Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-20
COUNTY NEWS.

Mr.. Reuben Taft of Dudley, cighty-eight years
of age, has just shingled his house, without
assistance.
The Methodist church in Oxford is to have
new bell; the old one is cracked.
The ballot to settle the post office question in
Webster is TO be taken Dec 9Th
Dr. Charles W, Page Of Fitchburg, has been
appointed associate physician in the retreat for
the insane, at Hartford Conn.
The house of Abel Willard, in Harvard was
burned with most of its contents on the 2Oth inst.
The ordination Of Mr., Stephen II. Stackpolc,
the pastor elect of the Baptist church in West
borough. will take place on Thursday, the 23l
inst, at P. NJ,
Lcominster man went to bed smoking his
| pipe the other night. The bed clothes were un-
usually warm for short time, and then the man
| didn't have any bed clothes.
few days ago a ten dollar bill made its way
into the First national bank, of Gardner, upon
which was written the following: This is the
last of $4,000 left me by fond and devoted
father All spent in liquor and other dissipa-
ton
l. 5. Waite's dwelling house in the northeast
part Of the town of HubbardSton, about three
miles from the village was burned Friday after.
noon. The house was not occupied, and had
not been for about two years The fire seemed
to have begun near the chimney between the
1oor of the second story and the ceiling of the
| room below; and it is coljectured that it was
caused by ra;s, who may have taken matches to
their nest The loss is about $500.
On the oh inst, Mr.. Philip Kearns of Clinton
buried a child; on the 18th inst, two more chill
dren were buried, and on the 10th, still another,
making -four deaths in the family within one
week, all Of children under ten years of age,
and all OF scarlet fever; fifth, and only re-
naming child, was the first taken i'll, and has
not yet recovered. A short time since, Ger
man living in the East village, lost his only two
children, within the same week, from same dis
case. During the last two months, about
twenty deaths, of children, have occurred in
Clinton, all caused 0y the scarlet fever.
The Milford Journal says: Business in Milford
which means the boot buSiness-is now dulcr
than we have known it to be at this season for
over five years There is really nothing doing
now--or at least nothing As compared with
former years aud seasons. There is a reason for
all this, of course; and that reason as it seems
to us, is given in the following statement made
to us a few days ago by one of our manufac-
turers: In order to make a market for new
goods, it is absolutely necessary that old goods
be worn out or in some other way got rid Of
rhe past two years have seen VIGOROUSLY dry
weather in the west and northwest, just
at a time when the retail merchants
lay in a stock of boots and shoes. Now boots
do not wear out rs quickly in dry weather as in
wet; in fact, a boot that will last a man but
three months in ordinary wet weather, will re-
main good six months under the more favorable
circumstances of dry season. Lots of boots
were carried over frOm last year to this, and
made to do double duty. That prevented much
trade in tho spring. Lowing heavy stocks on
hand among the wholesale houses; and those
goods have to a large extent supplied the trade
this present season. Thus we see that there has
been no market for our goods, and consequently
the manufacture now is light, with heavy stock
on hand. The increase of business looked for
after the Chicago fire has not been realized, an
the Journal thinks it about time that Milford
started some other kinds of business, which
would prevent such dullness whenever the shoe
trade goes down.