Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-16


| Princeton Tor their camp on Grand lake, and
| while passing Farm cove they both broke
through the ice and Getchell was drowned. His
companion, with much difficulty, succeeded in
| extrcahng himself from his pelilOus situation
The Maine state temperance committee have
| called a mass convention OF men and women
| who practice total abstinence and are in favor OF
| prohibition, 70 meet ut Augusta on the nth OF
| january. The committee say: while this con
| yention is not called in the interests of any DO
| litca party OF religious creed the fact is patent
| that there is great dissatisfaction among the old,
| long tried and leading friends Of temperance in
| the state with the present aspect of the case
| and especially that those whose duty il is to en-
force the prohibioy law should fail to do So
| 1t is also the conviction that some necessary
| changes should be made in the law, and thar
measures should be taken to secure its more gen
erdl and impartial enforcement ILL -.,4.-r
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Snow is three feet deep in Coos county
Mr. Mansfield Hatch Of Newton was found
frozen to death in the WoOdS-a few days since.
Good beef sells for five cents a pound by the
quarter, and round hogs from 6! 10 Z cents
pound, in Canaan.
MintralogstS may be pleased to learn that
, mine OF mOlybdenum has been discovered in
WcStmorcland, which is 10 be worked.
The mayor and city physician OF Concord
affirm that there are no cases of small poX in
that CITY,
The Winchester stock breeders and mechan.
officers President s. w Butfum; Secretary, 5.
Nj, Morse; Treasurer, IL. Abbott; Chief Mar
shal, K. Il. Wilton Superintendent, Anscl Dick
inSon.
The elections in Portsmouth, Dover and Man
chester have all been significant of a change in
New Hampshire politics next spring. With
good management the republicans can easily re-
cover the state. The democrats are trying 10
make trouble by stirring mp Mr.. Pixies friends
to demand another trial for him. but Mr. Pike
himself secs too cCarywhat he,rcsult would be,
and announces emphatically his determination
to keep ont Of the fed-an arrangement which
was fixed last spring, whatever the newspapers
say.
The officers of the Portsmouth navy yard
had been urging Alexis TO visit them, and, as
COmmandant Pcnnock met him with Farragut
at his Russian home, ii was Thought he would
come In iact, he agreed to, and all prepare
tons were made to receive him. A grand recep-
ton was to be given ut the commandments resi-
dence at the yard As J. b. Smith brought
along the cdibles from Boston, and the music
and the guests were all ready, it was decided TO
have the reception in honor of the duke, with
that important parsonage absent. This was
done and all passed off 6ucly. The crowd
that gathered at the Eastern station TO
meet Alexis were informed by telegraph that he
was indiSposed.
VERMONT,
The butter market at st. Adams this week
was dull. Prices varied from fourteen TO thirty
seven cents per pound.
Fish culture paws well Hon. Martin G.
Everts of Rutland, has sold two thousand
pounds of trout from his model fish pond for 10
cents per pound.
A bank case which has excited much interest
in Vermont has Just been decided in the Ben
ningtou county court. About Two years ago the
First national bank of Bennington was robbed
while Enos Adams had bonds on deposit rs col
lateral security 10 notes. These bonds among
NJ OF, I,.,,,l-
for their recovery in damages. The result is
verdict in fayo' Of Adams to the amount of
$4,000 and his costs.
There has been so much said and written
about smart old ladies that it has been generally
supposed that the quality of industry
was obsolete among the younger ones,
but Miss Eliza Lander of WilliSton, twenty-five
years OF aye, has woven nearly thirteen hundred
| yards of rag carpeting since October 1870, and
done the homework for family of four.
CONNECTICUT.
| Woodbury. has six survivors of the 1872 war,
| all said TO be over eighty years Of age.
| The Connecticut republicans will hold n state
| convention to nominate candidates for the April
| election, January 24th next.
There is areat religious interest in the Second
| Congregational society, Fair Haven and ninety
| converts, most of them adults have been made.
| AT the annual meeting of the New Haven
county agricultural society, officers were elect
| ed, and it was voted 10 hold the fair Oct. 9th
| and 10Th, next.
The IIazardville powdcrcompany is transport
| ing six thousand keys of powder through New
| Haven streets for shipment, which makes it
| agreeable for pedestrians.
| VIM. WyOn of MeridCn, a soldier who was
shot in She hand in 1868, has carried the bullet
ever since, till tie other day, when it was re-
| moved by surgical operation
The small poX has appeared in MiddIetown.
| Two students at Wesleyan university have
| been attacked by the disease which is now con-
sidered more disagreeablc than dangerous
Two boys, aged thirteen and fifteen, children
| Of Henry Mcmahon of South NOrwalk, fell
through the ice while skating, on the 12th, and
| were drowned.
The New Haven Register SAYS: at is going
| the rounds of the papers that the largest tree in
| the state is Il chestnut tree on the land Of W. H..
| II. Daggett, Andoyer, and measuring twenty
| three feet in circumference at its base. There
| was standing, not long ago, in that part Of East
| Haven called 'FoXOn," an elm tree, measuring
| thirty feet in circumference"
The following are the stations and distances
| from Hartford on the uSt completed COnnccti-
cut Western railroad: Blue Hills miles, Bloom
field 81, Tariffyile H. Hoskins 10, Smsbury
Is, Stratton Brook IL, Canton 214, Colliusyille
| "A, Pine Meadow Is, New Hartford %, WinSted
| 35i, West Winsted 36i, South Norfolk Al, Nor
| folk 454, East Canaan 81, Canaan 5i4, Twin
| Lakes 81, Chapinville 593, Salisbury 634, Lake
| vile g. Ore Hill Sc, State Line G7i, Millerton
|
| will be flag stations.
At the great meeting in 1865, when so much
| excitement was raised in favor of building Il
memorial chapel, Luther Mannard JONES' Yale,
was appointed an agent 10 collect and take
| charge of subscriptions for the chapel His sue
| cess has been fatering, and Il new chapel is not
| far distant. AT the meeting of the prudential
| committee of the corporation last week he pre-
| sented his report. Personal expenses, $1,000;
| subscriptions, 5000 Mr. Jones was instructed
| to collect sufficient to recOmpense himself and
| then "to disperse.'
Prof. Marsh of Yale college, who has been
| travelling since June with a large party, collect
| ing and investigating the vertebrate fossils of
| the Rocky Mountain region, has made one of
| the finest collections in the world. His eX-
| ploratons among the upper cretaccous iorma-
| tons of Kansas have been very remarkable.
| 1t is said that his Investigations will furnish
| the material for clearing up quite number of
geological puzzles particularly the relations of
the ancient fresh water lake basins east and west
| Of the Rocky Mountains 1t has been found
that the pliocene basin in Oregon contains a
| very large number of fossil horses, and the
| minute yertebrates from the tertiary formation
| of Wyoming are considered of great value.
| Prof. Marsh has recently appeared before the
| Callornla academy OF sciences, and read some
| interesting papers.
The Hartford Courant has the following: Dur
| ing the Grand Duke Alexis walks through the
| Bridgeport cartridge factory the other day, he
| pointed to several worliingmen and inquired OF
| Gov Jewell care these men what you call the
| common people?' The governor replied that
they were fair specimen Of the working classes
| IN this country. "But do you mean 10 say that
| these GET into official positionW further asked
| the imperial scion Perhaps not any of these
| men, Tejoined Jewell; 'but men of their class
| do; they are educated men, most of them-that
| is, they can all probably read and write, and
most of them take and read the newspapers d"
| DO You know Of any eases where such men
| have actually been elected to Officer" again
| queried the curious Alexis go certainly the
| governor said; 81 myself worked in the shop as
tanner till was twenty years of are; and
the announcement seemed to puzzle the duke a
| good deal. Here was the governor OF state,
| as well dressed and as well uppeafingas himself,
| who had actually worked in shop, and this
| man was welcoming him in behalf OF a hundred
| thousand voters il was more of an enigma than
| the boy had ciphered on previously; but as he
| goes through the country he will ascertain, upon
| lnquiring, that very many Of the public men
| here have come direct from the workshop In
| Massachusetts, where he is now visiting, Gov
| Clatlln was shoemaker, Senator Wilson was a