Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-08
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new England News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The total amount of subscriptions TO the tine
art museum TO the present date reaches $685.
O87 81.
A case of actual theft of money from dead
womau's eyes was in the municipal codt Of
Boston, last week. po,,oro
house. Boston, for thfs week for Cen s Grant nan
and suite, Mai. Gen. Meade ana stan' ue'i'
Pleasanton and Gen. ingalls,.
A lot of the largest pine apples ever seen IN
Boston market came TO hand last week from
Porto Rico. There were about 800 of them, and
they ranged in weight from three pounds TO ten
pounds each.
There were received in Boston market last
week 10000 dozen of northern and eastern
eggs and $4,000 dozen of Western and island
eggs. The demand is good, and prices range
from Is TO 20 cents per dozen.
family at the South End, Boston, have q
coored cook who is very accomplished per-
former upon the violin. When her joint is in
the oven and the potatoes boiling, she sits be.
fore the fire and plays Come DER the moonlt
sea-"
The state police investigation has been brought
to a close by the summing up of Messrs. AID
rich, Harris, and Somerby for the defence, and
Carpenter Lovejoy and Wiley for the prosecu-
ton. The matter now rests with the Legislature.
The hearing lasted tweDty-seven days.
The whole number of deaths registered in
9Th, was 107. Of these 10 died of consumption;
unknown diseases, 5; scarlet fever, 2; heart dis
ease. q lung inflammation, IL; congestion of
lungs, 4; under s years of age, 81; American
parentage 81; foreign parentage, 76.
The comical incident at the Boston high
school supper, as related last week, is iucom-
plete Later in the evening one of the gentle
men of the religious institution mentioned,
started to return the visit of the high school
committee, but he, in his turn, got into the
wrong room, where there was another class of
the English high school assembled. After max
ing few remarks the mistake was, of course,
discovered. The laugh was not all on one side.
II is stated that there is not more than 500 900
pounds of fleece wool in Boston, and about the
same Of pulled. Not for many years has the
supply been so light at the corresponding time.
New California wool is beginning to come for
ward and is selling at relatively high prices.
There now some six or eight Boston wool mer-
chants are in the California markets, buying Up
stock for eastern shipment
The Cambridge chief of police, acting under
instructions from the mayor, has issued the fol :
lowing order, addressed to the captains of the
various stations :-"You will direct the officers
under your immediate charge to enter COM
plant against all hotel proprietors, restaurant
and saloon keepers, and grocery Dealers and all
persons whosoever found selling ale pc rter,
strong or lager beer and spurious liquors. Deal
with the most exact and rigid impartiality. Use
no discrimination but devote yourself TO make
the law forbidding the sale of these articles alb
sOutely operative within your district"
The Boston Commercial Bulletin SAYS: f'Few
are perhaps aware what an immense quantity Of
window weights are sold in this market, or have
ever thought them of sufficient Importance to be
classed in the catalogue Of general merchandise.
But when ii is considered that between 500 and
800 tons, or about ,200,0 900 lbs. of these goods
are sold annually in Boston at an average price
of two and three-eighths cents per h., which
amounts to s., $4,000, it will be seen that
though they are small articles, they are fairly
entitled to a passing notice. These weights
weigh from 81 TO so pounds each, and the great
bulk of the supply sold in this market is made
in bingham. With building operations brisk
the demand is large for home consumption, and
large quantities are also shipped to California"
There is every indication that the third annual
reunion of the society of the army of the Po-
tomac will be more largely attended than ever
before. President Grant will no doubt be there
The officers at present are as follows President
Major General George G. Meade; Executive
Committee,-General staff, Col. Theodore Ly
man; Artillery corps, Breyet Major j. Henr1
Sleeper; Cavalry corps, Brevet Brig. Gen. Gree
ley s. Curtis; First corps, Brevet Brig. Gen
Chas. L. Pierson; Second corps, Brevet Brig
Gen. F. w. Palfrey; Third corps, Mai. VIM. P
Shreve; Fourth corps, Brevet Major Gen. Chas
Devens, Jr.; Fifth corps, Brevet Col. Geo. NJ
Barnard, Jr.; Sixth corps, BreveHBng Gen. C
A. Whittier; Ninth corps, Breyet Mai Gen
Gen. A. B. Underwood; Twelfth corps, Breyei
Brig. Gen. VIM. Cogswell.
1t is stated that abe difficulty between the
Montgomery Guard and the Boston City Guard
has been settled, and the following terms agreed
upon for the champion drill: LIST, the drill to
take place on Boston common on the last We'd
nesday in June, at 2.30 P. M; I'd, stakes-hae
VS.. $100-to be delivered by each company com
mander TO the judges previous to drill on the
field; 3D., each company to drill thirty-sever
nh
ajudge, these judges to appoint third, the de
cision of the judges to be given upon the field
on the day of drill, and to be final; 9th, drill tC
be in accordance with Upton's Tactics, from
pages to SO, except loading and firing, kneel
ing and lying; 9Th, the choice of drill TO be de.
termined by toss; It'll, each company command.
er will be allowed to communicate in writing
only with the judges, each communication to be
open to the three judges; Sth, any violation of
these articles of agreement will subject stakes
and championship TO forfeiture.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Henry q. Bridges, single man, about forty
five years old, who, with his sister, has occupied
the ancient Bridges homestead, near the resi-
dence of Hon. G. L. Davis, North Andoyer, was
found hanging in his barn on the 9th, quite dead
and cold: Depression of spirits is the only
cause assigned.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Patrick Dlnnet, who was injured by a rock
falling upon him at the Hoosac tunnel some
Jour MONTHS Sllce, uleQ lew DAYS ago.
Palace cars are to be put upon the Boston anC
Troy and the Hoosac tunnel railways between
Boston and Greenfield, and North Adams anC
Troy, this summer.
Mr.. Nugent of Pitts6eld fell and fractured hi.
thigh last week, and the same day Christopher
Farrell, just recovering from long illness, was
thrown from carriage and had his collar bone
broken.
MAINE.
The Maine Sunday school convention will hold
its annual session in Gardiner on the 10Th Nth
and 18th of the present month, and viii un-
doubleday be well attended.
Abbie F. Perkins failed to satisfy Belfast
jury, after three days hearing, that Francis
Faruum promised to marry her in 1865, and
they rendered verdict accordingly.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Alfred Kiblin Of Dublin, who assaulted a
school teacher, Curtis A. Wood last winter
plead guilty on his recent trial at Keene, and
was fined $50 and costs.
A large land slide took place at Silver Hill. in
the south part of Bradford, on the 9Th. An i'm
mense amount Of earth, mixed with rocks, one
of which probably weighed twenty tons came
down with great rapidity and covered over sew
eral acres of land. A highway was rendered
impossible.
Thomas B. Tucker, of the hotel at Warren.
was arraigncd before the police court on the 9th,
charged with keeping liqhors for unlawful sale.
Quite number OF witnesses were on hand, but
the case was postponed for thirty days.
Last week, an industrious mechanic of Con-
cord, either by mistake or on account of ieal-
ousy concerning his wife, took an ounce of bed
bug poison, which contained about thirty grams
of corrosive sublimate. He was in a terrible
condition when the physician reached him, but
he will probably recover.
The body of an unknown man washed ashore
on the Dortherly side of Fox point, Newington,
on Wednesday, and was buried without identiti
cation by the seectmen. He was supposed to
he from so to so years old. He had on dark
pants with oyeralls and a blue army overcoat.
In his wallet were found twenty cents, a watch
key aud jack knife. The body had evidently
been in. the water for months,
VERMONT.
Master Knight of Shelbourne is six years of
age, and weighs lis pounds. VI
Simon Stephen Davis, the recently elected
mayor OF Cincinnati, is native of Rocking.
ham.
Cavendish is triumphant.over the discovery of
soap stone quarry upon the farm of one of the