years the republicans keep
;, pace with their opponents, and bid fair 10 lead
= them on the home stretch The democrats
nave always reckoned their majority in New
Haven by the number of their new men; but il
that criterion is taken this year. there will be an
aching void in English's vote"
+ Within two or three weeks a movement pro
teSSedly in the interests of labOrrefOrm has been
: organized in Hartford TO nominate an independ.
6 ent workingmen's ticket. A committee to make
nominations was appointed, which consisted only
OF democrats, and the truth then leaked out that
= | the movement was engineered wholly by disaE
q tected democrats having for their object the de-
p leat OF the congressional candidate, DR.. Good.
=. rich. At an adjourned meeting Wednesday eve.
ming, A. II. Jones of Hartland, democratic
? member OF the house in 81, was nominated for
= congress. The Norwich Bulletin says: "ItIis
% claimed that Mr.. Jones will be able to draw off
II many votes from DIR. Goodrich, but as that gen
n tleman is to be defeated anyway, this movement
+ against him Will aggravate his defeat rather than
contribute to bring it about"
:, The Norfolk Gazette gives the following rally.
Il ing shout: The republicans OF Connecticut
never bad more glorious opportunity to secure
the popular verdict of "well done good and
= faithful servants" from the loyal men through
out this broad land. 1t is our opportunity to
, wipe out the disgrace of New Hampshire and
show that the patriotic fires which burned so
! brightly beside every republican hearth stone
during the war, are still blazing with zeal and
ardor for the right and for those principles which
the dear boys died upon the battlefield. Our
= candidates are all in the field. Gov Jewell has
!, no superior as model Christian gentleman.
. Our lieutenant governor, our secretary of state,
= treasurer, comptroller, candidate for congress
= and senator, are all men for whom it is delight
\ and an honor TO us to labor. And now a full
70 vote is all that is required for their election
" Shall they not have it? THEY VERIFY SHALL
FOrlCdrd the colltnnW
: great Credits due Congressman Barnum for Sc
~ curing appropriations for the rivers and harbors
in that district, comes down with great violence
upon congress and the whole existing order of
, things, in an article headed Radical tyranny
/. unmasked," because as il now appears. MI
Barnum had no influence with a radical con-
gress to secure faYors for his district. And the
Farmer inquiries, by way of a pertinent and
timely conundrum, if "the tyrants at Washing
ton expect the people of this district are thus
ready TO become the slaves to usurped power~
wilson, the murderer, still refuses TO eat or
drink, and has now been six days without food.
lie first declined his rations on Monday eve
ming, and put his books and papers outside the
CELL with a note addressed to Capt Botelle the
warden, in which he intimated that he had got
through boarding at the expense of the state.
he refuses to communicate with the prison
officials except occasionally with the chaplain
but he has evidently determined to starge him
self to death. Waterman is now constantly
at the door of the CELL so that the prisoner can
not do himself violent injury. Should he persist
in his refusal TO take food, he will be handed
over to the physicians, who will administer
nourishment by compulsory process.
RHODE ISLAND.
providence has voted 1925 for the care of the
English sparrows
Franklin coal has declined 81 80 per ton in the
| Providence market.
The flowers at a recent private entertainment
| in the city of Providence cost the handsome
sum of $4,000.
Gold spoons adom the table of one of the
Providence millonaries upon all festive occa-
sions at his mansion.
A small mill in Saundersville. Scituate, occu.
pied by Asabel W. Harris for the manufacture
of worsted braids, was burned Wednesday
night.
Almost an entire change in the personnel of
| the federal courts in Rhode Island has been
made within the last two years. A new circuit
| Judge, new district judge, new district attor-
ney, and new marshal, have been appointed
| within that time.
The mean man has now gone to reside in
Providence. One of his servants receives many
letters from her friends in Ireland, and he sug-
| gested that, as they came through his box she
ought to pay her share toward the rental of the
box, and he deducted the amount from her
| wages.
The first United States attorney for the dis
trict of Rhode Island was VIM. Claiming, father
of the celebrated DR.. Claiming. He was an.
pointed in 1880. His successors were Raw
Greene, 1894; David L. Barnes, 1891; Tristan
| Bnrges. June. 1901 DaYid HnmeL Ar.rI,st tan1I