Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-16

his wife, in Madison, who claimed s129 for a
sDrained shoulder, arm and ankle, a torn silk
dress, two damaged parasols and "bent" bon
net. The woman, who it was claimed was dis
abed for life was found by Mr. Wingate scrub
bIng floors, and, before she knew his Grand
told him she had done all the homework and
prepared between 200 and 800 pounds of dried.
| apples this fall, The dress, for which $50 dam
ages were claimed, had two slight rents in it,
| and the bonnet suffered only the bending of the
! wire frame. The man was still suffering from
| hls injuries; but the claim vas adjusted for S25
! Some eight or ten claims for damages have been
allowed aud settled by the society, by the pay
lnent OF sums varying from S25 to 800.
NEW HAMPSHIRE. "
| Ii, E. Leveen, clothing dealers in Ports
mouth and Manchester, were last week adiudged
bankrupts by Judge Clark of the United States
district court upon the petition of thercreditors:
Their liabilities are about $4,000. The most of
their creditors are in New York.
The well known Low lot with an old build
ing thereon, situated at the corner of Main and
School Streets Concord, was put up at auction
on Saturday. The price went up to three dol
lars and forty-nine cents a square foot, when
the sale was adjourned for two weeks.
The Portsmouth city council has reelected
charles A. shannon, city treasurer, and has re-
terred to committee a complaint from leading
citizens that Father Canor Walsh, the Catholic
priest there, had nsulted and abused the matron
of the city almShouse.
gard to the settlement of the railroad contro-
verSy was in some degree incorrect The bond of
100000, given by the directors of the Concord
railroad, runs to Onslow Stearns and Frederick
Smythe as receivers, and not to Gov. Stearns,
agent, as stated. This bond is to hold them
harmless from any just claims shat NAV arise
against them as receivers, they, the receivers
having given 100000 bonds on assuming their |
trust
The contract or lease of the Portsmouth, Saco
Portland rail- nod fg, fIto II, !
ton aud Maine roads, which was made in 1917,
WIN oe terminated on the Goth inst. by the pay
nent OF 100000 10 each of the other roads 6v
.ne portsmouth, Saco and Portland road, nc.
,olulnS 10 the contract, which was that which.
yer party wished to close the same sbould nav
ne other 100000 The Boston roads have maid
ne Iortiand road six per cent in gold and have
! iedIou ABOUT half million dollars by the lease
ootn the Eastern and the Boston and Maine
oadS arc DESTROYS Of securing new lease; but
/ new one should be made as before the rate
would doubtless be ten or twelve Der cent. per
'nnnm on the Portland, Saco and Portsmonth
JOCK OF 81, 100000. The latter road is ready and
eslrous OF building new depot in Portland.
M , only awaits action in the Maine legislature
= "iIow them to close up or alter city highway.
- -N."os. Do0dWln OF Portsmouth has been pFesi-
elt OF the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth rail.
DAD Tor twenty-five years, aud we think has
zen me longest in that office of any one in the
op2try.
VERMONT,
Townshehd; at a recent meeting, voted eight |
mes its grand list in aid of tile West River rail-
Dad.
Calais Bissette's blacksmith shop, paint shop
nd barn in Orwell, were recently burned, with
Il their contents; loss $4,000, insurance $780,
The deposits of the Burlington savings bank,
II the 31st of December last, amounted to over
alf million dollars-S5266S49 go. This is an !
Increase of over $3.50, 900 within the year.
Hnprt- WclnnY,o +bo HOY ur1p |
reported to have recently addressed letter TO
is parents, conlessiHg his crime, and request {
ng an interview with his mother, hoping to OBJ
ain her forgiveness for lis conduct.
The tenth Vermont regiment association met
t Burlington, on Tuesday last. 4 large num-
er were present. Colonel B. Jewett was |
hOseu president, and Mr. W. A. Chaplin, secre-
airy.
A detached sleeping-car, which had been rum
ing down grade near Essex junction on its own
ccOunt, was run into and wrecked, on the 18th,
" a freight train. Seven or eight persons were
bruised and cut, but none severely.
The Windsor county agricultural society, at |
is annual meeting IN Woodstock, on Thursday, |
voted 10 hold its fairs, for FIVE years, on the |
grounds in that village. The following officers
were elected: President, Frederick Billings, of |
w Woodstock; Vice-Presidents, Noah b. Stafford
Of White River junction, and Paul D. Dean, of
Barnard; Secretary, Henry Boynton, of Wood
stock; Treasurer, Norman Paul, of Pomfret.
The Windham provdent institution for saw
ings of Brattlcboro has 81 09S 0s7 on deposit, an
increase Of S122, 971 from their last annual state
ment The forty eighth dividend Just declared,
amounts TO S2S,S46, and the two per cent divi-
amount to S55,177. The whole number of de
upsifOTs Is 10 000