Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-29
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BOSTON AND VICINITY, tLlF
A large number of the young ladies of Bos-
ton are learning to play the violin.
Rev Samuel Upjohn of Augusta has received
a call from ST. James church, Boston Highlands.
The Boston Pilot is complimented in all
quarters for its temperate remarks on the New
York riots. 9f Ftff
Mr. George Coolidge has been appointed and
confirmed as superintendent of city printing at
Boston.
A boy named Patrick Hayes was probably
fatally injured at Boston, on the 26th, by the
bursting of an ale barrel, while he was in the
actof slipping the ale which was Oonng from
crack in one end.
The Traveller says: 1.-TWO members Of the
Massachusetts legislature of 1858-representing
both branches-and two reporters OF the same
year, also of both branches, met in the Travel
Ter office this forenoon" To which the Journal
says: Venerable menl They ought TO be i'm
terviewed' at once"
A boy named Haggerty had an eye put out
while playing hockey at Cambridge on the 26th.
Patrick Hogan, aged forty, tell from the deck
of a coal vessel to the hold, at Boston, on the
26th, breaking his right hip and seriously hurt
ing his head.
The associated press took the trouble to tele-
graph from Boston that DIR. Marvin stated be-
fore the temperance alliance that he had talked
with Gen. Butler, and the general would soon
publish manifesto, wherein he would plant
himself firmly on the prohibitory PLATFORM and
ton cast her vote against him, he would make
the city as hot for rumsellers as he made New
Orleans for the rebels" This valuable informa-
ton is spoiled by the correction that Mr.. Marvin
expressed his opinion of what Gen. Butler
would do under certain circumstances, Quite
different thing.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The strikers at the New Bedford tanueTy have
resumed work, working sixty hours per week,
but stopping at five O'Clock Saturday afternoon.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY. pr
Some laborers digging trench for the Cochit
uate water-pipes on Chickatawbut street, Nepon-
set, Saturday, exhumed the skeleton OF an In
dian II was found about sin feet from the sur
face, and was IN an excellent state OF preserva-
tion. The long hair on the skuli was perfect,
and the teeth were sound.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The commissioners of Hampden, Hampshire,
Franklin and Berkshire counties met at North
ampton Wednesday, and made the price per
week for board in the county Jails 500, that
there might be no misunderstanding when priS-
oners are sent from one Of these institutions to
another.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Republican asserts that there has never
been time when the sale of liquor in Spring
field was less restricted than now; that open
bars can be found in any saloon, and thai all
the druggists sell it to any who call for II, Win
out reference to prescriptions.
The Springfield Union says: ut is highly
probable that we have fire bug among rs.
There Is no way Of accounting for the fire in
Townsley block on Tuesday night, except as the
work of an incendiary; and the burning of Be-
mis- & Calls works looks very much like it, Mr..
Call went all over the premises in the evening
after the workmen were gone, as has been his
habit when at home for several years, ana mere
was no fire in the forge, and nothing to Udrn
but the roof, the floors being gravel or cement;
and if it originated in the shed in the rear as is
habl mn have Dnpu SET either acCI.
deutally by tramp, or design. Unless fnt'Sr
developments give further light, it woul"
for the CITY to offer such reward
ries as will make it an obi
SnrinOfeld We active
fire an ~ -, the loss by
VIZ 80 in dollars, as a
.,,zhsnics are thrown out
=. The forge OF the Bemis 4 Catl
- works was discovered on fire about
our O'Clock in the morning, supposed to have
communicated from shed in the rear TO the
roof, which was all in blaze when discovered.
1t is presumed the fire had been kept inside by
the wet exterior until the whole internal surface
was In hanes As the fire burst through the
roof it communicated Immediately with the
three-story workshop directly east, building
formerly used as a wooden mill, and conse'
quently all saturated with oil, and in an almost
Incredibly short space of time flames were isSu-
ing from every window of the whole structure.
So rapidly did the flames spread that not an artl-
Gle could be got out of the building, not even
the books from the Office at the corner farthest
from where the fire took. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance S20, 600.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A locomotive is now used to draw ont the ma
terial through the brick arch at the west end of |
Hoosac tunnel, heretofore done by mules
The suit of the Administrative of Henry b. |
Waterman, late of Williamstown, against the |
Troy and Boston railway company, Tor injuries |
received at the "Moody Crossing" has been 1
settled by the road paying $780, This settle |
ment does not include the claim against the |
state and the Troy and Greenfield company for |
damages for loss Of life, which action is still |
pending.
An addition to the Easton normal school is TO
be made at an expense Of $4,000, that amount
having been appropriated by the state
A farmer in Reedied collects bushel Of
grasshoppers daily for his hogs. Scalded, they
make an excellent soup that the swine swallow
with relish.
Five couples were recently married in one
house in Maine. Three of the contracting par
ties were children OF the occupants of the man.
sion, and six were members of the household.
man in Portland, the other night, accident
ally rolled out of bed, and, striking his head
against some erockery-ware, cut his throat with
the fragments Of crockery, and nearly bled to
death. g .... rs
A sad and fatal accident occurred at Haines
& Sons saw mill, at Damarisc0tta mills, on the
26th. Benjamin Little stumbled upon circular
saw, which severed leg from his body near the
hip. He lived only fifteen minutes after the ac-
cident
Abiding to the failure of the hay crop in
Maine this year, the Portland Press says: Tn
happily the failure of the grass crop by no
means measures the extent of the farmers
losses this year. The potato crop will in any
event be very light, and only heavy rains can
save il from failure. Corn is in similar siua-
ton. 1t is an offyear for apples, the trees hay
ing, like an improvident laborer, put all their
energies into the production of last years
bountiful harvest So there will be only here
and there an apple in young orchards and none
in old ones Maine farmers raise but little
wheat nowadays, finding it more profitable to
pay millions of dollars to western and Canadian
farmers as an annual tribute, rather than at
tempt to produce the chief of the cereals And
this year the grasshoppers bid fair to destroy
what little wheat the drought has suffered to
mature. These marauders are devastating
country districts in a way that is truly lamenta-
bic. In ten days they will have every green
thing, and even now, as we have previously re-
ported, some farmers have been obliged to cut
their wheat in order to save it for fodder
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A new irst-class locomotive, built at the Man
chester locomotive works, has Just been put on
the Boston, Concord and Montreal railroad
George Pearl of Rochester was arrested Wed.
charged with being concerned in the robbery Of
the store and post Office of Henry Locke, in
Comic, several weeks since. Pearl had been at
work haying in Rye for a few days, and con-
federate who was with him escaped.
The Manchester locomotive works now en-
ploy $50 hands. The Union says that new
building two stories high and upwards of 100
feet in length, is to be added to those previously
erected, to accommodate the increasing business
OF the company. tits to be built upon the south
east portion Of the land owned by the corpora
ton, and the counting room is hereafter to be in
the new building
VERMONT.
Five hundred hands are now employed in
constructing the Montpelier and Wells River
railroad.
The prices for butter in the St. Albans market.
this week, were the same as the week previous !:
Fair grades, II TO 10 cents; good to prime 20
10 % cents.
A most daring and unsuccessful attempt at
highway robbery was made upon the person of
Mr. Munson, in Cabot, recently. As he was
passing through a small piece of woods south
OF the poor farm, an unknown person jumped