Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-19

| POUNDS OF powder, causing second explosion,
from which, however, no damage resulted.
| Cyrus Mcpherson, who was assisting Solo
mons in charging the hole, was badly cut and
burned.
The Portland Argus states that an anxious
father from Pennington arrived in that city
| Friday evening in search of his erring daughter,
who had eloped with her teacher at Wilton
academy The girl is but seventeen years old.
| The teacher who thus seduced her from the
path of virtue and honor is nearly three times
her age, tall, raw-boned, lank and uncouth in
| all his movements-a face not at all progresses
ing, and a manner anything but fascinating
He had been married long enough TO have son
| assistant teacher in the same school, and What
| is worse and more to be lamented, he mas
| wife and some smaller children now living III
the town of Casco, and his father lives in West
| brook. The father was in great trouble WINE
| in Portland in search of the runaways, and
started for Boston Saturday morning, hoping to
continue on their track. Ihey stopped snort
time at a hotel in Portland, having weeks
| start of the father, who knew nothing of the
| elopement until nearly week after it took
| place The girl is quite handsome and accom-.
plished and sustained good name up to the
| time of her elopement.
| NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The total log drive which is TO come down
the Merrimac this season is set at eight million
| feet.
The snow is now two feet deep on the summit
of Mt. Washington, and lies undisturbed by the
wind
On the 18th inst. the railroad station at Hook
sett was broken open and few dollars in scrip
stolen.
Daniel Moulton of Hampton owns a farm
that has been in his family ever since 1887. No
division of the property has ever been made.
1t is thought that the normal school building
| at Plymouth will have to be enlarged to meet
the already increasing patronage.
The debt of the county in which Manchester
is situated has been reduced $4,000 the past
| year.
E. H. johnson, of Littleton, an ex-sheriff, has
| been lodged in Jail for ENLIGHTENMENT. A de-
| felt Of two thousand dollars has been paid by
his bondsmen, and other irregularities are said
| to be numerous.
At the term of the supreme court opened at
Exeter on the 18th, all the liquor cases fell
through. Lack of witnesses was the main
cause.
| Carol county youth has two grandmothers,
four great grandmothers, and one .great-great
grandmother, two grandfathers, and two great
grandfathers. All are living and able to be
about their work, and all live within forty min
utes' drive of MoultOnvile.
The Hillsborough county commissioners Wis
tied the county farm at Wilton last week, and
found the institution in excellent condition.
The farm is regarded as one Of the most produc-
| tive in the state.
The corner stone of the building which the
| Odd Fellows of Manchester are about to erect
| upon Hanover street will be laid with appro-
| 1t is understood that an application will be
| made to the legislature, which will assemble at
| Concord in June next, for general statute upon
/ the subject Of railroads in the state, so that
hereafter there will be no necessity for applica-
tions for special charters for enterprises Of this
Sort 1t is currently reported that in case such
| general law is enacted, a new road will be
built from Concord to Manchester.
There will be a meeting of the surviving
members of the fourth New Hampshire reg-
/ in Manchester Wa1npSdov fhn
| inst TO inaugurate measures to secure general
reunion of the officers and soldiers of the regi
ment at some future time.
Peter w. Haseltine, recently the landlord of
| the City hotel in Manchester, has purchased the
| site of the American house on Manchester
| street, and will erect thereon a spacious hotel
four stories high The lot is seventy-five feet
front by hundred feet deep.
An employe in a bobbin and spool manufacto-
ry at Alton, one day last week, in ten hours
turned out two hundred and twenty-nine gross
of assorted thread spools-32,976 in all-about
fifty gross ahead of anything heard from yet in
that line.
Somebody advertises in a New Hampshire
paper for ga man that is able and willing by
honest labor to earn one-third the cost of hiring
him, and not picked with rum or baconed with
| tobacco smoke; also, woman capable of TAX
| ing care of Il farmers kitchen and buttery and
| neither too proud nor too lazy to do it, and who
| does not carry 'chignon big enough to hang
herself in trying to get through a common door
| way. liberal price will be paid for these rare
relics of antiquity. Call on or address" etc.
The supreme judicial court now in session at
| keene is engaged in the trial of an important
case, OF much interest to railroads; raising the
| question whether the common law liability
| winch makes railroads, as common carriers of
merchandise, liable as insurers of the safety of
the property, applies in the case of living ami
mails transported by rail, or whether the carriers
are liable only for neglect of ordinary care of
| the property intruSted TO them
| The case OF j. 5. Kidder & Co. VS.. Harry
| Downing, trustee, is on trial in Manchester
The case has been tried twice before jury, and
| there was disagreement at both trials. This
| case has excited much interest and arises on
| account OF the failure of Page & Martin, gro
| GERS in that city in 1865. Both the plaintiff and
| the defendant were creditors of Page & Martin,
| and kidder Co. contend that Downing has re.
ceived more than enough of their assets to
| liquidate their claim. The present trial is be-
| fore Alonzo P Carpenter, of Bath, Me-, who
| has been chosen referee.
| VERMONT.
Lamoille county has 1887 taxable heads
The normal school at johnson now numbers
/ 140 students.
| Alpha II. Post, well known citizen of Rut-
land, died few days ago, at the age of seventy.
lie leaves wife aud three children.
work on the Congregational church, Man
chester, has just been resumed Only the foun-
datlon was laid last fall The contractors prom
Use TO have it completed July LIST.
Messrs. Wells & Adams of Waterville have
purchased machinery for the manufacture of
hannels, and will start their mill in May, with
| about thirty hands.
| A married couple now living in Bevidere,
| nave moved" no less than fifty-one times since
| thelr marriage, some twenty-five or thirty years
| ago.
One John King desperate fellow, murdered
Noah Thompson of Monkton, Addison county,
citizen of that town. on Saturday evening last
about eight O'Clock, in the street. near the hotel
by striking him with a knife and seVering the
jugular VEN. Thompson lived but a few mo-
mentS. The murderer was arrested and lodged
in jail at Middlebury.
The public buildings and dwellings on Main
street, at Johnson had narrow escape from de-
structon by the fire which destroyed Pearl &
Co.'s factory on the 18th. A copious showerwas
all that prevented a sweeping conflagration. The
factory took fire last winter but was discovered
in season to extinguish it with loss of 500. 1t
Is supposed that it was set on fire by a man that
the company were owing.
CONNECTICUT.
The strike in the Portland quarries has been
adjusted, and the men have gone to work
rive OF thirteen young men, who outraged the
person of Mrs. Clancy, of New Britain, have
been arrested and committed to Jail.
fire in a plating establishment override press
| room of Hartford Post, Saturday night,
damaged the folding press of the latter 5000.
The case of Bridgeport VS.. Trumbull, as to
which town is liable to support Caroline Metz
gar, pauper, mas Deen decided by the supreme
court of errors in favor of Bridgeport.
The Thomas girl, whose scalp was torn off at
Smiths button shop, at Naugatuck, two weeks
since, is still alive and hopes are entertained of
her recovery. 1t was one of the most shocking
accidents that ever occurred in that town.
Rev. A. C. Dennison, pastor of the Congrega-
tonal church at Middebury, was badly injured
a few days since by his horse kicking him in
the back, while he was STOPPING near him.
raid upon houses of ill-fame was made in
New Haven, on Saturday night, by the police.
They visited four places, and arrested thirty
1--WE men and women, who were brought before
| the court on Monday.
The Yale college corporation has received
| more valuable gifts. Prof. Edward S. Sails
pnry, IN addition to his liberal donation of
DOCKS 70 the department of oriental literature,
yves SloOy Tor the same object. Walter Phelps
gEes 70 the library $1,000 in gold towards the
economy. VI P0ii'i'Ai
There was run upon the Townsend SAVINGS
bank in New Haven, on Monday, growing ont
| Of a that thp hanl haI fa;la oNh