Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-12-13

! bushels 10 the atlts luN NdoA NNbtNd uioliiNlc
Of the sunrise state are especially adapted TO the
Swedcs, and they promise to do for Maine
! what industrious European emigrantS did for
the northwest-forward its growth and add
thousand fold TO its material wealth. Maine is
naturally anxious for further influx of Scan
dinavdus.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Mrs. DorcaS Rice of Jattrey was l02 years Old
| on the 10th inst.
The residence and outbuildings of Mr. II, NJ.
| Elwell, in Langdon, were burned a few eve
| nngs since Loss about $4,000.
Bracket Hayes, employe on the Eastern rail
way, was killed on the track at Portsmouth, on
| Monday.
Hon. D. H. Spinney of Portsmouth killed
porker last week which dressed 9O4 pounds.
This is claimed to be the biggest thing on record
| in the porler line
The Eastern railroad employees have gcncr.
| ously raised a purse OF 5000 for jeff. G. Rowe
| of Portsmouth, manged SO badly at the Revere
railroad accident, and have forwarded the same
| to him.
! one hundred and frty-three pickcrel, weigh
, ING one hundred and fifteen pounds, were taken
| from Bradford POND on the 4,h, by Fred Cheney,
| e. W. Tucker and J. f. French.
| 1t is rumored that Andrew McNab and son,
| who left Manchester some time ago for Calor
! mia, were frozen to death while attempting to
| pass over the Rocky Mountains TO the Central
Pacific railroad.
Mansfield Hatch of Newton was found frozen
to death in the woods on the 9Th inst. Two bot
ties by his side explained the case. He was 45
years old.
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Tlcomb celebrated their
golden wedding ut Raymond few days ago, il
being the first golden wedding ever celebrated
in that town. Five generations were repre-
scented in the guests present.
A company has been formed at LIttleton,
known as the New Hampshire scythe company,
and large factory building has been erected.
Water-power is 10 be used.
The Ranct manufacturing company Of La
COMA have 1850 cars 10 build for the National
car company, twenty-five for the Concord rail
road, fifteen for the Lowell aud Nashua, and
seventy for the PasSumpSic.
The building of the Wolfboro railroad was
let on Saturday to Wilson, Tevant & Co., of
Portland. They will begin work this week. and
it will be finished in season tOr the summer
| travel.
The annual address before the Concord female
| benevolent society was delivered Sunday eve
| ming at the Unitarian church, by George A.
| Blanchard, Esq, Of Concord Rev. VIM. P. Til
| den OF Boston, who twenty five years ago was
| the second pastor OF the Unitarian church, con-
| Quoted the services,
About one O'Clock Monday morning the dwell
| ing house and barn owned by A. .. Colby and
! occup led by A. ). Parsley, at Rochester, was
entirely destroyed by fire. Mr.. Parshley saved
| but very little Of his furniture and his family
| barely escaped with their lives. Cause of the
| fire, unknown; loss about $4,000; insurance,
| $500,
Tue NuDCDOh iulllS pay Iuclr tupibNtS Dot ,VuO
| monthly, and it will soon mount mp TO half
million year. Six thousand bales of cotton
| arc made annually into two million pounds OF
| cloth The China mill produces two hundred
| and thirty thousand yards OF prints weekly, the
| Webster hundred and forty thousand, and the !
| Pembroke seventy thousand. The first mill has
| seven hundred employees, the second five hum |
| bred, and the third two hundred.
Capt. Benjamin Amezon, a well known and |
| highly esteemed citizen of Newcastle, visited |
at one O'Clock in a boar, found piece of yalu- |
| able drift wood, and in his endeavurS to secure |
| it lost his balance and fell overheard. The acc
| dent was witnessed by some friends on the shore
and boat was dispatched to rescue him, but
| the whcrry being small il was found impossible
to ret the unfortunate man into if, 50 they were
| forced to tow him ashore He having been in |
! the water 50 long time as to be completely be-
| numhed, the system suCcumbed 10 the shock, |
and death ensued in about twenty minutes. |
| Capt Amezon was 81 years of age and leaves |
| large family to mourn his loss.
| VERMONT.
| The MeSsrS. Russell Of Bellows Falls have dc |
| cided TO build another paper mill in addition to
| these they have Already built the past season.
| John Ring, the Bristol murderer, will be tried |
| at the term of the Addison county court, which
| opened on Tuesday.
A teachers institute, for Windham county,
| will be held in Wilmington, commencing on
| Monday of next week and closing on the fol-
| lowing Friday.
A wheclwrights shop on Main street. Rutland,
owned and occupied by j. Gibson, was entire
ly consumed by fire on Monday evening. The
loss was about Sl0o; partly insured.
| The Rutland Herald says: "Old newspapers
stuck in the window where the pancs are absent
in a cold church add somewhat to its warmth
on the SabhatI-so the congregation say
The track Of the Lamoille Valley railroad has
reached Hardwick, where it will stop for the
winter Trains will begin running at once, con
| Meeting with the PaSSumpSiC road.
few nights since German peddler named
Nalestein, had $1,000 worth OF goods stolen from
his cart in West Randolph
A correspondent Of the Rutland Herald COM
plains of the ni@gardIy pittances doed out to
Vermont teachers and literary men, and assigns
this as a reason for so many prominent educators
leaving the Green Mountain state for other
fields.
burglarious attempt in Mr.. Omsteads
store, Olmstead Falls, Sheldon, on the Sd inst,
resulted in getting only barrel or two Of -four,
owing TO inability to get any larther than into
the basement.
There is a birch tree standing On land owned
by W. E. Cushman, of RptUn, that five feet
from the ground, measures thirteen feet in cir
conference, and at thirty feet divides into three
branches, the smaller of which will measure at
least two feet in diameter.
Rutland finds that through the lease Of the
Rensselaer, and Saratoga railroad by the Della
waie and Hudson canal, il is to become the great
coal centre and depot Of western Vermont. Coal
is now brought direct from the mines in Penn
sylyania without breaking bulk.
The storehouse OF Messrs. Smith, Clark & Co,
at their brush mandatory at Bennington, was
entirely destroyed by fine last week, together
with all its contents. Loss heavy, with good
insurance.
Rev Robert Soufhgate has accepted call to
the church at White River village. Rev A. A.
Smith is called to supply the church at Iras-
burgh. Rev. 5. P. Everett pastor Of the Bap-
fist church in Nottingham, resigned his pastor
ship Nov. 20, and accepts a call to Colcraine,
Mass. Rev Horace Fletcher, d. d., of Town
send, died Nov. q, at the age Of sevcuty-fYe
years.
tits stated there is a movement for the early
construction OF narrow gauge railroad from
Rutand TO Whitehall, n. Y. The movement is
inaugurated by the marble dealers of West Rut-
land and the slate dealers of Aydeye and Fair
Haven, and it is backed up by the Transporter
| ton companies Of Whitehall. The principal
cause Of tins movement is the high rates OF
freight charged over the Rutland and Washing
ton and Rensselaer, and Saratoga railroads.
A Montpelier paper has the following: Giles
b. Durkec of Barre sold small iarm and re-
ceived one evening $500 in payment. He went
INTO several stores TO settle some small bills, eX-
hibting his money while doing So He then
started for home on horseback, and left his horse
standing outside while he stepped into the barn
for something. When he came out he found
the animal was gone, but did not search for it,
for fear he would be robbed. He then went into
the house, locked it up and retired. Soon after,
a noise was heard on the piazza, as Of some one
pounding. Surprising he was sought for he
cot his wife and children up and sent them up
stairs. He then sent one of the boys out of the
back door to Mr.. Nye'S, and five men were sum
| mOOcd to aid in protecting him. No one dared
TO 20 TO the door at first; but the noise contin-
ued, and Mr. Durkee got an old flint lock gun
and snapped It several times. This failed to
drive them away. Finally Mr.. Nye said he
would go TO the door, 'life or death" and see
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