Worcester daily spy., 1871-08-11
Goaurrester 4ailp Spp.


The public library of Boston has gained in
twenty years 1S9, ,562 volumes.
During the month of July last there were
,6S6 visitors TO the Bostonl public baths,
month Of last year.
The work upon the third track of the Boston
and Providence railroad is progressing favora-
bly,.
almost fifteen hundred houses of one story and
French roof will be erected within six miles Of
the state house the present season.
The sale OF staterooms on the steamer char
tered by the Bay State excursionists, which
sailed for St. John on Tuesday, yielded SlS2l 80,
the highest premiurn paid being $55.
John Thompson, who for the past sixteen
years has filled the position Of master mechanic,
has been unanimously chosen superintendent of
the Eastern railroad in place of Mr.. Prescott,
resigned. The announcement of Tuesday, to
the effect that Mr.. Bachelor was appointed
superintendent, was incorrect
Mrs. Flynt, the fashionable Boston dress
maker, who gained so much notoriety through
her lawsuit with Mr.. Coolidge has almost ready
for the press an explicit and elaborate account
of the way in which this case was handled as
well as an expose of several other dark and de-
vious affairs connected with the efforts of wo-
men to earn an honest livelihood 1t will be
called Scissors"
A large excursion party arrived in Boston on
"Wednesday over the Ftchburg railroad, the
third train, the two originally preceding not be.
ing able to carry all who wanted to come, and
on their arrival here they were obliged to EN-
ploy the boat to make an extra trip to Nahant
TO accommodate them, besides employing the
steamer Escort. They were accompanied by
the Fitchburg cornet band.
The Boston and Albany railroad will COM
pete, next month, a shop at Alston that is 315
feet long and II wide, with walls Is feet high.
A section of it, $50 feet long, will be used for
ofsrbF nj
other 65 feet for the machines. The other sec
tions, built last year, comprise about 200 feet
for wood machine shop, 200 for making
and repairing passenger coaches, 200 for
paint shop, rs for blacksmith, with
a total length of shops of S15 feet. The
company have built several new houses, and are
constantly buying real estate in the vicinity or
other parts of Brighton, and they evidently
don't intend to be cramped for room.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Lawrence citizens were excited on Wednesday
by the futile efforts of big sturgeon to get up
over the falls, and finally were smart enough to
capture him with an ice pike There were three
hundred pounds of him.
Since Newburyport voted "beer," there has
not been quarter part of the drunkenness and
of the offences arising from drunkenness that
came before the police court before the vote was
taken.
After Monday there will be no steamer direct
from Boston TO Lowell Island, Mr.. johnson of
the Island house having found that excursion
parties are not always agreeable to his boarders
or profitable to himself. The regular line of
communication with the Lowell Island house is
by the Eastern railroad 10 Marblehead, and
thence by steamer to the island.
The Merrimac is full of dead menhaden or
pogies. They float into the docks by millions,
and the farmers cart them off by tons for ma
nure. Many years ago the same phenomenon
was coincident with the appearance of the yell
low fever in NewburypOrt, which was attributed
by the physicians to the effiuvia arising from
the dead fish.
There is quite an excitement in an adjoining
town to Newburyport in regard to the fresh
water pearl fishery. Most of our brooks contain
the fresh mussel-uni0 pttrpureuS-of which,
perhaps, one in ten incloses pearl. The BOs-
ton Herald correspondent has been shown eight
fair pearls, four Of which were worth setting,
that were bagged in half a day. The largest
was as big as pea, and so absolutely spherical
in form that a Boston jeweler at first pro-
nounced it an imitation, declaring it was more
perfect than any one of hundred and fifty
which he had in his store. On further exami-
nation he reversed his decision, and offered
handsome sum for it.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The valuation of Pawtucket is S4,271 ,S15.
Rate of taxation SIS on $1,000
The Tecumseh mill company of Fall River
have bought land in that place whereon to
erect another mill.
1t may be mentioned as one of the curiosities
of trade, that hundred pounds of oats can
now be purchased in Boston for less than the
price of hundred pounds of hayi
The Congregational church in Taunton, over
which Rev. Mr.. Maltby was settled for more
than forty years, is arranging semi-centennial
celebration. Rev. Mr.. Maltby will deliver the
historical address.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
A whale, at least forty feet long, was seen in
Boston bay, last Saturday, about ten miles
from Minot's lighthouse. He spouted three
times, throwing the water dozen feet high.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Nine hundred persons passed over the Hoosac
mountain, last week, and the Wilson house at
North Adams received 150 guests in one day.
young man in Pittsfeld, aged three years
and six months, whose youthful mind has been
lately absorbed in some new occupants of his
fathers piggery, astonished the congregation at
one of the village churches, last Sunday, by
rushing, barefooted and ragged, through the
open door and shouting in tones loud enough 10
be heard by the minister at the other end of the
church, where's my papap When asked
what he wanted, he replied, excitedly, The
pigs are outP'
MAINE.
Mrs. Anderson Bailey of New Gloucester, re-
Gently lost herself in her husbands cornfield
where the stalks are between eight aud nine
feet in height
Eben Steele and Byron Greenough, old and re-
spected citizens of Portland, died on the sth
instant.
Farmers in the neighborhood of Bangor are
rejoiced to find that the gIasshoppers in that
section afflicted with a vicious little parasite
that eats holes in their backs until it fairly hon.
eycombs them.
Austin Marshall of Lewiston who SO cruelty
beat his child last week, had trial before the
municipal court on Saturday. In extenuation
of his offence, Marshall stated his daughter had
stolen some things and then lied to him about
it. He said he chastised her for her good and
was probably too harsh, more so than he meant
TO be. He was sentenced to pay fine and costs
amounting to S17, and to give bonds in $500 to
"en the peace for six months.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
'erthquake shock at Wolfboro,
KILLED at Windham a
II. o have dined on a six
inch pl
A disastru. ochester, on the night
Of the 9th inst, Dyed $4,000 worth of
property. 1t broke ous in a three story wooden
building, occupied by Charles Bickford as a
furniture mandatory and carpet store, entirely
consuming it with the contents. Thence the
flames spread to the hardware store and tin
shop of W. p. Ella, Holmes grocery and Miss
Mary A. Sanborn's millinery store and dwell
ing house; also barn and out-buiding of Mrs
w. b. X. Hodgdon, together with number of
small buildings, burning them to the ground.
The fire is believed to be the work Of an incen-
diary.
VERMONT.
The family of Aaron and Martha Thomas, of
Randolph is a remarkable one in at least one
respect They had fourteen children, and among
these were three pairs of twins, each pair male
and female, all three growing TO be men and
women, and all now living. OF these twins the
oldest are now IA and the next 68 and the
youngest GA, and their average weight is 10
pounds.
JohnJ. Round, the young sophomore who car
ried off the second Parkman prize for public
speaking at Middlebury college, VT, on the Sth
inst, was accidentally drowned near the college
the next afternoon. The deceased did not live
long to enjoy his honors, and probably in his
death most promising young man is thus sud-
denly taken away in the flower of his early man
hood.
CONNECTICUT.
Dwight Beecher, bitten by rattesnake in
Bristol on Sunday, is recovering. Two quarts
Of cider brandy and tobacco and salt poultice
proved an antidOte for the snake bite
The remains of DR.. Joel Hawes, his wife and
children, have been transferred from the old
cemetery in Hartford, where they were first
buried, TO Cedar Hill cemetery, where a fine
monument is in process Of erection. The bodies
Of the Rev Gurdon Robbins and his family have
also been removed from the old cemetery to
Cedar hill.