Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-29
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New England News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The question now agitating the public mind
of Somerville-"Who will be our first mayor
The annual meeting of the cavalry corps OF
the army of the Potomac occurs in Boston May
10, and win probably last three days;
The common council has increased the 4th of
July appropriation from $4,000 to S2o,OOO IN
Boston.
the immediate prosecution of every person de-
fected in selling unwholesome meat in that city.
There is a movement in Boston to buy the
Courier, with a view to making it republican
journal.
into the Saturday afternoon closing movement,
this summer. The stationers will close on that
day at two p. M.
According to sad juvenile experience it takes
ten boys on each side 10 play base ball in Boston
on the Sabbath. Nine do the actual playing
and the additional man looks out for the police
The Boston Journal says: "a graduate of the
Berkshire medical college, residing in that
county, offers 10 give property to the amount of
S50OO0-he retaining life interest-toward the
establishment Of a county hospital, provided
like amount be raised besides"
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
At the annual meeting of the North Middle
sex district medical society at Lowell on the
26th, Francis Gilman Kimball, Esq, of that
city, was elected president.
The Universalist centenary Sunday school as
ISOLATION met at Lowell on the Goth. A large
number were present
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mr.. John Austen, a colored citizen of New
Bedford, died on Sunday last, aged seventy-ive
years. During the war he was living with his
family in New York, and was one of the victims
of the mob composed of Seymours friends"
but managed to escape from their hands, and
concealed in cart, underneath load of empty
bottles, was conveyed out of harms way. He
rn0o from, ba sniu fbaY,
received, and has been gradually failing since
his return home. The last few months of HE
sickness have been made comfortable by tn:
friendly aid of the union for good works. He
leaves a wife and several daughters, all very
worthy persons.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The old Hampshire Gazette, printed at North
ampton, evinces its prosperity by an increase of
one column to each of its pages.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Springfield has $4,000 inhabitants and only
twelve policemen.
Westheld proposes to add hook and ladder
equipment TO its fire department.
The Palmer board of school committee, which
recently consisted of twelve members, is cut
down by removals and designations, to six.
The Parks & Wade carpet company at Palmer,
for the manufacture and sale of carpets, is now
legally organized and incorporated with a capt.
tai of $4,000. The company is about to put
up another large building.
All Olu lhuN stNeHlN-llNt years Olu ItC6UIlN
travelled alone from distant part of York state
TO visit her son in Westfeld, bringing him as a
present a handsome counterpart composed of
five hundred pieces, all knit by her the past
year, in addition to the care of a dairy of nine
cows and the manufacture of 1000 pounds OF
butter.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Prof Mowbray is constructing a nitro
giycerine factory and several small mag
azines at the west shaft, Hoosac tun
mel, and Brown Brothers are erecting
a small building on the tunnel stream il
which to manufacture their exploders.
The insurance on the dye and dry house Of
the Swift river company at Enfield, which was
damaged by fire, Monday morning, was as fol
lows: fremont $500, Howard S45OO Neptune
S4500, New England $4,000, Suffolk S2250, Elk
change S2250, Lawrence (of Boston) S2250, DC
cidental S2250. The loss will be comparatively
small.
Pittsfeld's musical festival, next Monday an
Tuesday, will be the event of the season fo
Berkshire county, Concert tickets are sold {
the various railroad stations throughout tn
county, having rail excursion tickets attache
as coupons. The different companies have r,
duced the fare one-half, and there is a prospet
of large attendance from the surroundin
fifty tickets. Accommodation is made in tn
hall for 1900 reserved seats.
The Springfield Union says: CDR. VIM
E. Brown, of North Adams, has in
NGlbeu Il new duu sllupiC VI duLuluiS
tering anesthetics TO persons undergoing dental
or surgical operations, whereby the anRsthetiC
is so enclosed as TO prevent its escape into the
room or affecting in the least degree any one
but the patient TO whom it is administered. IL
is also very economical, requiring but one &c
three drachms TO produce insensibility, while
by the present method pound is often neces
sary."
While a train on the Boston and Albany rail
road was running at speed of twenty-miles an
ham 4lp1 Iay short afNHrop IN
Richmond and state line, the engineer noticed a
man walking on the track some distance ahead
of the train. He blew the whistle and rang the
bell, but did not seem TO attract his attention.
He then made every endeavor to stop the train,
but all TO no avail The cow-catcher struck the
man and threw him in front of the engine
against the boiler and there he remained until
the engineer stopped the locomotive, when the
stranger jumped off and put his fingers TO
his nose as if to say, "You didn't kill me, did
yep The engineer and fireman took it for
granted that the man was dead, and their sur
prise when they saw him making up faces at
them can be imagined. 1t was miraculous
escape; not one in a thousand times would a
person escape death under similar circum-
stances.
Trains on the Portland and 0gdensburg rail-
road now run to Hiram.
The attendance at the choral festival at Ban
gor this week has been very lurge.
The Hon. S. K. Gilman and wife of Hallowell
celebrated their golden wedding this week.
A house of Francis Gibbs in Bangor was burR-
ed yesterday. Loss about 500, with no insur-
ance.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmadge of brooklyn, New
York, has been engaged to deliver the COM
mencement address before the united literary
societies of Bates college.
The Knox and Lincoln railroad company have
finished laying the rails from Bath to Clarke's
Point in Wiscasset, and are now running gravel
that n Of the road They
10 put on a passenger train the LIST of May.
The Kennebec Journal says:-lt is rumored
that President Samuel Harris of Bowdoin col
lege, who has been elected Dwight professor of
didactic theology in Yale divinity school, will ac
cept the position, and that eX-Goy. Chamber
lain will be called to the presidency of Bowdoin
college.
The corporators of the Presumpscot park asso-
citation met at Portland this week. The charter
granted by the legislature was accepted, and DR..
S. H. Tewksbury was chosen president. A
committee was appointed to report names for
board of directors and other officials, and a
committee was selected to confer with the Cum
berland county agricultural society and Port
land horticultural society, with view to a
grand exhibition of the products of agricultural
horticulture stock and the mechanic arts.
A CORES pondent of the Lewiston Journal says
that work on the European and North American
railroad is progressing well. The cut at Molun-
Gus stream is completed; that at Gordonville
nearly completed, and will soon be cleared out
at the Point. There is now about one hundred
feet of about sixteen feet in depth, and hun.
dred more of about five feet IN depth to remove
Messrs Gordon & Co. anticipate its completion
by May /. Some timeiw be required in trim
ming the sides of these cuts, but they antici-
pate readiness to commence rail-laying by the
Doth Of May, while August will probably find
our connection with the provinces complete by
rail.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Odd Fellows celebration at Haverhill on
wednesday, was successful and brilliant
affair.
A saw mill of Geo. +. Nutter of New Durham
was burned on Wednesday night Loss about
$4,000, with an insurance Of S300O
During the past year there were thirteen per
sons killed and ffty-oneinjured on the railroad
in the state.
A snakes nest, containing thirty-fye of tn
reptiles, of four different varieties, was III
earthed by Nathaniel Folsom Of Lake Village
few days ago.
A swindler has been travelling about in Rocl
ingham and Strafford counties, pretending t
canvass for Beecber's new paper. The fellO'
calls himself a clergyman, and goes off withou