Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-24

Gay evening untl nlne CLOCK.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Northampton's vote, last Wednesday, ratify
ing her former action in aid of the Massachu
sets Central, was conditioned only upon the
raising of bona fide subscriptions of $4,000, 00C
by the corporation and the road should be con
structed through and by way of the towns o
Hadley and Amherst, so that the connections
with existing railroads in Northampton shall b,
at or near the principal depots in the centre o
said town, and to complete the whole of sale
railroad within two years from the first day o
January, A. d. 1872.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
:" | know what your beau's pretty whit,
horses name is" said little Greenfield boy t
his sister Monday morning, otis Damye.'
Hush, Eddie, that's naughty word" "Well
| don't care if It's; that's his name: COS, last
night, was outside the fence when he stopped
at the front gate, and heard him say Whoa
damyeP"
Some time ago a romantic girl belonging to q
respectable family in Franklin county took II
into her head to amuse herself by intersceptine
letters written to q young lady acquaintance by
a gentleman friend To her great delight sht
succeeded in making no end OF a misunderstand
ing between the parties bat her httle game ha:
been discovered, and the payment of a consider
able sum of money has prevented the matter
from being brought before the courts. 1t has
however, created quite an excitement in loca
circles.
Tobacco barns are being built in Deerfeld the
present season, capable of storing about 81
acres of tobacco. If all the old storage is used
as is probable, it may be inferred that the in
crease in cultivation is about so acres and that
the increase in the product in the town will be
about 200 cases. Rain is needed very much
bat so far Deerield has suffered little in this
respect, compared with last year.
MAINE
Calais expects to export 300,000,O00 feet OF
lumber this year.
Rev. F. d. Anstin proposes to remove from
Presque Isle to Hammonton, N. j.
A. F. Peabody has been appointed postmaster
at Troy Centre, vice L. Baglcy, resigned.
A Bangor merchant shipped TO the market
1900 bushels of potatoes during the past
season.
Rev. Stephen L. Bowler, for the past six years
acting pastor of the church at Hampden, has
received y call from the Westbrook second
church.
The New England encampment and New En-
gland lodges Of Odd Fellows from East Cam
bridge, with Browns brigade band LOT Boston
are on an excursion TO Bangor, Oldtown and
other points.
Elder Garland, of Monroe, has been arrested
on q warrant charging him with outrageous
conduct with young boys Of that vicinity
charges witch if sustained will brand him as q
monster of depsayity.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
There is TO be grali1 excursion on the Port
land and Rochester railroaS from Rochester to
Portland, ON the 2Sth inst.
A new shoe company is about being formed
In Rochester for the manufacture OF brst class
shoes for the home market.
The Rochester Courier says cellar walls in
several places in that town were cracked by the
earthquake Thursday morning.
Professor l.. b. Hall has resigned the chair
of chemistry aDd natural history in the scientific
deDartment of Dartmouth college.
Rev. S. H. Riddeff of Tamworth has been
compelled on account Of III health to sever his
connection with the Congregational church
there.
A severe hail storm passed over Peterboro'
on the 10th inst, causing great damage to the
crops and destroying good deal of glass in tht
houses.
Two horses belonging to John W. Smart OF
Newmarket had failing out" the other
day, and one kicked the other and broke his
leg.
Rev. DIR. Colt, of St. Paul's school, Concord
has received the appointment of president o
Hobart college, Seneca, n. y, and will probably
accept.
William A. Moore, of Great Fails, fell from q
barn he was Singing distance OF twenty-five
feet, but struck on his feet and no bones were
broken, though he was badly shaken up.
The Phi Beta Kappa society has chosen fol
orator next year Professor Aiken, of Princeton
college, formerly of Dartmouth, with ex.
Gov. Bullock, of Massachusetts, for substitute
A young woman in Newmarket, Mrs. East
man, bride of a year, took poison on the Isl
instant, and after lingering a week, she died
Family infelicity Is supposed to have been the
cause.
Friday morning Austin Densmore, son Of
Ambrose Densmore, got his right ear caught in
a mule head, on the Nashua corporation, by
which means it was terribly cut and nearly
severed from his head.
John Kemp, a lad about thirteen years old,
had his right arm badly lacerated and the
bone broken above the elbow, Wednesday after
noon, by being caught in a carding machine at
Holden's mill, West Concord.
Messrs Taft & Greenleaf, prOprietorS of the
Profile house, are erecting upOn the site of the
old Flume house, destroyed by fire last winter, 8
small but handsome house of modern style
which will accommodate from fifty to seventy.
five guests.
New Hampshire is described as a state which
would be as large as Illinois if it were only as
fiat, but is crumpled up until it can be tucked
into mere corner of the map. But then il
stands higher in the world than states which
make a greater spread.
A Norwegian in Rochester named o. j. Nilsson
nineteen years old, died very suddenly at the
factory boarding house last week. He was taken
sick on Wednesday Of last week, became deliri.
GUS and jumped from the second story window
on Saturday night, which was probably the i'm
mediate cause of his death.
Operations will be begun next week on the
railroad between West Amesbury and Newton,
the road connecting with the Boston and Maine
road at the latter place. The distance is five
miles, and the cost will be about $4,000.
William H. Haskell of Amesbury is president Of
the road.
At Nashua, on the DIST, in the board of mayor
and aldermen eighteen ballots were taken for
city marshal resulting in no choice The mayor
then appointed E. p. Brown, Esq, and the ap-
pointment was confirmed by the casting vote Of
his honor. Mr.. Brown is retired merchant, an
old line democrat, and was elected by the re-
publican members of the board.
The nineteenth annual festival of the Cheshire
county musical convention will be held at
Keene, beginning Monday, August 14th, and
continuing five days. The convention will be
under the directinn of and assisted by the fol.
lowing talent; Scion Wilder, of Boston; w. f.
Sherwin, of New York; Mrs. j. W. Western,
soprano; Mrs. H. E. Sawyer, contralto; Mr.. F.
c. Packard, tenor; Mr.. w. f. Winch, basso:
pianist Mrs. Martha Dana Shepard; orchestra,
Germana band
A Nashua physician was summoned in terrific
haste Wednesday evening to attend a young
woman who had been found dying from dose
Of poison on the banks of the river near Taylors
Falls bridge. The physician went on the wings
of the wind 10 the rescue, took the body UP ten.
DERBY and bore it over bitches and fences to the
bridge, searched his pocket case for an antidote,
kneeled over the PROSTATE form and discovered
that-the woman was intoxicated. The police
were summoned to furnish the antidote next
Three wooden buildings which were con-
nected with the iron foundry belonging to
Henry A. Lowell, of Manchester, were destroyed
by fire at about hafpast ten O'Clock Friday even
ing. One OF the buildings was one story high and
occupied for machine and carpenters shop,
and for the storage of castings. 1t was ITO feet
long by so feet wide. Another building was
two stories high, AZ feet long and 26 feet wide.
This was used for the manufacturing and stor-
age Of patterns. The other building was 300
feet long, % feet wide and one story high.
About $1,000 worth of patterns and castings
were also destroyed. The total loss is estimated
at upward of $4,000. There was partial insur-
ance on the property in various offices
VERMONT.
Work is progressing rapidly on the Mont
peler and Wells River railroad.