Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-26
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New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


-Four Young men of Boston amused five young
ladies at North Cohasset the other day, by con
tending for prize in a wash-tub race with pad
dies. The prize was a miniature wash-board
and hanging from the bottom was quite large
silver medsl, with the inscription, Presently TO
the champion of the Tub race Aug. %, 1871"
The Traveller of the 2sth says: PROF. Eben
Touriee Of the New England conservatory oil
music takes TO wife to-day Miss Lee oil Newton.
Through the courtesy of the Boston and Albany
railroad, the three O'Clock P. NJ. express tram,
Conductor Isaac II. Russell, Esq, will stop at
Newton to take the bridal party TO New YORK
The bridal presents were rich, and the happy
man with his bride have the best wishes OF
host OF friends.
is S619 66S. $50. against 1854 0s9, 400 in 1S70-a
gain of S2S574 $50, or about five per cent in the
wear The real estate is now 1865, PA, $3.50,
against $685., 1913, 100 in 1S70-while the personal
property, including the bank stock held by Bos-
ton residents is S217 44S, 600, against S21S 1885,
800 The stock in the Boston banks owned by
non-resideuts and corporations, is more than
three times as much (S46, 161, SAD as that owned
nv Boston residents and taxed there isis, 1885,
OOO). the total bank stock being about siXty-ore
and half millions, or within three millions of
the amount in the whole state in 1864. The val
nation Of Boston is more than that of the whole
state was fifteen years ago, and more than
third part of the present state valuation. The
rate of taxation in Boston, which was last year
SIS 30 on $1,000, is now but S13.lO The polls
have increased 1922, or nearly seven per cent
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
The wife of Senator Ames of Mississippi, nee
blanche Butler, at present Sojourning in Lowell,
was safely delivered of a son about eight O'Clock
Tuesday evening. Mother and child are doing
well.
ohont seven o'clock Silas Lawrence OF West
ford, who has been visiting his brother Benja-
min IN that city for few days, was found dead,
with his throat cut, in an clubhouse adjoining
the house. He had evidently committed the act
in the night while in a state of dependency,
having been much depressed in spirits. He was
a machinist by trade, unmarried, and about
sixty-one years old.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The city government of Lawrence offers re-
ward of $500 for the arrest and conviction OF
the person or persons who have committed the
recent burgaries in that city.
Beverly is supposed to be temperance town,
but there is probably no town OF its SIZE IN Is
sex county where so many groggeries OF the
lowest class are allowed TO remain open and
doing business, or where street drunkenness
causes so much scandal
As the train for Gloucester was leaving the
Salem depot on the evening of the goth, man
attempted to get on after il started and missed
his footing, but held on with his bands and was
dragged into the tunnel, where the train was
stopped and the man-minus one shoe and
stocking, which had been torn off by his foot
striking against the braces in the tunnel-was
rescued, His foot was badly bruised, but no
bones were broken. He was slightly intoxicated.
Two bows named Ingalls, and Shockory made
their escape, on the oath, from the Jall IN New,
burvport where they were confined TO await trial
in October. Shockory has committed several
robberies of money drawers, and was to be tried
in October. He is nine years old. ingalls, Is
eleven wears of age, and has committed many
petty robberies, but has confined himself mostly
Ia,-sr fola civ TIa xuoa
committed few days since to the Jail for steal
ing horse. The escape of the boys was planned
by ingalls,. wall around the jail, some ten
feet high, was scaled by them before they were
free. Shockory has been captured, but ingalls,
is still at large.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Morse twist drill machine company, at
New Bedford, are erecting an addition TO their
present works.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
At North Adams, about II 900 tickets were
sold, on Friday, to Barnum's show, and 1900
copies of his life were sold. Such crowd never
attended any other performance in this town.
The thieves who broke into and robbed the
the jewelry store Of NJ. E. Tobey, at Great Bar
rington, last Friday night were traced to Troy,
n. Y, and there the track was lost
Pittsfeld's Clara Louise Kellogg concert is to
come off Sept. 70. Miss Kellogg will be sup
ported by several other first class artists from
New York and Boston, and the concert promises
10 be the finest musical entertainment the coun-
ty has enjoyed for years. 1t is under the aus
pices of the young mems association.
MAINE.
Mount Desert contains 60 900 acres, and is the
highest point of land on the Atlantic coast.
]. W. Beatty has resigned his position as dep
uty collector OF the port of Saco.
GTaSshoppers are so abundant in the vicinity
of Machias that they go into houses, roost on
the dinner table, and even attend church on the
Sabbath and occupy pews unlimited.
The mayor of Bangor has called the attention
of the city council to the bad condition of the
bridges over the Kenduskeag stream in that city.
James R. Wilson, son of Hubbard Wilson,
ESQ.,, of Gorham, teacher in the city college at
San Francisco, has recently been called to pro-
fessorship in the Imperial college at Yeddo, jap
an, at a salary of $500.
The Portland library and institute, out of
293,710 volumes taken home during the year
1S70-71 were obliged to send for Il, 700 by notice
through the post office, making about one in
fifteen kept over the allowed time. One in every
1881 taken out was lost.
VIM. Morey, belonging in Cambridgeport, and
visiting some friends in Edgecomb, shot himself
while out cunning on the 31st ult. The charge
entered his leg, infiicting flesh wound only
but modification set in and be died on the Sth
Whether the wound was accidental or not is I'm.
known.
Messrs. Kingman & Poor, Bangor, employ in
their tannery a Swede, whose discharge of the
duties of this responsible position has proved
highly satisfactory. He was a teller in a bank
in Sweden some eight years before he came TO
New Sweden, and his reason for leaving the sit.
uation was that he wished to get a somewhat
larger salary. To show that his desire was nat
ural and also TO illustrate the low wages given
in that country, we have only to state that his
compensation was house-rent, fuel, and fourteen
dollars per month.
The project OF building a railroad from Au-
gusta TO WiscasSet is assuming definite shape;
subscriptions TO the stock have been made to an
amount sufficient to warrant the commencement
OF the road as soon as it is located, which will
be done at once. This route will furnish q new
line from Boston TO the capital of the state.
WiscaSset has, it is claimed, the best harbor in
the state-open summer and winter-and it is OF
vital Importance to that ancient town that the
road be constructed. The manufacturing inter-
est OF Augusta, there being larger water power
there than in Lowell, requires this road. and
the road is now in the hands of parties who will
proceed at once with its construction II opens
up rich valley, that of the Sheepscott river,
which has hitherto had no railroad facilities.
All the towns on the route will assist by sub-
scriptions and in guaranteeing the bonds of the
road.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
More patents have been granted to Lebanon
than any other place in the state
The state tents are to be used at the Ports
mouth firemen's muster, for the accommodation
of visiting firemen. The encampment is to be
wholly reserved for the firemen.
Rev. W. L. Gage, of Hartford, Conn.,, stepped
Sunday evening in the dark from piazza Of thu
Gosport House, Isle Of Shoals, and fell dis
lance of five feet upon the ledge. Fortunately
he broke no limbs, but It's suffering severely from
the great strain of the fall, and the jar of the
whole system.
Work on the new Phillips Exeter academy
building progresses but slowly: hut it is patent
to all that i IS being done in the most thorough
manner, A large piece of land within few
minutes walk of the academy has been mr.
chased for base ball ground &C., for the stu
dents The purchase embraces nine acres, about
half Of which is covered with thrifty growth
OF hard wood The price paid was $1,000.
The man who drowned himself in the Merri.
mac river at Hooksett in the presence of Isaac
Anderson, TO whom he gave his effects, proves
to have been Walter Lawson, about fifty wears
Of age, who has lately worked in the stone
sheds at Concord. OF late he has been partially
insane.
AL Suncook, on the night of the 23d, burg.
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