Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-15
Gdlurtrster 4afIp Spp.
New RnaIand News summary.

visit to the Pacific coast. ,., .,
The Boston and Albany railroad is going 10
let the Pullman cars come into Boston hIsl ny
wav of Canada and the Eastern railroad.
Scollay's building, one of Bostons old land
marks has been sold at auction, and is 10 DE re-
moved within thirty days 10 make way Tor street
improvements.
William w. Dow and Albert Tenney have
each been sentenced to two years imprisonment, |
at Boston, for circulating counterfeit fifty cent
currency. -
will embrace many of his personal literary eX-
periences with Dickens, Thackeray, Hawthorne,
ETC., some of which will be very amusing.
An order was offered in the Boston common
council the other evening for the purchase OF
several estates for the enlargement of Orchard
park at the Highlands.
There was shower of petitions offered in the
common council this week, bearing probably
fifteen hundred names or more, asking that the
East Boston ferries be made free.
Dr. Howe left Washington for home on We'd
nesday, taking with him for translation some
Spanish documents which are to appear in the
voluminous appendix to the report OF the San
Domingo commissioners.
The Christian register association will have
reception at the Commonwealth hotel, Boston,
next Wednesday afternoon, on the occasion OF
the fftieth anniversary of the publication of the
Christian Register.
the gentlemanly doorkeeper of the house ofrep- |
resentatives, as postmaster at Stoneham, is a |
well deserved recognition of his services as a |
soldier during the war and the esteem in which
he is held by his townsmen.
Boston has another holly-tree coffee house.
Rev. W. p Tilden has established it on fremont
street. near the Metropolitan car stables. EX-
ternally it closely resembles the Cambridge
street coffee house, and it bids fair to be equally
successful
The Congregational library association has
bought the Somerset club house property at
Boston, for S146 900, and the club has bought
the David Sears property on Beacon street for
$4,000, and will there have one of the most
elegant club houses in the country.
Cough gave one of his most characteristic
temperance lectures, Wednesday night, to the
depraved and dissolu:e denzens of North street,
Boston, and induced good many of them
TO sign the pledge and promise to lead ibetter
lives.
A tender-hearted humanitarian at Boston,
whose feelings were touched on overhearing a
prisoner at the stationhouse sing Home, Sweet
Home" tried to have him released. His sym
pathy suddenly cooled, however, when he learned
that the fellow was imprisoned for beating his
wife and kicking her ont of doors.
The new National bank of the commonwealth
of Boston has organized, and L. G. Sherman,
for many years bank president at Plymouth,
is put at its head, with John G. Eddy as cashier
The bank has $500 900 capital and a circulation
of $3.50, 600 has been obtained by the surrender
in its favor of a like amount by one of the old
banks of the city.
The Boston Journal says: Company D, First
Battalion M. v. NJ, refused to consider the
proposition of the Montgomery Guards to drill
for $500 side, the company not wishing to be
classed in the same category with sports, or TO
lower the military standard to that of horse or
boat racing"
1t will be a tough fight when the Bostons and
the 0lympics of Washington come together.
Both nnes are already well trained, and the first
game will probably show as great degree of
skill and proficiency as clubs generally exhibit
late in the season. The two parties will enter
the field both determined to win, and to see the
game will be worth visit to Washington on the
4th of May.
VIM. Harris the English forger who was ar
rested on board the steamer Tripoli, in February
last, by Boston officers at the instance of the po-
lice constablery, and who was extradited about
month ago, was arraigued before the crown
court of St. Austell parish, England, on the ODD
ofMarch, pleaded guilty to four cases of forgery,
and was sentenced TO seven years of penal servi-
tude.
The Boston Advertiser says 1.-THE WaYerly
Advocate says there is an inveterate newspaper
reader in that village, who marks a column with
pencil when he reads it, so that he shall not
read it again. A worse story is told of a law
student in this city. He was reading Kent very
assiduously and used book-mark to indicate
each day how far he advanced. His FELLOWSHIP
dent secretly changed the place of the mark, so
that he read the same paragraph over for ten
successive days without discovering anything
wrong. He finally remarked that Kent seemed
the laugh of some of his companions revealed
the imposition they had played upon him."
Georgetown man. who lost S25 by sending
il to New York swindler, who promised to send
him undetectable counterfeit money, applied to
the special agent of the post-office department
at New York for assistance in getting back his
money. The agent replied, tartly: 81 not only
refuse to give you the least assistance in the
matter, but am sorry you have bought your
experience so cheaply, and sincerely wish that
instead of $25 you had been swindled out of
every cent you possess in the same manner. l |
hope you will continue TO send all the money |
these rascals ask from you, and that when at
last you are driven to stealing funds for the pur
chase Of counterfeit money, you will be caught
in the act and be sent to the state prison, where
you evidently belong l return the ten cents,
and advise you to invest in a cheap copy of the
ten commandments, and study the one which
refers to stealing"
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
William c. Childs, of Groton, has been SEN
fenced to six months imprisonment, and to pay
fine Of $1,000 for failing to procure govern
ment license, which would have cost him S25.
The editor of the Lowell Courier longs for the
time when the eurbstone operas shall be timer
ant in that city, and especially for the hour
when the sound of the grinding shall be low
on his corner.
memorial hall has just been completed in
Lexington in commemoration of the battle of
Lexington, on the 18th of April, 1875, and it
will be dedicated on the anniversary of that
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50 by 5S feet, two stories high and surmOunted
by Louvre roof. The first story contains |
apartments for town officials, various statues, |
tablets, etc., some of which are the work of |
Patterson, of Hartford The second story is |
for an audience hall, with stare and ante rooms; |
and the roof is subdvided into halls etc, to be |
occupied by the Masonic fraternity. The cost |
OF the building was about $4,000.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The semi centennial of the Essex institute will |
be celebrated in Salem April 81
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The trials of John Moran fer the murder of |
Officer Packard at Stoughton on the 18th of |
September last, and OF Dennis Carney for the |
murder Of his wife also at Stoughton on the |
same day, have been assigned for Tuesday the |
2Sd of May, before the supreme court. Hon. P.
K. Quincy will appear as counsel for AOran, and
Hon. Edward Avery for Carney.
DUKES COUNTY.
A correspondent of the New Bedford Standard |
writing from Vineyard Grove, mentions forty
three new cottages that have been erected at the
camp ground since last season. Thirty-three
more are under contract, and fifteen are to be |
Dult on the highlands. The Vineyard Grove |
house has been open all winter and now three
stores are open 1t is expected that the sum
mer residents will come in earlier this season |
than ever before.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
Every herring that was seen in the vicinity of |
6andwich, a day or two ago, was captured |
1nere was one OF him, but it took pretty nearly |
ail lAe Town 10 make the haul.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY
Six weeks ago Charles Stedman of Tyrng |
ham dreamed three times that his little son was
ACCIDENTALLY scalded to death, and as he had al |
Ieady lost three children, the dream made a
deep impression on him, and great care was
taken by the family that it should not come TO
pass. But on Monday week it was literally full
filed.
MAINE.
Lewiston's new mayor, Mr.. Garcelon, has stir
red the wrath of the temperance folks by re-
buking a police officer for Selling liquor in
transitu, and directing that no more such seiz-
ures be made.
A boy twelve wears old while at play, recent
ly, in Watervle, ran bone into his foot and
died the next day of lock-jaw
wealthy New Yorker named Law is going
TO invest 100000 in a mill at Augusta for max
ing paper pulp of poplar
a drunken man at Lewiston, the other night,
pushed ons over over ana injured Mrs. Day, with vile
intent, frightening her so that for time she was
insane. ~