Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-04

SGnmnry.

FBoston trade meeting of the season
81 at the Shoe and Leather Exchange
Saturday. About three hundred persons wer,
present
1t is proposed to raise the gymnasium build
ing at Harvard College another story. This
improvement will afford accomm OdatioDs fol
bath roooms and other convenience which
should be found in every well-ordered gym
naSium.
The hackers of McEttrick, the Boston cham
pion pedestrian, have resolved TO challenge
Weston to walk Mac for $4,000. They will al
low Weston $500 to walk in Boston, or they will
accept the same terms for McEttrick to walk in
the rink.
The governor, with advice of the council, has
re-appointed Estes Howe, Esq, of Cambridge, a
member of the board of commissioners on pris-
sons, and RachelS S. Rowland, of New Bedford, a
member of the advisory board TO the trustees OF
the state industrial school.
The work in fremont square, Boston, on the
site of Scollay's building and in the vicinity is
nearly completed. The sidewalk on the row
has been'widened and Strengthened, the railroad
tracks removed to the centre Of the square and
the neighborhood paved with square granite
blocks
The annual examinations flor admission to
Harvard College were ended Saturday with
the following results: There were 1872 applica-
tons for the freshman class and IA for the
sophomore class. 17S Of the former were adj
mitted and 10 of the latter. This addition to
the Sophomore class will bring its numbers
nearly to 200.
The report of the trustees of the public Ii
brary presents the usual pleasing story of
growth and usefulness. The plumber of books
was increased 10000 volumes during the year,
and $1,000 pamphlets were added to the colec-
ton. Only one in seven thousand five hundred
books taken out were lost during the year. At
the East Boston branch opened last January,
twenty-four thousand volumes have been issued,
which, it is thought, will lead to the establish
ment of branches at South Boston and in the
Roxbury and Dorchester districts. With such
branches, the present building will be ample for
the purposes of the central library for many
years TO come, although the trustees are think
ing of remodeling the building.
Boston paper makes the following sensible
remarks: We can conceive of no more ridicu-
lous spectacle than school exhibition where
young girls, from sixteen TO eighteen years of
age, appear on the platform in full dress, with
low corsage, long trains, Grecian bends, hair
extravagantly frizZled, and bedizened with
jewelry, to read schoolgirl essays and answer
questions from the text books. AT this season
of school exhibitions such spectacles are not
uncommon, especially where high schools make
their annual parade The young girls who
adorn themselves as we have described at
common school exhibition only show how little
they have learned. Their example is a hard
ship to the poor besides being piece of Iul-
garity for which there is no excuse and for
which parents and teachers, as well as scholars,
are responsible.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
dwelling at Lowell, owned by DIR. F. G. Le-
land, was damaged $500 by fire on Friday. In
surei.
AT Lowell, there is a general feeling of regret
among the beer vendors that they should have
allowed the question Of the sale of ale to pass
without ballot Somehow no one took in
terest sufficient TO see that the legal notice was
given for ballot, and Lowell is again on pro-
hibitory grounds.
ESSEX COUNTY.
At Haverhill, twelve rumsellers arrested few
days since have ali received sentences in the po-
lice court, from which they have all taken an ap-
peal. Several Every good looking" ones of the
number were given twenty days in the house of
correction in addition to fines, which will not
only be bitter pill to themselves but an un-
pleasant thing to their friends.
There has been another fire at Salisbury The
house, barn, cider mill and other outbuildings
on the Jesse Eaton place, owned and occupied
by Trask Royleigh, were all consumed by fire
on the I'd. Loss estimated at $4,000; insured
for $2500. An account of the fire sent from
Warner says it was laid TO a defective chimney,
but was probably incendiary
A boy named Walker, fourteen years old, was
arrested at Haverhill, day or two ago, on
charge of stealing gold watch about six
months ago. He entered the building and took
the watch from a vest pocket, as it was hanging
jeweler for repairs, by whom it was recognized,
and on calling for it the youth was arrested and
immediately confessed his guilt. A valuable
chain attached to it he says he sold in Newbury-
port.
The Gloucester Advertiser says: Schooner ].
o. Friend, Jr., Darah, of this port, had a mar
row escape from being run down on the Dist
ult. She was at anchor on the bank, when
large coaster was seen bearing down upon them,
and came so near as to stave the boat at her
stern. There were three men on the deck of the
coaster at the time, but they took no notice of
the outcries of the crew of the Friend, who hail
ed them to keep off. Had she struck the schoon-
er fairly she must have sunk her, as it was
blowing quite fresh at the time. 1t was indeed
a narrow escape. The name of the coaster was
j. N. Millen, of ST. John, N. B. Capt Darrah
states the men must have seen his vessel, as it
was midday at the time and the weather bright
and clear.
While several men were at work in Newbury-
port, Saturday forenoon, on the cut at March'S
hill, on the new city railroad, the banking sud-
denly cayed in, burying eleven men beneath an
immense mass of earth. The alarm was imme-
dately given and the excitement was intense
as hundreds of men threw out the earth. Eight
men were soon rescued, comparatively but
little injured; two others, John Tuohy and
James Cushman, were dead when reached, and
a third, John Clifford, is badly if not seriously
injured. Cushman and Tuohy each leave a
widow and six children. The cut where the &C.
cident occurred is about thirty feet deep, and
the men had come TO a more graVelly soil,
which, having no clay in it caved in and
brought down the whole mass.
3, George g. Hale, the Lawrence merchant ac-
cused of an attempt to defraud certain New York
and Boston wholesalers, was arrested at Man
chester, N. H., on Thursday, and taken to
Lawrence, where he gave bail in $4,000 for APP
pearance before the grand jury. 1t is said that
he will make a satisfactory settlement.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mary, aged thirteen, daughter of Manuel
Terceira, OF New Bedford, cripple, was tripped
on the street Thursday evening, by some chill
dren playing with rope, and had leg broken. |
The Fall River w0rkingmeu's cooperative as
ISOLATION have declared dividend of u per cent,
on the trade Of members, and per cent on the
trade of non members, with 70 per cent. per an
nun on shares.
Fall River had two rows on Friday. In one.
which occurred in a saloon, scale weights
cheese knives and revolver were the weapons, |
and Thomas Fitzgerald was shot in the arm. In |
the other one Frenchman horribly beat an
other. On Saturday gang of fellows attacked
the mate of the Providence ferry boat, Mr.
Evans, and seriously beat him.
James Graham, native of Scotland, aged
seventy, who was for several years in the en-
ploy of the Bridgewater iron company, Taun-
ton, died very suddenly on Friday. He had
spent most of the forenoon fishing, in the en-
joyment of his usual health, but, on returning,
complained of pain in his head and died before
physician could be called.
The anniversary exercises of Wheaton semi
nary, at Norton, will be held on Thursday.
The seminary is a sort Of memorial institution,
founded and endowed by the late Judge Laban
Wheaton of Norton, in memory of beloved
daughter, and with the property which he had
devoted 10 her. The school is worthy of its
founder.
Capt. Daniel C. Waterman, formerly of New
Bedford, died June 49, on board steamer Moses
Taylor, on her passage from Honolulu TO San
Francisco, aged about 68 years. He for a time
followed the sea, afterward accumulated hand
some fortune as one of the lessees of the ST.
Charles hotel in New Orleans, and about Is
years since established himself in business at
Honolulu, where he had residence at the time
of his death.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Clark w. Bryan, the business manager of the
Springfield Republican, will take vacation
among the Rocky mountains.
The galvanic physician of Hoyoke who
treated case of cutaneous disease with an APP
pication of his battery, was somewhat faulty
in his diagnosis; as he and his patient are now
suffering from small pox.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The committee appointed last spring to pur-
chase FIRE engine for the town of Huntington,
have purchased New England fire extinguish.
err, which arrived last week
A cd originally frnr a