Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-23
Salurtester 1aiIp Spp.
Now FnsIand News summary.


Mrs. Arson Burlingame will hereafter reside
with her father, the Hon. Isaac livermore, at
the old homestead in Cambridge.
The depot estate in Boston belonging TO the
Boston and Providence railroad company, mas
been sold TO the city of Boston for S4io,OOO' An
avenue is TO be opened through the property
The survivors of the Mexican campaign, who
went out with the Massachusetts, regiment OF
volunteers are desired 10 send their addresses
20 M A. MGlenen, Globe theatre, Boston.
The uncertainties of base ball are well illus
,rated bv the games played in Boston last week.
Tho lawmakers beat the Bostons, 29 TO IA. The
Haryaris beat the Haymakers, 10 to 8. The
Athletics beat the Harvards, IA to &. The Bos-
IONS beat the Athletics, II to s.
An undergraduate at Cambridge, who found
among the questions on his examination paper
this: fsWhy will not pin stand upon its pointP
deliberately explained thus: 1. A pin will not
stand on its head, much less is it possible that
II should stand on its point. 2. point, accord
jnr 10 Euclid, is that which has no parts and no
magnitude. A pin cannot stand on that which
has no parts and no magnitude, and therefore
pin cannot stand on its point. 8. 1t will if you
stick it in.
The Catholics Of the diocese of Boston are pre-
pairing for the great fair of next October, in aid
Of the new cathedral The cathedral choir have
organized for a table, and 10 aid the enterprise
a sacred concert is to be given on Sunday eve
ming, June 18th, at Music hall. P. 5. Gilmore
has consented to arrange and conduct it, which
and pleasing affair. There will be grand Or
chesira, picked chorus of one hundred voices,
the members of many other chOirs having kind
lv volunteered their aid, and George f. Whitney
will preside at the organ.
Parties engaged in the cigar business will re-
member that in October, 1870, Nathan Samuels,
a large dealer in cigars and tobacco in Boston,
was held in the sum of $500 on complaint for
not destroying the stamped portion OF large
number of cigar boxes, as required by sec. IL
-. .r
was the first case under the law in the Massa-
chusetts district, for the dealers generally COM
piled with the request of the officers to destroy
them, but Mr.. Samuels believed That the law did
not require him to do it, and he therefore deter
mined TO make test case of it. Mr.. Commas
sioner Pleasanton has sustained Mr.. Samuel,
view Of the case, and has decided that he wa
guilty Of no violation of law.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
farmhouse, barn and outbuildings, togeth
er with all the furniture of the occupants, wer
burned in Hudson Friday afternoon. Parke
Annis is the sufferer, Loss $1,000; no insur
ance.
BRISTOL ooBNPT.
The Taunton and Attleboro railroad is nearly
finished. a.
Taunton Branch railfoad, is the oldest ranFoad
snnerintendent in the United States.
Sweet Brothers, of West Mansfield, are to en-
lorge their wooden ware factory, giving them
capscity to manufacture 100000 dozen pals per
year. ,., =.
build A. T. Stewart, of New York, ten first class
passenger cars tor the Long Island Central road
This company is building ten passenger cars fol-
the Flushing North Side railroad The Eastern
railroad is having two elegant passenger cars
built by the same company.
The rolling stock of the Old Colony and New
port railway consists of Sc first-class passenger
SOS freight, and q postal and smoking cars
with AZ locomotives. There are 1884 miles Of
track under the management of this com
pany Superintendent Bullock is arranging
10 build a branch of three miles TO accommo-
date the inhabitants of ward 16 and vicinity
Boston.
Peter Quinn, of Fall River, by accident or de-
sign, on Wednesday night took a quantity Of
oxalic acid. Soon after retiring to bed he was
seized with vomiting, and in his delrium sprang
out of bed, hurled the furniture about the room
threw clock out of the window and smashed
the glass. He also furiously assaulted his rela
tiyes The police were called and took him tC
the station house, where a physician admins
tered an antidote and Peter was restored.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The entire county has been consolidated il
one division for the assessment of interna
revenue. Joshua c. Howes of Dennis is re
tanned as assistant assessor.
The Yarmouth Register states that the mack
erel feet in Cape Cod bay is the largest ever
seen there, but its success is moderate The
weirs at the south side of the cape are doing
well. On Friday and Saturday, 18th and 18th
over $4,000 mackerel were taken in one weir a
Dennisport
A public meeting has been held at Province
town to oppose the ratification Of the treat
with England, and a committee was appointe
to demonstrate. Judge Day has canvassed tn
county, and finding the opposition unanimous
has written a letter to Hon. Charles Sumner o
the subject. The letter is printed in the Registe
and argues that as the right to fish near I'll
shore only affects the mackerel vessels, III
proposition to admit Canadian cod to this couI
try free of duty is not reciprocal.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Mr.. A. G. johnson, the ''atlas" man, has give
scholarship to Amherst college, in the name
the class of 1923.
Charles Mckay, a carpenter employed upo
the new college chapel at Amherst fell from
scatfold, Saturday afternoon, a distance
twenty-five feet severely injuring him.
The Amherst senior who hired the hall j
Amherst for lecture, commencement evening
that his classmates might not have con
mencement ball, has been euchered by the PR
prietor of the hall, who saws: "The hall wa
rented for lecture at lecture prices, and til
audience will be dismissed and the gas turne
out at 80 P. M" So the class will have the
chop"
The Amherst freshmen chosen for eScellen
in writing, to contend for the prizes of the ty
open societies at Amherst, are as follows: Fro
Alexandria J. F. Biscoe and w. S. Biscoe
Uxbridge; S. Dickinson, of Northampton;
H. Fish, of Cincinnati, o.; L. Mears of Esse1
N. Morse, of Union, Conn; Fl. H. Sanderson,
Sunderland and E. NJ. Smith of Brookly
N. Y. From Athen@s-G. B. Copp. of St. Lou
Mo-; F. F. Dow of Fowlerville, N. Y; A. Ell
of Newton; F. H. Gillett of West6eld; F.
Masten, of Boston; l. N. Mills, of Webster;
T. Stoddard, Of Northampton; and t. A. ST.
art of Logansport, Ind.
As the Amherst glee club will probably SOC
give concert for the benefit of the Plymout
church, Worcester, we copy the following frol
the Ware Gazette: 1.-THE young gentlemen con
posing the glee club of Amherst college receive
compliment fully deserved, on the occasion
their first concert at Music hall. The best pc,
pie of Ware, representing all our purest mus
cal taste and culture, were present in force, an
equally as well as unexceptonally delighted wi
their gees, MARBLES and quartettes. Voice
harmony, expression and Yigor were good, al
we represent the sentiment Of our entire COZ
munity, in heartily wishing Amherst cole.
glee club 10 come again"
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Jacob Green was thrown from a runawf
team on Saturday last near South Keene, r
ceiying injuries from which he died Monda
morning at 4 O'Clock.
A lot of woodland owned in part by Hora
Chase of Nashua, situated in East Canaan,
reported to have taken fire last week, and
have been damaged TO the amount of abo
$1,000.
agent on the Concord railroad at Reeds Ferry
Merrimac, took place from his residence and IL
Congregational church at that place c
Saturday. A special train of four cars, in chars
of Assistant Superintendent Joseph W. H
dreth, was sent from Concord, conveying aboI
two hundred railroad employees to attend IL
obsequies. The deceased had been i'll the en-
ploy of the company at Reeds Ferry from tt
first opening of the road.
A drunken row occurred on High street
Nashua, on Sunday, in which Michael Buckle
was stabbed in the arm with a lack knife |
John Warren. Buckley's physician saws ii
main artery of the arm is severed, and that i
death is probable. Warren claims that he WI
sitting quietly on the steps of house cuttiI
tobacco, when Buckley came up and BEG;
kicking and abusing him, aud that the cuttil
was committed in sell-defence. He was ,
rested.
A meeting Of the grantees of the Manchest
and Claremont railroad was held in Manches
on Saturday. NJ A. Hodgdon of Weare W
chosen chairman, and N. P. Hunt of Manch
ter, secretary; Z. A. Straw, Joseph Kidd
james A. Weston, John G. French, and S.