Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-24
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New Enslnmd News summary.


the Boston theatre is changed from April 10 to
April11.
According to the adiutant general, there art
1s4,71S persons in Massachusetts liable TO M
called upon for military duty, an increase of 596I
over last year,
The boot and shoe trade in Pearl street an(
vicinity, on sales and deliveries from the ware
houses, amounts yearly to over forty-six million
dollars.
One of Boston's liberal and patriotic citizens
offers to pay one-half the sum required to Civ
the old Massachusetts, sixth regiment recep
tion in that city.
Kings chapel was built of granite taken from
Quincy, and the legislature at the time, by a re
solve, ordered that no stone should DC takei
from the ledge for any other use until the churcl
was completed fearing that the supply might Dc
exhausted.
Tao Shoe and Leather Record says one of the
aslhcipal iohbing houses OF Boston was recently
A,plied to by a bishop from Salt Lake, VINO
Wished to obtain shoes for his family nc ac-
cordingly purchased for twenty wives ann NY !,
children, making bill ofsome hundreds Oh uoi-
lars. 80 A..
From the report of the trustees Of the Massa-
chusetts general hospital it appears that the re-
ceipts during the year have exceeded the eN-
penses by S9126.19, which they say is especially
gratifying, because for the preceding ten years
fbe average excess of the expenses over the in
come has been S4557. The number of patients
treated in the hospital last year was 1927, the
number discharged 1917, and the number in the
hospital January LIST was 1875. The average num-
Der of patients in the asylum has been 1877,
while the cost of each in the hospital has been
5000 per week. and in the asylum S13.S1 per
week. The whole amount of dividends, interest
and rent received during the year was S3o, 334.-
is, showing that the investments have yielded
about seven and seven-tenths per cent.
A gentleman of Boston desiring to ascertain
the Whereabouts of the widow of late brother
nf1a in hp lpa0QuarferS
Washington for information. From there a let
ter of inquiry was forwarded to Austin, Texas
and the officer in charge there wrote TO the
former post of the deceased officer, about three
hundred miles into theinterior Areply was re-
turned TO Austin, from there il was sent to
Washington, and in seven weeks time the gen
tleman in Boston received intelligence that the
object of his search was living in the city, within
a mile of his residence, while his message had
travelled more than three thousand miles.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The verdict of the sheriff's jury in the case OF
the Fall River print works VS.. the city of Fail
River, for widening and grading PoeasSet street,
was opened in the superior COURT in Taunton last
week The jury awarded the plaintiffs S5OO3.9S.
The amount claimed was $4,000.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
As already stated, in a dispatch from Ply
mouth. Mauter & Blackmer's hammer and boot
shank mandatory was totally destoyed by fire
at an early hour on the morning of the 22d
The flames communicated with Cobbs foul
and bran store, adjoining, doing considerable
damage to the building aud nearly running q
heavy stock of goods. There would undOubted
" have been more serious cOnflagration haC
not the surrounding buildings been thoroughly
wet by the copious rain the previous day. Tit
steam fire engine lately purchased by the tow
did good service, getting two streams on the fir
before the hand engines were IN readiness
Losses on buildings, machinery and stock, abou
$4,000, on which there is $4,000 insurance.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A little girl died in Springfield recently afte
suffering terrible agonies, who had been doc
tored for almost every ailment except the RICH
one. A post moTtem examination revealed tina
her death was caused by internal injuries, II
ceived from being pushed against the fence by
playmate.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The oldest house in Barnstable has been take
down.
Seventy-six years ago the United States pul
chased ten acres Of land at North Truro for
sight for highland light. That land to-day, q
nearly as can be judged from hasty measure
ment, contains but a little less than four acres
thus showing how rapidly and surely Cape Go
is melting away before the fierce attacks of Il
Atlantic.
At the town meeting in North Brdgewater
was voted to petition the legislature 10 chan
the name of the town to stanton" Ii W
also voted to appropriate one hundred and iii
dollars to Post 10, G. A. r., of that town,
ward the expenses of Decoration day; that t
school committee be instructed to procure .
ditional ground and build school house
what is known as the South Centre, the price
the land being limited TO three thousand dollf
and the building to twenty thousand; also, u
the same committee be instructed to build
smaller house at Campello.
MAINE.
The number of pensioners in the state is Ct
mated at 1000, which, at IS per month, amour
to nearly 100000 annually.
Grace Ross, daughter of Hugh Ross, Esq,
Bangor, recently returned from Germany,
been offered a $4,000 engagement by the DIR
den German opera company.
A correspondence of the Lewiston jour-
states that he has been informed that in PhilG
there resides mother at the age oftwelve yea
Her baby was active and smart at birth, and
was the mother.
The Portland and Kennebec railroad compa
are building at their shops in Augusta spl
did baggage and postal car Of the monitor p
tern, 6fty-two feet long, twelve wheeled, to
finished with walnut, chestnut and chez
woods. 1t will be on the track in June.
Mrs Elmina 0sgCod of Cape Elizabeth has
trunk in which Mr.. Robert Clay of Bluehill C
ried the United States mails in eastern Maine
1918 and 1914 This trunk is only ten and OF
half inches long, four and three-fourths vic
andless than four deep, including the cover.
The Oxford county militia who were called
Portland in the last war with England are n
entitled TO the benefit of the new pension &C
They were mustered into the service Sept. 13
and mustered out Nov. It'll and Sth and as
travel is allowed they are unable 10 make Of
the sixty days service required by the act.
The father of Rev. Mr.. Hayden of Farmin
ton, who resides at Livermore Falls, commits
suicide on Sunday night last. Hewas found c
Monday morning in his room dead, with
throat cut. Mr.. Hayden had been quite unwe
ing af no iUa Of hISd pafb no we
suffering from disease; and it is supposed thi
his mind had become affected by sufferin!
causing him TO commit the deed.
On Monday morning drunken man name
Albert Piper, who belongs to Portsmouth, n. H
got on board the train going to Boston, at BIZ
deford. As he made disturbance he was pu
off by the conductor at North Berwick. As ii
train was starting from the station, Piper a
tempted to get on once more, but the train mo-
ing, he made a mis-stcp and fell by the side
the rail, and three passenger cars passed owe
his right arm near the shoulder.
AT meeting of the members of the seniC
class ofColby university, on Saturday, it was d
cided TO engage Chambers band of Portland an
Mendelssohn quintette club of Boston, TO tu
nish music during next com mencement, whiC
takes place the first week in August. Dr. Ide
springfield, Mass, has been engaged to deliyi
the address before the Boardman missiOnaI
society, and Rev. j. d. Fulton of Boston wi
deliver the Grafton before the united literary 81
cletleS. There is fine class of young Inen
graduate, and the class day exercises, often Il
most interesting part Of the commencement
though unobserved si1ce the class of 6S gra
uated, will be carried out in full.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
An exchange says the amount of drunke
ness at Meredith on election day was unpreC
dented.
For the education of 207S children in I
Portsmouth public schools, last year, SIS, 712
were paid, nearly $3.50 to each scholar
The last New Hampshire rooster is peaceful
perched at the head of an article in the TIE
graph on a poultry show at Nashua.
On the evening of the 21st, J. p Morse
Londonderry died of consumption, in tie 20
year of his age. Within a brief period t
father and one or two brothers have died of t
same disease.
The committee in charge of the Epping can
grounds have purchased sixty acres of land,
a cost OF $1,000. 1t lies back of the preacher
stand and the boarding tent New avenues W
be opened back of the boarding tent the comir
season, and therefore great improvement wi
be made on the grounds
The Danbury correspondent of the Manche
Ter Mirror writes that "the first week of th
month Mrs. Charles Stuart of this town gathe
ed mess of dandelion greens. This town
second only to Hill in jewelry peddlers. Las
week Mrs. S. NJ. Rollins ieil iniuring her bacl
(lur butchers efa ri fho;r ~,