Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-09-01
G0lurtcstcr Daily spp.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.


and thirty hours time.
On the S1st ult., as the quarter past twelV
train from Boston for Portland, over the EasteT
railroad, was nearing Revere STATION NedheS
day, one of the cars was struck by piece 9
timber projecting from platform car on tn
naraIel track. the side broken in and three O
The seats wrecked. Two of the seats had hee
vacated a moment before. The occupants of tn
other one, n man and little boy, were both in
iured, the former having his face badly injure
cut and the latter his leg hurt
The arrival of a vessel from the classic shore
of Greece is a rare occurrence at Boston, bu
such an event was chronicled on Wednesday
when the barque Edwin arrived, laden with fiy
hundred tons of white cliff stone, which is qual
RED near the sea shore on the island of Negro
pOnt, in the Grecian Archipelago. As L is tn
first importation of the stone, it has excite,
some notice. and many curious questions hav
been asked respecting it. Since the invention
of NJ. Sorel, a Frenchman, who died last March
this species of stone has attracted the attention
of scientific men. The stone has a white
chalky appearance-hence its name. II is useC
for the manufacture of artificial stone of rar
beauty and polish, and is also made INTO emcr,
wheels, oil stones, &c. The process of manufac
ture is first to reduce the stone TO fine pow
der, which, after being mixed with any minera
substance, sand, gravel or any other kind Of
stone, in varying proportions, according TO the
desired result, it is then mostened with bitteru
of being moulded into any form. II is thus
turned into a condition fit for the production OF
various kinds of artificial stone, either plain OF
highly ornamental. The use of the white elf
stone for this purpose promises to become m
important manufacture, the value of which is
appreciated whereverit is made known.
MIDpLEsEx COUNTY.
On the grounds of the New England fair, at
Lowell there are in all 260 horse stalls along
rIta q ar
the corner near the station. They are partly
box stalls, and are all covered and provided with
doors, so as to be tightly closed and locke d.
There are four long rows of cattle pens, with A
pens in each row, making 352 pens, or enough
10 accommodate 600 cattle. This has been found
insufficient to supply the demand, and more are
to be erected at once. There is one row of sheep
pens % in number, and additions are also found
necessary to these, as well as TO the 25 pens for
swine. Close by the rows of cattle pens and
horse stalls are hogsheads half sunk in the
ground, and supplied with water from pipes
connected with the hydrantS of the Locks &
Canals company. This ensures an abundance
of the best water. The cattle pens arg supplied
with an abundance Of straw and hay for bed
ding and forage.
The original exhibition grounds at lowell
cover about fifteen acres, and are owned by the
MiddleseX north society. This was altogether
insufficient for the New England fair, and ITS
was narrow and badly shaped, and a little
short of half a mile in length The exhibition
building stood within the enclosure OF the
track, and was the cause of many disputes as to
the decisions of the judges who could not see
the whole track from the stand. Facilities for
water were inadequate, and very many improve
mentS were required to fit the grounds up TO
the satisfaction of the executive officers of the
New England society. But having laid the
work out and secured the means for doing 1t,
Major Ladd and his assistants pushed forward,
and to-day the GROUNDS are in readiness for the
exhibition, and il is the unanimous opinion of
the executive officers of the New England So
ciety that the exhibition was never so well pro-
yided for before.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the Po-
tomska Mills held on Wednesday, it was voted
10 further increase the capital stock by the is
suing of 1000 shares at 500 each, making the
whole stock 100000. The stock are TO
have the exclusive right to take stock for thirty
days, or two-thirds the amount they already
hold. We are glad to see this evidence of a
growing interest in manufacturing business.
MAINE.
The Kennebunk Methodist camp meeting
closed on Monday. 1t was a successful gather
Ing, fully up to that of any previous year.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Alton Bay camp meeting is announced
for Sept. 9th.
A twenty-five pound coon was recently shot
at Pennington.
jefferson was visited few nights ago by frost
sharp enough to kill potato vines.
Mr.. Stephen Holt of West Epping has sold 10
bushels of huckleberries this season.
black spider, which measured three and a
half inches from tip 10 tip of his legs, was
caught at Concord on Sunday. He had big
grasshopper in his fangs.
Mr. al nF
eighty years Of age, has done his own house
work for the last twenty years. He never rode
in stage coach, and never saw railroad or a
railroad car in his life.
On the 18th ult. Samuel G. Allard, a stage
driver between Whitefed and the Twin Noun
tain house, broke his leg while unloading bag
gage. He had the same leg broken two years
ago.
In the cemetery at North Chichester may be
seen ten marble slabs in a row, all bearing the
name OF Lake, whose ages, as recorded, are as
follows: 50, 65, IS, So, SO, 50, 6S, "a, 70, and
81 years. Aggregate rs years. Average II!
years.
A rattlesnake five feet long and nine inches
round, having eight rattles was captured on
hearsarge mountain, in Bartlett, on the I'D ult
by party ascending the mountain from East
Branch house. He showed fight, but was finally
taken.
A new bell for Phillips Exeter academy has
been cast at Troy, N. Y 1t weighs about 500
pounds and bears the following Inscription:
'Huc uende ypueri ut Uiri sits. Presented by
class OF 1870" A liberal rendering of the Latin
sentence would be: Come hither, bows that
you may become men,"
The funeral services of lady of the olden
time were holden at the Episcopal church at
portsmouth Tuesday morning. Mrs. Mary
hlSl oparhawk, aged more than ninety years,
was gathered TO her fathers Sir Vim. Pepper-
ell was her great grandfather, and her father
was one OF the refugees to England in the revo-
luuon, and this daughter was born there but
he retui ned and died in Kittery, Me.
Inc Nashua Telegraph says: "a CORES.
poiIaehI states that Gov. Weston has intimated
10 Mr. VIM. II. Kimball, the venerable and at
tentiYe state librarian, that his resignation will
De accepted. We presume that Mr.. Kimball
VIII not wait for the order of his going. but go
at once. The cream of the matter is, Governor
weston wants the place, we understand, for his
tather-in-lawp
Dover is agitating the subject of a water sup
Ply On the 18th, large party of gentlemen
accompanied by the superintendent Of the PORT,
lalld water works, inspected Wizards pond as
source OF supply. The pond is three-ouarters
" nan a mile. 1t is estimated that S125 600
would cover the expenses, including twenty
miles ,T Oh pipe, and hundred hydrants.
Inc vicinity OF Dover was visited on the even
my OIL the SOth ult. by the most powerful rain
storm ever known in that section in the same
!ength OF time. Four and one-half inches fell
III ABOUT four hours, choking sewers, filling
Vellars' and inficting damages to the extent 81
ahonsands OF dollars. One gentleman had
eight hne pigs drowned
Inc church in Merrimack. Rev. Mr. Hubbard
pastor, VIII celebrate its one bundredth anniver
sary next tuesday, Sept. 5, commencing al il
A.. M. EXERCISES will be held at the meeting
aouse, wheh an historical discourse will b,
n the o aIoel winch dinner will be partaker
~ inG grofe' and speeches made by elergymer
sslu laS Ileh. invitations have been given Il
with Merrimaek people. ~
The Portsmouth Times SAYS ,bo+ e,l,o.;4r n
mas assumed the duties of the office, and tha
ne is examining claims of those who wish 70 h
appointed deputies, but sin some Instances find
u dlfncult TO decide who shall be selected a
Langdon Jenness Of Deerfield Levi b. Tuclre
OF Plaistow, Samuel LeaYitt of Exeter. and N
ward Richardson Of Newmarket. are fbe a,
pointments thus far made. Sheriff Rowe ha
given Davis, the Portsmouth taller. notice ,
quit, and intends to act as jail keeper himself an
will reside in the dwelling attached to the iai
The general association of New Hampshire
composed of the laity and clergy of the Coz
gregational churches of this state, held IFS n
nnal session in Rochester last week One of II
questions that deeply agitated this body, an
elc!ed hours of learned and ferYid discussion
was TINS; Ought the female members of o,
churches to engage orally in all the devOtiOni
SSAc,elses OF the church prayer meetings
otIlPplhs the question of its obscurity and eli
enumeration we suppose the association NEAR
W uaSSues inc Htness of women IN nrav and taIl