Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-29
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and another badly injured.
MAINE,
The house of Mrs. Sullivan Wiley, in Frye
burg, was burned on Saturday. Loss 500. No
insurance.
A Mrs. sherman, from Rhode Island, was in
Bath Saturday 10 see if the unknown suicide
could be identified as her son. From all that
could be ascertained it seemed probable that
such was the fact. The family formerly lived
in Lincolnvile.
A correspondent states that at the circus bal
loon ascension at Skowhegan last Friday, a
horse attached to a carriage became frightened
and ran away, the thill of the vehicle striking a
lady, (whose name he could not learn) so Sc
yerely as to cause her death on the same day.
The engineers of the locomotives which came in
collision last week have been discharged bySuper-
intendent Lunt-one because he was running into
the city ahead of the schedule time, and the
other because he had no right according to the
rules of the road, to be on the main track after
q train had left Veazie on its way down.
The Bangor Wing publishes a full report Of
the evidence given at the examination OF Lowell
and Spencer on charge of setting fire to their
store in Bangor last Friday morning. 1t is
pretty conclusive against Spencer, who up to
Saturday night had not been able TO furnish bail
in the sum of $1,000.
The Lewiston Journal says the Bates mills
are now making per week 1900 pieces Of ging-
ham, each Of 40 yards. The mills also produce
5000 Quilts per week. They have 600 looms on
ginghams and cottonades, and 800 looms on i'm
perial cords and piques. There are also pro-
duced in the wooden department 300 yards per
day of beavers and 800 yards of repellents
1t is stated, on the best authority that eX-
Gov. Chamberlain will be elected president of
Bowdoin college at the next commencement,
without dissenting vote. 1t is thought he
will accept the position, though it is possible
that the conditions he will impose will be such
as cannot prudently be conceded.
The house of Charles Harmon of Saco was
br,nH on MI last Thursday v1iu The thieves
obtained hundred dollars and two watches.
They also entered the house of S. S. Mitchell
and some Others, but obtained nothing. In one
house these unwelccme visitors displayed their
sense of humor by leaving ten cents in derision
at the poverty they found prevailing there.
The house of Daniel Sullivan in South Ber-
wick and bowling alley close by, were COM
pletely destroyed by fire about four O'Clock Fri
day morning. Loss $500; insured for 5000. A
hundred dollars in money were burnt up in the
house. The house of George Grant, about thirty
feet from the one burnt, was saved, though
scorched on the outside.
correspondent mentions that a party of
three or four went out on the North Pond in
Smith6eld, Friday, in leaky boat to fish. 1t
soon began to fill with water; there was nothing
TO bail with and at once they made for the shore;
finding it beginning to sink, boy sprang into
the water and swan ashore. OF the others,
father and son were drowned. Their names and
residence the correspondent did not learn.
The Waterville Mail is vindictive. The
Spragues refusing to build a tiShway in their
dam at Augusta, it says:-"They are smacking
their lips over our salmon at Augusta, which
they stop at the dam and kill and eat. 1t would
be nothing more than righteous retribution if
they were choked by the bones" The Portland
Press responds:-"The wrathful editor should
reflect that tine Augusta people spoil the PhiliS-
tines on the upper kennebec by kind of divine
rightly virtue of their august name and me-
fropolitan destiny. We notice by the Kennebec
Journal that the motto of the class of1S72 in the
high school is Per augusta Gd augusta! Who
shall forbid such people as this to eat the sal
mon Of outside barbariansP
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Portsmouth Times calls for public baths.
Antrim has two hundred and lightweight
polls and valuation of SAT ,156.
james c. Stevens, of Colebrook, has planted
twenty-five acres of potatoes.
Mayor Adams of Portsmouth, at the insane
asylum, is reported no better.
A onelegged man amused the crowd in Lam
caster the other day by hopping half mile in
six and quarter minutes.
Messrs. John Lindsey and Whitney Thomp-
son, Of Lancaster, have purchased the staging
at the Glen house, paying $40 900 for it.
The champion palm leaf hat braider in New
Hampshire is girl who recently braided twenty
two hats in a single day. A dozen is considered
very good DAYS work.
The president of the Dover "fat mems club"
was measured for linen suit the other day,
and the result was a call for twenty-One yards
of the material, nine of which go for pants.
Much Indignation is expressed by the republi-
cans of Portsmouth at the proposition to dis
franchise that city in the legislature by sending
representatives from wards one and two home
on pretense of lack of votes. Probably peoples
tickets viii not be held in SO much favor there
after.
Mrs. Josephine NJ. Ellis, Of Milford, has con-
ulbnted the sum of one thousand dollars to
Dartmouth college for the purpose Of founding
a scholarship. The gift bears the name of her
husband, Rev. John NJ. Ellis, class of 1922.
Mr.. E. was formerly financial agent for the col
lege.
The thieves have become so bold in Keene that
nothing weighing less than half ton is safe.
One night last week stranger arrived at the
railroad station in that place, and while looking
for hack some scamp stole his trunk from the
platform.
The Coos county convention has voted to raise
tax of $4,000 for the expenses of the ensuing
year, which will leave about $4,000 to be applied
to eXtinguishing the debt An arrangement will
be made to fund the debt in such way as to
paw it in twelve years Bonds at six per cent
will be issued.
Du:ing last week forty barges arrived at
Burlington, bringing over five million feet of
lumber.
A Vermont paper amongst its list of accidents
speaks of ga child which was run over by
pantalets which never spoke afterwards"
Charles c. Dewey, prominent lawyer of Rut-
land, and member of the late council of CEN
sors, died at the Hartford retreat for the insane
Sunday.
George Buchanan, of Burlington, made an
unsuccessful attempt to stab his wife, Ellen, in
the street Friday evening" but she managed to
escape and enter the Van Ness house, where she
had obtained employment, having been obliged
TO leave him because of i'll treatment The man
Sod 20 Ia
tempts on her life, which he had threatened.
The saw mill in Ripton, owned by Daniel and
Harmon Burt, was on the night of the 18th in
slant consumed by fire, together with all the
machinery contained therein. The fire was ac-
cidental, and supposed to have arisen by heat
ing Of the boxes in the machinery. 1t was in
sured for $500.
Mr.. John Champlin, merchant at East Mid
dlebury, laboring under a species of insanity,
shot himself on the morning of the 22d. He
committed the deed while alone in the store
with pistol One ball went into his right ear
and lodged in his head, and the other hit him in
the forehead, and brusing the skull glanced
of and struck the floor over his head. When
found be was bleeding profusely and perfectly
sensible, remarking that "the job was poorly
done" At last accounts he was expected to re-
cover.
CONNECTICUT.
house in Andover, built in 1881 attracts
much attention from remarkably well kept
paper VA int Wills llldt mas Deen there since the
house was built, and cost one dollar per roll.
Edward Mitchell, of New Haven was found
dead at the foot Of the stairs leading to his
room, Monday morning, evidently having
caught his heel in the loose stair carpet in de-
scending during the night, and falling in such a
manner as TO break his neck. He was forty-ive
years old.
Last week quantity of cigars was sold in
New Haven at S2S per thousand. The tobacco
was raised in Connecticut and sent to California,
and there made into cigars by Cinnamon An
idea of "Chinese cheap labor" can be obtained
by consideration Of this item.
A special committee of the Hartford common
council has been investigating the accounts of
MIR. Eberle, clerk Of the police court, and find
deficiency Of S2350. The Courant saws that if
is probable the city attorney will take legal
measures against Eberle unless he makes up the
deficiency.
-Four men from New Haven went to Hunting
ton, Sunday, for the purpose of calling on the
wife Of Henry Curtiss. Mr.. Curtiss refused
them admission, and as they were rather too
demonstratiye he fired a revolver at them.
Charles Martin was wounded, and crawling
INTO the woods near by he died. His companions