Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-20

| farm at brentwood, WheIe Il uuiiulhS mas peeu
| prepared for them.
| Leonard c. French, highly respected and in
| fluental citizen of Bedford, died last week, aged
| sixty-seyen years. AT the time of his death he
was democratic candidate for county commits
| sioner.
Hen. Lemual P. Hooper, the reform candidate
| for governor and George W. Cain of Croydon,
will take the stump for the labor reformers next
| week.
| BY the recent report of the superintendent of
hurials, it appears that there were 503 deaths in
| Manchester in 1870. OF these 11S died of con-
| sumption; of the consumptyes 80 were males
| and 70 were females.
| David Sears, Esq, of Boston, has sent James
| p. Bartlett of Portsmouth, his check Tor TWO
| hundred dollars to be donated to the white
| Rover" sufferers.
The Telegraph says business at the glass fac
| tory in South marlborough is good, most OF
| the glass blowers receiving So day, and one
| makes S15 day, commencing at A. NJ and
| closing the days work at II A. N. lP. NJ u
James Ayers, an Irishmau about sixty years
of age, was found dead in his bed at Wilton last
week. He was well as usual when he retired,
and his wife when she awoke found she had
been sleeping beside corpse for several hours.
On the 18th, Deputy Sheriff G. B. Haynes, of
Concord, by authority of a warrant issued by
County Solicitor Flint, went TO Boscawen Plains
and searched for liquors in the hotel of Samuel
A. Ambrose, o well known landlord of that
place. About five hundred dollars worth of Ii
quors we're seized and taken away. Mr.. Am
brose will be arraigned to-day.
The new grammar school building IN concord
has been named the Kent school house, in mem
ory Of Col. William A. Kent who gave the lot
fol the present high school building, and who
was one IF the most generous and public spirited
citizens that Concord has ever had.
At Mont Vernon, on the 18th inst, Joseph
Underwood, while sitting by his stove eating an
apple, fell to the floor dead. Mr.. U. was we'll
TODD farmer, and has been a resident of Mont
Vernon for some thirty years. He was about
seven years of age, and leaves wife but no
children,
| A hen took free ride on the truck of the
| tender, all the way from South Vernon, VT, to
| keene, thirty miles, few nights ago. The en-
| gineer saw her when under the engine just be-
fore he started, and the next morning, On open
| ing the engine house. discovered the verltable
biddy walking about the floor,
The case of AXel Dearborn of Boston VS.. Jos,
| c. Tucker OF Brooklne, n. H., has been on trial
at the supreme judicial court in Manchester for
| three days past. 1t was an action to recover the
| balance OF note amounting to about twenty
five hundred dollars given for a house in Bos-
ton. The jury returned a verdict for the PLAIN
tiff awarding him one hundred dollars only.
A New Hampshire paper, referring to an item
| published in these columns few days ago. to
the effect that the Episcopal lord bishop of
| Quebec had purchased the Livermore place in
| Plymouth for a ladies' seminary, says: Key.
DR.. Balch, formerly canon in the English cathe-
| oral at Montreal, was negotiating for the place
| ldSl suilulGl anu pIODub9 puiSuaoSh II, but
| doubts if he contemplates starting school,,
1t appears that the collision on the northern
| railroad Friday forming was caused by the
| freight tram getting stuck while it was drawing
off on to the side track, and the neglect of the
| conductor to send back brakemen to warn the
| approaching passenger train. Mr.. Burt, the en-
gineer is thought to be not seriously injured.
The fireman, who escaped unframed, was
Thomas Gilmore, who was on one OF the engines
of the Canaan disaster last summer.
Tt,o aalab faf ipgno of fbn T,i1rnrs of
the Amoskeag Veterans of Manchester on We'd
nesday next, the 22d inst, will no doubt prove
a very brilliant affair. Gov. Stearns and staff
and many other distinguished citizens of the
state will be present, and large delegations from
the Ancient and Honorable Artillery of Boston,
the Boston Lancers, the Newburyport Artillery,
| the Worcester State Guard, and other military
corps of Massachusetts, and from the Putnam
PhalanX of Hartford, have signified their deter
mination to honor the occasion and the Amos
keag Veterans by their presence at the celebra-
| ton,
VERMONT.
F.; Randolph refuses to and the Montpelier and
d | White River railroad,
The post Office at Bolton has been discontin-
d ued
!, The St. Adams Transcript speaks feelingly o.
c having known man in the days o lang Sylle
: Joseph Colbun, prominent citizen of Yer
# mont, treasurer of the Vermont state agricul
i tural society and an agricultural writer of note
e died at Springfield on Friday, at the age o
= | SeYcnty-one.
0 Those holders of "old Vermont Contra
railroad stock will be sorry they sold their Ger
. tiicates to the trunk makers or gave them t
5 the children 10 play with, when they read tina
e there was a sale at the Boston brokers' boart
l. last week of three hundred shares at seventy
t. five cents a share.
l. CONNECTICUT.
i r. The velocipede rink at Mlddetown. which fel
J. on Thursday, was owned by joint-stock com
pany, with a capital of $500. A ten pei
l. cent. dividend was once paid to the stock
4 holders.
l. Henry Hightman, colored, who recently mar
E. rled in New Haven, is wanted at Northampton
1t on charge of bigamy He left New Haven Tues
? day night, and had not been arrested up to las
e accounts.
e The item saying that a son of Richard Mullin!
o of New Britain was frozen to death at his doc
e while his father too drunk to let him in, il
e denied. c. VishnO NJ. D., and the father deny
e the story.
S Twenty wives of Wolcottville recently took q
r sleigh ride to Winsted without their husbands
1 and in their bills at the hotel were charged box
r OF cigars and basket of champagne.
: The state railroad commissioners met at Itch
field, last Thursday, and accepted the location
and layout of the Shepaug Valley railroad.
t Mr.. Stevenson, chief engineer of the road, says
it will be in readiness for laying the rails by the
t first of May.
The fire on the 14th at Waterbury, on the
premises of Mr.. E H. Greene, is declared by him
D incendiary. Miss Fowler predicted fire on the
? | 14th.
: Yale Items-Professor Gilman is giving a
short course of Sunday evening lectures at the
Sheffield Scientific school, on the modern wor-
tines of Oxford,-One of the gentlemen con
e nected with the laboratory of the Scientific
S school, Mr. j. s. ADAM is on the missing
e steamer Tennessee.-Professor Barker has re-
f turned from a very successful lecture trip in the
Y | west.
| The New Haven Journal says the election Of
5 Governor Jewell becomes every day more APP
parent. He has grown in popularity as he has
become more widely known, for he is man who
"wears well, !" while his competitor from causes
unnecessary to mention, has lost much of the
strength he formerly brought into close con.
test Well informed democrats admit that the
signs of the times all point to the defeat of Gov
English.
An early opening of the OTIS library, Nor.
witch, is expected. Mrs. Mcdowell has been APP
pointed librarian. The Otis fund is $780,
yielding an increase of about $500 annually. In
addition is the Boswell fund of $1,000 the inter
est of which is devoted, by the request of the
doctor, TO works in history, biography and sci
ence. The Indebtedness Of the institution is
$1,000. Of the 400 subscribers necessary for re-
opening the library, 300 are obtained.
RHODE ISLAND.
Gideon Bowen, an employe in the Providence
and Worcester freight station in Providence
was seriously injured on Friday by falling
George 5. Merritt, a boy Of three years, fe,
| into a tub of scadng water Friday afternoon il
Newport, and died Saturday forenoon from the
effects.
: The present progress of the Temples of Honor
in Rhode Island is without a parallel in the his
tory OF the temperance reform. Olive Brancl
temple, Providence, is the largest one in tn,
e world, numbering about seven hundred mem
BEES, while eleven other temples, within fou
} miles of the centre of the city, are fourishng
The lady friends of Olive Branch temple held
fair few days ago, which was a magniticen
affair Men of all classes are taking the life
long vow of total abstinence, and such larg
4 | number of converts have come from among tn