Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-31

dination of Mr.. f. P. Wilson occurred last
Thursday, and the dedication of the Conorega.
tional church, which, with the organ, cost about
$4,000. Not over $1,000 debt will remain upon it.
Jabez Pike, of Lubec, lately deceased gave, by
his will, $1,000 TO the Church to the DISCIPLES
and $1,000 TO the Methodist church in that town
the principal to be the nucleus of fund, the in
come OF which shall forever he devoted to the
support OF the gospel.
Hon. Ahner Coburn president of the hoard of
trustees of the state college of agriculture and
the mechanic arts, has prepared his annual re-
port OF the condition of that institution. A per-
feet title has been granted the college to its lands
| in Orono, making available the $50 900 appTo-
priated by the last Legislature. The principal
| work of the past season has been to devise
plans. provide material and erect buildings for
the necessary wants of the college.
Richard Higgins an insane person about
seventy years of age, has lived for the last fifteen
| years on one or the other of the small islands
near Indian point, (Eden), in small hut built
| of short boards or slabs. He obtains a prccari-
| GUS subsistence by making baskets. He has
been married twice, and is said 10 be possessed
| OF some property in the town of Hampden. He
| has been insane for about Twenty-Five years
| Jealousy, it is said being the cause; and so
| strong hold has this passion Obtained upon his
| mind, that he will not accept food or clothing as
| a gift for fear that some advantage is to be
| taken of him. He guards his few possessions
with misePs care.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
It is stated that the Nashua and Rochester
railroad will be located through Epping.
The house of VIM. Flanders in Manchester,
was entirely burned last week. Loss about
$4,000, and insured for S170O.
There were formerly seventy fishing vessels
owned at New Castle and twenty at Kitterv on
the Piscataqua Now there are seven at New
Castle and only one or two at Kittery.
Isaac W. Farmer died at his residence in Man
chester on the 25th. He had held the office of
city marshal, deputy sheriff, and assessor of in
ternal revenue in days that are past He was
born in Newbury and was forty-three years of
age.
In the trial of Samuel Marble and VIM. Muir
ply of Plaistow, indicted for the crime of MUIR
der in the second degree, the jury brought in a
verdict of not guilty.
B. Q. Sanborn has been appointed post mas.
ter at Windham, L. o. Blaisdell at Lake Village
d. Carter at North Darlington and j. c. Tilton
at Titon.
Gov, Stearns has appointed Col. John NJ.
Weare, OF Seabrook, prominent agriculturst
and stock raiser, an agent of the state to CO.
operate with the farmers in their endeaYors TO
prevent the further spread in this state of the
cattle disease No new cases have been recently
| heard of.
man named Frederick French, formerly of
Newmarket, but late of Nottingham, was found
| Ill the woods of the latter named town. on Fri
| day last, in dying condition. He died shortly
after being discovered, it is supposed from a
stroke of paralysis, while gathering hemlock to
make brooms.
| The Dover correspondent of the Boston Jour
| nal writes: 'Ihe past season has, on the whole,
been one of general heathiness in this COM
| munity; more so, am told by physicians, than
| the preceding year; yet the prevalence of paray-
sis and apopleXy have been very noticeable.
| number of our business men have thus been
stricken down, and almost every week the start
ling announcement made that some one in the
midst Of apparent health and the activities of
life has suddenly fallen In many instances it
has taken the form OF apoplexy resulting in
sudden DEATH in others lingering in palsed in
sensibility for few weeks, with finally fatal
result. Our physicians are not able to assign
any satisfactory cause for this marked preya-
lence, as it seems not limited to any particular
class Of people as to physical condition and
habits
| RHODE ISLAND.
General Burnside it is announced, is soon to
revisit Europe.
The first annual report of the board of educa-
ton, together with the twenty-sixth annual re-
port OF the commissioner of public schools, has
been published, making a handsome book of
more than two hundred pages.