Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-23
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New EuxInnd News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


in cash S9,74027; the balance is paid in annua
installments. The expenses of the committee
in 1870 were S91561, or ten per cent. on the cast
receipts
The suspension of Messrs. Pratt & Wentworth
extensive stove dealers in Boston is announced
Their liabilities is said TO reach about 100000
with assets 20 the amount of S5OO,OOO. The
cause of the failure is attributed to engagements
outside of their regular business.
During the past two or three weeks there hav(
arrived at Boston from Liverpool over 800 tons
of old iron rails, used for railroads, Most o.
them 70 TO the works of the Bay State iron
company, to be recast into new rails.
boy about sixteen years of age, from Woon-
socket, threw an apple through a window on
Hanover street, Boston, on Thursday, because
he was without food, money, work or friends,
and wanted TO be arrested He was aceommo-
dated.
Miss Hulda Hyde died at the Newton aims
house last week, at the age of eightY-two years,
sixty of which she had passed there. She was
4 regular attendant upon church services, and
often carried with her TO the meeting house a
bundle, which she laid in the pew by her side,
Nbut never opened, greatly exciting the curiosity
oCthe children as TO its contents.
The number of deaths in Boston for the week
ending Saturday, was 100. Ofthis number d
died of consumption, 2 of scarlet fever and OF
heart disease OF the whole number 81 were
under one year of age, and A under five years.
American pareutage, 30; foreign parentage, 90
ne 0OSEOn MARKER Is HoM NSi euBPA'NN wa"
a rood variety of wild meat such as bear,
venison and antelope. During last week ABOUT
900 antelopes arrived there from the west, and
g. lies of deer, the former selling at whole
oOD s s 70 20 cents per pound, and the lat
sac Irol a. 10 1s, being the fattest and best
lot received this season. the oyster business
There are now employed i'll ;anned Inv 400
in Boston some fifty schooners, ill., Sort and
seamen, who are running between that r, 1oe
Norfolk Va. The vessels N erage trip ON.
in three weeks, and bring about 1000 bushels
each. Although the quantity is very large, tne
demand is also large, and as the quallty is Sald
10 be better than for many years, they are taken
off into the surrounding country nearly as fast
as they are received.
The executive clemency was, for the third
time within a month, extended TO a CONVICT AT
the state prison, last week The fortunate man
is Lowell Pratt, who, for setting hTe g one nee OF
the public buildings of the city, IN DULY, 1857,
was sentenced to the prison for life. Pratt at1
terwaTd turned states evidence against Win.
H Orne the principal actor in the affair, and
the latter 10 now serving out life sentence for
the crime. Pratt is stated to be half-witted
sort of a fellow.
The annual meeting of the Massachusetts
woman suffrage association will be held in IRE
mont Temple, Boston, on Tuesday, January "a.
Morning session 10 A. NJ; afternoon session
P. admission free. Evening session u NJ;
admission twenty-five cents. A large number
of eminent speakers are expected, among whom
are William Lloyd Garrison, Julia Ward Howe,
Lucy Stone, Margaret w. Campbell, Stephen S.
Foster, George II. Vibbert, Ada g. Bowles, and
others, and the friends of woman suffrage from
all parts of the state are invited TO attend.
young lady in the Boston Highlands whose
allowance of pocket money bad frequently been
cut short by the depredations of pickpockets hit
upon the ingenious devices of inserting in her
porte-monnaie a pathetic appeal to the light
fingered gentry, in which the privatons and
H. he,ra gst,n neta
ing for the balance of the quarter from gloves,
matinee tickets, and French candy were so
feengy and forcibly set forth, that her purse has
been returned to her, intact, on three separate
occasions.
Although last year was "apple year." and the
yield very abundant, the low price at which they
were sold in the early part of the winter, and the
shiinkage by rot has lowered the stock in Bos-
ton, which now will hardly exceed $4,000 bar
rels. Prices advanced fifty cents per barrel last
week, and as there are comparatively few more
to come forward to market from the country,
prices for the remainder of the season, and until
the new crop comes in, will rule high. The ship
ping demand is good, and during last week 1900
TO 1000 barrels of native Baldwns were shipped
TO Philadelphia, at about So per barrel.
The whole number of foreign vessels which
arrived at Boston during the year 1870, and dis
charged their cargoes at Constitution wharf,
was seyenty-one. There were twenty from GOT
tenberg with iron, and ifty-One from London
and Liverpool with assorted cargoes. The goods
required to be weighed reached 125,0000O0
pounds, consisting of iron, wool, chemicals, &C,
the larger proportion being iron and reaching
75,000,0 900 pounds. One barQue is loading at
this wharf for London, with cargo of 5000 bags
ofoil cake, which is used extensively for feeding
cattle.
Mrs. Livermore says in the Woman's Jour-
nal: Il wonder if anybody ever goes before an
eXpectant audience without an awful dread, a
momentary dying out of all self-confdence an
overwhelming sense of good-for nothingness
that inclines one TO beat an undigniied retreat
from the platform to the ante-room and TO re-
nounee the lecture field forever? The address
begun, the dreaded plunge taken, and if one is
interested in ones subject, al else is forgotten.
But the moments preceding public address,
when the audience sit before you, coolly taking
your measure, must always be as full of ner-
vousness as the hour of waiting for a battle 10
begin, with the enemy drawn up to receive the
onset, when the brayest soldiers shiyer with
fear"
The Boston Commercial Advertiser says:
"Since the list of January when the new tariff
rates went into operation, making reduction
on many Of the imported necessities of life,
wholesale grOcers have been very busy filling
orders for the country trade, whose stock of this
class OF goods, such tea, coffee, spices, sugar,
&C., had been very much reduced. Great activ-
ity has prevailed, and in many instances it has
been with difficulty that customers could get
promptly awaited upon. The rush will soon be
over, however, and the reduction is already be-
ginning to show itself among the retail grocers,
who are now yieing with each other in offering
inducements to consumers
The Woman's Journal says: "0ur worthy
governor has just called the attention of the
legislature of Massachusetts 10 the startling
fact that one-half of all the citizens of the COM
monwealth are to-day legally defrauded of the
control of their property and their children.
One would think that the mere statement of so
a would he sufficient that fbp
very first act Of the legislature would be TO in.
vest these innocent and deserving persons with
equal civil and political rights. Alas our legis
lature have no intention of doing anything Of
the kind. Thry have even refused to give the
governors suggestion the customary courtesy
of a reference to a special committee. Severa
hundred thousand persons will continue to bC
defrauded of the enjoyment Of equal rights
Not because they are black. Not because they
are ignorant. Not because they are vicious
But because they are women"
$4,000 revenue seizure in Boston, on Thurs
day, was attended with peculiar circumstances
The seizure was made on the 18th inst by rev
enue officer, who, on a visit to the establishment
to inspect the manner Of keeping the books, dis
covered men at work in the cellar of one of tn
buildings bottling ale. After considerable tall
a formal seizure of the premises was made. TIVE
weeks ago, however, proceedings in bankruptcy
were had against Mr.. Stearns, the proprietor
and he was adiudged bankrupt, and the prop
CRY wac III pOoetbolOl Vi INT Culttu OldlCS mar
shall. Mr.. Stearns was asked to see that non,
was wasted, and apparently did so. A quantity
of ale which was there showed signs of souring
aud he concluded to putt into bottles to pre-
serve it for the creditors and while doing so tn,
entire establishment was seized. Practically i
appears a seizure of property held by officers 0
one branch of United States service by officer
of another branch. The case has not been for
mally brought into the United States court, AM
if it comes must be an interesting one. Th
property is still claimed by the United State
marshal.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The Thorndike manufacturing company, q
Lowell, manufactures suspenders cOntainin
2O00 yards of webbing daily.
George F., son of George Richardson, saloo
keeper in Lowell, was killed in Michigan Ind
on the goth. He was twenty-nine years of az
and leaves a widow. Deceased had for the pa
seven years been an engineer on the Michiga
Central railroad, and was much esteemed. II
formerly resided in Lowell.
The annual statistics of the Lowell manufa
lures for 1870 have Just been published by Stor
& Huse, who state that the capital, products an
consumption are as follows: Capital stool
Sls,65O,OOO; number of mills so, and 9TH
buildings; spindles 526 10: looms 70 g4C