Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-16
Gaurtester 4aiIp SPY.
New England News summary.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The net proceeds of the four matinees compli-
mentary to Mr. Ernst Perabo are $3.50.
VicePresident Colfax has been invited to at
tend the Odd Fellows celebration in Boston,
June 49,
Awellknown South Boston man is very fond
of frogs. He came home with bag full the
other day, aud after eating dozen he found out
that they were toads.
The iron tank brig Novelty, which sailed
from Boston five or six weeks ago, for Matan-
zas, arrived back last week with 10000 gallons
of moasses in bulk.
urday night, and General Hooker took his de-
parture for home on the early train Monday
The poet, James LINN, of California, is in
Boston. His obituary was recently published,
but he is said now to be writing his autobio-
graphy.
The steamer Siberia, which sailed from Bos-
ton on Thursday last, for Liverpool, took out
100000 in specie, the largest shipment of coin
for a long time, valuable cargo of American
produce, and over one hundred passengers
Potatoes, which are coming forward freely to
the Boston market, both by rail and sea, from
northern New York and Maine, are in good de-
mand at fully twenty-five cents per bushel
higher prices than last year at the correspond
ing time.
Schooner Estella, which sailed few weeks
since from Boston, for the Bermuda Islands,
arrived back last week with the first cargo of
early produce which has been received at Bos-
ton direct this season. 1t consisted OF $50 bbls.
of potatoes, 240 boxes tomatoes and 10000 lbs.
of onions.
Not for many years has it been the privilege
of Bostonians to luxuriate in strawberries at
such low prices so early in the season. The
berries are coming forward in large quantities
from Norfolk, Va, and some from Delaware,
and good quantity can be purchased for 25
and 80 cents per box.
At Boston, on Friday, Lord Tenderden and
Professor Bernard of the British high commits
sion, accompanied by the mayor, Speaker Jew
ell and E. H. Derby, visited several of the pub
lie schools, including the Latin and High schools,
with the conduct of which they expressed them
selves highly pleased They next visited the
state house and were presented to the governor
and saw the house and senate in session.
At Boston, the largest lot of cattle received
al any one time this season came in last week
from Chicago. There were one hundred and
fifteen cars, each car containing sixteen, or
eighteen hundred cattle. Western beef is
ranging from 81 to 81 80 per cwt. lower than
last spring. The excitement about diseased
beef has somewhat subsidized, and the authori-
ties, who seem to be pretty well aroused as to
the necessity of stringent measures to prevent
the sale OF diseased meat, have met the case
with the determination to suppress a recur-
renee of it, and have been very successful.
The Commercial Bulletin says: with build
ing operations unusually active this spring.
there is a lively demand for window glass, and
most dealers are busy filling orders, and report
the demand largely in excess of last season.
Stocks here are extremely light, though last
week "a cargo of 1000 to 5000 boxes arrived from
Belgium, whence most of the glass used here
comes. There are also two more vessels due
here with larger cargoes. Sizes run mostly this
year for four light windows. Prices are about
the same as last season. There is also consid-
cradle activity in fancy glass, such as cut and
stained, for high cost dwellings and churches
and this branch of business promises to foot up
l-rger aggregate amount this season than for
some time"
During the session of the senate on Saturday
Gen. Meade entered the chamber under the es-
cort of Mai. Morrissey, and recess of five min
utes was taken. President Coolidge introduced
the general as the "Hero of Gettysburg" aud
he was greeted with loud applause. He ex-
pressed his joy at meeting the senate of such
loyal state as Massachusetts, whose patriotism
and intelligence have endeared her and her peo-
pie 10 his heart. After expressing his affection
Tor the memory of Gov. Andrew, with whom,
he said, he had been on terms of close personal
and official intimacy, he retired, amid loud APP
plause, to the house, where he was received with
three cheers, and made substantially the same
remarks as above.
All through the past winter manufacturers of
trunks at Boston were actively engaged in max
ing up supplies for the spring and summer, in
anticipation of a brisk demand, and the stocks
are now large in the hands of manufacturers
and jobbers. Country dealers are purchasing
freely. and the seasonable demand has opened
auspiciously. The southern trade, though fair,
is not up 10 last season at the corresponding
time, but here is considerable activity in ship
ping trunks, and some orders have been filled
recently from Newfoundland, to be used prnci-
paly by the fishermen. The best class of goods
used by gentlemen for travelling trunks, do not
begin TO move until about the first of June A
new feature in this business, introduced this
season, is the zinc covered trunk, which, it is
claimed, will do better service than those coy
cred with leather, and they are meeting with
general approval.
A letter from Captain J. n Nichols of the
barque Merrimac Of Boston, which was run into
and sunk by the Cunard steamship Aleppo be-
low that port, gives the following particulars of
the disaster: On the Goth of April, when thr-
teen miles from Boston light, with the Minot's
Rock light bearing four miles distant, the Mer-
rimac was run into by the Aeppo, and sunk in
just thirteen minutes after the collision in
twenty three fathoms of water. All of the crew
saved themselves by climbing over the steam
ers bow to her deck, the barque and everything
on board being total loss. A boat was put
of from the Aleppo for the purpose of saving
the barque's papers and few other things but
she went down before the men could reach her
There was thick fog at the time, and Captain
Nichols states that he sounded his fog horn
every minute from the time he first heard the
steamers whistle until the moment of collision.
in fifteen minutes alter first hearing the whistle
the steamer struck the barque. The Merrimac
was then lying becalmed, and the officers in
charge on deck had not had steerage way on
her for two hours previous to the accident
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Daniel Leary of North Reading was arrested
at Lowell ON Sunday night and taken back for
trial for excessive driving, and causing the death
Of a horse belonging to Henry Portman, on
Sunday, April 20.
Of the seventeen deaths IN Lowell last week
five were from small poX, making a total of
twenty-three deaths from this disease since its
inception January last. The number of cases
both of varioloid and small pox during the De-
riod will not exceed eighty. About twenty per-
sons in the city are still afflicted with the disease,
but nearly half of these are convalescent
ESSEX COUNTY.
The spring trade in boots and shoes is now
drawing 20 a close with manufacturers: and. so
far as Lynn is concerned, has been one of the
most prosperous seasons for many years. Trade
extended late into the spring, and the factories
have been kept running to their full capacities
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Taunton Republican SAYS $50. 900 of the
$4,000 needed for the construction Of street
railway from Weir to Whttenton, has been
subscribed.
Schooner Kate Robinson, May, with cargo
of lumber from Toledo, o., arrived at Fall
River. This schooner has been some eight
months making the above passage. She went
ashore in Lake Ontario, discharged and re-
loaded, and wintered at Fort Harrisburg.
The erection of another mill at Fall River for
the manufacture Of print cloths has been decided
upon within few days. Ii is to be located on
AAdALlSSHdhc ulii, Ou ldIlQ DelOnglng TO Col.
Richard Borden, and will be of the size of the
Mechanics mill-about $1,000 spindes Col.
Richard Borden and few Others are mentioned
as the owners, and it will probably be called the
Borden or Richard Borden mill. A mill for the
manufacture of yarn, TO contain about 900
spindles, is talked of, to be located on land re-
Gently purchased of job T. Wilson, on North
Main street.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY
A two-yeaT-old daughter of Mrs Woodruff
Of West Stockbridge, was drowned recently
while visiting in Sunderland by falling INTO a
well, the cover of which had become misplaced.
She was an only child, and the parents are al
most distracted at their loss.
The Housatonic railway has contracted to
transport within the next six years q 900 tons
of marble from the IngersoIl quarry in Lee for
the Catholic cathedral on Fiffy-second street
New York city. The building is SO large that
the quarry at PleasantYile N. T., could not sup
ii will take fully six years to complete ii. with
both quarries at work.