Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-19
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MASSACHUSETTS,.

MASSACHUSETTS.
BosToN, Sept. 1S.-Thc following will appear
in the Boston Journal and Advertiser to morrow
morning: "The question is often aSkcd
Where are the two Massachusetts senators, and
what are their opinions on the present crisis in
Massachusetts,
Nobody knowing them has doubted, but we are
able to set this matter at rest, by their authority
We have seen Senator Sumner and Senator Will
son personally, and are authorized by them to
say that they deeply regret and deplore the OK
traordinary canvass which General Butler has
prccipitated upon the commonwealth, and es
pecially the attacks which he has volunteered
against the existing state government and the
republican party of Massachusetts, and that, in
their opinion, his nomination as governor would
be hostile to the best interests Of the common
wealth and of the republican party"
BosToN, Sept 1S.-Ihe exercises at the lay
ing of the corner stone of the soldiers and sail
orS' monument were opened with the overture
to Stradella by an orchestra of one hundred
musicians, under the leadership of Arbucklc.
PRAYER was then offered, followed by hymn
written for the occasion by Dexter Smith, sung
by one hundred voices, selected from the Grand
Army of the Republic. Brief and approp late
addresses were made by Mayor CASTOR and
Gen Robert Cowdin, after which the stone was
laid with Masonic ceremonies, Grand Master
Charles Levi Woodbury. officiating. The pro-
ccssion, composed of state militia, posts oil tho
Grand Army of the Republic, fire department,
etc, was large and imposing. The Ancient and
Honorable Artillery escorted the city govern
ment, and the Cadets the governor and state
officials. Immense crowds thrOnTcd the route
of procession, and the city generally wore
gala appearance.
LOWELL, Sept. 1S-Not since the inception
of the small poX in this city, in January last,
has the loathsOme disease been so prevalent as
at present. Prior 10 the New England fair the
disease was confined principally to the Acre"
but since that time the malady has been given
an increased impetus, and to-day every section
of the city, more or less, prevails with it. The
unvaCcinacd are the principal victims, though
many who have been innoculatCd have not cs
capped. Since Sunday morning of last week
sixty new cases have been reparted by the ply
sicians, twenty Of which occurred yesterday.
The total number of cases since january is 339,
of which 100 have proved fatal during seven
months, or up to August IA there have been 65
deaths, while the residue, "A, have occurred dur
ing the past month, thus showing peICcptibly
the alarming increase of the disease.
The new members of the board, elected at the
last meeting of the city council, some Of whom
then protested against this election have recon-
Sdercd and this morning accepted the situation.
1t is their intention to make vaccination com
pulSOry, to employ desirable number of men
in each ward TO visit all eases of sickness in the
city to determine their nature and report i'm
mediaely TO headquarters, to be presided over
by a competent physician, to isolate every build
ing and barricade streets on which the disease
exists, and TO have number of the most eX
pericnccd physicians in the city as assistants.
In short, they will make it their duty to do
everything in their power under the law to al
rest the spread Of the disease. The new board
go into power with the city in cleaner CCndI-
ton than it has ever been before with the eX-
perience of the old board and with an inter
ested and alarmed people ready to second every
movement for its suppression There were six
deaths from the disease last week.
CONNECTICUT.
NORWICH, Sept 1S.-Chares T. Babcocl, of
Lebanon, was arrested Sunday, for an attempt
to pass forged check for TWO hundred dollars
on the Tolland national bank.
Nathaniel A. keables, of New London, clerk
in the office OF the New London Northern rail-
road, went to New Haven last Tuesday, and has
not been seen since. lie intended to return the
same day. His accounts are all correct. From
his relations with Rogers and Miss Lilly, victims
of the recent tragedy, and from acts and words
of Rogers before the tragedy, suspicion are rife
in New London that Keables was also murdered
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