Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-10-20
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The Episcopal theological school al Cambridge
is promised a new endowment of Sl50,0O0.
Edwin Booth will begin a two weeks en-
gagement at Boston next Monday, with Ham
letb
The Boston public schools win close Friday
and Saturday of the present week, TO allow the
teachers 10 attend the state teachers convention
in that city.
The Boston aud Maine and Eastern railroads
have agreed upon the terms upon which pasSen-
gers and freight shall he carried from Portland
to Boston.
The Cunard steamship Parthia, which left
Boston on the 18TH for Liverpool, had an over
flowing freight of American produce, and it is
said thar enough was left behind TO fill two more
steamers. This branch Of Boston foreign com.
merce is progressing in most satisfactory man
ner,
4 Washington dispatch states that the order
Of sons of Temperance in Virginia has deter
mined 10 sever its connection with the national
division, on account of the recent action in Bos-
Ton ON The subject OF colored membership. The
Virginia sons declare that that action has de-
srOyed the usefulness of the order in Virginia,
and that it would be productive only of turmoil
and confusion.
A recent discussion in the Boston board of al
dermen indicates a belief on the part of mem
bers OF that board that the city needs forthwith
q larger supply of water, and the services of
competent civil engineer to make surveys and
estimates ofthe construction ofnew water works.
A suggestion was made that water may be Oh
tanned for Boston from the Merrmack river,
The opportunity 10 obtain water from Mystic
pond seems not to have attracted their attention.
The annual session OF the grand DIVISION OF
the Sons of Temperance, at Boston, on Wednes-
day, was the largest ever held, five hundred rep
resentativeS being present, forty OF whom were
initiated. Grand Worthy Patriarch PettigrOve
presided and his report and that of the scribe
showed the order to be in prosperous condi-
ton, with several new divisions soon to be or
gained, one in this vicinity. There are 102 di-
visions in the state, with II $50 active members.
The sons az Chicago were remembered with 500, |
and the following officers were elected and in |
stalled: &. W p, W. 2. Wadham of Boston; |
g. W A Charles West of Boston: G. and |
Scribe, John Butterfield Of Newport; g. T., D.
S. Iarr of Boston; g. c., Lydia p. Hart of FAN
River; Conductor, A, A. Carlton
James Racket, a lunatc pauper from Boston,
while being taken to the Tewksbury aims house
last week, jumped from the train and was killed.
A coroners Jury has been investigating the
affair, and there is considerable feeling in regard
to ii. Racket was put on hoard the train on the
Boston and Maine road at Boston, by Mr.. WOos-
ley, a city constable who takes charge of paupers
in Boston, and there left in the care of Mr. Pres
colt T. Stevens, a deputy employed by Mr..
Nrghtngton, general agent of the board of
state charities to transport persons from one
state institution to another. This was on the
9th of September It appears that Mr.. Stevens
did not take sufficient care Of the unatic, 10
prevent his jumping off the platform OF the car
lie was in, somewhere between Wilmington and
Wilmington Junction; that the conductor, Mr.
Smart, when passenger said he had jumped |
of, had brakeman sent back to see what had
become Of the poor lunatic, who could not be
found that Mr.. Stevens made no effort TO see
what had become of him, and nothing more was
known of the matter till Rackers dead body
was found in a brook beside the track, about ten
days afierWard.
ESSEX COUNTY.
One Of the most remarkable instances Of a
vigorous, green old age, has recently been |
brought 10 our notice in the person OF the ven
cradle john Chapman, OF the Salem Register,
now nearly eighty years of AGE. Mr.. Chapman |
of the Essex Register. During the past fifty
six years, at halt-past twelve O'Clock every sun
day night, the city Waterman patroling the
street in front Of his residence has aroused him,
and he has risen, and going to his office, assist
ed IN making mp the matter for his paper and |
mailing for his subscribers. During all these
years he has never miSSCdsa single night, with |
the exception of the time he was sick with the
scarlet fever, and that was some twenty years
since, which was the only occasion he was ever
ill enough TO have a physician. He may often
be found ar the case lending a helping hand in
setting type for his paper. His step is TO day as
firm and elastic as when, half century ago, he
plodded through the streets of Salem. His sight
is remarkably good, enabling HIM TO read fine
print, and all his faculties are unimpaired. |
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such rare exemption from the evils that flesh is
heir to, is almost without precedent in the lives
OF newspaper men.
When the presidential train stopped at New
buryport on Tuesday, Gen. Grant did no. at
tempt 10 reply to the lour-minute address of |
the mayor, Yet he was forced to laugh at the ey-
traotdlnary earneStneSS Of a middle-aged lady
who rushed among the score of boys around the
platform, and succeeded in grasping his hand
Don't you think that woman ought TO have tbe
Df ea,1l llt. I |
standing in the doorway behind him, and the
president was obliged to admit her qualification
for that privilege. As the train crossed the
Menimac the president remained on the plat
form TO see the rNer-mOuth, and his attention
was drawn 10 the fact that not single vessel in
process Of building could be seen in all the
yards.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY
Successful experiments have Just been made
al the agricultural college in Amherstiu making
sugar out Of the beets raised on the COLLEGE farm
during the last season.
The mother of President Clark of the Amherst
agricultural college had an apOplectic shock in
the college chapel on Sunday and remained un-
on Tuesday.
Amherst college news; The treatment of the
freshmen at their late initiation reminds one of
old hazmg customs Some of the innocepts
were blindlolded, their arms bound with ropes
and then marched over Town through bitches |
and byWays on wet muddy night in a man
ner taat must have inspired anything but love
and submission IN the YlctimS.-One of the |
sophomores was recently the uDwitting cause
of rousing the sheriff and citizens of Northamp-
ton IN pursuit of him rs horse thief Bv
mistake, he drove the wrong animal, which was
hitched close by his own, back to Amherst;
when, finding his error he returned, only to be
stopped al the bridge as a thief A straight |
story and explanation set everything all right
President Stearns has been confined TO his
house some days by illness, but is now able to
ride out.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The post Office at Mackerel Corner is 10 he
called luftonborouoh Center
Walter Aiken, Esq, Of Franklin, has given
one thousand dollars toward the completion of
The Chandler scientific building of Dartmouth
college.
The Ninnipiseogee paper company of Frank
lin are rebuilding their paper mills with brick
making them very substantial and attractive
Silas Morse, OF North Litlleton, committed
suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, on
Wednesday, 18th.
ger tariff twenty-five per cent, and the Cheshire
road will reduce half cent per mile Nov. I
Claremont boasts OF a spring chicken in that
town stealing nest, laying it full of eggs, and
Matching ont a nice brood OF chickens
DIN j. LaSkey, a two-vears-Old child in New
market, fell into a tub Of hot water, and was Sc
vereiy sealded from lis waist to its lower ey-
trcmities, on the 10tD inst.
Judge Clark recently gave the opinion in the
United States district court of Exeter, that a
man who runs saw mill, although saving ex.
clusiyely for other people, is a manufacturer of
lumber, and subject TO the special tax if he saws
lumber Of the value OF one thousand dollars per
annum.
The New Hampshire labor reform battalion is
so well satisfied with the immense rations of
loayes and fishes it drew from both sides in the
shape Of offices, rhat It deems the proof strong
that the interests Of the country demand new
party The bakers dozen, who pull the wires
and get the plums, therefore ask all the disffect
ed to come over and help them. They will hold
a state convention in Concord in December
VERMONT.
kerosene lamp exploded and set fire TO the
house Of S W. Cass at Danville, Sunday night.
destroying it.
The parties comprising the Iirm of Burdett e.
Co. reed organ manufacturers, who were burned
out at Chicago, were originally from Brattlp-
boro and Col. Silas Waite, one Of the partners
has offered the company rooms and power in his
buildings at Brattleboro, 10 commence work
again. The prospect is that the offer will
he accepted and that they will bring their 100 |
woikmen with them.
Rev. Abram Folsom Of Raymond, n. H., sew |
enty-seyen years Of age, is the eldest of twelve
children "a Ilpnb EpisOu1 nj nbri.fsra tor, of