Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-14
Saurtsstrr Daily spp.
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nosToN AND VICINITY.


II is said that Charles R. rhorne, Jr., is to be
the Romeo at the Globe on Monday night.
Mr. Koopmanschap and Ching Poo, his inter
prefer, will visit Boston in about a fortnight.
One lodge OF Odd Fellows has taken $4,000
of the stock in the new Boston Odd Fellows
building, at $40 share.
The house Of representatives will vote for
senator in congress- in place of Henry Wilson,
on Tuesday next at three O'Clock.
A section of the "0iginal Big Tree" of
Calaveras county, California, recently arrived in
Boston. The tree from which this section is
taken was cut in 1888, FIVE men worked twenty
Eve days in telling it, The stump smoothed
off now easily accommodates thirty-two dancers.
This tree, when standing, was three hundred
and two feet high (nearly hundred feet higher
than Bunker Hill monument or the spire of
Park street church,. From a section forty feet
long hotel was constructed. A saloon and
double bowling alley, more than eighty feet
long are built upon portion of the PROSTATE
trunk The bark was from fifteen inches to two feet
in thickness, and section was brought to New
York for the crystal palace. A portion was also
sent TO the crystal palace England, at the time
of the worlds exhibition. The estimated age
Of the ire was ahouttwenty-ive hundred years.
The weight of this section, at thirty feet from
the ground, is eight thousand pounds, its diam
eter nearly sixteen feet, and circumference forty
six feet Il is the only section of the solid wood
of the tree ever brought from California.
1t was found that the waste on the high
service in Roxbury and Beacon Hill on Wednes-
day night, between A. NJ. and s A. NJ. on
Thursday, was nearly 100000 gallons. This
fact justified the board in shutting off the water
at night The water board having determined
TO cut of the water supply from various estab-
hshments, ii at once becomes matter of inter
est to know to whom the restriction will apply
IL is stated that there are in Boston about two
hundred and fifty manufactures of different
kinds which use large quantities and have the
same guaged by meter These will be the first
to suffer deprivation. If, after these, it becomes
necessary still further to restrict the use of
water, large buildings not used for domestic
purposes, such as those containing numerous
offices, water-closets, public lighthouses, steam
engines, steamboats,, railroads, buildings in
process of e ection where mortar is made on the
premises, ETC., will have to suffer. The water
now on hand will last, at the present rate of
consumption, about fortnight.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Newburyport public library contains 49,
261 volumes.
One of the waste houses of the Pemberton
mill and the residence of Mrs. Chas. Webster in
Lawrence was fired on Wednesday night, but
the Ore was extinsuished before any damage
was done.
Great numbers are enjoying the skating on
the Merrimack. 4 party of the Young ladies
and gentlemen of the Lawrence high school
skated TO Lowell, nine miles, on Wednesday af-
ternoon.
Deputy State Constable Norcross made seiz.
nres Of liquors on Wednesday and Thursday
afternoon from the stores of Owen Gallagher.
John 7. Arlin, Michael Mulcahey, BENJAMIN r.
Goddard and Charles W. Cheney, in Lowell
A petition to the general court is in circula-
ton and has received numerous signatures. ask
ing for the adjustment of the Gloucester police
court and the establishment of a new court with
enlarged jurisdiction, to include many cases that
now 60 TO the superior court
Beniaman Davis, Esq, of Newburyport, died
IT,
years he was engaged in ship-building in thai
city. he bad been British consular agent for
that port for many years and also alderman in
1868.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The widow Of George F. Bradley, of Lee, pro-
poses to contest his will, by which he left his
property, about S95, 900, to his children. giving
her the use of it so long as she remained widow
and no longer.
Max Houston, young man of Pittsfeld, was
drowned IN Silver Lake on Saturday evening by
skating into hole where workmen had been
cutting ice He was seventeen years old and was
the only son OF widowed mother, without any
other relative in this country.
The former proprietor of an old Pittsfield
newspaper, long since extinct, has a curious
history. Imbued with love of adventure, and
heavily in debt, he left Berkshire in 1s49 for
California. From there he drifted into the Pa
cine seas, and with comrade was taken prison.
er at some Australasian island His companion
was eaten, while he, more fortunate, attracted
the attention of a handsome island girl, and
was married after the New Zealand fashion, and
two children were the fruit of their union
After number of years the love of country re-
called him, and finding some way of escape. he
appeared on the Atlantic coast in 1859. after ten
years absence. Philadelphia became his home.
and returning to his old trade he continued
there until the war broke out, when he went to
washington In the government service. He still
lives.
MAINE.
A man in Durham recently lost valuable
COW, she having swallowed darning-needle.
The Bates street Universalist society at Lewis
ton nave secured the servi es Of Rev. j. H. Amies
for another year.
The only officer lost on board the Saginaw
who belonged in Maine, so far as is known. was
the mate, George H. Robinson.
Or, +. A. Irish, of lewiston, has given bail of
$1,000 TO appear before the supreme judicial court
ton.
Mr.. G. o. Freeman, late of Lewiston, a gradu-
ate OF Bates college, died recently at Polo Hi
nois. His body has been brought home and
was inferred, Wednesday, at Minot Corner.
William Spaul, belonging to New Brunswick,
was instantly killed in the woods about six
miles from Houlton, on the I'd inst, by the fall
ing of dead stub upon him.
A constant stream of teams, loaded with rail-
road sleepers, continues TO pass through the
sire 'ts Of Houlton, on their way TO the depot,
from which they are sent by rail TO ST. Andrews
and there shipped 10 Boston.
The Aroostook Times says the reeeipts OF GUS
toms has been gradually increasing since the
new district was made, The receipts for the
past quarter were about $4,000.
DR.. D. T. Weston Of Bangor, S. L. Goodale of
Saco, and Joseph PerciYal of Wateryille. have
been chosen commissioners on the new cattle dis
ease.
harpsweu correspondent says a barn, be-
longing 10 James Alexander, in that town. was
destroyed on the morning of the ath. The
farming tools and hay were also destroyed, but
the cattle were saved. 1t was discovered that
the oxen had been MANNED with an axe. There
cendiary.
The Norway Messenger says last Sunday was
the coolest day Of the season. In Norway the
thermometer indicated 20 below zero, at South
Paris ", while at Fryeburg on the same day the
mercury fell TO 81.
A fellow in Bangor, named John Mcdonald,
VINO mas recently been released from Jail, for lar.
ceny from clothes lines, eloped Tuesday with
the wife Of his neighbor, James Mccoy.
letter was received Tuesday at the Banqor
post Office, from the dead letter Office which ,0as
mailed at Bangor, Dec 81, 1866 Ii YVES directed
and sent to California city, and lis where
aoouts for the past five years remain a matter
OF conjecture. The letter contained the photo
graph OF gentem9.n, but the original had
recognizable, '
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Rollinsford has organized farmers club.
After a protracted session of two days, the
trustees of the state normal school have located
the institution at Plymouth.
On the 18th Martin Shaw, employed in the
wooden mills at Franklin, was caught on a shaft
and fatally injured. He was about thirty years
of age, and leaves wife and child.
n. 7. Greenwood is the republican candidate
for senator in the eleventh district.
The following republican nominations for
Cheshire county have been made: County com
missioner, John Humphrey; register of deeds, j.
J. Allen, Jr; treasurer, Daniel K. Healy-ali of
Keene.
Rev. Edward Buxton, of Webster, is now the
Oldest settled Congregational Clergyman in the
state. Rev. Cyrus W. Wallace, Of Manchester,
stands next.
The seventh annual ball and festival of the
fire steamers Gov. Hill and Kearsarge of Com
cord, was held at Phenix hall last evening. and
was the greatest social event in Concord for the
season
A dispatch to the Boston Herald SAYS the
democrats Of Portsmouth returned from the
convention crest fallen at the defeat of their
candidate for governor. 1t is all the same in the
end.