Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-02

company Is organized. Inc SHARES are liked at
$50 each
The North Bridgewater Gazette says town
meeting will doubtless be called in a week or
two for the purpose of accepting or rejecting the |
legislative enactment changing the name of the |
town to Standish. The reason brought up by |
those who oppose the acceptance of this name |
is that, by waiting another year, the town can |
come to greater degree of unanimity in their |
choice. 1t is now settled, they urge, that the |
town is to have a new name. and they can afford |
to wait another year for better name.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Springfield Union says-"The prize candy |
swindle that opened so auspiciously in Good
rich's block few days ago. has gathered up its
tent and left. That such enterprises flourish in
other cities is because the press is not true TO the
interests of the citizens ="
The Springfield milk inspector has recently
found two or three samples of milk when con-
tanned one-fourth part water A new lnstru-
ment for subjectng milk to chemical analysis,
for the purpose of ascertaning its component
parts, has been procured and all samples will be |
subjected to its test.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The Chicago alumni of Amherst will attend |
the Amherst jubilee in July, in chartered
palace car and as hotel arrangements in that
town will be rather limited, they propose to
switch their palace TO a side track and live there
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Second Conversational church of Pitts
field celebrated its 25th anniversary last week.
u
DR.. Todd and others, music, exercises by the
Sabbath school children, etc., and netted nice
little sum for the church fund.
Col. H. H. Richardson OF Pittsfeld heard sus-
picious sounds in his barn one night last week,
and went ont to investigate. While he was gone
the thieves slipped into his house and secured
his purse, containing about $40, and got off be-
fore he returned.
The iron works at Pembroke, which have
a for he f,rr &nc oo1
have been started up again.
Miss Fannie Cushman, formerly of Auburn,
| committed suicide in New Gloucester Saturday
morning, while in state of Temporary insanity.
| M. Crangle, clerk for Robert Burns, Eastport,
| dropped dead in the latter's store on Saturday
| of heart disease.
The directors of the Bangor and Piscataquis
railroad have decided to proceed Immediately
with survey of the route for the extension of
the road from Dover to Moosehead lake. The
work will begin at an early day, and the section
from Dover TO Guillord completed the present
season.
A man in Portland was in Jail for debt, prin-
cipally for rum. His wife went into the prose-
| cutors store, asked for, received and drank a
glass of liquor. After paying for it, she de-
manded with considerable fire the release of her
husband, and the crestfalen ealer agreed to it
as an alternative to liquor seizure and prose-
| cution.
The Maine Farmer predicts wet season this
| year. eve look for a wet season the coming
| spring and summer. One extreme of atmos-
| pherlc condition in the passing years, usually
succeeds another. We have, during the winter
| OF 1901, experienced an unusual drouth-the
approaching season we shall, in all probability,
have far greater amount of rainfall than in
| the past growing season."
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Rochester expects to gain forty new buildings
| this season.
About eight hundred men are now employed
| at the Portsmouth navy yard.
heene was Illuminated on the oath inst, with
| gas from George Francis Trains celebrated
metre.
Mr.. Charles W. Tucker, farmer on the Rye
road, near Portsmouth, was found dead in bed
| Friday morning.
| On the 26th ult., in Dunbarton, the barn of
Mr.. David Wells was destroyed by fire, supposed
TO be incendiary
There are four or five cases of small poX in
Nashua, which is the cause of considerable
anxiety among the timid.
| The ColebrOok Sentinel SAYS that the farmers
of Northern Coos and Essex are considering
the project OF forming new agricultural So
ciety.
The John Miles farm in East Kingston has
been purchased by Frederick Frye of Lowell for
$4,000. The farm has a valuable clay bed, and
the manufacture of bricks on an extensive scale
will be at once begun.
Deputy Sheriff A. 2. Davis and two assistants,
upon complaint of Henry johnson, searched
T. b. fuckers hotel, in Warner, Thursday
night, 21th ult., and seized and removed between
| $500 and $500 worth of LIQUOR
The trustees Of Kimball union academy have
voted to ask Rev. c. S. Richards 10 resign as
prlnclpal OF that institution. DR.. r. is in Flor
ida, and is much out of health. He has been
head OF this academy for thirty-fve years.
A few days ago, in Milford, a man calling
| himself Charles Anderson, q Boston drummer
hired horse of N. Hutchinson to 90 TO several
towns and return in two days. He has not yet
| reported.
An old lady by the name of Warren, aged
| elghty-seven years, was instantly killed at North
| Chelmsford, Saturday afternoon. by the down
freight train Her body was severed at the
waist.
At Rumney, on Saturday last, bear got into
MOCK OF sheep and killed thirteen of them. An
| examination of the tracks at the place where
the tragedy occurred proved that the bear was
so large that the inhabitants were liable to suf-
fer to q great extent in their hocks, if not in
personal danger, and the next day nearly all of
me town were securing the woods for bruin, but
last accounts he was Still at large.
The Coos Republican says Samuel G. Brown
OF Stratford claims to have made more maple
sugar than any man in the state. He has made
TINS season 42T5 pounds from about 1000 trees.
He has three sugar houses conveniently arranged
| with eight large pans for boiling in the sap. He
| sugars on every night, much improving the color
| and flavor of the sugar by so doing. He has
run into cakes about 1900 pounds, and the re-
malnder Is IN small tubs ready to ship to the
Boston market.
In the Nashua police court on Saturday fines
and costs, amounting to S4s were imposed upon
Rolla Morse of Litchtield for getting drunk and
smashing open door in the Concord railroad
| depot at Thornton's Ferry. After committing
| the depreciation for which he was fined, he at
| tempted to cross the Merrimac river, when the
| boat upset in the current, and he was barely
saved from drowning. In default of payment of
hnes he was sent to jail.
VERMONT.
The maple sugar season of 1871 in Vermont
has probably surpassed in productiveness even
the remarkable season of 1868. The Bellows
Fails Times expresses the belief that the total
amount of sugar made in the state this spring
exceeds 20 100000 pounds. Many farmers have
made 1000 pounds each, and some stopped at
that because they were "tired of making sugar."
The average amount of sugar per tree this
season is unusually large, averaging in many
orchards over four pounds to a tree, and in one
case noted reaching sixteen pounds to a tree.
The trees in this case stood in the open field,
were very large, with great tops, and were
tapped with two or three tubs to the tree and
two spouts for each tub. The sugar is generally
OF excellent quality, owing to the improved
evaporators and increased skill on the part of
the makers.
CONNECTICUT.
Ezra Hoyt, one of the Oldest and most re-
spected citizens of Stamford, died on Sunday