Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-21

door and gave warning in time to have some
liquor in pitcher poured out, and the pitcher
washed in hot water. He then asked TO have
the warrant for his arrest read, with the evident
intention of gaining time, and obtaining an OPP
portunity to rid himself of bottle of liquor
which he had in his pocket While the warrant
was being read his hands were held, and his
person was afterwards searched, bottle con-
tanning small amount of whiskey being found
in the breast pocket of his coat. The case is an
important one, for if the officers are sustained
by the courts in this proceeding, 1t will be
death blow to the pocket business.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The lady friends of Harvard" feel out of
sorts and are perpleXed with the New York
| boys.
Nothing but growls from the lngleside re-
gatta. Ii is said that the course was fixed there
simply for the benefit of the keeper OF the only
| hotel in the vicinity, and that he secured 1t by
| two champagne suppers to the national college
committee Each visitor is charged twenty-five
cents for admission to the hotel, and the prices
of tangible accommodations are equally eXtor-
| Tomato,
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
| Smith & Gayord's dry goods store at North
Adams was robbed of a considerable quantity
of silks ETC., Sunday night, the thieves escap-
| ing.
The ..hail storm which passed through the
| Hoosac valley Sunday night was the severest
ever seen there. The belt was about three miles
| wide, coming !. ON the southeast. Many farm
| erS in Adams and Cheshire have had their en-
tire crops Of grain destroyed, several estimating
their loss from 5000 to $1,000. Thousands of
window lights were broken, and the hastones
are reported as large as hens eggs. Farmers
from Savoy and llawley report great destruc-
ton Of crops in those towns. similar storm
visited New Ashford, doing much damage to
the crops. In John Belcher's house two hun
dred panes of glass were broken.
MAINE.
The hotels at Wells Beach are rapidly filling
up,
Some bear-hunters in Maine, having received
SIS bounty for three bears killed on Sunday,
have quieted their conscience by giving the
money to a Sunday school library.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Twenty bushels day is the burberry crop in
Amherst.
The loss by fire at Andoyer on the 18th is esti-
mated at $4,000.
Rev. DIR. Day, of Dover, declines the pres-
| dency of HillSdale, Michigan, college.
Miss Nilsson will spend next Sabbath at the
Profile house, Franconia.
w. W. Sleeper, of Salisbury, has been ap-
pointed one of the examining surgeons of the
pension office.
The late graduating class at the Dover high
school numbered eighteen. The new class just
admitted numbers fifty.
The Head guards, of Manchester, will visit
Marblehead on the 18th of August, and encamp
upOu lut NECK, 1Hey VIII remain u week.
AT Portsmouth hay sells at $40 ton from the
field, with no prospect of its being lower. The
pastures are all dried up.
A trader in Great Falls, the other day,
weighed the wives of three well known citizens
OF that town and they tipped the scales to over
$50 pounds.
Mr. William Sanbon, of Lake Village. at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat on the
9th, but didn't cut enough TO do much damage.
young EnglShman named Ford was
drowned while bathing in the Winnipesauke
river at Laconia, on Sunday. He leaves q
widow
Two Nashua machinsts who were at work in
Pepperell, were obliged to walk three miles to
get their dinner, Pepperel people being afraid
TO have them enter their houses for fear of the
smallpox.
Edward X. Cox has been appointed post
master at the Crawford house, vice A. Thorn re-
signed, and G. L. Cummings at Lisbon, vice s.
F. Haskins resigned. A post office has been APP
pointed at Potter place, and James Fellows APP
pointed postmaster.
The annual speaking for the Lockwood prizes
by the junior and sophomore classes of Dart
mouth college took place Monday evening. The
first prize in the junior class was awarded to
George B. French, of Northumberland, and the
second to James NJ. Stephens, of Buneelon, No..
in the sophomore class Fred A. Thayer, of New
Ipswich, took the first prize, and the second was
divided between S. I. Conlee, of Greenwich, n
L - anu dOul A. ltlktiiI vi 6TttuH6lu, mass.
The adjourned annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Concord and Rochester railroad
was held in Concord on the Doth 1t was voted
to accept the amendment to the charter which
was made by the legislature, providing for an
increase Of the board of directors from seven to
nine, and also that the road can be leased by the
directors to any other road. A proposition for
lease of the road of the Concord railroad cor
poratiOn was then read by the clerk, which
is to be laid before that board of directors for
their consideration this afternoon. A commit
tee of five was then appointed to confer with the
Concord railroad directors.
A real bona tide old ladies' party came off a.
MIR. u. Breeds residence in Weare, on Tues
day, the l1th instant. On invitation of Mrs.
Breed seven old ladies met at her house TO spend
few hours in social talk, to call up old memor.
les, and to live over, so to speak, the experien-
ees OF years long since passed away. The COM
bined ages of these seven amounted to SCOT
years. The oldest lady was Mrs. Eunice Saw
yer, her ninetieth birthday occurring on the
2Gth of last March. The next oldest was Mrs.
Susan Hanson, who will be ninety in October
next, and here we viii remark that she has
woven this year ninety-six yards of flannel.
VERMONT.
At the University of Vermont, commence
ment exercises will begin on Sunday, July 80,
with the baccalaureate address by President
Angel, and the address before the society of
religious inquiry by Pro Geo. N. Webber of
MNlultUuTI NOllegG. On MOnQaY candidates
for admission to the college will be examined.
OnTuesday occur the annual meetings of the Phi
Beta Kappa society at Institute hall, and the So
ciety of the Alumni at the college chapel In
The afternoon Il. K. Pangborn, Esq, of Jersey
City, will deliver an Grafton before the
alumni, and in the evening occurs the annual
juniors exhibition. On Wednesday the exer-
cises of the graduating class will take place,
after which Prof W. A. Buckham will be inaup.
urated as president of the university. The cor |
poTation dinner will follow, and in the evening |
the president will hold a levee. Gilmore'S band |
Will furnish music during the week.
CONNECTICUT.
The murderer Wilson has been refused new
trial by the Judiciary committee |
An Italian harpist was arrested in Hartford.
Tuesday, for stealing 1925 from Frank Coffin. |
ger. He hung his harp on willow in the city |
Jail.
The corner stone for a new church for the |
parish of the Holy Trinity, in Middletown, was |
laid with appropriate ceremonies Tuesday after. |
noon.
Hartford's police board cannot obtain a uuo-
rum Tor business on account of the determine. |
ton oil minority that Chief Chamberlain shall |
not be restored to his post. They expect 10 COM
pei him to resign by the operation.
Late Monday night the barn of John Plant. |
IN brantlord, was burned with all its contents. |
IL was probably set on fire by two tramps, who |
mad Deen smoking on the premises. The loss is /
$1,000; insured in the defunct Home of New |
Haven. N'N"
In the house, on Wednesday, the resolution
appropriating 100000 for a new state house in
New Haven was defeated-S3 yeas to 119 nays. |
In the senate the bill consolidating the Hartford
and New Haven and the New York and New |
Haven railroads was discussed by Senators Hall |
and Douglass against and Griswold in favor. |
II was agreed to take vote at eleven A. NJ. |
Thursday.
The Centre church and the Church of the /
Redeemer are the only ones in New Haven that
pay their pastor salary of $4,000. The North /
church gives salary of $500, and St. Paul's |
$4,000, with the use of the rectory. Several of |
the city clergymen receive $4,000 a year.
Capt. William Bowers, an old resident of Fast
Berlin, has lived with his wife ifty-six years.
and in the same house fifty years, and durine
that time there has neither been a death in NE
family nor in the house. Mr.. Bowers is sim
hale and hearty, seveny-seven years old. Inc
referee in all disputed questions that arise in the
nelghDorhood, and never spent twenty dollars
in his life on the doctors.
The grand lodge of the Knights of Pvtb,as NJ
the state held its semi-annual session in Hart.
ford, Tuesday. The report OF the grand chans
eellor was read, with the reports of the scribe
banker and other officers showing that there
are now twenty-one active and fiourishing HODGES
IN the state, and there is steady and gratifying
increase In the membership of the order. The
draft of n constitution and h,yl Ia -, r..