Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-07
New England Dispatches.
Fire ia Orchester-suicide in Quincy
Long Smuggling Trial IN Boston, etc.
MASSACHUSETTS.

LOWELL, Jan. B.--limothy Roberts, AGED forty
years, formerly employed by the Merrimack cor
| poration, committed suicide this morning nv
cutting his throat. He had been sick with
asthma for some time previous. He was un
married.
BosTON, Jan. 6.-Wm. F. Floyd's stable in
Dorchester, with four horses was burned last
night. Loss $780,
Joseph BOwdtch a Young man of Ouiucv shot
himself dead last evening
Inc testimony for the prosecution in the smur-
Cling case against T. d. Mills and others has
closed, and the defence commenced. The trial
has now lasted nine DAYS
The Catholics of Boston assembled in Music
nall In large force this evening" to express their
sympathy with Plus TX, in his deprivation Of
temporal power. Not half who sought admis
sion could be accommodated with STANDING
room. Patrick Denahue presided Right Rev,
John >. Williams, bishop of Boston, briefly adj
dressed the meeting, explaining why the Catho-
lies should protest against Italian usurpations
He claimed that the pope was given Rome 10
govern for the world that the poor and weak
churches in every cline might be assisted from
a central point.
The emperors, from the time of Constantine.
contributed to the general fund: that emnernr
retiring from the holy city, left the pope as row
enor. The successors of st. Peter were estab.
liShed as temporal sOyercignS, with the aid of
France, at the time of the invasion of the Lom
bards, more than a thousand years ago. as the
hNaNao VI thC 1littiGll vi inc WOfIU, hence Rome
was the capital of the world, and the church had
right to protest against its discontinuance as
such. 80
A formal protest, drawn up by leading Catbo-
lies, and to be published in the daily papers, de-
nonncing the dishonorable means, including
violence, fraud, terror and murder, that were
used by the Pledmontese government in dethron-
ing the pope during the dsordered state of En-
rope, was read by Hugh O'Bren, and unapi-
mOusly adopted.
Remarks were made by John C. Crowley. who
called for the opinion of the entire church ON
the Sandman usurpation of temporal authority
grated by the Christian world to the supreme
pontlttS for the maintenance of their religion
Italy and the inhabitants of the pontfcal states
heIcaimed, had no more right to decide the
status OF the poPe's dominion than the residents
Of the District of Columbia had to settle theirs
against the edict of the United States govern
ment.
Hon. P. A. Collins said the question was NOT
whether twenty millions of Italians should have
capital, so much as it was whether two him.
dred millions OF Christians should have COM
mon seat of authority. Rome had occupied hut
two positions since its foundation-as the cam.
tai Of the empire and the Mecca of the Christian
world. 1t did not belong to the Romans or thp
Italians, and the pope was justified in not
abandoning it and the church property to rob.
oers. Inc occupation must cease, for two hun
dred millions of Catholics will tender their ac
knowedged head the homage of their hearts
and the strength of their hands.
Charles +. DOnnelly drew a contrast between
the modes pursued by Daniel O'Connel the
civil retormer in Ireland, and Garibaldi, the re-
puted liberal, in Italy, denouncing the latter as
believer in brute force, against the sentiment
of an age of civilization.
Thomas j. Gargan eXpatiated on the right of
the pope TO temporal dominion, and asked what
European potentate could claim so long a sue
cession On the question of education, he conld
hot
pupils in her schools, in proportion to her nonn-
latlon, than Boston, and more students in her
Semnarles than were educated at similar insti
buttons in the United States He claimed that
the unihcation Of Italy would not stand the test
OF argument. The pope was to-day in precisely
the position that Napoleon was in at Wilhelms.
hohe.
Rev. James A. Healey sarcastcally alluded
to Victor Emanuel's declaration that he occunied
Rome to assure the personal safety of the pope.
and to the ptebiscituha granted subsequently,
which drew out the frightened sentiment Of seven
thousand property holders.
Inc arguments Of the speakers, which were
forclOly put, were heartily aequiesced in nv the
assemblage, which was orderly in the extreme
for so large gathering.
SPRINGFIELD, Jan. 6,-JOseph 7. Budlon a
Frenchman, was blown to pieces in the Hoosac
tunnel last night, by premature explosion off
dualin cartridge,
MAINE.
AUGUSTA, Jan. 6.-Under the suspension of
the rules bill to authorize Rockland Bath and
Newtown on the line of the Knox and Lincoln
railroad to loan their credit to equip the same |
was passed by both branches Of the legislature
to be engrOssed
Messrs. Deering, Bracket, Hatch and Choate |
were qualified for executive councillors.
The order restricting petitions for priyate5eg- |
lslaton to Feb. l. was passed in the senate
The senate has called for the valuation of |
plantations and wild lands
both branches have adjourned to Monday.
LEWISTON, Jan. 6.-rhe thermometer This |
morning indicated thirty degrees above zero-a |
change Of forty degrees from yesterday at the |
same time,
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
MOUNT WASHINGTON, VIA LITTLEToN, Jan, |
6,-Io-day the clouds on the mountain have |
been SO dense that objects not more than five |
yards distant could not be seen. The thickness |
OF frost on the building has reached three feet |
on the average. We noticed a snowflake this |
morning, of an heretofore undescribed form.
RHODE ISLAND.
PROVIDENCE, Jan. 6.-Hannah Keyes. daupb- |
ter OF James Keyes, aged ten years, was fatally |
burned, while alone in house in North Prov. |
dence Her clothes caught fire from stove.