Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-04
SAurtestrr Daily spp.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.


editor of the Sum- which faded out few days
ago, who answers to the name of George Russell
jackson, appeared in court to answer charge
made against him of assaulting Maurice Come
lius Mengis, the former proprietor OF said paper
The latter did not appear, VIII Their from excess
of chastisement or other ndispostion was not
stated, and the trial was postponed
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The new city government of Lowell, with Ed
ward F. Sherman as mayor, was installed on
Monday.
Lowell has one high, eight grammar and fifty
two primary schools, with eleven male and nine
ty-nine female teachers.
Lowell has no general sewerage system. Inc
sewers in use are in part old water courses, made
into covered drains, and other drains, made from
time to time, as Decessity demanded, but, gem
orally, with some regard TO certain distinct
sewerage systems.
At Lowell the police force consists of mar
shall, deputy marshal, and thirty-four men. The
marshal, deputy and six men constitute the day
force; and captain aud twenty-eight men the
night force. Two have been added TO the night
force during the past year. The marshal, IN his
annual report says that the labors of the de-
partment have been arduons. More arrests
have been made and more complaints investl-
gated than in any previous year. The number
not under arrest who have been lodged and pro-
vided with food at the station-house was l4S1 +,
being large increase over the number OF any
previous year. Most of these are young men.
They generally profess to be in search of work,
and being unsuccessful are overtaken by night
without means to pay for lodging or supper.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Springfield has now about IS 1-2 miles OF main
sewers of which 1888 feet were constructed in
the past year, at a cost Of S1l ,OO661. The
amount received by the city from persons enter
ing private drains into the CITY sewers was
SS015.
The address of the mayor of Springfield says
"The expenditures of the several departments
for the year 1870 were less than the appropra-
tons and receipts by the sum OF S4S6.66. This
result is especially noticeable for the reason that
II has so seldom occurred during the last few
years, A large part of the remaining city debt
Is traceahle to the fact that in previous years
the annual expenditures have been allowed 10
exceed the annual receipts"
The whole number of children enrolled in the
public schools of Springfield during the school
wear ending June 30th was 1919, an increase of
62 over the previous year, The average attend
ance was 3407, an increase of 2S4. The number
of scholars the present term is 1928, being nine
ty-three per cent of the whole number Of per-
sons of school age in the city, as returned by the
assessors.
The whole number of arrests made by the
Springfield police during the year was 97S. The
amount of stolen property recovered and re-
stored to the owners was s. 300. In every in
stance of the occurrence of a crime of sufficient
magnitude to attract personal attention the
offender has been arrested. Since the number of
the night and day watchmen was fixed by the
existing ordinance, new streets have been
opened and the avenues leading out of the city
have been built upon, so that the distance to be
patrolled by the police has been largely in
creased.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
N. B. Perkins, a one-legged soldier, was
thrown from wagon in Lebanon, on the 9th
ult and had his collar bone broken.
John O. Brien, boy of twelve years, has been
sentenced to the reform school for two and
half years for robbing the money drawer in the
restaurant at the Concord depot He had
cleaned it out several times before he was de-
tected.
On the 23d ult. in Laconia, Patrick O'Donnell
went TO reservoir TO get pail of water and
tumbled in, but found a stray bit of plank, to
which he chung for three-quarterS of an hour,
when he was found by Mr. Andrew Pickering
and hauled out next TO dead.
The receipts of the last Rockingham county
far warrant the payment of only AZ per cent of
the money premiums awarded. 1t is thought
that the present society will be abandoned and
new one formed, as many members of the soCe
ty favor such a course
A colt belonging to Mr.. T. W. Thompson, of
Concord, which broke away from a sleigh to
which he was attached, on Sunday, the 25th ult.
and ran away, had not been found on Saturday
last, although pursuit was made with another
horse within ten minutes after he escaped.
The Canaan Reporter learns thar John Sull-
van of that village came from his work on Tues
day night of last week, and for some real or fan
cied misdemeanor gave one of his boys severe
whipping. Shortly AFTER his two boys, about
eleven and fourteen years of age, seized John
and took him out doors, and after fastening his
hands behind him and tying a handkerchief
over his mouth for gag, took him to the barn
Z and hung him mp with rope around his neck.
His wife, going out to see what kept them so
long, found Sullivan in an insensible condition
and cut him down. The bows have disappeared
and bau hanu haar1 from II &c caid
that Sullivan was in the habit of beating his
boys frequently.
VERMONT.
Burlington has voted its credit to an amount
not exceeding $4,000 for the purpose Of extend
ing the city water works.
About 1900 tons of hay have been shipped
from Alburgh since Sept. /. The average price
delivered has been about $40 a ton.
The Lamoille Valley railroad Company have
settled the land damages for thirty miles, from
West Danville west, at an average of $3.50 pei
mile.
Last week a fire was discovered in the secreta
rvs room in the new building recently erected
by the Vermont mutual fire insurance compan!
at St. Adams, and before 1t could be eXtngulshe'
the room was SO badly damaged by fire, smok
and water as 70 require its entire internal re
construction.
TIE Rutland Herald says that Rev. Mr.. Dock
cry formerly of Connecticut, who has fallen 81
sadly from grace iet csla1ly called on Mont
peller woman whom he had formerly RTown
and after reading the Bible and praying witt
her, borrowed SIS of her hard earned savings
and left town, forgetting to pay her. His hab
OF lntoXication has ruined him.
Joseph Fisher, Of Colchester. was called on by
person who wished TO make him an agent fol
selling washing machine, and urged Mr. Fisher
TO write his name in a memorandum book, thai
he might have his address. Mr.. Fisher himself
being very reliable man, suspected no wrong
and did as requested. Recently he has received
notice from firm in Middlebury that they hold
his note for $3.50, and demanding payment, In
vestigation showed that this note was written
over the signature he had written in the memo
randum book, making the signature genuine
though the note was a swinde.
The Rutland Herald says: ''The death of an
unusual number of prominent citizens of OH
commonwealth, has given a mournful interest
to the past year, 1t was observed, long ago
that there are periods in history when many
men of marx cluster together; and il would
seem that there are also periods of gloom when
they seem to depart together On the early
morning of the last day of the closing year, af.
ter painful and lingering illness, another of
Nermonts most widely known and respected
citizens, passed from earthly scenes. Hon Ed.
win Hammond of MiddlebuTy at the age of sew.
enty years."
AT a large meeting of the citizens of Rutland,
a few days ago, held to consider the liquor ex.
element, the following resolution was intro
dueed aud warmly supported Resolved, that
as the hotel keepers closed their hotels of their
own accord-whie we know the value of good
hotel TO our town, the reputation and attraction
II gives it-much as we desire it, and gladly as
we would bail their reopening-yet we cannot
by any invitation of ours, as lovers of our race,
as question between simple right or of open
wrong, ASK them to undo what they have done
by any compromise between this right and This
wrong-so that if opened at all, they must be
opened as freely as they were shut, with the
sentiment of the wholesome effect of the pro
hibitory law, not only still cherished, but deep.
ened and strengthened by the experience Of the
past week"
CONNECTICUT.
During the past year there have been erected
in Hartford 254 buildings
The oldest man in New Haven, as far as known
is one Abram Heaton, aged ninety-four.
The mill operatives at Stafford have already
lost SAC, 900 by the drought
Egbert Pratt, OF Deep River, who was shot in
the hand recently, died last week. Friends have
raised $500 for his family.
The TalcOtt street church (colored) in Hart
ford was considerably damaged, Saturday after
noon, by fire, which caught from the furnace
The receipts for assessments in Hartford during
the past year, as returned to the internal revenue