Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-01
as captured at the close of the morning ser.

VICE.
The Newport Argus has never seen the Sugar
river contain so much ice and so little water MS
now, which is a great advantage to the railroad
contractors, if not to the manufacturers.
Rev. X. Holt of Long Plain, Mass, has receiv-
ed and accepted call from the Baptist church
in Lancaster to become their pasto' He will
enter upon his duties the first of March,
An exchange says: "0n the 9th of Deceul-
Der last Mr.. Edward McNellis of West Lebanon
put load of hay in his barn, and in so doing
covered up hen. On the 10th of February
6iddy was dug out, lean, but tolerably well and
lively"
! |. & S. G. Flagg's paper mill, in Exeter, was
| burned on Sunday morning at about two
| O'Clock. The cause of the fire was a cidental.
| The mill was running until about midnight.
| Loss estimated at SS000
| Jackson Freese who has run a stage between
| Pittstield and Dover for nineteen years past is
about 10 retire from the road In the course of
his career as knight of the whip, Mr. F. has
| driven about 10000, or more than six times
| round the world.
Noah Beecher, son Of Joseph Beecher of Here
ford, 2. @, while chopping timber in Pittsburg
| on the 10th ult, was struck by falling limb,
from the effects of which he died on the follow
| ing day.
| Mrs. Livermore lectured upon "Queeu Eliza
BETH at Dover, Tuesday night, and the Gazette
| says the lecture twas splendid effort, and
stamps her beyond doubt as one of the most
| gifted lady speakers of the present day."
| The Portsmouth Journal says the hardy men
| of GoSport have never known a winter OF such
| extreme cold as the present. 1t has been found
hard work TO keep the houses comfortable, while
the quantity of wood thus far consumed eX-
ceeds that of ordinary years.
At the recent term Of the supreme court for
the northern district of Coos county, Philip
Richardson, indicted for selling liquor, claimed
that the liquor was sold by his wife, and was
decidedly nonplussed on learning that he was
IN that case liable just the same. He was fined
$50 and costs, S45.
Besides the carriage factory and storehouse of
Charles S. Harper of East Concord, Saturday
morning, as stated in our dispatches, there were
destroyed the spoke mill and contents belong
ing to Morrill, Dunlap, and dye house and fix
lures, the property of Cyrus Farrar. Harper's
loss has been estimated at $4,000, Duuaps at
$1,000, and Farrar's and at $1,000.
Gen. E. W Kinks, of Massachusc IS, addressed
a large republican meeting at the Town hall,
Claremont, on Monday evening, discussing ma
tional and state issues for an hour and half.
The Claremont and cornet band enlivened the
meeting with some of its best music Tue cam
paign may now be considered fairly opened in
this county. The republicans are awake and
Will give good account of themselves on the
14th of March.
A story is told in the Colebr0ok Sentinel of
Nathan Beecher, who formerly lived in that
town, and who, from his characteristics, might
have been related to "the Beecher family" On
one occasion case arose in town-meehng as to
whether one P was legal voter IN Cole
brook. After a long discussion Mr.. Beecher
arose and said it was the most silly discussion
he had ever listened to. why" sad he, " l
have known P to lay drunk in Cargill's
store, at one time, long enough to gain resi-
| dence in Colebrook or any other town in the
stateP'
VERMONT.
Hon. William G. Shaw, of Burlington, de-
| clnes to be candidate for the office of city
| judge He does not believe that "a judicial
office ought to be the subject of a political
| wrangle."
1t is election time in Burlington, and accord
| ingly personalities are not considered TO be en-
| nrely out of order. One suffrage solicitor
| charges another aspirant with buying soup
| bones at the market, and sticking pair of tur-
| keys legs through the top of his basket to
make show on the street"
A st. Adams paper gets enthusiastic over the
maple sweet prospect. "Sap pals SO silVery in
| their shine, and SO many, that we are rem inded
| Of the report of Solomon'S time, when silver was
as the stones of the street, nothing accounted
| OF, are vending countryward by wagon loads.
May they overflow with liquid sweetness enough
to syrup the pancakes of the million, whereof we
are one"
CONNECTICUT.
Over 800 couples were divorced in Connecticut
last year.
Stamford is a promising village, with 1881
school children.
Freights over the New Haven and Northamp-
ton railroad have more than doubled in the past
year.
Richard DonnelIy, deserter from the United
| States army, was arrested in Fair Haven on
Friday night and taken to Fort Trumbull for
trial.
A thief entered the house of Helen Burwell,
Is Ashman street, New Haven, Monday morn
ing, and stole gold watch and chain. He was
pursued arrested and gave his name as Thomas
Brennan.
The report of the committee on water works
IN WallingfOrd estimates the cost at $50, 49S.
The officers of the borough have been instructed
to give the requisite notice that they will petit
ton to the next session of the state legislature
for charter for water works.
VIM. II. Barnam, the Connecticut iron man,
has bought $4,000 acres of woodland near
Readsboro', VT, where he proposes to make
charcoal for his own furnaces in the first named
state.
The Hartford papers have an inexhaustible
subject in the Cardiff giant which al present is
sojourning in that city. Three items per day on
his Carditship is the least allowance for any of
| them.
John R. Cooley and wife of New Haven have
got verdict of $4,000 against Charles Carter of
| Windsor Locks for falsely asserting that they
Kept house of i'll fame.
An old lady in Tolland county dreamed the
| other night that weasel was playing melan-
cholly havoc in her hennery, and next morning
found that her dream had been really fulfilled.
All the old ladies in the county were consequent
ly strengthened in their faith.
| The shore line train from New York which
| brought Bret Harte to Boston, was detained by
an accident at Madison, and the delay brought
| him into acquaintance with Charles o. COnor of
New York, Bishop Clark OF Rhode Island, and
Edward Everett Hale who Glanced to be fellow
| travellers.
Frederick Marquand of Southport, for many
years in extensive business IN New York city,
has offered TO erect, at cost of 500, 900, a chap
el for the Theological seminary, to seat two or
three hundred persons. 1t will be begun at
once and finished by next September.
The family of Ger. Edwa d Harlan / of Norwich
| has been greatly afflicted of LATE First came
| tn intelligence of the death of child OF Thos.
Harland in New York city, and on Friday the
| relatives and friends were advised of the demise
| of Miss Ruth Harland, sister of the general.
Miss Harland sailed from New York about two
weeks since for Nassau, N. p, accompanied by
Gen. Harland and her mother
The New Haven Journal says: at has been
predlcted by parties unacQuainted with the sub
ject, that masses of broken ice in the Connect-
cut would make an impression on the piers Of
the Shore Line bridge; but the large masses
ice have only not affected the piers in the least
but have not, in fact, budged the dolphins or
rows of piles guarding the piers a fraction of an
inch"
The death rate of Bridgeport for 1870 is said
to be without parallel in this country, being
less than one TO ninety-two of the entire popu-
latlon. In New York the death rate is one in
thirty-fve; in Philadelphia one in forty-ive;
A'"itihOiNs OhO Ill -oeVeuJ DOhBO0, one III
| torty-one; Charleston, one in thirty-siX while
IN the rural towns of the northern states it is
one in siXty-seven.
| RHODE ISLAND.
Abont $4,000 have been subscribed in Prov
idence, TO build new hotel
The famous Neptune yacht club dedicated new
rooms, at Providence, the exercises consisting
of supper, speeches, and grand ball.
Rev. Dr. Blodgett, for thirty-ive years pastor
Of the Pawtucket Congregational church, sent
in his resignation on Sunday The ranidlv in
creasing labors of the charge are, it is said,
proving more onerOus than the reverend gentle
man feels justified in attempting.
Smithfeld is in a quandary. A few weeks ago
the river was so low that manufacturing was at
standstill; now the works are stopped because
there is too much water.
r.. H. EDDY,