Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-20

~ Sarah of Boston, from Galveston for
D., before reported found abandoned at sea
WED into Halifax by the steamer Califor-
mad on board 600 bales of cotton, which is
.ued at $4,000, exclusive of the vessel, which
worth about $4,000 more. The salvage on
the property will amount 10 a large sum. Moth
inc has been heard from the crew, but there is
no doubt they were taken off by some vessel.
The debt of CharleStown, as appears from the
books Of the city treasurer, amounted March 1,
TO - liz, $3.50, divided as follows: Water bonds
ST ,172 900. city bonds, S6S9 900; temporary
loans and floating debt, SPAS, 54S 40, To offset
this the city sinking fund, with the amount
named in the appropriation this year, amounts
10 about $4,000.
There are 400 tons of cotton waste now in
store in Boston, one dealer having one lot of 300
tons-a sure investment of S54, 900. Seventy
five of the cotton mills that sent this stock to
Boston are the largest in the country, and ag-
gregate over seven tons of waste month Some
mills work all their waste directly into batting,
but as much of it is serviceable for better uses,
it is all certain dead loss to the corporation of
from ten to fifteen per cent.
A staging on chimney of the Ama rubber
factory, West RoXbury, gave way Friday fore
noon, carrying,with it four men. who were at
work upon it. Two of the men fell to the second
story of the building, and the Others TO the
ground, distance of sixty feet. One man,
ally driving his legs up into his body, smash
ing his hips and ribs, and killing him instantly.
He leaves wife and two small children. All
the other men were seriously injured, one hav-
ing leg and another an arm broken.
The Boston Journal says: "The arrest of two
individuals, charged with the embezzlement of
funds belonging to the Webster bank and the
NortL bank, is a step which ought to have been
taken some time ago, but is better late than new
er. If bank funds can be diverted even tempo
rarily from their legitimate channels and be
used by the employees of a bank, the confidence
in these institutions is impaired, and all bust
ness transactions with banks become uncertain
and unsafe. Its due TO the community and to
the honest managers of banks that these cases
should be treated in manner that will prevent
Others from initiating the pernicious examples
of Daniel and Pitman."
The firstmeeting of the creditors of Hartford
and Erie adiudged a bankrupt, was held in Bos-
ton, on Saturday. About fifty gentlemen were
present, and claims to the amount of about
100000 were presented. They represented
about forty different creditors. They were tenn
porarily objected to by the corporation of the
road, represented by Fred A. Lane, but after the
polls were closed and the vote for assignees was
in, all objection on the part of the corporation
was removed. The vote for assignees resulted
in the choice of Judge Charles S. Bradley of
Providence, K. l., Mayor Charles r. Chapman
Of Hartford, Ct, and George NJ. Barnard OF Bos-
ton. the vote was unanimous for Messrs. Brad
ley and Barnard, and Chapman received all but
one vote. Another meeting of the creditors is to
be held in Hartford, Conn.,, to-day, for which
many of the creditors at this meeting gave a
power of attorney, so that their claims could be
represented there. On the 9th, a meeting is
called to be held in New York city for the choice
of assignees. Although neither of the assignees
is from New York state, it is understood that
there is no objection TO them.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Calvin, Emerson and Clearly, the parties
charged with assault and rape, were before the
Lowell police court again on the 18th, and fur
ther ordered to be committed to jail, in default
of $1,000 bail, to the 18th. r. Pinkham, at
tending the girl, states thai lie would not bt
able TO appear at court for two ;eeks. Ferguson
the young Scotchman who was with the girl a
the time, is held in $1,000 as a witness. Having
been here but short time he is unable to givt
bonds and is compelled to lie in Jail.
An exchange says: 'Lowen has taken forcibl
possession OF the bodies of the three men VIII
were the first slain in the late war, and has pre-
ceeded to monument the victims in style
appears, however, that they had not the mos
distant connection with Lowell, belonged I
some remote New England locality, in fact, an
their bereaved relatives have in vaiN endeaYore
to secure the beloved dust from beneath the so
id monumental glory piled above it."
ESSEX COUNTY.
The body of Patrick Buckley, blacksmith
about thirty-five years of age, was found float
ing in the water at the foot of the canal in Law
renee, early on the morning of the 18th. HI
was seen about nine O'Clock the previous eve
ming very much in liquor. His hat was found
on the bank about one hundred yards above.
large barn belonging to Deacon Daniel
Saunders, at the South Side, Lawrence, was
burned on the evening Of the 17th. 1t contained
some fifteen tons of hay, a top buggy, and some
superior lumber. Loss about S14O0; insured at
Andover for $3.50.
Haverhill has mystery. -Four sailors, with
trunks and carpet bag, landed there the other
day in an open boat, set fire to the boat, watched
it until it was destroyed and then took the cars
for Portland. Nobody knows who the strangers
were, or whence they came.
The Danvers carpet company, owned princi-
pally in Newburyport, has capital of $500, 900,
S5O,OOO in working capital and $4,000 in real
estate and machinery. 1t has thirty dwelling
houses occupied by the operatives, besides the
factory building. A dividend has lust been paid
of five per cent; and in the six years since its
organization in 1865, it has paid, in regular div
idends, ninety-siX per cent on the capital. 1t
has reduced its real estate SO 900, and now has
a surplus of $4,000.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Machines called velocipedes have appeared in
the streets of New Bedford.
There were one hundred and fifty scholars at
the new drawing school on Thursday evening at
Fall River.
Elisha Hathaway of Taunton, while on a re-
cent visit to New Orleans, gave 81, 900 to found
a home for friendeSs colored people.
HAMPDES COUNTY.
j The Third National bank of Springfield has
for over half million of the new
loan, as substitutes for all other descriptions of
government bonds which they have been hold
ing.
4 r;ob yV,,.ea1l $4,000, -. =, 1910 - 2 .
waiting for some minutes at the Springfield toll
bridge the other day, while he quarreled with
the keeper because he wouldn't let him over at
half price.
The mangled remains of Mrs. john Whalen,
Killed on Thursday on the railway, near her
house at Huntington, were taken TO Springfield
and buried in the Catholic cemetery on Friday
The tobacco market is becoming more active
in Springfield and vicinity, quite number of
sales having been effected within the last ten
days. The buyers are just finding cut that the
crop of 1S70is not so defective as at first repre-
scented.
The Springfield Republican of Saturday says:
The close time for the taking and selling of
trout in this state expires with tomorrow The
weather has been SO mild Of late that the brooks
should be IN good state for angling and
doubtless there will be a good many out on
MONDAY. we reside where we did last year"
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
son, late of Springfield, is at his home i'm thar
town, in good health and sound mind and thar
his contemplated suicide was more the result Of
an affection Of the heart than of the head. a
Springfield girl having something to do with ii
A man named Henry Thomas, purporting To
have come from Rhode Island, stole two over.
coats, Thursday night, belonging to jurymen
who were stopping at the Pittsfeld boarding
house, and the next morning was brought be-
fore the district court and sentenced to the
county jail for two years.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Monterey, while neglecting to furnish any
place of safe keeping for the town funds, refus-
ed, at the recent town meeting, 10 make up to
The treasurer the S195, belonging to the town,
stolen from him.
The widow of Dr. James Deane, of "bird
track" fame, died last week, aged fifty-nine, and
was buried Wednesday, lie was the author of
many treatises on medical topics, and was the
discOverer Of the Cracks" in the Connecticut
valley, and also wrote comprehensive work on
the subject
MAINE,
The kennebec is now open 10 NAVIGATION
Maine citizens are contributing literally in aid
Of the destitute people of France
Frederick Bates OF Richmond will he one hmm.
dred years old on the 2Sd instant