Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-10

| "Onent."
Wild geese returning north, and robins re-
| Stunning their nests, remind Portland people of
\ the approach of warm weather.
| II is stated that the directors Of the Andres
coggin railroad company will this week advcr-
| tse for the construction of the new railroad
| IRON Lewiston to Dauville junction.
The spool factory at Webb consumes about
thousand cords of birch wood per year, manu-
featuring considerably over hundred gress of
| spools per day, most of which find ready market
in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
The toll bridge between Brunswick and Tops
ham, recently burned, is being repaired. One
span is already completed and the other will be
put in very soon. In the meantime the citizens
are Obliged to use the "free bridge" under the
Androscoggin railroad bridge or cross on the ice,
which is now very weak
The Androscoggin railroad company have
erected very handsome aud substantial freight
and passenger depotS at Pennington village, on
the west side of Sandy river. Two fine blocks
of stores are also TO be erected at that village
the present season, ono of brick; one near the
depot, the other on the "Hil" The railroad
bridge across the Sandy river is a very hand
some and apparently enduring structure, prop
erly protected against damage from running ice
| and logs.
The engineer of one of the state railways last
| week, was saved from death from q stray bullet,
| by having a small testament in his vest pocket.
| The ball passed entirely through the book and
| lodged between the inner cover and the cloth of
| the vest. The engineer knew nothing of the
affair until his wife The next day discovered the
bullet in the vest. He thinks the shot was a
random one and not intended for him. and that
it was fired in the outskirts Of Bangor.
The barn of Lewis Sawyer, short distance
from the Buxton road, and about three miles
from the village, was burned last week. Mr..
Sawyer lost nine cattle, six Sheep and hog,
saving his horse, one sheep and one hog He
also lost hay about sufficient TO winter ont his
stock. Mr.. Albion Haines also lost two and
half tons Of hay stored in the barn. No insur-
ancc except 500 on the barn. The fire is sup
posed TO have been SET by boy about seven
years old who has been boarding with Mr.. S. for
some time.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Portsmouth school expenses for 1870 were
19,1121S; number of scholars, 207S; average
attendance, 1416; males 1864, females 1914.
The Portsmouth city debt, gross, is S261,
10S.93; assets, SS5 052 so; net debt, S176O51 21,
a decrease of S47191.11 for 1870.
Hannah Cooper, of Croydon, is seventy-six
years of age, nut still good for a hard days
work. Lastyea she attended to all her house
hold and dairy duties, made 800 pounds of but
ter, raised $50 worth of poultry, and achieved
$50 worth of wool work.
Tho books and papers of the sclectmen of
Meredith are kept i'm the town house, in room
provided for that purpose The room was
broken iuto last Wednesday night, and books
covering transactions of twenty years past were
clOltiif WIFI NhTlOuS pdpClS vi lHOIG VI lGSS lu-
portance The act has caused intense excite
ment in the town, and it is claimed by both
parties as being "put up job" The republic
cans say that the democrats have caused it TO
be done because of some irregularities in their
doings within the three years past, although no
specific charges are made. The democrats have
only been in power for three years, and it is
said by them that here is a deficiency or dis
crepancy in the accounts Of the republican
boards of selectmen of some $1,000 "a small
sum in these days of irregularities" At the
annual town meeting in 1870 n committee of
one from each political party was appointed by
the town to investigate the matter. The exam
nations Of this committee had gone so far as to
discover that there was an error, or something
else in the accounts of the Selectmen or treasu-
rer, without having found exactly what or
| whose it was, and there the matter now stands.
VERMONT.
| A Shaker elder held forth in Dorset, VT, the
| other day He came out strong for female sui
| trage and eXhorted his hearers towithhold their
| suffrages from men of war, and from men who
aoW marry nil .fghtF'
| CONNECTICUT.
The citizens of Hazardville are agitating the
| project of a railroad connection with Thompson
| Vile
| The conduct of Chas H. Fowler, the divorce
lawyer Of New Haven, is to be investigated by a
| committee appointed by the bar of that city.
One family of New Milford monopolizes thir-
teen out of thirty-five cases Of measles in single
| school district.
An old lady of WaIlingford gave to a church
fair the other evening quilt made by herself
and containing 2146 pieces.
The March term of the superior court, which
opened this week in New Haven, has five hun
| dred and eighty court cases and ninety jury
| cases on The docket.
An old gentleman of Rockville, nearly eighty
| years of age, has only written one letter in the
last twenty years, and during his entire life has
| been blissfully innocent of the use of envelopes
| John Mettler, an old offender, Of Hartford,
| was arrested on the It'll for stealing watch and
| wearing apparel from friend in Bridgeport
| who had furnished him with lodging accommo-
dations.
A little child, twenty months old, of John
Powers, of East Hartford, fell into a ditch on
Sunday and was drowned. He was PLAYING near
the door of the house but few moments before
he was found dead.
The annual catalogue of Wesleyen university
shows the number of students to be one hun
dred and fifty-three, and of the faculty twelve.
1t is significant fact that but fifteen of the stu
dents are from this state
Sammy Andrews, the hero of the Gridley
scandal, is on trial before the superior court at
Bridgeport, charged with appropriating $500
which Mrs. Gridley entrusted to him, with
which to buy residence in Florida.
By the burning of Grant & Sweets barn in
Lakeyile on the 1st inst, horse belonging to
A +. Roberts, valued at $500, was lost as well
as several vehicles, and it was by great exertion
that the store of Mr.. Roberts, which was within
twenty feet of the barn, and contained large |
stock of goods, was saved.
1t appears from the pension office statistics |
that there are in Connecticut nearly four thou |
sand pensioners, mostly of the late civil war |
though there are a considerable number of the |
Mexican war, of the Florida war, Of the war of |
1872, and also of the revolutionary war. There |
are yet living thirty-three widows Of revolution
airy soldiers, while5there arel but twenty-one of
the Mexican, Florida and 1872 wars altogether.
A number of New Haven democrats journeyed |
into Wallingford this week, to revive animation
among the diSaffected in that locality. First
they flung to the breeze an immense banner
the largest ever unfOlded in the town-which, |
we may conjecture, astOunded the country folks |
not little, and then to complete the impressive |
effect, Jim Gallagher delivered one Of his ex-
haustlng speeches, IN which he landed KendriCl1 |
to the skies, forgetting all his former denuncia-
tions of that gentleman. Whatever Of disaffec- |
ton might have then remained was dissipated |
by blast from brass band, and the valiant |
champions of democracy took up their home |
ward march.
RHODE ISLAND.
The fowl disease has appeared at Newport, re- |
Sulting fatally in most cases.
st. Patrick's day in Providence this year, bids |
fair to be "a bigger day than Fourth of july" |
Judging by the preparations that are going on |
for Its celebration.
Warmers Bryant & Stratton commercial |
college, at Providence, has been removed to the |
new marble block on Westminster street, and |
new occupies some of the finest school rooms in |
the country.
An lrishman named Hugh Riley died sudden |
lv at Providence, on the 9th, while at work in |
Day & SpragueS grain warehouse it is sup
posed from heart disease. He was thirty-fve
years old, and lived with his mother.
The large wooden building connected with
Richmond's cotton-waste establishment at Provi-
dence was found TO be on fire on the 18th, the re-
suit of spontaneous combustion. The fire was
eXtinguished before much damage was done.
The piece Of statuary in the Redwood library,
Newport, the dying Gladiator" is the only one
of the kind in this country. 1t was purchased
and presented by Edward King Esq, at an ex-
pense, it is said, of about $4,000. The other
specimens, the gift Of the same gentleman, are
equally fine, the whole collection adding much
to the attractveness Of the library already cele-
brated as one Of the most interesting in the
United States.
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