Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-13
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New England News SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Miss Kate Reynolds is to enter tthe,, lecture
field next season.
Free public bathing houses are TO be estab-
ljshed al the foot of Maverick street and at the
foot of Broadway, Boston.
poiuted committee to procure badges for the
members of the council, at an expense not ex-
ceeding $40 each. ooo
The order for the expenditure of $4,000 for
the fourth of July celebration in Boston, was
nassed nv the common council.
s. R. Niles advertising agency, the office OF
which has been in Scollay's building, Boston,
for more than twenty years, has been removed
IN Ma. 6 fremont street. Mr.. Niles is one of
tbe most thorough advertising agents in New
England, and his long experience makes his
agency a desirable medium for those who have
ANYTHING to place before the public.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Leonard w. Day, freight brakeman on the
Fitchburg railroad, was killed at Groton juno
tion, while Stacking cars, on the 18th.
On the 18th, the dead body of VIM. Heath, a
well-known hostler at the American house, Low
ell, was found floating in the Concord river, d-
rectly in the rear of the Prescott mills He had
been absent from his work for about two weeks,
his friends not knowing his whereabouts. He
had apparently been in the water for week or
more. He was man OF incorporate habits.
ESSEX COUNTY.
At Lawrence on the 18th. Reuben Baker was
arraigned in the police court on the charge of
setting fire to the barn attached 10 the house of
Alvah H. Webster on Broadway, on Wednesday
night. The case was continued, and the de-
PENDANT held in $4,000.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Over Il 900 mackerel besides a multitude of
other fish, were caught in a weir at Dernisport,
the other day, the same being the largest haul
ever made on the Cape.
MAINE.
DIR. Cobb, of Casco, who eloped with Miss
Dow of Wilton, is missing. Mr.. Dow, the
father of the girl, says he saw DR.. Cobb buy his
ticket in Boston for Portland, and knows his
baggage was checked through, and he was on
board when the train left the depot. Tuesday
night Mr.. Dow had letter from Mrs. Cobb,
wife Of the doctor, inquiring about her husband.
Whether be fed to parts unknown or committed
suicide is a mystery. He attempted suicide
in jail in Buffalo, but took an overdose and was
saved. He promised faithfully to return home,
and on this condition Mr.. Dow agreed not TO
prosecute him.
Edward E. Spring, eldest son of Hon. Sam'l
E. Spring, Of Portland, died March 25th, at
Buenos Ayres, of yellow fever. He was about
twenty years of age, and a promising young
man. He left Portland last fall for South Ameri-
ca, and arrived in the height of the raging dis
case and at once devoted himself heroically TO
the unfortunate victims. His death casts gloom
over his large circle of friends in Portland.
railroad contractor on the Ossipee extension of
the Portsmouth, Great Falls and Conway rail.
road, while riding Tuesday night between
Cornish, Me-, and 0ssipee, N H., was waylaid
by three men in piece of woods, and robbed of
his pocket book containing $4,000 in money,
with which to pay his men. One man took the
horse by the head, another seized Mr.. Sawyer,
and the third stood by presenting pistol. After
obtaining the money the robbers fed, leaving
Mr.. Sawyer to proceed on his way.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The total valuation of Claremont is put at
S2,176,000.
The frost-work on the telegraph poles on Mt
Washington was from one to five feet in length
on the 9Th.
Joseph Brown, Concord undertaken, was
thrown from his wagon, Thursday evening, and
seriously but not fatally injured.
Coos and Essex county agricultural society
has made arrangements for another fair at Lam
caster, September 26 and p.
ISsie Brown, of GOrham, aged sixteen, re-
Gently committed suicide because a faithless
lover ceased his visits for three days. She took
arsenic enough to kill twenty men.
The semi-annual session of the grand lodge OF
the Independent Order of Good Tempars was
convened at Great Falls on the 10TH The vari-
GUS lodges throughout the state were well rep
resented.
Joseph Harris, of Concord, was before the
police court in that city, on the 10TH for steal
ing S27 from General Lawrence Brown He
pleaded guilty, and, in default of $500 bail, went
TO jail.
The hearing in the case of Dr. C. P. Wood,
the alleged abortionist, in the Manchester police
court, resulted iu his being bound over in the
sum of $1,000 to appear at the supreme court.
to be held in that city next September. He fur
niShed the necessary bonds.
Somebody informs the Portsmouth Times that
the month of April just passed was warmer and
more favorable for outdoor sports than any cor
responding month for eighty yearsi
The somewhat celebrated case of the State
VS.. Rev. Charles Greenwood, now of Massachu-
sets, charged with burning his own property in
Campton for the purpose of defrauding the in
Surance companies, has been dismissed by At
torney General Clarke. The respondent has
abandoned all claims on his part against the in
Surance companies. The case was tried last
November, exciting great public interest and
resulting ina disagreement of the jury.
The first examination in the state normal
school, recently established in Plymouth took
place on the 18th, and was an occasion Of spe-
cial interest from the fact that the institution is
an experiment in New Hampshire. In the fore
noon several Of the normal school classes were
examined, and also the model school, which
consists Of the Plymouth primary and Grammar
schools. The model department has seventy
scholars, and the normal seventeen males and
ffty-six females. In the afternoon the remain
ing normal classes were examined. There was
ings were very interesting and highly credita.
bic to both pupils and teachers. Previous to the
opening of the afternoon exercises, an address
of welcome was made by Hon. Amos Hadley.
the acting principal, and also by one of the
board of trustees, and at the conclusion of the
examination remarks were made by Hon. A, C.
Hardy, state superintendent of public instruc-
ton, Hon. E. A. Hubbard, member of congress
Hon. Daniel Barnard of the executive council,
and Others.
VERMONT.
Cambridge must be quite prosperous town.
IL has eighty-s acres of land to each family,
and last year made 1865 pounds of butter,
worth over ST 600, snd 263 1872 pounds of sugar
valued at nearly S27 900
CONNECTICUT.
The stockholders of the New York and New
Haven railroad will hold their annual meeting
in New Haven on the 18th inst
II. c. Robinson has been appointed assistant
states attorney for Hartford county, and will
perform the duties during the absence of Mr.
Hamersley in Europe.
William Ross, of Middletown, a brakeman on
the Berlin branch road, was knocked off the
train at Berlin on Tuesday, and his right arm
up to the elbow was badly crushed.
Ii is estimated that $4,000 persons attended
Barnum's show in New Haven on Wednesday
at three performances, and as many as generally
attend an ordinary circus were turned away
from the door, unable to gain admittance
Earl de Gray, and one or two other English
notabilities connected with the joint high com
mission, which has been sitting in Washington.
arrived in New Haven Wednesday They were
the guests of President Woolsey, of Yale.
correspondent OF the Register advocates the
selling Of the entire front of the green on Chapel
street, New Haven, for business purposes. Ii Is
believed i would bring 100000.
The old wooden grist mill that has stood for
over a century at Baltic, is to be demolished and
new and substantial one of granite is 10 be
erected in its place.
Juhus Wright put up harness at a raff1e on
FRIDAY night near the Lyme hotel, and by some
means provoked the bystanders SO much thar
they ducked him in the Connecticut and other.
wise naltreated him. 1t is rumored thar the
man stole the harness. -"' '"o
In that cheerful retreat, the Norwich watch
house, Saturday night, were gathered an Ameri"
can, an lrishman, Scotchman, an Englishman
an African, German, a Swede and an Italian
Mayor Allen, of New London, has written To-
the committee on the college boat races, inou;r.
ing what inducement must be offered TO per
shade them TO appoint the regatta on the
Thames, and offering prizes, accommodations
for the boats and tree transportation TO the
crews and their paraphernalia. New London
viii probably outgrow this Infatuation after a
few Tegattas.