Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-06

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brary is to be purchased on the joint stock plan.
A student at the New London Academy has
furnisheT $500 to fit up the ladies' parlors.
there We're but seven alarms of fire last year
| in Portsmouth.
| The house of John Prescott, of Kittery Point.
was considerably damaged by fire on Friday.
John Devret, of Portsmouth, is appointed
lieutenant in the revenue service of Maine.
The Portsmouth Odd Fellows lodge is called
Plscataqna, after the river, and not Piscataquis.
A new Methodist church is to be erected at
Newmarket, at cost of $4,000.
The first fire in Lebanon for nearly two years
occurred the other night.
David Eliot, of Boscawen, died last week, aged
ninety-eght years.
Gen. Logan will soon be added to the num-
Der of republican speakers stumping the state.
Thomas Hughes, of Hopkinton, has been put
under bonds for threatening the life of r. T..
French, of the same town.
The Portsmouth school expenses for 1870 were
S19,71213; number of scholars, 207S; average
attendance, 1416; males 1864, females 1914.
The board of aldermen OF Portsmouth passed
a vote Of thanks for one of Westons maps of
Manchester, presented by the latter city.
The Rockingham county tax is increased, and
Portsmouth pays S2464.71 more than last year.
The Portsmouth city debt, gross, is S261 10S9S;
assets, SS5 052.5 so; net debt, S176,05121, de-
crease of SAL ,191 II for 1870.
A new encampment of Odd Fellows called
| the Mount Washington Encampment No. 16,
| was instituted in Manchester on the evening of
| the I'd.
| Some boys in Lancaster, on the 26th ult., were
| trying to run a hand-car and one, named Nc
Duffee, of Jefferson, had one arm caught by the
crank, crushing the bones in a horrible manner.
1t is a matter of congratulation among iarm-
ers, and consumers of beef and milk generally,
that the cattle disease, which Justly caused so
many apprehensions, has entirely disappeared
throughout the state.
A house and barn of Perley Putnam, in Laco-
MIA Dnrna1 last wool Tba fro uroc lie.
covered in the barn adjoining the house. The
furniture was partly saved though in dam
aged condition. Insurance on building, $1,000;
on personal property, $1,000 Loss $4,000.
Inc Democrat says the Laconia national
bank is entitled to $4,000 currency, but has
had only S62 900 up to this time. 1t now has
permission to obtain the remaining SOS, 900, and
will do so at once.
Deputy Sheriff Hildreth, with posse of
police, made descent on Friday on the notori-
Gus Riverside house at Suncook, arresting
Nancy McCue, the keeper, and five other per-
sons. They were arraigned, the woman McCue
being pound over TO the supreme judicial court,
and the Others getting thirty days each in jail.
The town election of Newcastle is announced
for Tuesday, as fixed by its English charter from
William and Mary, which is the only incorpora-
ton il ever had. All the other towns and cities
IN the state have their elections the second Tues
day in March.
The Knights of Pythias in Manchester ded-
N1lOu lilSlI uGN anu splCudlu nail Ill OlODG
Block on the I'd. The exercises consisted of adj
dresses and singing. Capt. w. r. Potter made a
short address, in the course of which he gave a
history of the rise and progress and objects OF
the order.
George W. Clark of Enfield was brought be-
fore United States Commissioner c. W. Stanley
at Lebanon on the I'd on the charge of obtaining
on credit from Daniel Tilden of Lebanon two
car loads of corn of the value of one thousand
dollars, under the pretence that he was dealing
in the ordinary course of trade, with intent to
detraud. He was placed under bonds to appear
for further examination on Friday next.
There was great sensation caused at Mere
| dlth village on the I'd by a report that all the
books and papers of the town pertaining to its
financial affairs, and which had been in the Gus.
| tody OF the town treasurer had been stolen
| such statement naturally made great deal of
talk, and the town is full of rumors in relation
| to al alleged large financial irregularity 1t is
reported that the matter is to be Immediately
| investigated.
Mr. Tebtetts, whose sudden death, in a ball
room, we recorded few days ago, was native
OF Wolfboro', and was born in 1928. The Man
chester Mirror says: "Mr. TebbettS was one of
our best business men, and was held in high es-
hmatlon tor his integrity and enterprise. Few
men would be more missed from the active du-
ueS OF lie. lie leaves WIFE, who will receive
the warmeSt sympathies of our people. His
only child died few months ago."
In regard to the election the Manchester Mir
ror mas the following: eve know that great
efforts are being made in the first district, but
the popularity of Mr. Small, his freedom from
| intrigue, his association with the industrial in
terests OF the state, as well as his ready talent
| IN debate, all tend to make his election certain.
| In our own district we are aware of disaffec-
ton to limited extent, but with the majority
| OF preceding years, there is no doubt of Ste
yenss success, even though the vote be some
what reduced. In the third district all is har-
| hony, ana there Is not question raised in re-
gard TO the election of Gen. Griffin"
The Peoples correspondent says that on the
18th ult., as Mr.. Kirk H. Fletcher, of Loudon,
| was cutting through the ice of Coughs pond,
for piscatory purposes, he accidentally '1et 90"
| ms ak into twelve feet of water. A sinner
hitched to one of his hooks was sent after it.
| Imagine his surprise when, half an hour after,
| he drew out his ak with the line very Ingenious
| ly Topped around the handle The sinner was
let down a second time, when it "made fast to
the neither jaw of ~ pound pickerel, which
was likewise secured by one of the fishermen.
VERMONT.
Rutland county possesses seventeen cheese
factories, averaging $50 cows each.
Calvin Gibson, one of the oldest citizens of
Bennington, died on the 25th ult
fire damaged Whipple's dye house, at Cav
endlsh, a few days ago, to the extent of $780,
David Allard of Wheeock, youth of seven
ty summers, boasts that he has never seen the
horse cars, and doesn't want to.
BY the will Of Mrs. A. W. Onion, late of
Chester, $4,000 is bequeathed to Dartmouth col
lege, $1,000 to the American board, $1,000 to the
home missionary society, and $500 to the tract
society.
Brattleboro' expended nearly S22 900 last year,
over $4,000 of the amount being spent on high
ways and bridges. The town debt amounts to
about $4,000, which the citizens propose to
clear off right away.
Aaron Bayard of Peru, aged ninety-two. and
his better half, who is two years his senior, are
both about and well and able to do a good DAYS
work. They have lived in the same town for
nearly seventy years.
The Vermont stock association met at Bur-
lngton on Tuesday evening last. The following
subscriptions to the capital stock were made:
Unconditional, s2S,600; on condition that the
state farm was located in Chittenden county,
SIT $50. committee was appointed to locate
and purchase a farm.
The Vermont papers have the faculty of get
ting up some very interesting fish stories. The
latest we have comes from a st. Adams paper
and is to the effect that ga Mr.. Kingman caught
a trout through the ice on the Upper Saranac a
few days ago that weighed eighteen pounds, and
was three feet and an inch long AS he attempt-
ed 10 secure him he found the hole in the ice TOO
small, when he fastened one handinto his mouth
and gills while with an ice chisel he enlarged it
and secured his prize at the cost of larcerated
hand" That will do. Next.
thirsty Vermonter hitched his horse to
freight car standing on side track while he
proceeded lesurely to a neighboring saloon in
quest of "tangle-foOt" Meantime the freight
train moved on, and when the Vermonter re-
turned his team was missing. Proceeding up
the track he came to wrecked wagon, wheel
here, spoke there, and soon after stumbled
upon the poor horse quite dead, the animal
having been choked to death ere the halter
parted.
CONNECTICUT.
The ice in the river, at Hartford, broke up on
Saturday, and the water, at last accounts, was
rising rapidly.
The strikers on the Valley railroad were paid
off on Friday. The threatened demonstrations
were prevented by the police.
Four million cartridges were shipped to Eu-
rope by the Union Metallic Cartridge company
of Bridgeport one day.
The Congregational church of Stafford has
invited the Rev. W. S. Hawks of Windsor to
become its pastor.
Danbury is raising apple seeds for the western
market. Eight barrels were recently shipped to
a town in Missouri.
There has been presented TO the state hstori-
cal society piece of the ancient cross erected
at Santo Domingo city, in commemoration of
Columbus, whose remains were deposited there
in 1886.
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