Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-19

with equal rights and privileges, GnCuding the
right to vote,) the meeting of the society to-
night for the election of officers will call out
large attendance of both sexes, the occasion
partaking somewhat of festive character.
The editor of the Douglas Herald, who is also
postmaster, is threatened. He tells of it in this
way Several parties who don't like criticism
have launched all manner of threats against us,
such as punching our head, getting our fat gov
eminent office away, etc. The latter threat they
may attempt to carry into execution, but as for
the former, if any one gets hurt it wont be us,
so long as our legs hold out. We want to en-
gage fighting editor"
A little boy FIVE years old, son of the late
Robert Powers, of Webster, was drowned on the
18th Three Or four children were playing to-
gether by well, and by some means the Powers
boy fell in, though the curbing was higher than
his head. He could not have got over it with
out help from the others, but as the oldest of
them was but seven years, it is manifest that
they did not know what they were doing. After
the boy fell in the Others ran home, probably
from fright, and said nothing about it. But he
call has been issued, signed by Hon. p.
Emory Aldrich, of this city, DIR. Alfred Hitch
cock of Fitchburg, and others, for a convention
of the friends of temperance in this county, at
Washburn Hall, next Thursday, to organize
county society auxiliary TO the Massachusetts
total abstinence society. Among the speakers
expected to be present and address the conven-
ornU Hon II ncp md
Rev. Is. F. Bowles, of Charlestown late of this
city.
The Webster Times has the following account
of another factory girl whose hair was torn out
in manner that seems to he so frequent as to
remind girls of the danger their carelessness
puts them in: "On Tuesday afternoon, a Miss
Woodland, at work in the weaving room at the
east village mills, while combing her hair, as the
weaTers often do in the mill, gave it a toss
back and it was caught by rapidly revolving
shaft directly over her head, and she was in
stantly drawn up to it and the scalp started and
was taken off clean. The movable skin of the
head from her eyebrows round over the ears to
the back of her head down as far as the hair
goes was pulled right off, hair and all. 1t was
see; but the girl did not lose her consciousness
at all, and is doing very we'll"
SUPERIOR (cIvIL) CoURT-BRIGHAM, G. J.
-Fitchburg, June II. The following witnesses
for the defence were examined in the case of
Ford VS.. the Fitchburg railroad corporation
Oliver Aver, agent of the road Mr. Estelle,
boiler maker i'll the Charlestown navy yard
Mr.. Maddox, foreman at the repair shop of the
defendants in Charlestown; VIM. Sherman, boiler
maker at defendants works in Charlestown;
and Col. Croker, one of the directors of the
road. There are several more witnesses to be
examined. The case will probably occupy the
whole of Monday.
DEDICATION OF THE SOLDIERS MoNU-
MENT IN PAxToN-The monument erected by
the people of Paxton, in memory and honor
of the soldiers from that town who fell in battle
and died in service during the late war, was
formally dedicated Saturday afternoon, the citi
zens generally participating in the ceremonies
The monument is of granite, made by II. S
Roche of this city; and with the base and
mound upon which it stands, is about twenty
it, and stands upon the common, in front of the
Congregational church, in which the services
began at one O'Clock William Mulligan, Esq
was master of ceremonies, and began by ma.
king a short address, in which the manner OF
death, and some Of the circumstances connected
Herewith, of each of the soldiers whose names
were on the monument, were given. He was
hui ol I Of n;t rba 4
livered the grafton of the occasion.
He began by contrasting the objects OF
memorial works of the early, the medi-
eval, and the present times, and showing
how they have exhibited the moral and religious
tendencies of their respective eras. Our statues
and monuments, he said, are expressions of pub
lie recognition of the great underlying principles
Of human progress, upon which rest the foun-
dations of civil government. They perpeuate
not only the names of noble men, but also their
opinions and motives. They are teachers of
youth and the authors of public opinion. In
closing he alluded to matters of local interest
connected with the late war. He was listened
to with great attention throughout. Major w.
j. Harlow and Major George F. Thompson fol-
lowed with brief but interesting addresses.
The procession which marched around the
monument was led by the Grand Army post of
Paxton, John s. Grafton commander, and con-
sisted of the citizens of the town. Directly fol-
lowing the post were young ladies bearing
wreaths, which were placed upon the monu-
ment and the mound surrounding it, Singing
by the choir of the church was interpreted in
the services, and the dedicatOry prayer was
made by Rev. Mr.. Fobes, of Halifax.
The beautiful weather of the day rendered the
occasion very interesting, as it enabled the la
dies of the town to turn out and take part in the
ceremonies.