Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-02-27

| mas added lately S2OOO to his gifts TO the Thayef
school of civil engineering at Dartmouth cellege,
and will soon raise it 10 $4,000.
| Exeter is DESTROYS of adding to the manufae-
| turing interests within its borders; liberal in
dnce ents are offered for some one to start a
| large shoe shop.
Mr. V. B. Edgerley of Manchester, the active
| treasurer of the democratic state committee, is
circulating around the state, and is probably
distributing the sinews of war 1t is stated that
j. Ware Putterfield has gone to Washington to
| get funds and speakers for the democrats.
The tannery of William White, who mas been
engaged in this business forty years, is situated
| at Bristol. He tans and currieS 5000 hides an
| nually, mostly western and Rio Grande hides,
his total sales footing up to about 100000 per
| yeal
| Charles Stevens and James 0'Hare of Ports
| mouth were, Saturday arrested by the police for
| burglariOus attempt upon the store of Edward
| NJ Hilton on the night of the 22d of February.
1t is an important arrest as it is expected Others
| have been connected with them in similar at
| temptS.
James McDemott, a shoemaker of Salem, was
arrested on the 23d, by City Marshal Patten, of
| Manchester, charged with having in his posses
sion and passing counterfeit money on the
Westchester county national bank of the New
York. McDermott is supposed to be connected
with gang of coIpterteiters, and his arrest is
looked upon as an important matter He will
be arraigned before Commissioner S. N. Bell, of
Manchester.
The amount of shoe manufacturing at Dover
is said to be about 50 100000 annually. There
arc fourteen firms, using from $4,000 70 10000
sides of leather, producing not far from 10000
cases Of shoes, and engaging the labor of 1000
men and women. One of these manufactures
is that Of f. A. Strong & Burt, which is forty
feet by sixty, and four stories high. The ma
chinery is driven by 20horse power engine
The chief production of the establishment is
brOgans, of which they make about 1925 900
worth annually.
An interesting hearing is now being held at
Derry upon the application of the executors
OF the last will and testament of the late DR.,
SylvanuS Brown of Derry to probate said will.
DR.. Brown was suddenly killed last summer by
being thrown from a carriage. The deceased
was man of great natural ability and energy,
| and moreover man of many eccentrcites of
| character. The will was drawn by himself, and
is a very extraordinary document. The probate
OF the will is contested by the and sole heir
upon the ground of the insanity of the testator.
| BY its terms the income of the largest portion
| OF the estate is given to the son and his chill
| dren during their lives, and at their deaths to
| grandchildren of the son. The whole of the
| property amounts to over $4,000. 1t is proba-
BILE that the question of the validity OF the will
| will ultimately be carried up to the highest
/ courts.
| CONNECTICUT.
| Frederick Maynard of Southport has offered
/ TO build a chapel for the Yale divinity school,
Il
/ about SO 900.
| The real estate business in Hartford is lively
| and the annual search for tenemenis has begun
| The Meridian Grand Army are going to try
"The Drummer Boy" in Hartford the second
week in April.
There are six private lines of telegraph in New
Haven, and the owners are willing to place them
| at the disposal of the police.
The movement for boiling republican nomi-
nation for congress in the New London and
| Windham district weakens. Nobody will father
it, and the convention has been Indefinitely post.
| poned.
| A Bridgeport paper, noticing the death of
| young man, remarks pathetcally "His connec-
tions are said TO be respectable, and his sister
was recently killed in Hartford by hose car
| riage."
A gallant youth at Bridgeport has sued an old
flame for gold chain which he gave her and
now says be only lent. What termination for
Gloves young dreamP
RHODE ISLAND.
| Congress has recently appropriated $4,000
Tor the improvement of the Paucatuck river,
and $4,000 for the breakwater at Block Island.
Catholic Bishop Mcfarland lectured at Provi
( | dence on Sunday evening, on "Misrepresenta-
: tons of Catholic Doctrines"
t The sudden death of David v Gerold, a bril-.
c liant young lawyer of Rhode Island, Is an
j | nounced He had recently emigrated to Cali
= tornIa, where his business had increased to one
. of great extent and responsibility.
I The Providence papers speak in the highes
terms of the speech of Col. Higginsou, before
= the general assembly in favor of woman's sui
S frage. The Herald says at was an able anC
/ eloquent effort"
q E. d. Bolt, Jr., of Boston, has sold his ele
e Eant summer residence in Newport to Jane
: Gordon Bennett, Jr., of New York. The place
known as "The Rocks" is one of the finest vii
s las at that resort, and is most charmingly locat
i | ed near the Spouting Rock, commanding mag
: nifcent view of the sea.
The making of hair cloth at the mandatory
S run by the Pawtucket Company, at Contra
l.. Falls, is a curious operation. The hair used il
J, that of horses tails and is imported iron
e South America and Russia, mostly from the lat
o ter country 1t is purchased at the great an
: nual fairs of Isbilt and Niiui Noovorod. AS il
n comes of various colors it is, for the purpose
J., of this manufacture all dyed black. certain
: proportion, however, IS purchased in England
b and France, already prepared for the loom. L
d, is worth from fifty cents to foGr dollars pc
| pound, according to length. The rough hair i.
| hacked, and the shortest sold to the manufac
turers of mattresses, it being first curled. AT
! | ter being hacked, the different lengths arr
cOmbed out, assorted, tied in bunches and
ready for coloring. After this process the
punches are carefully inspected measured and
put away for the loom. The cloth is made in
widths of from fourteen to thirty-two inches.