Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-04
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New England News summary.

New England news
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The installation OF Rev. b. f. Hamilton as
colleague pastor with Rev. A. G. Thompson, ID.
D.. over the Eliot church, Boston Highlands,
will take place Thursday evening, November y.
The Boston Herald says; "Ihe freight Dill
for the tea destroyed in Boston harDor DeGen-
Der, ITT3, was paid few years ago by tne i4aSI
India company Of London, to whom It belonged
The money belonged TO a Nantucket iamliy'
Rev. J. A. Swan, secretary of the Boston socl-
ETY. of natural history, died at Cambridge, lev
davs ago at the age of iOrty-ei9ht years HIS
sc;enti6c associates took official action on his
death and appointed committee to prepare
memoir. -,
Numerous plans for the new depot to be built
bv the Boston and Providence railroad company
have been received, and large room is 10 be de-
voted to their proper display for the cNamina-
ton of the directors, The new edhce will be
structure in size architecture and finish OF which
the corporation may be proud.
Nearly 400 officers and sailors Of the navy dur
ing the war have subscribed $500 for a testi-
monal Of respect TO Count Schwabc, who is
feeling very badly over his recent misfoTtunes
at Boston. The money has been forwarded to
the artist Powers to procure bust the count,
which will be placed in the navy department at
Washington,
Recently, at an entertainment not thousand
miles fran Boston, after sentiment, "lhe
Memory of Daniel Webster" had been an
nounced, the band astonished all present by
performing "Molly, Put the Kettle On, the
leader having misunderstood the text OF the
toast By similar accident another band sc
lected a few bars of cold Folks at Home TO
play after a sentiment in respect TO the memory
of deceased associates.
A fine aud hearty looking ancient mariner,
with all his earthly possessions strung III huge
painted canvas bag over his shoulders, was seen
the other morning in the neighoorhood OF lndla
wharf and the recent excavations, Boston, look
ing round in a perpleXed manner Tor ms 3ld
home in Broad street. 10 young man VINO
accoSred him he said he had been away from
Boston for twenty-five years, that he had Il
brother living in that ncighborhood whom he
had not seen for twentyseven years; that he
used TO live in Broad street, and play on the
mall on Fort Hill, but somehow he had not his
bearings, and could not find his way to his old
home The young man told him, no wonder,
and took him back on the lots and showed him
what was left of Fort Hill, and about where the
mall used to be when he was a boy. lrving'S
Rip Van Wrinkle was not more astonished at the
changes near his old home than was TINS aO-
sentee of quarter of century from Boston,
The Boston Journal of Chemistry has the fol-
lowing comment: Every autumn, peddlers
start out from cities all over the country, and
sell naphtha as a safe OIL or sell to unsuspecting
people recipes for making an ineXplosive oil, the
chief ingredient of which is naphtha. They
give to it new names, solar oil. or sunlight OIL,
or crystal liquid OF lunar oil, or some other nigh
sounding title TO deceive the uniformed and m
suspicious rural population. These men ought
to receive similar treatment to that which beiel
the incendiaries who were detected IN their ~
fernal work at Chicago. Ii is very strange that
sensible people can be so deceived, but the ap-
peal is TO the pocket. Naphtha costs but trifie,
aud the difference OF few cents in the cost OF
gallon of burning fluid weighs largely with
many"
paper of the Sd, speaking OF the re-
says: "This will undoubtedly con-
be chief subject of conversation until
eyent occurs to eclipse it, or until
is apprchcnded or all hope of
abandoned. Therefore it will be
Fl know that man was arrested
arr che fourth police who had some
their, Z Is face, which, in order 10 avert
,1; ~ Katy Leehan gave them to him,
ave- e,,or., io prove mat ne got somewhere
a. VP'H' "u@ q peeh employ ca somewhere III the
day d commonwealth avenue, fuIlner
ns lne oil.eIs are very PloIeIlS le.lTe ,.
In tner niue circumstance was ueNe'opeu YES
OBJ day Whcl, may De taken as a cue 10 the
murderer Al lnat the puoltc Is aa'oWeu 10
1 Know ABOUT II now Is, tnat a par Oh drawers
WIN oiood on Iheh ana a shirt wild q hOle III
t,le IIoUl oi ~ nave peGu iouIu ~ Iaull'lf a!
ishouse at 'ne ooutti l-IiC', MueiS Hey nele lTit
by young man, VINO salq ne belonged soull !,
was Halu up auu "anteu d chanSe VI i"i'id Ti
ana money enou9h 10 gel nome WIN. me
clotnes were oIou9ut III " ail elderly oI'i%en
MlDpl.LShA CouSI /.
letler was recently received Il! ilie e LoWel
posloHGe, ulIecleu III eaer oN Tue alltS nINn III
Jnear -.
HAMPsHiRE COUNTY, ,.,,.
iuS [tudine Il3isSipt say = " MAN 'Nui
ers o. ooutl haaieS fals, nas euieIGu d CouI-
plant thal MS WHe attempted 10 take us me On
luesday evening week, MIS- ooiileIS was ~, az
cordlhgly alresteu' an eNaihtndtlon On NGu-
nesday elected the 1acts that SoinefS honeGd
queer iaste III ms yea ana suspected that l! nau
peeh oiuggeG; MS wiz preVtlicd upon MN M 10
1fllh II, anu ~ Soou pecalhe eeIlousg ~ a
uoelui wac sdi0g, "no !, " Is VI
P9soniils, anu u,sVofeicI "leeliG ~ tilo 'en'
MIS-. eomeIS subsequently assaIilId her nus
oand WIN hulic: Sne iius altgaus ll'u seNela'
huspaiids some o. WHOM nave ulsappeIeg ny >
lefio ,aog 91e mas oeeh eollhlitleu III oeiau't
OF SlzOU pail
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Three young ladies in AIaplewood seminary at
Piusfeld are fitting for college, one for Amherst
and Two for western institutions.
MAINE.
Surveys will be made this fall for an extern
sion of the ST. CroiX and Penobscot railroad,
from Princeton to Passadumkeag
On the Sd, Gen. j. L. Bachelor Of Redfeld
dropped dead while conyersing 10 a friend near
his residence.
Two girls, names unknown, were seen at one
O'Clock on the afternoon OF the Sd, to leap into
the deepest channel of the falls at Lewiston,
with arms interocked. They removed their
outer clothing before taking the fatal leap and
left ii in roll on the rock.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The shoe business at Pttsfeld is dull and the
mandatory is about to suspend operations.
The Episcopal church at Hanover has a new
furnace the gift Of a New York gentleman.
The Rochester soldiers monument committee
sensibIy recommend plain granite shaft, fifteen
or twenty feet high.
One thousand dollars worth of lumber be-
LONGING to Mr. Gilman was burned AT Ossipee
Gentle a few DAYS AGO.
The new normal school building at Plymouth
is expected to be finished so as to be occupied
for the closing exercises of tbe preseut fern
The hall is eightv-iour hy forty-fonr feet
A musical convention is 10 be held at Little
Ton. on the 9Th IN. Sfb and 9th Of uevt Feb
ruary. under lie direction of .John Wilder Of
Boston.
a fatal accident occurred at Sandown on the
Cd Mrs Fnocb johnson of Gooksctt ,yho
with her husband. was on a visit IN her rro ,ves
NJ Sandown. on passing from her slecninG room
10 her kitchen. opened the door leading ~ The
cellar and fen down the stars Size was tatnn
mn in AM iusensiblc condition. and died in the
afternoon. She was seventy-two wears of noe
David Woods of Portsmouth, a contractor on
the Great Falls and Conway railroad. went nm