Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-25
New England Dispatches.
Fatal Result of n FaIl-AnnuRI Gather
ing OF the Woman Suffrage Convention
nj Boston, etc.


MASSACHUSETTS,.
BoSTON, Jan. 24.-GeOrge 7. Field, Il respect
cd citizen, who fell down q vessels hold, Mon
day, has since died of his injuries.
A dwelling at City Point, South Boston, occu-
pied by j. G. Weston, was burned to-day; loss,
$500.
The annual meeting of the Massachusetts
woman's suffrage association was held in Ire
mont Temple to-day. Mrs. Blackwell was chosen
president. Letters were read expressing synpa'
thy with the cause from Gov Clafin, Grace
Greenwood and Others, expressing regrets at
their necessary absence. The following is the
governors letter;
BosToN, Jan. 90, 1871.
Ladies' 6rd Gentlemen, have your note re-
| qucsting me TO attend your convention tG'Ip2r-
row, and to take part in its deliberations Ny
| engagements are such that shall be obliged to
| decline your invitation, but in doing so allow
INC to express my sympathy with the cause you
! represent, and also to ask you 10 accept my
| thanks for your kind invitation.
With great respect am, yours truly
WILLIAM CLAFLtNI
The afternoon session of the woman suffrage
convention was better attended, The old board
of officers was reelected, with the exception
| that Rev James Freeman Clarke was substituted
fol- president, id place of Julia Ward Howe! II
was stated that Mr. Clarke wds absent from ini
| disposition. VIM. s. Robinson, from the com
mittee on the subject read a memorial, pre-
| pared for presentation to the legislature. 1t re-
| cites the usual arguments in favor of suffrage,
and emphasizes the fact that there is nothing
| in the constitution to prohibit women holding
office, under the state and the fact that they are
actually officers in certain departments, and
| have been recognized as such in legislative en-
| actments,
The Committee on resolutions reported
series. That the exclusion Of one'half the tax
payers and law abiding citizens from voice in
making the laws, because they are wonlcti, is q
violation of the fundamental principles of repub-
| lican government; that the present unjust laws,
| which Cypress the wife and mother, are dis
grace to civilization, and should be amended;
thanking Governor Clafln for the aid he has
| given TO the cause i'll his recent message; app
pealing to each of the political parties, by name
to adopt women suffrage, as part of their
| platform, and appealing to congress for suffrage
for woman in the territories and in the District
| of Columbia, and also the submission of six
tenth amendment to the federal constitution
prohibiting political distinction on account of
| sex.
Stephen S. Foster offered an amendment to
the resolution thanking the governor, regretting
| that that official had not gone farther and
| recommended the adoption of woman suffrage.
This gave rise to considerable discussion, in
which Mr.. Foster and the president, Lucy Stone,
had quite lively tilt. The lady said it was the
first opportunity they ever had of thanking any
| governor and she wished to improve it. The
| amendment and resolution were finally adopted,
but, the president being still dissatisfied after
wards put the original resolution, eXcusing the
liberty she took by referring to her gray hairs
| in the cause" and that was also carried. Ste
| phen S. Foster then introduced a supplementary
| resolution, denying the right of people who OPP
| posed the woman suffrage movement to call
| themselves Christians, which brought an oppo-
| ncnt to the platform, who in a rambling, but
| sharp, speech, of half an hour, opposed the
| whole movement. After an answer to this
| speaker by Mrs. Green, of Philadelphia, the af-
| ternoOn session adjourned.
| The evening session brought out very small,
| but select, audience. Lucy Stone still occupied
the chair. Rev Gilbert Haven was the first
| speaker. His address was principally taken up
| with review of history, in which he showed
the prominent part taken by woman in govern
| ing the world. Hon. r. c. Pitman was next in
| troduced. He said that with many of the
| grounds on which woman suffrage was adyo-
Gated he had no sympathy, and at them he felt
| inclined TO smile. He did not think it was
a right, like life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
| piness. Neither did he think that, on the
whole, women wereIa great deal better than men.
! The reason which he advocated was because
! it's, in the present time, necessity OF the state.
3, Atheism was one of the dangers of the
country, and he was confident that the
women would sustain a large and tolerant
| Christianity. II women were to become maScu-
line by giving them the ballot, he should not
| advocated it; but they would bring, and keep, in
! politics peculiar feminine element.
Lucy Stone advocated the movement in
short address.
Stephen S. Foster moved that a committee of
three be appointed TO present to the central com
mlttees OF the republican and labor parties the
same memorial which was presented to the last
republican and democratic conventions. The
| resolution was adopted and the committee APP
| pointed, after which the meeting adjourned.
The billiard game between Dion and Daniels,
| three ball French carom game, 800 points up,
for $500, was won by Dion. Score, Dion 800,
Daniels 1871.
SPRINGFIELD, Jan. A.-The freight locomo-
tive Russell exploded her boiler near Hinsdae,
on the Boston and Albany railroad, last night,
scalding five men, two of whom, Engineer H. A.
Stoddard and Joseph H. EustiCe, both of this
city, have since died.
MAINE.
LEWISTON, Jan. 24.-MOnday morning the
| farm buildings, consisting of house, three barns
and out-buildings Of H. X. Wheeler of Weld,
were burned. There were also burned about
| twenty-nine head of cattle and seventy-ive
sheep, with large quantity of hay and grain.
| Loss about $4,000, on which is some insurance.
| NEW HAMPSHIRE.
| PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 24.-Albert Chamberlain,
a well known city eXpressman who was seri-
| ously injured by being thrown down and dragged
by his horse, on Monday, at the depot, is doing
WE'LL His wagon, with a load Of 1900 pounds,
passed over his body lengthwise.
| Miss Mary Sherburne, an old lady of eighty
seyen living in the outskirts Of the city, fell in
| her yard on Sunday, and laid an hour or two
| before being found. Her ankle and hip were
badly injured in the fall, and both her hands
were frozen as she lay. She is the daugher of
| the late Col Samuel Sherburne and draws a
pension. After receiving $50 a few days since it
was picked from her pocket, but her friends
made up the loss.
HANOVER Jan. 24.-On Mount Washington
Monday the velocity of the wind was ninety
miles per hour. The continuance of such a
wind, with a temperature of forty degrees
below zero, is unknown in meteorological records,
even within the arctic circle. 1t is doubtful if a
civilized being ever witnessed such terrible
| gale
MOUNT WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-The velocity
| Of the wind at seven p. NJ. was twentynine
miles per hour. 1t has been showing a little all
| day, but the flakes arc very small. The clouds
are not SO dense as usual, yet we can see only a
short distance. Last night there was almost a
| perfect calm.
| CONNECTICUT.
| NEW HAVEN, Jan. 24-rhe democrats to-day
nominated John Kendrick, of Waterbury, for
congressman for the I'd district.