Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-15

1 grants from British provinces. OF these 2,524
were adult males 1913 Of whom are reported as
| carpenters and the remainder are farmers and
| farm lahorerS.
Fifteen millions of log lumber were shipped
from Calais during the month of November,
| says the Times. The shipping of lumber is now
| about concluded for the season, many of the
merchants having already dispatched their last
| cargo ibis business will be entirely closed by
| the goth of the present month.
Ellsworth umbermCn are proposing to build a
railroad from Falls Village down the river, by
the wharves, and perhaps TO an open winter
| port on the bay. Notice has been given of a pc
tltion for charter, and the legislature will un-
doubleday grant it. The road will be about two
and onc.halfmilcs long
A tlOuIishing Young merchant in PiScataquS,
engaged TO he married on ThankSgi ing day.
but forgot 10 ret "hoOkcd" by the town clerk,
and had TO submit to q postpoGcment, Suisse
qucnty he had the "intcntion" duly entered
with the town official, and obtained the little
| u0OSe-paper, but when the happy day arrived,
found that lie had lost it, and was comTelled to
repair to the clerks office for duplicate, which
having obtained, he FASTENED to a magistrate
and was made happy.
Maine has $40 male citizens over twcnty-onC
years of age who are deprived of the right of
suffrage "fOr other cause than crime or rebel
llon.' so SAYS the census bureau in reply to
demand for information on which to base an
apporIionment of representatives, citizens eX-
cludcd from the ballot not being rcckoncd
There are As. 329 of these "adult males in the
United States. The $40 credited to Maine are
probably Indians, paupGrs, sc.
Delesdcnicr l.cbroke was arraigned in Dexter
last week, under the cognomen of 'peIcss" Ic-
broke for stealing Sll5 from Francis Amcs. of
Gicnhun last March, and after three days eX-
animation was ordered to recognize for bis APP
pcarance at the February term of the supreme
judicial court. The plea of msnomer was put
in, claiming his name to be Delcsdernicr; but as
he had never been known by that name there,
and his counsel and all his acquaintanceS dur
ing the trial called him plain beless, the court
ovcrrued that point few days after, the
same Dclcss was arraigncd for resisting and
threatening an officer with loaded pistol,
waived an examination, and for want Of bail
was committed on both charges
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Small poX at Concord.
Snow is reported three feet deep in northern
Coos.
large paper mill is to be built in Bristol
next season.
The citizens of Newmarket arc terribly ex-
cited over case OF small pON
Bishop Baker lies in a critical condition at his
residence IN Concord he having had another
stroke Of paralysis
The dry goods house and contents of the
Swift River spool company, ut Tamworth, were
burned on Friday last The loss was partially
covered by insurance.
the three railroads RAINING into Rochester
have mlitsd TO have a signal station, with Il
staff fifty feet hiah. and signal balls and appa-
ratus OF the most approved kind.
On the 7th. in Great Falls, Col John Meseryc
of Rochester had lust alriYed at the residence
q his daughter, having left home in good
heaitb 5hat morning. ard sat down and died in
an instant. col. NJ. was a veteran of 1872 and
was agcd almost eigbtv-scven.
company has dceu formed in Littleton,
known as the New HAMPSHIRE scvthe company,
and a large factory building 1SS lyv As has been
erected Arrangements are being perfected for