Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-14

Hampshire, and served throughout the war, and
she now receives a pension from the govern
ment. She still retains her mental and physica
faculties to a remarkable degree. STRANGE r.
say, she does not believe in an existence beyond
the grave.
A clergyman, travelling in Maine, states that
among the Passamaquoddy Indians, the punish
ment for drunkenness is as follows: The mau
guilty OF me offence is stripped naked, bound
| hand and foot, and then placed on the ground,
where he is exposed TO the bite of black flies, mos
| qultoes, etc. Of course, being tightly bound,
| ne cannot defend himself in the slightest. When
| ne says he is sorry and will not commit the
offence again, he is released from what they call
| indian jail" One of the most hardened of the
| offenders has been known to endure these tor
ments for twenty-four hours before he would
| promise amendment.
Rev. Dr. Eames of Concord, N. H., has lately
| been on a fishing excursion down TO the lakes on
| the borders of Maine and Canada. On the Sun
| day that he was there he held service and
preached, his audience consisting of seventy-fiye
| men engaged in numbering and logging. They
were hne-looklng, stalwart men, and paid the
utmost attention TO the services, doing their part
in singing with all the enthusiasm in the world
Some of the men told him they had not attend
cd religious service of any kind for two years
In some portions of the state one of the
branches OF business is the putting up of lob
sters, Last year the supply was abundant and
the demand all that could be desired. This is
usually the busy season in catching and "can-
ming them, but thus far there has been a gre at
scarcity of them; two or three of the largest
factories IN Maine are shut up, and others only
running on short time. Thus far the catch has
only been about twothirds that of last season
at the same time, and lobstermen think the sea-
son VIII not foot up more than one-half This
scarcity of Holsters puzzles the oldest fishermen
ana seems to be wholly unaccountable. Con-
tracts that have been made cannot be filed and
Il something unforeseen does not occur prices
must advance. The Australian and California
markets, which use large quantities of canned
loDSters, are bare of supplies, and it is with
much difficulty that large orders are filled.
AS already intimated, the present drought is
seriously affecting the hay crop in every section
OF Maine, and advces from there state that in
many places the moving fields are as. bare as the
highways, and the pastures are all drying up
and not as good feed in them now as in April
Cattle have to be fed from the barns, and hay is
being shipped from one point TO another in the
state for use. Under these circumstances hay
cannot be otherwise than very high for the next
few months, if not all through the season.
There has not been so little hay in the hands of
farmers for many years at the corresponding
tlme, partly from the extreme drought of last
season and the little snow of last winter, and
present indications point to a small crop this
season all over New England.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Lancaster iron works are closed and the
business suspended.
Hon. Horton d. Walker has been elected vice
president of the New Hampshire orphans
home.
An effort is being made to establish ma
nonal bank in Littleton, with good prospect of
success.
DIR. j. F. Hall, of Portsmouth, was elected
president of the New Hampshire state medical
society, at their annual meeting in Concord.
On Sunday evening, building in Mason vii
lage, occupied as a warehouse, and belonging
to Mr.. James L. Chamberlain, was set on fire
pnfIrnlU ol A Nc Al, c.-,
was saved. Loss, $1,000; no Insurance.
delegation of Nashua singers will attend
the national musical congress, to be held at the
Boston Music hall, on the Goth, 21st and 22d
inst.
The durability of stump is attested bv one
which is pointed out in Fitzwilliam, near the
Royalston line, as having been removed from the
highway forty-seven years ago. 1t was rolled up
on large rock, and is sound enough at the pres
ent day to begin new stump fence.
town meeting has been called in Claremont
Tor the 24th inst, to vote upon the proposition
to aid the Windsor and Forest Line railroad, in
relation to building a new bridge across Sugar
river, and building music stand for the park.
AT meeting of the Portsmouth Aldermen
thursday evening, resolution was adopted re-
questing the members of the legislature from
that city TO procure legislation to provide for
hlllng the office of mayor when made vacant
by the temporary absence or disability of the
mayor.
The New York World suggests that democrats
Of New Hampshire, now that they are in power |
should elect United States senator to succeed |
MIR. Patterson, two years hence To act on this |
advice would be an admission on their part that |
they do not expect to succeed next year, and |
the man elected would stand but a poor chance |
of getting his seat should the republicans re-
gain the control of the legislature, as they are |
likely to do.
A fire broke out on Tuesday in the Sycamore |
house at Frosts Point, Rye, G. W. & J. S. |
Pierce, propretors. 1t took fire from the range. |
The hotel being remote from the city, the fire |
department rendered no aid, and the house, |
barn, billiard loom, and all but a few contents |
were DESTROYED. The loss to the Messrs. Pierce |
Is IN the neighborhOod of $4,000; about half |
insured. The fire in the range was being used |
for heating water to clean the house preparatory |
TO opening for the season.
The New Hampshire politicians found the |
struggle for supremacy between the two parties |
largely affected by an unexpected element. |
Death proved powerfulally of the republicans |
in one brance of the legislature, and disease a
still more efficient helper of the democrats in the |
other. The democrats succeeded in March, in |
electing six members of the senate, to five re-
pubhcans, and in one district there was no |
choice. But one of the democratic senators |
sickened and died, and there was tie in that |
body. Of the members elect in the house, the |
republicans claim clear majority of one, but, |
most unfortunately for them, two of their mem |
bers have been sick, at home, and in their alb |
sence the democrats have been able to elect their
candidates for officers of that body, fill the va
cancies in the senate, and elect their candidate
for governor. We suspect that hereafter our |
New Hampshire friends, in looking out for party
will ask not only the questions our
fathers asked-"Is he honestP and as he cap |
ahleP and the more modern one, SIS he avail |
ableP but that they will also inquire, as he |
healthy?"
CONNECTICUT.
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ford, was dedicated Sunday afternoon.
Senator Carl Schurz and family, of Mo-, are |
TO spendithe summer in Newtown.
Crusader commandery No. 10, Knights Temp
lar, was instituted at Dantury on Friday by the
grand commandery of the state.
Spearing shad is the popular amusement in
Birmingham nowadays. Great quantities are
now taken in that way just below the dam.
Niagara Falls dispatch says ga man named
A. W. Schmidt, belonging in Hartford, Conn,
committed suicide in the Union house here Sat
urGay morning by shooting himself"
Inc annual diocesan convention of the Pro-
| testant Episcopal church in Connecticut began
on tuesday, in st. Thomas church, New Ha-
ven.
The Hartford and New Haven railroad has
bought peat meadow near Lake Saltonstall,
In the vicinity of New Haven, and will use peat
| on their road
The Bridgeport Standard, in view of the re.
| cent murders in that CITY, both of which oe-
Cured on Sunday, urges the strict enforcement
| of the Sunday law
Hon. Ezra Morgan, a prominent citizen of
Newtown, formerly representative and a sena-
tor from the eleventh district in the legislature,
| died on Saturday.
Officer Stoddard, of the New Haven police
force, is charged with improper intimacy with
woman of bad character, and will probably
| De brought up for trial before the commission.
| ers.
liberal reward has been offered for the an.
prehension Of a man named Elijah johnson
and two youths, George and Henry Wilcox
who escaped from Tolland jail Wednesday morn,
| ing.
Coventry boy named Sloan, in trying to
secure swallows nest few DAYS ago, placed
one ladder on the top of another, and assembled,
he now mourns the loss of several teeth, a frac-
| tured jaw and several bruises
A negro named George L.. Vanderbilt who
orutally assaulted Mrs. Mary DAILY, of Green.
wlch, with an axe, April II, at Greenwich was
sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment at
St. Mary's Catholic church in Norwalk tos
dedicated on Sunday, Bishop Mcfarland "HS
several OF the diocesan clergy participatng Thu Thu
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