Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-30
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VIM. a. Glover the Boylston bank robber,
writes from suffolk county jail to New
York paper that, "but for the protection of the
sheriff who has interfered to save me from per
secution, should be run to death by detectives,
interviewers and other bIoodhounds.'
The Boston Post has the following: II is well
known that the United States government au-
thorities have Of late been pushing up not few
Of our apothecaries to their duties-or what
have been singularly construed as sucll-in re-
lation 10 placing stamps upon the various ar
tices in their establishments. We hear of one
apothecary at the West End who construed the
law so closely that he placed ten cent stamp
upon a frog in his aquarium. The aqueous in
habitant is exciting no little attention as he
plunges about with the stamp fastened, bonnet
like, upon his head. There is nothing like being
on the safe side of the law.
The Boston steamships, Erie, Of 5000 tons, and
the Ontario, of 1889 tons, which were original
ly built for the trade between Boston and Liver
pool have recently been sold in New York,
where they have been lying idle since their trips
to France several months ago. The terms of
the sale were private, but it is stated that the
Erie was sold for S1500O0 and the Ontario for
sl25, 900. They are hereafter to be employed in
the South American trade The first cost of
these steamers was nearly 100000 cash, and
after the enterprise for which they were built
was abandoned the vessels passed into the pos,
session of their late owners, ut valuation OF
about S225,000 each They were both splendid
vessels, but were not of the class needed to COM
pete with the English built iron steamers,
which have obtained such great success in the
European and American trade.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Rev Father Gleason of the Catholic church in
Maiden was presented, on Sunday last, with a
purse of 5000 by his friends of the parish, on
the occasion of his contemplated departure for
Europe on account of i'll health.
ESSEX COUNTY.
A blacksmith named Adams, employed in
Newburyport, died suddenly OF paralysis on
Monday. He belonged to Portsmouth, where
he leaves a wife and child.
A splendid mirage was witnessed at Glouces-
ter on Sunday last, which extended along the
south there and far eastwardly, embracing a
view of Boston light house, hotels houses, trees,
ships, briggs, schooners and sloops, sailing in
various directions. The spectacle was grand
and continually changing, as the moving objects
changed their position, ard the strata of air be-
came more dense or rarified.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
II is said that the cities of Fall River and
Taunton decided to have no celebration on the
4th, from economical considerations.
Rev. George S. Chase, formerly of New Bed
ford, but lately pastor OF Baptist society in
Detroit, died while visiting some friends at the
former place on Tuesday afternoon, from NAL
arious fever contracted at the west. He was
forty-two years of age, and leaves a wife and
two children.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
More tobacco is said to have been set in
Northampton this year than ever before Day
Brothers have thirty acres j. S. Parsons & Son
twenty-four, VIM. Strong twenty-five, etc.
The chime of bells for the new college church
at Amherst will be in position and used during
commencement week. They are nine in num-
Der, and were manufactured at a Boston estab-
lishment where they are already hung in a
frame of the size of the belfry where they are TO
be placed. The heaviest weighs 1920 pounds,
and is pitched on Z.
Hatfield farmers are trying a novel mode of
fertilizing their crops. L. G. Curtis tried SOW
ing Indian meal on his tobacco land last year,
side by side with guano, and was so well pleased
with the results that this year he sowed ten tons
on his tobacco land, and j. S. Graves is trying
cotton seed meal for the same purpose. Fitch
Brothers are making an experiment with bar
ley meal. Wheat bran is said by the "scien-
tiics' to contain most of the elements of the
wheat, which are found in phosphates. If bar
ley meal proves to be good fertilizer buying
the grains from breweries, which are sold for
eight or ten cents per bushel, would certainly
be cheap mode of enriching the soil.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
George Fuller of Deerfeld raised, last year,
three tons of horseradish on one and half acres
of muck swamp, which he sold for $3.50 per
ton. This year he has eight acres of it under
cultivation.
The wife of Dea. Montague of Sunderland
fell in the door yard the other day, and broke a
hip in two places. She was alone at the time,
and had to crawl into the house and blow the
0lD0er norm TO Dr1Ig assistance.
A man who lost leg in the war; and is now
employed in one of the shops in North Adams,
wanted to borrow a small sum of money for a
lew months for the purpose of making pay
ment on house he had been building, and sue
eeeded in eiecting loan of a money-lender at
the modest rate of sixty per cent This coming
to the ears of fellow laborer, he offered the
money to him at the usual interest.
MAINE
There are 1863 pupils in the Portland high
school.
Maine has been rather unfortunate this week
thus far-three serious railway accidents and
democratic convention.
A resident of New Gloucester, proposes to
raise over thousand quarts of Strawberries on
less than one-siXteenth of an acres this season.
A Canadian in Maine railroad train quar-
relied with his wife and jumped off the plat
form while the train was running at the rate of
twenty miles an hour. The train backed down to
pick up his mangled corpse and found him run
ming after them. He climbed aboard and soon
reconciled himself TO his spouse.
A party of IBostoni actors-Messrs. Harden
bergh, Barron, burrows, Crisp, Norris and Sails
bury of the Museum, and Mr.. Lemoyne of the
Glooe-have arranged to pass the summer vaca-
ton in democratic way at the seashore, and
propose TO pitch their tent next week, at Cape
Elizabeth, Me.
The Portland Argus, speaking of the conven-
tion that declared for 'Kimbal and the new de.
parture, says; There was not a might of old
might in old fogyism, whether of the outspoken
jeff Davis kind or the sugar-coatcd Augusta
platform kind.
At Portland, the other night, after the engines
left the scene of the fire, Mr.. Doyle, one of the
persons occupying one of the damaged houses,
returned home and found two men, said to be
members of the fire department rummaging in
one of his closets. He cleared them out and
afterwards found valuable meerschaum pipe
and dirk-knife missing. A day or two after he
pna n tbo nd
proceeded TO give him thorough trouncing,
and accomplished the.work very we'll A COM
paDion Of the punished man interfered to pro-
feet him, but in the "game that ensued" he
found that Doyle played a good right bower
from his coat sleeve, and the partners were badly
euchered.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
H. ?. Smith, the Meredith village dentist,
who committed an outrage on young lady
some time since, has not been heard from.
Hon. N. W. Cove, secretary of state, is con-
fined to his house by sickness. He has not been
able to be in his Office for the last two weeks.
The annual reunion of the alumni OF the
Nashua high school occurs in the City hall of
that city this evening. Colonel Z. o. Shepard,
of Boston, delivers the address, and Miss Sarah
M. Barker, of Nashua the poem.
Several boys in Nashua "built tn EN- house"
in Roby's lumber yard the other evening, using
heavy plank and joist, and while having a
grand Publication inside the heavy timbers fell
in upon them, breaking the collar bone of John
McQueeney, severely injuring George McDer-
mont and more or less injuring Others
The democrats of the New Hampshire legisia-
lure, it is reported have ascertained The price of
the labor reformers in the lower branch, and
finding it not above their means, have de-
cided to make the purchase. The position of
Judge Smith in the senate perplexes them He
cannot be bought or frightened, and it is not
yet certain that he can be coaxed 10 vote for the
party measure Of the democracy. If he remains
firm this session will be a short one. On the
other hand, should he prove pliabe, two or
three weeks will be required TO perfect the demo
cratic plans to help the party to secrre perma-
nent control of the state.
Hon. John H. Goodale, the newly elected sec
rotary of state, is a native Of Deering, where he
was born in 1876. He graduated at the Wes-
leyan university, in Connecticut, in 1910; after
ward taught in academies at the north and south
for number of years; was editor Of the Man
chester Democrat and Manchester American
from 1S4S TO 1860. Since then he has been an
extensive newspaper correspondent. in which
capacity he visited Alaska at the time of its