Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-29
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The Boston Journal, in an excellent editorial
on the recent convention, says of DR.. Lorino
His speech was brief, but it was manly and eo-
quent, and was delivered with great deal of
emotion, and made most favorable impression
upon the convention. 1t made for him many
friends among those who had heretofore ques-
toned his sincerity in his opposition TO Gen
Butler, and at its close he stood stronger in the
confidence of the republican party than he has
ever stood before"
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Edward J. Murphy, who attempted TO shoot
his wife on the night of the Goth, was before the
Lowell police court on the 2Sth, and was bound
over in $1,000 for his appearance before the sn.
perior court in October next.
AT Lowell, on the night of the Goth, the rooms
Of Melboum Hutchins, OF the firm of Nichols &
Hutchius, restaurant keepers in that CITY, were
entered by coored man named Charles T.
Lewis, who was occasionally employed by the
firm and who was rooming in the building. Mr.
Hutchins heard the steps, sprang out of bed
-urned up the light, and met Lewis, who said
81 have come to knife you. am out OF work
and money" Mr.. Hntchins drove him from the
room, and he is now in custody Silver spoons
and forks were found secreted in his room.
Ine Lowell board of health are continuing
their stringent efforts for the suppression OF
small poN, but seven cases were reported on the
9th, aud mostly cases of varioloid. Three
persons were arrested for refusing to be vacci-
mated. Every precautlOn possible is being
taken by the people TO prevent the spread of the
disease. The new city hospital, opened on Mon
day last, is already filled with patients, all OF
whom promise speedy recovery. The lecture
committee of the Lowell young mems Chris
tain association decided to postpone their course
of lectures which was TO be opened this week
ESSEX COUNTY.
Mrs. Emmie A. Lane of Lynn, who, some
time ago, was quite prominent in cOnneeti,ou
with the labor movement, and of wRion little
has been heard of late, is a9alila brought before
the public by SghrsfOf Resolutions OF conf
dem -Eisared w The "workingwomen's associ-
alton" of Lynn. These resolutions invite Mrs.
Lane to give her views in public lecture, and
close MS follows Resolved, that ii there is any
office or position in the power of worSingmen
10 bestow, we earnestly appeal TO them TO be-
stow such position upon our sister, Mrs. J.. a.
Lane, as our first, best and last choice feeling
that it belongs to her and her alone.
A Gloucester paper says: "Ihe maclercl
fishery for this season is rapidly drawing to &
close. The shore fleet are doing but little, and
may soon be expected in our waters for a week
or Two, preparatory TO winding up the bushes!
for the year. The news from the bay indicates
a scarcity of maekere, and as rough weather
may be soon expected, large portion of tht
fleet will soon be along. The number of arrival,
from the bay reported AT Gloucester tins season
has been fifty-two. The fares have been com
paratively SMALL and the quality poor, while
prices have ruled much lower than the past few
sells have been reported ranging from 100 TO 45C
barrels, and averaging 247 barrels, which will
probably be about the average Of the feet. Six
teen of The Portland feet show an average OF
211 barrels, and eleven Of the Newburyport fleet
show an average catch of 1872 barrels. The
average catch of the feet from other fish
Ing towns, so far as reported, is equally as
small. Boothbay 227 barrels, Norhhaven
$780, Welldeet 49, Belfast no. and New Lon
don 235 A Salem vessel has landed 307
barr and Frank fnrt iS
with catch OF 312 barrels, and another with
$40 Nineteen vessels reported at Port Null
grave show an average catch of 200 barrels.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The new Potomska mill at New Bedford will
run 3O,UOO SplndeS ana Will be superior Struc-
ture in every respect. There will be 164 ventl
ators in each room. The design is to make il
the most attractive mill in New England.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The sale of seats for the Abingdon lyceum
lectures began on the evening of the 26th ant
at nine O'Clock $3.50 worth of tickets were dis
posed Of The course is one of the stronges
in the country. 1t opens with Cough 0ctobe
II, and he will be followed by Murray, Kilpat
rick, Douglas and Curtis, the Temple quartet
and Mrs. Smith, General Hawley, Rev. J. O
Peck, Mrs. Liyermore, and the Mendelssohl
quintette club and Mrs. C. A. Barry.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Hoyoke wafer power company hayt
nearly completed their new gas holder in th,
H.,
cost of $4,000. 1t is forty feet high, and viii
hold 900 cubic feet of gas.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Several Greenfield liquor seers-Stevens of
the Mansion house, Snnonds Of the American
Thayer of Thayers hotel and Fitzgerald of the
Union house-have been fined S16.05 each
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Thomas Burke, an lrishman, living in tn,
town Of Great Darlington, was killed the othel
day by the eaying in Of wen in which he wa
at work He was found standing erect ant
probably suffocated Immediately from the lallin;
earth
Last week Saturday a son of John Kimball o
North Adams, about twelve years of age, lel
from chestnut tree, and was so badly injured
that he died on Monday.
George LarTabee and Josephine Hawkins ;
female of some color, have been sent to iail by
the district court in Pittsfield TO await trial il
January, the former for HOUSEKEEPING in Hins
dale last week, and the latter for stealing SO
from the pocket of her mistress, Mrs. Dr. Harvey
Cole of Hartford, who came TO PittSfield on {
visit. Cleveland Saunders, colored boy
charged with being an accomplce of Larrabee
was discharged.
The Albany institute will hold a field meeting
in Pittsfed next week Saturday, for the pur
pose of visiting points of scientific and histori.
cal interests, among which will be the Berk,
shire glass works, PontOOsuc lake and Balance
rock. In the evening meeting for reports and
social S"eeches will be held in some public hall
in Pittsfield
Pitisield property owners pay a tax this
year of fourteen per cent, which is nine per
cent. lower than Adams is taxed, and it is les
sened more still by the school abatement 1hi.
is an allowance from the town to the taxpayers
OF the different school districts for the schoo
houses and other property which the town has
taken possession of. An amusing case, show
ing the value some men put upon time occurred
in the tax collectors office the other day when
man, having paid taxes on several houses and
other property which he owned, waited two
hours for one cent change due him. and then
was only induced to 90 by the collectors as
surlng him on his honor that he should have
the cent the next time they met
MAINE.
The Oxford normal institute at South Paris
has III pupils, 80 Of whom have been teachers
military company has been formed M tho
state agricultural college at OrOnO. 1t numbers
forty members.
A sou Of John Hayes, in North Berwick ooed
fourteen years. while getting over a fence on The
9th, with an open knife in his hand, fell. and
the blade entering one of his lungs caused fatal
injuries, it is feared.
One OF the divers employed in clearing ont
the channel of the river at Bangor recently
found an ancient cannon on the bottom, nearly
embedded in the mud and rocks. 1t was bauied
up and cleaned of, but is rusted so that no date
IL there ever were one, can be found on it, Tho
piece IS Of Il very old pattern and is made OF
iron so soft that ii can be cut with a knife Ii
was loaded with six pound ball, which has
been taken out together wirh the wooden sabot
and the powder, the latter still enclosed in its
bag. 40
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Inc state orphans house at Franklin will he
dedicated, October 10, with appropriate cere-
monies ~
DAVID Berry was so brutally beaten by Richard
Kingsley at Portsmouth, on the 10Th, in a omar
rel ABOUT some pigs that his death is exnected
Kingsley is under arrest
Eight persons in one house and nincteen in
another at Hookset, showed symptoms of severe
poisoning, after lunchng heartily on crackers
and milk. The matter is to be INVESTIGATED
Dr. A. J. Young of Dover recently retmrned
from fronting excursion to Indian Rocl IN
Rangeey, Me-, Thursday, saw swimming across
Cupsuptuck lake a buck deer, which he can.
tured by throwing lasso over his horns ana
towing him five miles to camp alive and well
A little daughter Of Mr.. Charles Clifford yybo
dropped dead at Plymouth on the 25th. was 90
overcome when the body OF her father was car.
ried into the house that she went INFO couynl-
sions, and it is feared that she will not recover
Exeter was startled on the 26th by loud re-
port Of an explosion. 1t proved to be the burst.
ing Of a patent steam generator, which had been
buried in sand aud heated TO test its strength.