Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-26
S0lurtester Daily SPY.
New england news Summary.

New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The Boston Journal says: alt is said that
b;ch iudical authorities have decided that female
;nstices of the peace cannot live in Massachu-
Wool continues to fy in Boston market, and
over 100000 pounds of domestic and about
SOC. 900 pounds of foreign changed hands last
week.
the Eastern Packet pier, where more than 5000
bundles, each bundle containing twelve poles,
have been landed since the opening of the season.
They have nearly all been sold TO 90 into the
country for farmers use, and prices range from
IS to 70 cents per dozen.
There are now on the passage TO Boston
eighteen ships, forty-three baTks and fifty briggs,
included among which are about twenty India
men, and the whole inward bound feet repre-
sentS most every port in the world of any i'm
portance Business ut the wharveS is lively,
and bumpers" have but little trouble to find a
job.
The whole number of deaths in Boston for the
week ending June oath was 90. OF these Is died
of consumption, is Of heart disease 8 of dis.
eases unknown, and of lung diseases; 80 were
children under five years of age, 81 of Amer.
can parentage, and So of foreign parentage.
The sum of S45, s6S.7S was received from the
United States government and paid into the
state treasury last week for tax improperly paid
the United States government. The property
Boston and Albany railroad, and the reimburse
ment was for the reason that the general gov
erument has no right TO tax th&property OF a
. sovereign state. The mQRey was received
7 through the efforts of Is6n. James Richie, who
expects to also eisash for the state $4,000 more
under siHlllIBf circumstances.
- ~ Perkins appeared before the supreme
conrt. at Boston, on Saturday, by counsel to an
sver for co tempt in seizing a car on the Hart
4ord and Erie road, and running it to Rhode
leland n satisfy n claim he had against the cor
noraf;on He claimed that he had leased the
car 10 the road with the understanding that
when certain monthly payments were made, II
should become the property of the corpor alton.
The payments were only partially made, and ne
did not consider the car as the properly OF the
road in fhe hands of the receiver under the or
der of the court. The hearing was continued
for one week.
At Boston, on Saturday, as a cOuntryman from
Nova Scotia was doing the city, he stopped fol
a moment on the steps of the custom house
Here he was accoSted by young man in a
linen coat, who also hailed from Nova Scotia
and represented to him that he had some goods
to pay the duties on and had draft on Nova
Scoto, but the rate of exchange was too high,
and he wished TO borrow some money until he
could get his goods The countryman pitied
. him and loaned him fifty-SeYen dollars, with
which he started to pay his duties, but is yet
has not returned. His confidence in human
mater is shaken.
The masters report upon the conditions by
which the Boston, Hartford and Erie railroad
should be transferred by the receivers TO the
trustees, was made in the supreme court on
Saturday. They are that the trustees should be
paid Si4S, 533, and the other parties to the suit
S16,543.72 the trustees TO give bonds in $50 900
to save the receivers from personal liability for
outstanding claims. The report on the condi-
tion of the road was more favorable than eX-
pectei Its earnings above expenses for the last
nine months were $4,000, including a claim
for S55, 900 against the Adams express company
fOrservices rendered; 100000 in receivers certi-
fieates of Indebtedness remain uniSsued. The
report was agreed to by the counsel except in
the matter of the form of the securities, and
conference will be held, the result Of which will
be announced to-day.
In and around Boston there are six or eight
manufacturers of refrigerators of all the diff
ferent styles, patterns and sizes, and the yearly
business done in this line of goods by them is
nearly S3O0,O00. The business has been steadily
growing each year, and the volume of sales
this year is fully twenty-five per cent more
than last. There have been several improve.
ments made this season, and it would seem
that perfection had well nigh been reached
both in economy of ice, and the even
cool temperature which is sought for.
The demand for the provinces has been consider
ably in excess .of that of last season, being,
however, mostly confined to the cheaper class of
goods. The city trade is good, and large num-
Der of market refrigerators have been put in as
well as several hotels supplied. The small sizes
of cheap chests sell at about SIS, and from that
up 10 $1,000 for the largest and best finished
market chests. The market has been pretty well
cleaned out, the season opening much earlier
than usual, and there will not be much of a
stock to carry over
According to the Commercial Bulletin, the
stock of coal now in Boston is about so 900 tons
The amount that should be received up TO the
close of the season is $4,000 tons. OF this
amount but 10000 have been landed, leaving
about two-thirds of our necessary supply to
come forward in the last half of the season
The total deficiency at the mines up to date is
about 10000 tons behind last year; and il will
be remembered that during June and July oil
1870 the Schuylkill district was on a strike pos.
sibly somewhat counterbalanced Just at present
by the lockout in the Lehigh section. The
strike just ended has been the longest ever
known, and has been more disastrous to the
manufacturing enterprise of the country than
any controlling combination that has ever man.
ipulated a market. OF course the activity in
mining districts bespeaks a starting up and re.
Juvenating Of the dependent trade everywhere
and upon the dire necessities of coal consumers
there is presented very attractive opportunity
for speculation. The Bulleton says: alt can
hardly be said that our coal shippers and deal
ers propose to take advantage of the opening
for profit; and yet it is not at all unlikely bu
that when their board is in full operation tn
price of coal will take sharp and strong ad
vance, and viii sell relatively high Throughout
the winter"
ESSEX COUNTY.
On Friday John Cameros, employed as a shift
ing hand on the Eastern railroad depot in Salem
while attempting TO couple an engine and freight
car at Salem, missed the shackle, and was crush
ed between them, breaking his right hip. He is
native of Nova Scotia, and about twenty years
of age.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
AT Taunton, on Friday night, the building oe-
cupied by William H. Gilmore and Cornelius
Wood, No. 40 Main street, dealers in paints and
paper hangings, was badly damaged by fire.
Loss on building and stock $4,000; insurance
SSO0O. The building next, No. ~, occupied
by Stanley Co., dealers in paints, paper hang
ings and upholstery, was totally destroyed
Loss $4,000; insurance $1,000. No A was oc
cupied by Briggs & Cox, tinsmiths, and was
damaged to the amount of $500.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A large and enthusiastic gathering of the
Congregationalists of Massachusetts made the
good people of Easthampton glad on the goth,
21st and 22d inst, and among other things which
the delegates, both lay and clerical, did, was to
adopt the following temperance resolutions
unanimously: Resolved, that we heartily ap-
prove all appropriate moral agencies to advance
the temperance cause, such as temperance ser
mons and lectures, the introduction of the pledg'
in Sabbath and public schools, as well as among
adults, the circulation of temperance literature
the organization Of temperance societies. and al
other instrumentalities necessary to advance thu
cause OF total abstinence Resolved, that sine,
tne traIllc IN intoxicating drinks oil all Kinds Il
antagonistic both to the moral agencies used f
promote the temperance reform, and to tn
means of grace employed by the church to saw
men, we hereby record our uncompromisinl
hostility to this traffic, and pledge our support
its legal prohibition"
MAINE.
Cotton factories, wooden mills, pail factories
broom factories and box mills will be erected o.
the water powers along the railroad route be
tween Calais and Bangor.
sl.aN e
have got their mill at Steep Falls in full OF
Grafton. They are making at present pape
one-haf Of wood pulp and the balance of ordi
nary stock. The mill is capable Of producn
25O0 pounds Of paper daily.
All the Lewiston mills are unusually active
the present time. The Androscoggin mills, 70
the past six months, have made 912 tons of mar
uiaetured goods, or 1924 coo pounds-in exces
OF the production for any six months durin
the running of the mills
The directors Of the Portland and Roeheste