Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-11
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| block owned by DOlan was considerably injured
| by water.
Senator Morrill, has so far recovered his health
thar he left for Washington on Tuesday, to take
| his seat in the senate His nomination for re-
election for the term of six years, commencing
| with March next, is most cordially approved
and sustained by united party, and he will be
| returned with a prestige which will materially
add to his power and influence in the councils
Of the nation.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Scarlet fever is very prevalent in Exeter.
William Hayward, of East Concord, has been
sent to Jail for beating his mother.
DR.. Daniel II. Pierce of Portsmouth has given
$4,000 to Phillips Exeter academy.
Peterborough calculates il has made three
thousand two hundred and ninety barrels of CT
der this Sc son.
1t is reported that there were policies to the
amount ofS2O0,0 in Dover insured in the Hart
ford Home company which recently burst up.
Mrs. Brown, residing on the Amherst town
farm, was very seriously burned Saturday
evening by the accidental Overturning of a
kerosene lamp.
Rev. J. Tucker, Jr., pastor of the Baptist
church at Lebanon, has been seized with protuse
bleeding Of the lungs, and lies in critical con-
dition. He was lately from Massachusetts
Nelson G. Hobbs, a wellknown citizen OF
Great Falls, died Saturday morning from eXces'
siyc bleeding caused by falling from chair the
day previous and rupturing a blood-vessel.
There is a dog in Sharon that has taken forty
five coons the past fall, and has also killed sey.
eral that the hunters were unable to find. or
these one weighed twenty-seven pounds, and
six or seven Others twenty pounds each.
The New Hampshire missionary society is
contemplating the employment of young men
from the various colleges and academies TO enter
upon missionary work in those places now lack
ing miniStrations.
Edward P. Sherburne Of Portsmouth has de-
ali fbo CT TO
labor reform party, and also declines to serve on
the state committee of that party.
Charles Hall, of Concord, recently sold wood
and timber lot for $4,000 for which in 1858 he
paid $500. Between the purchase and the sale
he had cut enough wood and timber to cover
the price paid, the labor and cost of cutting and
drawing, and the interest on $500 for more than
forty years.
Samuel Akers the Oldest inhabitant of Enroll,
nearly seventy-nine years of age, went with his
son and another man into the woods to fell
trees oc the S0th ult, 8nd began cutting tree
down, but after a short time his strokes ceased,
and his son fastening 10 him found him dead at
the foot of the tree he had attempted to fell.
One Rollins, formerly resident of Lee, and
for time a wOod-chopper in Raymond, made
an assault on Andrew Locke few days ago at
the latter place, wrestling his axe from him and
giving him blows on the head. He was brought
before justice, and for want of bail was COM
mitted to Exeter Jail.
AT the meeting of the new city government of
Portsmouth, on the 9th, after the usual business
was transacted on motion of Alderman Hatch,
Joint committee was appointed to take into
consideration the abolition of all needless city
offices and the reduction Ofthe compensation OF
those retained, and that the election OF officers
be postponed until this committee report, which
resolve was adopted.
In Concord, on the 26th ult,, four years old
mare that had Just been harnessed at the stable
Of Mr.. +. w. Thompson, made bolt out Of
doors, aud clearing herself from the sleigh, dis
appeared up gulley, and though almost instant
search was instituted she was not found until
the 7th inst, when she was deserted beneath
some evergreen trees in Pembroke, where she
had subsisted for thirteen days, having displaced
her headstall by browsing from the trees. She
had lost one hundred pounds in flesh.
VERMONT.
There is a good prospect of the establishment
OF a sewing machine mandatory at Barnet,
which shall give employment to some two hun
bred persons.
A young man from Ohio, who several months
ago was detected in passing counterfeit money
at ST. Johnsbury, was on the ID, carried to the
state prison at Windsor, on a sentence of two
years.