Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-25

AT Concord Mrs. Solomon Saunders of East
Concord fell on the ice on the 22d, broke one
arm and sprained wrist badly.
Mrs. George F. jerks, wife of one of the pub
fishers of the Concord Statesman, dislocated a
shoulder, beside eceiying sprains and bruises,
by falling on the ice on the 21st.
The Enfield Universasts held festival on
the evening oil the 17th inst, to raise funds to
repair the church. The net proceeds of the
festival were about S160.
o. c. Moore, editor OF the Nashua Telegraph,
who has been suffering for several days with a
painful attack of neuralgia is now comfortable,
and his family and friends are hopeful of his
speedy recovery.
Gen. Edward w. Hinks of Boston, to speak at
| Claremont on Monday and at Lebanon on Tues
| day evenings next; Gen. Walter Hartman
at Pittsfeld on Monday, Laconia on Tuesday
and Bristol on Wednesday evenings next,
The citizens of Derry and adjoining towns
met on the 28d adthe town hall in Derry, under
the direction of the New Hampshire board of
| agriculture, TO consider the subject of farming.
| A very large number were present, including
many ladies. Joseph Kidder, Esq, Of Manches-
| ter, delivered an interesting address upon the
obstacles in the way of the farmer. Hon. II.
r. Roberts of Rollinsford followed in an address
| upon farm and household empOyments.
VERMONT.
There is some talk about building a Univer-
salst church at Enosburgh Falls.
Work on the railroad at Enosburgh is pro-
| crossing. The deep cuts and fills and culyerts
| near the village are well under way.
The site for the new Episcopal church at
| Enosburgh Falls is finally decided upon.
In South Dorset is q little child, but nine
months old, who neither walks nor creeps, but
talks easily and distinctly.
Two or three old Wesleyan preachers in Shelf
field are making a raid on Free Masonry, in that
town.
The battle-fiags of Vermont regiments, which
have bnpu banuiuu in tho CT Of Mont
pelier, are to be put in glass cases and placed in
the vestibule of the capitol.
Mrs. Laua J. Jewett of StAlbans was drowned
in ST. Adams bay on Tuesday by the team in
which she and her husband were riding break
ing through the ice.
The Methodist society at Enosburgh Falls,
after having obtained a subscription Of $4,000
towards building new church. have apparently
succumbed.
Hardwick enjoys the distinction of possessing
haunted house" owned and occupied by
Mr.. Batchelder. The family hear stamping
upon the steps and the whnnyiug of a horse at
the door; but when they go they can see no tn
ing.
Springfield must be healthy place to locate
There are IN that town ninety persons between
the ages of seventy and eighty years. and forty
two between the ages of forty and one hundred.
Of the latter the average age is over eghty-tOur.
The Oldest person is ninety-nine years and nine
months.
BY monster bias in marble quarry at Dor
set recently, block of marble forty feet long,
thirty feet wide and eighteen feet deep, and esti-
mated TO weigh more than 1000 tons, was thrown
more than thirty feet, and broken into a million
pieces. Seventeen kegs Of powder did the work.
At West Berkshire, the other day, Mrs. Phil o
Ervins applied Camphor to an aching tooth, and
going to the stove leaned over it to heat her
face, when she suddenly tainted away, and fall
ing on to the stove burned her face and neck,
so that her life was despaircd of for some time.
CONNECTICUT.
A Waterbury photographer took a photograph
of the burning high school, at midnight, when
the flames were at the highest.
The Hartford Courant, reviewing the Connec-
ticut campaign, thinks that the prospect of re-
publican success this spring is cry hopeful; in
deedif our friends throughout the state will dis
play ordinary activity, Gov. Jewell and the
whole state ticket will be triumphantly elected.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Boston Transcript says "A new hotel is the
| great need of the pleasant and enterprisng city
of Providence" Quite true.
| Mark Wright, an Englishman, employed in
the Londsdale company's works, fell under a
moving train, Tuesday niglt at Valley Falls
and had his right arm completely cut off.
The straw hat and bonnet manufacturers in
Providence and vicinity are unusually busy al
the present time.
The third annual exhibition of the Woon-
socket poultry society was held on Tuesday and
Wednesday, in Institute hall. The number of
entries was one hundred and fifty-one, while the
number Of fowls and birds was between four
and i've hundred. Taken together this was the
largest aud finest exhibition of fowls ever seen
in the town, and would compare favorably with
any poultry show in any part of the country
The Woonsocket Patriot says: "'The cattle
disease, which caused so much alarm through
| out the New England states a few weeks ago,
seems to have been checked by the prompt
measures of the authorities of the different
states. The Rhode Island cattle commissioners
advise continued restraint on imported cattle,
also the precaution of removing all sick cattle
from the herd when discovered