Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-24
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Nine thousand tickets for admission to the
Deacon house were sued during last week.
Major William +. Mason of New Bedford has
been appointed an inspector in the Boston Gus
tom house.
The Boston and Albany railway company
have purchased thirty-three acres of the back
bay land Boston, adjoining the site for the pro-
posed new art building to be erected in ", Tor
S430000.
wag contributed a pound of sugar-coated
shoe pegs to a "pound party" given by tenn
perance organization at Boston, recently. He
must have come of Connecticut stock.
A petition TO the legislature asking for an act
OF incorporation as "The Young Women's APP
prentice association" will soon be put in circu-
iation by Miss Jennie Collins.
A Boston preacher is said to have recently
used the following language in prayer 90
Godl this is the most enterprising nation that
ever existed in the world only pa years ago
the wild Indian dwelt where now we are, ETC.,
with other matter apparently borrowed from
political orators.
The opera house in the rear of Washington
street, Boston, opposite Milk street, originally
started by Dr. John P. 0rdway, and afterwards
for years conducted by the Morris Brothers, has
numbered its days as place of amusement. 1t
is to be converted into hotel on the European
plan.
A Boston "pencil manipulator' recently at
tended Fenian meeting on professional service
and was mistaken for a priest. One of the
brethren shook him heartily by the hand and
informed the suffering scribe that he could be
initiated without delay, After considerable talk
he succeeded in explaining his position and
made arrangements 10 have the points" of the
meeting cleft" at some convenient place.
Popcorn forms quite an article of traffic in
Boston and vicinity, and from 800 to 1000 bbls.,
each containing 100 lbs, are annually disposed
Of in this market. The average wholesale price
is about &c per h., although it has sold as low
as SIC. The market is now well supplied, the
stock being over 500 bbls. Most Of the corn is
raised in New England, but the dry weather
last season cut short the supply, and most of
that now offered is from the west. Rice corn is
thought by many superior for popping" and
it sells at trife higher price, but the common
corn is most extensively used and gives best
satisfaction to the manufacturers and vendors
of corn-cake.
1t is stated by Boston paper that the COM
petition of managing agents of life insurance
eompanialse eking to secure the services of sue
cess6s, solicitors in that city ourun in tempting
offers the most seductive inducements that other
lines of business can present 1t says: Thirty
and forty per cent has become very common
figure with half dozen of our managers, and
there are instances where within the past week
fifty and sixty per cent on new business has been
pledged to well known canvassers.
A Boston paper says: During 1870, 5000
tierces of Carolina rice were sold in this CITY,
about 1000 bags of other grades. The crop of
American rice now in the markets OF the coun-
try is set down at from 5000 to 5000 casks less
than that of last year at the corresponding time
The great bulk is raised in South Carolina,
Georgia and Louisiana. In North Carolina the
cultivation Of this staple has been almost entire
ly abandoned, owing to the bad condition in
which the plantations were left at the close of
the war, and the large outlay which it would re-
qulre to put them in good order. The con-
sumption of rice in New England has materially
increased within the past two or three years,
which is owing TO the comparatively low prices,
ana 10 the TACT that the masses are finding out
that rice contains more nntriment than most
articles generally furnished for the table"
MfDDLEsBx COUNTY.
Mirhre, Riley, twenty-one years old, was ar
+ested at Lowell, on Saturday night, charged
with highway r6boeIr,y, in October last, on Geo.
A. Turner, French Canadian OF that city, Of
one hundred and ninety-slx dollars. hliey plead
not guilty. and was held in three thousand dol
lars Thomas Pagan, an accomplish, is now in
Jail under five thousand dollars BONDS, awaiting
trial before the superior court
The tannery of Skinner & Co., Woburn, was
totally consumed by fire, alleged to have been
inceudiary, at five o'clock on Sunday morning.
The slight snow that fell on Saturday and lodged
on the roofs of adjoining buildings, prevented
the spread of the flames. The loss is in the neigh
borhood of $4,000, which Is fully covered by
insurance.
ESSEX COUNTY.
AT Newburvport on Monday, afire burned the
school house on Washington street, occupied for
a grammar and two primary schools. II was
large two-story wooden structure, and Its de-
struction proved q loss to the city of $4,000 or
S1S,0OO The fire probably caught from the new
heating apparatus which was being used for the
first time. Some of the contents were removed.
Schooner White Rover Capt. Downs, which
started from the Isle of Shoals on Sunday TO
save Two men in boat, was wrecked on Ipswich
bar that night. The crew were saved, but badly
frost bitten. They were kindly cared for by the
Ipswich light keeper. The men in the boat were
saved. The vessel was lost.
NANTUCKET COUNTY.
The nine schooners belonging to the Nantuck-
ct fishing company will be sold at auction on
Wednesday next. The speculation does not APP
pear to have been profitable one.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Springfield Republican says The order
ofthe "Knights of Pythias" is becoming so
widely spread and prosperous that the public
have a reasonable curiosity to know something
of its Character and purposes-especially here,
where we have one of the most tiourlshlng
lodges in the state and nearly all the grand
lodge officers The ritual was first written and
the order worked, during the war, as bond Of
union between army officers. After the war S
close, it was rewritten modified, and thrown
OpBu 10 ptOpiti oplNad laplNit3 pa
ticularly within the past two years and in the
eastern states. Its work and intent are very
similar TO those of the Masonic order. Founded
on friendship, with the famous tale of Damon
and Pythias as their example, the members aim
to relieve the suffering, succor the unfortunate
care for the sick, bury the dead, and give theil
sympathy and material aid to the widows and
ORPHANS of each other. There are now forty
active lodges in the state. Myrtus lodge of this
city, the second of these, has been running
eighteen months, and has one hundred and
forty-three members. 1t is the first Massachu'
sets lodge to assume complete regalia.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The American house al Greenfield has been
crowded the past two days to see petrihed In
dian body found on Tuesday last, few miles
from Turner's Falls. 1t was at first thought by
some to be of the humbug order, but is now de-
cided to be one of the finest specimens of geun'
ine petrifaction yet found in this wonderful re
gion of bird tracks and fossil remains. Wheth
er Sioux, Pequot, Grow, or the last of the Mohi
gans, one fact is certain, that of antiquity; the
medical and other scientists have proved this be
yond question, and it is exciting great deal o.
curiosity there. 1t would be a fortune to some
cigar dealer as a sign of the original 30" i
is to go to the Boston historical society, and il
undoubtedly the oldest representative of the hu
man race yet found.
MAINE.
Ice, fifteen inches thick, is being delivered OF
shipboard at the wharves in Bath.
. The dwelling house of Edwin A. Freese, a
Lagrange, was destroyed by fire on Thursday
No insurance.
There were eight murders, two hundred AM
eight deaths by accident, and fity-three sui
cides in Maine last year.
There are now but four female convicts il
the state prison. Five is the highest numbe
ever there at one time, and the averages scarce
ly three.
The ladies social circle connected with tn
Pine street church in Lewiston, has, in the six
teen years of its existence, contributed ,691.9
to benevolent objects.
DR.. I. G. Stockbridge, one Of the most emf
nent physicians and surgeons in Bath, died a
his residence in that city Thursday night.
At Rockland, Mr.. Rich received a check 70
$40 on Wednesday morning, from H. G. L. Dor
sey, to provide "roast dinner" for the convict
in prison at Thomaston, on the 31st inst, tina
being Dorsey's birthday.
In excavating pine stump at Northport, III
fossil remains Of some large animal or reptil
were found embedded some six or eight incht
beneath, which are supposed to have been thel
for many centuries. They are to be collected
and sent to some professor Of natural history.
The warden Of the state prison says the itel
started by correspondent Of the Lewiston Jou
nal that Judge Bowling and john Morrisse
have visited and condoled with the wife of OF
of the Rockland bank robbers, is materially i,