Worcester daily spy., 1871-05-20
rho netition and papers have been on llle In the

/ The petition and papers have been on file in the
department for three years or more.
A train on the Portland and Ogdensburg rail-
road ran off the track at East Baldwin on Tues
| day, in consequence of the expansion of the
| rails One passenger and freight car were over.
| turned, causing no serious damage or injury to
| the passengers.
The old bridge at Lisbon Falls went down on
Monday. 1t is the centre span, 100 feet long,
and cannot be replaced till low water in August.
There will be no way of crossing the river I'M
less ferry is established above the village.
At Augusta, on the 18th, George Harrington,
assistant postmaster in the post office, young
man about twenty five years Of age was drowned
near the toll bridge. He was out in a row boat
with another young man named Jabez Fellows,
and the boat upset. Fellows clung TO the boat
and was saved. Harrington attempted to swim,
but was taken by the current, and was drowned
He was one of the most estimable and popular
young men in Augusta, and his loss is deeply
regretted.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
1t is said there is more building going on in
Portsmouth this spring than for any year since
| 1860.
Mr.. Alvin Dexter of Boston has purchased
| the Indian Head house, lands, farms and stables
in Nashua, for which he pays $4,000.
The Hon. Joseph b. Adams, mayor of Ports
mouth, has been appointed United States depu-
ty marshal by Gen, J. W. Patterson, United
States marshal.
Geo. o. Dearborn has been appointed by the
postmaster general relief route agent on the rail-
road between Portsmouth and Concord and the
Boston and Maine railroad.
The First Congregational church at Nashua,
built upon the site of the house that was de-
stroyed by fire on the night of April 18th, 1870,
has been completed at a cost of S45, 900, and was
dedicated on the 18th.
| Application will be made to the next legisa-
ture for a charter for the extension of the
| Manchester and Claremont railroad from North
| Weare to Bradford; also for road from Man
chester to Winchendon, Mass, which would
make route 80 miles nearer TO New York than
the present one.
The members of the Grand Army at Man
chester are making preparations for the cere-
mony of decorating the graves of soldiers on the
30th inst. Rev. Z. r. Sanborn, pastor of the
Universalist society of Concord, will deliver the
oration, and poem written by Rev. Mrs. Hama
| ford, will be read on the occasion. The day
will also be observed at Milford. Rev. John
Edgar johnson of that place will deliver the ora
ton.
The action which was brought in 1868 against
the Concord and Lawrence railroads by David
Currier of Derry, II. 6. Connor of Manchester,
and others, to compel those roads to comply
with the law enacted by the legislature of 1867,
by which it was provided that rival and COM
peting roads should be run separately, is ap-
preaching decision Most of the testimony on
both sides has been taken and it is believed that
the question will soon come before the full bench
of judges of the supreme judicial court. The
| question is of much Importance and involves the
interests of the Boston and Maine and the Lowell
and Nashua railroads, as well as those roads
against which the bill in chancery was brought
VERMONT.
Bennington has recently subscribed for S22 900
worth of stock in the Waloomsoe railroad.
severe frost on Monday night injured ma
terialy the fruit buds and garden plants in Rut-
land and vicinity.
Fires are burning on the hills between Water
bury and Middlesex and have already run over
many acres.
Bristol has a school district whose committee
consist of father, mother, and one daughter
The daughter is chosen teacher for this summer.
AT St. Albans, this week, the butter market
was active at the following prices: Common, II
cents; fair, 1S; good, "a; extra, 27. The local
papers say that butter is coming in from all sec
tons by single and tour-hOrse teams.
The Lamoille Valley cheese factory company
are preparing to add the manufacture of butter
to that of cheese and have introduced four
horse power engine for heating the watts of milk,
cooking the curd and churning the cream. 1t is
well understood that more or less of the elements
| OF butter in the milk are not utilized in cheese
manufacture, and this experiment, if successful,
will work important changes in dairying.
| CONNECTICUT.
The new steamer Thames River, to run be-
tween New London and Groton, was launched
| at Greenpoint yesterday morning.
Capt. Ephraim Williams of the United States
army has accepted the assistant professorship of
ancient language and literature in the Norwich
university. Capt c. A. Curtis, United States
| army, retains his professorship Of military sci
ence and tactics The secretary of war has just
| furnished the university with arms and equip
ments TO the value of S4500, among which are
| 15O breech-loading rifles, cadet pattern, manu-
factured expressly for the college. The corps of
| cadets will go into camp at Berlin pond for in
struction in castrametation guard and out
! post duty, June l. 1871.
| RHODE ISLAND.
| Mr.. Burrill Hopkins, of West Greenwich, who
| has been missing from his home since the 11th
inst, was found in Providence on Wednesday,
evidently out of his mind, and quite weak from
| want of food.
Mr.. T. L. White, the Washington correspond
ent of the New York Tribune, who is just now
imprisoned, attracting the attention of the
whole country, formerly resided in Pawtucket.
He graduated at Tufts a few years ago. and
| spent his time, after graduation and before be-
ginning his labors in the Tribune office, in teach
| ing school,