Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-17
ltGiurttstcr Daily spn.
new England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


temporarily insane, fracturing one ankle anc
dislocating the other.
The ale trade of Boston last year footed w
2S2, 1856 barrels, and the lager beer trade 0S,O6t
barrels. The price paid by the retailers was
about,three millions of dollars, while the con
sumers probably paid from ten TO twelve mil
The Boston Herald has the following: Josh
Billings ought to have this secret, But he's a
little late and so we fix il up for him, as 8
contribution for his next "AllminaX." A couple
of uneducated but apparently well-to-do Boston
men, in active business, on Saturday last can't
together upon busy street corner, where for {
few minutes they had a red-hot chat over somI
trivial business matter. Tie pith of the thinl
was this: One had been doing something fol
the other, and 10 get even for his work had sem
in his bill, which was regarded as rather steep
After little savage and rather profane talk
the man who had done the work Strengthened
himself out and sugared the thing off into bi
of Josh" philosophy, and in very cool bu
dignifed manner said to him interrogatively
well, amt it better to be ID hog, anC
get good pay for what you do, than to be
good fellow and get kicked from pillar to postp
If that remark don't contain, in nutshell
the secret Of success in business, then wha
does?
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
At Lowell, the long-talked-of fire alarm tele
graph, just put up is complete and ready fol
operation.
The 'Iast spike" will be driven, and the first
train will be run into Lowell next Tuesday, on
the Lowell and birmingham railroad.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Thomas Steene, who was so terribly crushed
in the machine factory of Davis, Wiley Stone,
North AndOver on Tuesday, died on Saturday.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Christian Lopez, Portuguese sailor, died sud-
denly AT New Bedford on Tuesday.
barn in Fall River, owned by r. t. Fuller
and occupied by F. V. Kiaman, was burned
Tuesday.
The Scott centennial was celebrated at New
Bedford Tuesday evening, under the auspices of
the Burns club of that city, at the CITY Hall,
which was completely filled by select audience,
including delegation from the Caledonian club
of Taunton in full Highland costume. Mr..
Lindsey King president of the club Hon.
George Marston, Hon. E. L. Barney and others
made speeches, and music and song filed out
the exercises of the evening.
DUKES COUNTY.
The trustees of the camp meeting property at
Martha's Vineyard forbid the use of their
grounds for the temperance convention next
Sabbath.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A house belonging to James S. Morgan of
North WIlbraham, was burned Sunday after
noon while the family was absent. Loss $4,000.
The house was insured for $500 in the North
American of Philadelphia, and the furniture and
goods for $500 in the Republic
A Miss Warner, an employee of the Springfield
cork factory, had her scalp torn off on Tuesday
der the main shaft, when her hair caught and
was wound around it, which lifted her COM
pletely from the floor. The skin and hair on
the entire top of her head were torn off, making
q terrible wound.
The first of Pullman's palace cars, to run be-
tween Springfield and Montreal, arrived at the
former city, on Tuesday Eight of these cars,
costing nearly $4,000 each, have been and are
now building at ST. Adams, TO run between
Montreal and Boston, and on the line between
Springfield and Montreal.
Mr.. G. W. Bryant, of the Springfield Republi-
can, who accompanied the editorial excursion to
the region bordering on the Northern Pacific
railroad, arrived home on Tuesday night, hay
ing penetrated the British possessions as far
north as Fort Garry, on the Red river of the
north.
MAINE.
A Belfast man cut three tons of hay this sea.
son and got il all in on wheelbarrow.
At Portland on Tuesday night, a boat con-
tanning two young men was run down in the
harbot, and one, Charles A. Talridge, was
drowned. He leaves wife.
The Maine state election, three weeks from
Monday next, is so far certain in its result that
the people of that state take but very little in
terest in it, and the canvass has up to this time
been one of the quietest ever known. Each
party has popular candidate, but there have
been no efforts to stir up the people, and
small vote and an easy republican victory is an
ticipated. To relieve the monOtony of the cam
paign, ii has been proposed that the two candi-
dates stump the state together, but the weather
is rather warm for such work, and neither of
the candidates has taste for 1t.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mrs. Roberts of East Northwood is preaching
for the Kingston UnversaliSts.
Oliver Locke of Chelsea, Mass, native Of
Kingston, has given $1,000 to the Congregational
society at K.
James A. Mexican, a joiner, fell from barn,
in Lisbon, Monday, striking upon his head, and
was instantly killed He was about ffty-seyen
years of age.
Ayoung lad named Charles Knox, from Bos
ton, while playing near a circular saw in Suna-
pee, few days since, had his left hand badly
cut, and losing thumb and two fingers.
Henry Morse of Enfield attended Barnum's
show at Lebanon, was crowded against post,
while trying to buy ticket, had rib cracked,
and bis pocket-book, containing about SO, and
numerous papers, stolen.
The Canaan Reporter says a little son of Ralph
e. Dunbar, of Orange was found dead with his
head in pail of swill on Tuesday night. He
was about five years of age, and it is supposed
in passing it he fell in and was unable to extri-
cate himself
The members of the first New Hampshire
battery propose to have camp out for one
week at Rye Beach, leaving Manchester on the
learn something of the soldiers life.
A young son of Mr.. Thad. Perkins, of Ports
mouth, while climbing on the trunk rack of a
stage at Hampton, Tuesday, loosened the straps
and fell off, the heavy trunks falling on him.
He has died Of his injuries.
Miss Mary Rogers, wealthy and charitable
old lady of Portsmouth, died very suddenly
Tuesday night. She was stricken with paralysis
in the street, and lived few hours after being
taken home. Her age was seventy-fve. She
recently gave the land for the new North Yestry,
and the poor will miss her.
The Sea View house, Rye Beach, narrowly
escaped destruction by fire on Wednesday
morning. AT about two O'Clock the flames
were discovered in the servants, apartments,
but by the aid of fire extinguisher and willing
hands the fire was subdued without material
damage.
The Mirror says: If Gov, Weston takes his
whole "siaf' with him to Marblehead, when
he accompanies the Head guards on their jaunt
to that place, won't he produce sensation
just think of small commander-in-chief of a
small state with fifteen aidsl A general with
fifteen full grown colonels 1t will be the next
thing 10 the regiment of brigadiersl
A fair specimen of the stone from the Roxbury
granite quarry was brought into Keene, last
Thursday, consisting of a block of some fouI
feet square by six high, to be used for building
the soldiers monument. This specimen was es
timated to weigh about ten tons, and was drawn
by six yoke of oxen.
The Profile house had 425 guests on Sunday
last. This is the greatest number that this
house ever entertained at one time The travel for
the last three weeks has exceeded any previous
season at the White mountains, and the num-
Der of summer boarders scattered all through
the hamlets and villages of central and northern
New Hampshire is greatly in excess of former
years.
A Concord farmer and his wife, who had lost
all their children, were astenished 10 receive a
strange infant at their door a few days ago. On
examining the basket that had been thrust with
in the door they found all the articles in great
abundance that are usually considered indis-
pensable to complete the wardrobe of a high
born infant There was also a delicately per-
fumed note, written in a lady's hand. saving
that the child was well born, giving its age, and
particularly desiring thar ii should ne chrstened
by the name therein written. Italso gave aa rea-
son for leaving the child with the farmer and his
wife the TACT thai they had recently lost one of
about the same age, aud the writer believed II
would be more tenderly cared for by them than
Dy others who had not been similarly bereft.
Inc little waf has been taken unreseryedy into
the affections Of both the farmer and his wife,
~ much as II it were flesh of their flesh and
Done OF their bone. They have never taken any
hains W ascertain who its parents are, but they
Ihi,k ~ the chiid grows older they can see, grad
uaIy uessSplag in its face features peculiar to
AConcoio iailliy OF no mean pretensions.
VERMONT.
n"ih nas ueguh III earnest on the new rail.