Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-12
G0lurtrster Qailp SPY.
New England News summary


BOSTON AND VICINITY
Collector Russell of Boston has been granted
leave of absence, and will go abroad few
months for the benefit of his health,
The soldier on the top of the Cambridge me-
mortal monument, who has hitherto been bare
headed, was supplied with black hat one night
last week by the students; and as the monument
Is very high, the town authorities spent several
hours the next morning to get 1t down.
The Boston committee on music for the 4th OF
.Jnlv. after canvassing the whole subject find
MAT their appropriation will not permit them to
enrage the union bands-Gilmore's, Browns
hrirade and the Germania, although there was
a unanimous desire on the part of the commit
tce 10 engage them. The limited appropriation
for music will barely cover the expenses OF en-
raging Bonds, Halls, Edmand's, OConnors
and the Metropolitan, whose services have been
secured for the OCCASION.
Fruit seems very abundant in the Boston mar
ket Some new apples and cherries have made
their appearance which, with large invoices of
bananas, pine apples and oranges, make good
variety. Two thousand punches of bananas
from Baracoa arrived early last week, and about
six thousand boxes of oranges from Palermo
and Messina. Strawberries are scarce and high,
and the drought has seriously affected the crop.
IL is said that the yield will not be more than
one-half that OF last season. and prices ruling
extremely high, good berries bringing, as in
Worcester, from As to 65 cents per box.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Rev. Smith Baker, Jr., of Orono, Maine, has
been unanimously called to the passionate of the
First Congregational church of Lowell, at a sal
airy of $500.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Rev. Mr.. Pasco, pastor Of the Baptist church
in West Bridgewater, was found dead in his
chair IA few days since, His last sermon was
from the words, at is finished"
MAINE.
There is a woman, thirty years old, at Leeds,
a small island in the Androscoggin, who has
never been off the island but twice, has never
been inside school house, and never saw meet
ing house.
Seward NJ. Baker, one of the county commits
soners died Friday night at his residence at
Windham. He was about fifty years of age, and
filled the position Of sheriff in 1854 and S155,
representative to the legislature in 1859, and
county commissioner for three years past He
was universally respected, and his loss will be
greatly felt. He was unmarried.
The directors of the Portland, Saco and Ports
month railroad met at Portland, Friday, and
elec,,a I'D the following officers: President, Thorn.
ION K ,'othrop, of Boston; Clerk. Charles Z.
Rsrrett Of 20 tland; Treasurer, Elphalet Mott,
Of Sscbo yot., of thanks was unanimously
and enthusiastically passed compllmentng GOV.
Ichabod Goodwin for his able ana valuable ser
vices as president for the past twenty years; Inc
present railroad controversy was dscpSseu, out
nothing definite was arrived at.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mr. ForristaH who was injured by falling
timbers. at mill in Swanzey, few days since,
has since died OF his injuries.
Joseph W. Hildreth Of Concord cut up an
eighteen pound marrOwfat squash of his own
raising, on Tuesday, perfectly sound and nice.
In Hinsdale a few days ago, as Miles Cud-
worth and young man named Fairbanks were
in pursuit of hawk, Fairbanks gun acciden-
tally went off, the charge entering Cudworth's
side but it is thought he will recover.
The Manchester Mirror of Friday says: "The
little Bantum Grower that we have been saving
and fatting with much care since the March
election, was taken suddenly i'll last evening,
had fit and died..
A two-story house and large barn, containing
nine tons of hay, belonging to Daniel Page,
about a mile above Rochester village, were to-
tally destroyed by fire on Friday evening. The
fire originated in defective chimney. Loss
$1,000; no insurance.
A barn at Hollis Crossing, about three miles
northwest of Nashua, was destroyed by fire Fri
day night 1t was owned by Samuel Keyser
and was the work Of "ire bug" Loss aboul
5000; reinsurance.
The business men of Keene are so mucl
pleased with their postmaster, Capt. Henderson
who keeps his office open till the last evening
mail is distributed-much later than the law re
quireS him to do-that they recently made hin
present of an elegant gold watch, costing one
hundred dollars, to express their appreciation o
his accommodating spirit. Men of both poiti
cal parties united in the testimonial.
VERMONT.
The surplus of the First national bank o
Brattleboro, January /, was 5000, and it
soundness is therefore in no degree impaired b.
the recent robbery, the loss by which was SIS,
00G in cash and bonds.
landlord at Vernon, who turned a sicl
woman out of a house he had just bought, ri
ceived an expression of the public opinion of tn
locality when he got box that was sent to hi
address containing a live skunk.
The laborers on the dock at Burlington, VIII
assist in unloading barges have struck for tweI
ty-ive cents an hour, instead Of twenty. Tn
forwarders refused their demand when all bu
three or four stopped work. One man VIII
kept on working was badly beaten on his wa
to dinner.
The annual meeting of the state editors an
publishers association was held at Rutland, o
Thursday, when the address was delivered b.
Col. Albert Clarke of the st. Adams Messenger
and the poem by A. A. Earle of the Barto
Standard. On Friday, the association went o.
an excursion TO Manchester, and returned for
reception at Mr.. Henry Clark's IN Rutland Il
the evening.
The Rutland Herald gives the following add
tonal particulars of the robbery of $4,000 il
cash and bonds from the First national bank 0
Brattleboro, on the 18th inst: Mr.. Williston, tn
president and the teller were absent at dinner
the cashier, Col. NJ. S. Waite, being out of town
leaving N. G. Sawyer, assistant cashier, alone i
the bank. A gentleman came in and purchased
draft, and asked Mr.. Sawyer what the bank pal
for gold; he told him. The stranger took fro
his pocket bag which he said contained So
in gold. Mr.. Sawyer commenced counting
and reported the amount to the stranger, WI
said he had not counted it correctly, and aske
Mr.. Sawyer to count it again, which was dor
with the same result as before. The strange
then said he would take ii back where he got il
for the amount of gold was not what it shout
be. He took the bag and Immediately left tn
bank. The supposition is that while Mr. Saw
yer's attention was absorbed in counting th
gold, an accompiee came in, went behind oh
counter unnoticed, stepped into the vault, too
the money, and fed through the rear window q
the bank. The discovery, although made With
a half hour, had given the raseals an opportu
nifty to escape with their plumber, and no clue t
their whereabouts has been found.
CONNECTICUT
The anniversary exercises at the Connecticu
Literary institute, Suffield, occur Sunday ev
ming, June 25th.
Three prisoners broke out of the Tolland coul
ty Jail in Tolland on Thursday, and at last a
counts had not been recaptured.
A true bill of murder in the first degree wa
found against p. S. ellis, of Bridgeport by th
grand jury at Danbury, Thursday. The tria
will shortly follow.
The fourth annual convention of the New Hs
ven Sunday school association was held in Wa
lingford last week, and was largely attende
and of great interest
A boy in Connecticut, not over ten years OLE
has been arrested thirteen times the last yes
for petty thieyng.
William Cliff, Jr. one of the New Have
eolonists in Kansas, writes to the Stoningto
Mrror-JOurnal that the New Haven colony wa
and is prOdigiOus swindle.
Rev. Josiah Tyler and wife, who have bee
absent twenty-five years at the Zulu mission
Southern Africa, returned TO their former HON,
Hartford, on Thursday.
Three hundred children were vaccinated i
Derby, one day last week, and they haven
gone through the whole town yet. Derb
hangs persistenty TO everything that take
well.
A few days ago, a little son of Zelus Shove {
Kent, while playing with loaded gun, Satul
day, pointed it at his sister, nine years OLE
when it was accidentally discharged KILN
her instantly.
The lot next adjoining the New Haven eli
hall, known as the DR.. Knight place, has be-
purchased by the county commissioners as Il
site for the new court house. The price pa
for the lot was about S45, 900.
The Danbury News says:-"0ne of our eli
zens is trying the common whiskey on his Gu
rant bushes, and with success. The worm I
comes drunk, gets to fooling around, and final
falls off, and either breaks its neck outright,
cTipples itself SO that life becomes burden"