Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-03
COUNTY NEWS.

The Dwight manufacturing company of Gin
ton, TO provide against drouth, are building
reservoir on the Chicopee river at Brookfeld.
Rev. Geo. A. Putnam, late of the First church,
Yarmouth, is engaged to supply the church in
MIllbury for year.
The Methodist church in Webster has laid out
$500 in improvements and paid $4,000 towards
the reduction ofts debt the past year.
Charles Stevens, Esq, son of Gen. J. c. Ste
vens, of Lancaster is the newly-elected mayor
of Marshall, Texas.
Rev. G. w. Emerson, of Mortified, VT, Uni
versalist church, will close his labors with that
church, and will go to the Unitarian church of
Fitchburg.
Israel NJ. Ball, ESQ., of Holden, has been re-
appointed by the governor, and duly qualified
justice of the peace within and for the county
of Worcester.
1t appears by the following item in the Chron-
otype that Westboro is discouragingy healthy
as viewed by doctors: CDR. A. R. Freeman has
taken down his sign and left town. He is the
last of three physicians who have located here
within year or two, and who have left for a
more extended field of operations elsewhere"
The house of the Misses Parker, in Bolton,
was broken into and entered by boys, while the
owners were absent short time ago, and several
valuable articles were stolen, and much wanton
mischief was done. The offenders were speedily
discovered, and forced 10 disgorge their il-got-
ten gains after which the case was dropped with
| ont prosecution.
On the evening of the 31st ult. the friends of
Mr.. and Mis-. John Gates, of Sterling, to the
number of about one hundred and fifty, gave
them a surprise visit, it being the anniversary of
their twenty fifth wedding day. They were the
recipients of an elegant silver ice pitcher and
plate, and other valuable PRESENTS the Oakdale
band of West Boylston, also participated in the
| surprise.
The Clinton Courant says that next Thursday,
Fast day, instead of the usual religious services
public temperance meeting will be held in the
Congregational church in that town, at ten
o'clock. The services will be 'unon" in every
sense of the word, and all who have any interest
in the cause are invited to be present. Proh-
bitionists and license men, radicals and con-
servatives, have repeatedly expressed their de-
sire for an open public, old-tashioned temper
| ance movement in Clinton.
The matter of calling ministers was formerly
settled in town meeting, and the following in re-
gard to such proceeding is on record in West
boro. The minister referred TO was father of the
celebrated missionary, Judson: "Rev Ebenezer
Parkman, the first minister IF Westboro, died
in 1872. At a meeting of the town, held Oct. %,
1888, it was voted TO hear Mr.. Adoniram Jud-
son further in order to settle him in the work of
the ministry; 80 yeas, II nays"
Mr.. Charles F. Greene, who for the last TWEEN
ty-five years has worked for the Clinton carpet
company, died very suddenly on Wednesday
evening about seven O'Clock; he had been in his
usual health during the week, and on the day
OF his decease, about three O'Clock, while at
work on loom in the carpet mill, he com
planned of feeling i'll, and said he would go inr
to the adjoining room and sit down; he did So
but in few seconds fell to the floor in an
apoplectic fit he was removed to his residence
on South Main street, opposite the mill medical
aid was promptly summoned, but he was past
the help of friends, and after a few hours of
| unconscious suffering he cXDired