Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-26
COUNTY NEWS.

Wild grapes will be plenty up Royalston way
this season.
A citizens meeting will he held in Hub
bardstOn this evening, TO see if they will hold a
cattle show and fair this fall
Mr.. Henry s. Mansfield has Just begun the
building of large scythe mandatory in Mill
vile, near the depot of the Boston, Hartford and
Erie railroad, on the west side of the river.
The French Canadians in Southbridge, pro.
pose to educate their own children, and last Sab
bath they subscribed $500 towards the ex-
pcnses.
The prospect is good for tclegraphic COM
munication between Southbridgc and the out
side world once more, after two or three years
exclusion. The Western Union company will
soon establish line.
The small poX has been finally crushed out of
Barre. There have been in all fifteen cases of
small pox and varioloid, resulting from the
taking of the disease by Mrs. Holbrook, some
two months since Only one case, that of Mrs.
d. A. Robinson, has terminated fatally.
The sixth annual reunion of the Burnside as
ISOLATION of the seth regiment Massachusetts
volunteers will take place at Clinton house hall,
Clinton, on Saturday, Sept ID. Business meet
ing will be held at ten o'clock; dinner at one
o'clock.
The children connected with the Sunday
school of the recently organized Catholic church
in West Boylston, had Il pleasant picnic on
Thursday. procession marched to French
hill grove, with music, banners and flowers, and
the afternoon was occupied with games, etc
A horse belonging TO James Nolan of Stur-
bridge ran away on the 10Th, while attached to
a wagon in which were his four children and
three Others. Four of the children were so badly
hurt as to be insensbe for time, and one, a
little daughter of Mr.. Nolan, aged seven years,
was killed
The muster of the Third Brigade NJ. V. NJ
Gen. Il. II. Chamberlain of this city command
ing, begins at Sterling junction next Tuesday,
on land of Mr.. John Gates, westerly of the
Fitchburg and Worcester railroad, between the
junction and Lake Waushacum This brigade
comprises the militia of Worcester county and
the four counties west of it, consisting Of the
tenth regiment commanded by Col. May of
Fitchburg, the second regiment, commanded by
Col. Joseph B. Parsons of Northampton, and
the fifth battery, commanded by Capt. H. w.
Reed of this city.
"Nipmug Great Pond" Gas it was called when
Moses Paine ana Peter Bracket bought Mendon
Of the Indians) was leased for twenty years by
the fish commissioners to Mcssrs. Wilson and
Briggs of Milford, and last year, at considerable
expense, having lost one consignment of fish
from western New York, they succeeded in
placing some forty to fifty black bass in the
pond in good condition. Schools of the young
fry, from four to six inches long, can now be
seen, and the prospect is presumed to be fair
that in a few years there will be some glorious
fishing for the lessees and their friends. By law
all fishing in Mcndon pond is interdcted for the
present The screens which were put into the
outlet of the pond to prevent the egresS of the
fish, it seems, got out of order during the high
water last spring, and numbers of the small fish
escaped, and arc now said to be quite plenty in
Fairbanks brook, that being one of the outlets
from the pond. Fairbanks brook cmpties into
West river, and West river into the Blackstone,
so it won't be long before You can GO ont of a
morning and fill your crecl with black bass be-
fore breakfast.