Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-09
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New England view. summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


the painting OF the Bowdoin college art gallery
to he taken to Boston to be exhibited at granC
art exhibition TO be given there this fall.
Appearances indicate that the procession a
the having of the cornerstone of the new Boston
post office, in this city, on MONDAY, lotn, WI!
tary, posts of the grand army Of the republic
high school battalion, etc.
Nineteen hundred new water takers from tn
Boston Highlands and Dorchester have beef
added to the list of the water registers Office
this year, and the number for the full year viii
be about twenty-five hundred.
AT a meeting of the Boston section of the in
ternational, held Friday evening, a resolution
was adopted declaring that the section regard
with great favor the platform Of the labor reform
state convention, and plcdging its best effort
for the success of the ticket.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Lowell dispatch, OF Saturday, suys: "Tht
decisive measures taken by the board of healtl
promises decided beneficial results. On Frida!
there were four cases only of light variloid reg
istered, and today, at noon, no case was re
ported,
With the present payment the large corpora
tons in Lawrence change their base of labol
and each employe will hereafter be paid for hi
work by the hour instead of the day, receivin!
pay for each hour and part of an hour of labor
1t will be at the option of the employee as TO The
number of hours he shall work. This is in
tended to settle the question OF short time" be
tween the corporations and their help.
AT Salem, on Friday afternoon, fire broke
out in one of the "dust spout" leading from
the card room, at the work OF the India manu-
featuring company in English street. The
flames were easily eXtingushed, but The dam
agc bv water was considerable, and will proba-
bly amount to $1,000, which, however, is COW
cred by insurance Two of the employees Rus
sell Batineount and Annie Chisholm were Sc
elV I'M q pnnnOUpr
their lives. A slight fire in house on Ward
street, Thursday evening, caused by the over
tipping of a lighted kerosene lamp, was extin-
guished without much damage.
Henry Penny, the lad who was arrested at
Lynn, on Friday, for stealing the sum OF S27
from the store of Mr.. Sawyer, turns out TO be
an old hand at the business. He is native of
New Hampshire, and in 1869 was imprisoned in
the reform school, but managed to eacape from
that place one night by tying lot of sheets, ETC.,
together. He was captured soon atterward,
having been injured by ball, and sent back to
the school, he again escaped and was not heard
OF uutil year ago last May, when he was ar
rested in Lawrence for housebreaking. Finally
he was imprisoned in Nashua, and escaped from
thence in October last. Penny is only eighteen
years of age.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford Mercury says eve are
glad to know that in this section, and we pre-
sumo the same is true elsewhere, many pro
Dounced supporters of the prohibitOIy state
ticket last year, will, this year, vote for VIM. b.
Washburn. Not a few of those interested in
the solution of the labor problem will do the
same"
The state constable seized at New Bedford
the other day, eighteen quart bottles of wills
key and six OF rum. The liquor was secrcted
in a way that shows the exremities to which
dealers in the "ardent' are brought. A board
fence is built so near an clubhouse that the
nj onh tba IF fbo
building come in contact. This leaves a space
some inches wide between the boarding and the
side Of the building and here the fluid was de-
posted. One OF the fence boards is made to
take out when necessary, thus completing the
arrangements Of this novel bar room.
The New Bedford Standard says that the in
crease of capital in the Potomska mills-2,OOO
shares-was all taken within thirty days, and
applications for more stock had to be refused.
The buildings will be covered in this season.
The walls are ofIaunton brick, with stills and
underpinning OF Rockport granite. The main
building is to be 345 by 90 feet, four stories
high. The mill will run 10000 splndles and 7O4
LOOMS in the manufacture of printing cloths.
The machinery will be operated by double
horizontal Corliss engine, 900 horse power. The
driving pulley on the main engine shaft will be
80 feet in diameter and 66 inches face weighing
$4,000 pounds. Three 30-inch belts wi run on
this pulley, one belt being applied over another,
for half the width. There are to be four up
right boilers feet in diameter, each with $50
two-inch flues.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
One night recently the PittSfeld burglars
went through the houses of Mrs. Platt, W. G..
Backus, l. Henry and Mrs. Lawrence. The
only booty obtained was at the first named-s3
and some iewelly. This makes nine places en-
tered within five or six weeks in Pittsfied and
the Eagle adds; We sincerely hope TO have the
pleasure some day, of announcing the safe ar.
thieves full
we should prefer the exquisite enjoyment of re-
porting that they had been killed while on one
Of their own raids.
John McEnany, of Pittsfeld recently met
with terrible accident while shooting part
ridges in New LenoX His gun burst lust at
that spot which rests upon the left hand when
the gun is at the shoulder. A piece about three
inches long aud an inch wide was blown from
the barrel with such force as to nearly cut his
hand off, and mangle it shOckinoly. The wrist
was amputated, and DlcEnany will recover.
The gun was a dOuble-barTeled one, and McEn.
any made mistake and put two charges into
one barrel, resulting in the explosion and in
jury.
MAINE.
The Wing says Adjutant General Murray has
borrowed 400 tents from the state of Massachu-
sets, which, with the $50 owned by Maine, will
give $50 for the accommodation of the military
at Bangor, on the 18th.
Charles H. Townsend, of North JAY was
found dead in his barn, where he was huskne
corn, last week. He had been absent from the
house but short time when he was fund
Heart disease was the probable cause.
Secretary Boutwell, inStructs Collector Wash.
burn of Portland, that, on and after December
LIST, all cars transporting United States products
through Canada TO another place in the United
States must be locked and sealed with American
seal-locks and seals at the place Of shipment.
Quite large number of sheep were killed in
Wesley during the season. The depredator
could not be seen or scarcely traced, be il dor,
wolf or bear. Two weeks ago sheep at North
field begun 10 be killed in a similar way. MIR.
Israel Andrews set trap near TO where the last
sheep was killed, and last week he found in the
trap a huge wolf
The house of Capt. Fred Waterhouse, in
Searsport village, was DESTROYED by fire last
week. Its origin is mystery, and nothing was
known Of it until the flames were discovered
bursting through the western end Most of the
contents OF the house were saved. Loss $1,000;
partly insured. The house OF John Putnam
took fire, and was damaged about $500; in
surcd.
The win of the late Hon. Woodbury. Davis
has been filed in the probate office in Portland
In it he bequeaths all his property to his wife
and daughter for their use during their life.
time, and on their decease, if any be left, it is
10 be divided into fifths, wo-tiths to be divided
equally between his two brothers, one-ffth tC
20 to the children of bis sister, and the re-
iualuuer 10 DC uNlded equally between the
American home missionary society, the Maine
missionary society, and the female orphan So
ciety.
The rainy weather somewhat interfered with
tue work on the Boston and Maine extension
last week, To-day several sections will be un-
der way, including North Berwick, Wells, Wells
Beach, kennebunk, BiddefOrd, Saco, Saco Beach
and Scarborough Marsh Men and teams are
arriving IN large numbers at different points.
The contracts stipulate the completion of tho
road bed by June 1, 1872, ready for the TOP
grading and rails.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Hon. Samuel Flint OF Lyme has been chosen
by the new labor commission as its chairman.
Secretary not yet appointed.
A house at Cotton Hill, in Guilford, known as
the Prospect house, owned by Simon Cotton,
and leased by z. Z. Smith, with a stable, was
burned at one O'Clock Saturday morning. 1t
was used as a summer boarding house. The
live stock and carriages were saved, with a part
OF the furniture. The fire was caused BY de
fectiye chimney Loss not reported Insured
for about $1,000.
The third aud closing day of the Grafton cOun
ty fair at Plymouth drew an immense crowd 0
people In the afternoon there were not les
than 5000 persons on the ground, the balloon as
cension being the great attraction. The balloon
ascension was made in a successful manner b,
Irot. King and others. They took with then
instruments to make observations every iv