Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-20
George Rust of walpole was nominated by ac-


remedies and careful management the animals
rapidly recover.
The Dover fire steamers in getting out to a,
false alarm of fire, Monday night, met with n
general smash-up, the drivers narrowly escaping
with their lives.
Rev. n. ID. Adams formerly of Dover, but at
present pastor of the Methodist church in Uni on
was stricken with paralysis while preaching III
his pulpit on Sunday last.
The Dover board of trade, at their annual
meeting, chose John Bracewcl, agent Of the Co
checo print works, president and Eli V. Brew
ster, Col. John L. Bickford and TheS. j: spar
ling, vice presidents. The committee on hnanc9,
consists of Charles A. Tufts, E. o. Foss and
| Andrew c. Chesley.
No information concerning the whereabouts
| or fate OF II. NJ. Perkins of Nashua, whoSt Dag
gage was found in the marsh near Worcester
Thanksgiving weeE, San be obtained. 1t IL a
| very mysterious affair.
George w. McCollom, Esq, ST New York, las
| offered 10 endow the state nfTmai schO@b on
| New Hampshire with $4,000 the fTst'year and
$4,000 for the three following years provided
| it Is located in his native town, Mount vernon"
On tile 18th, in Colebrook, Mr.. Ames Stevens
| sent his Ave children to school in Sleigh ana
II on the Journey the horse ran away and MT
| against post. One 81 the boys had leg frac--
i tured, and all were more or less hurt.
Plymouth secured the location OF the norman
| school by the offer of an academy building,
| boarding house, $4,000 for fepairs and appara-
| tuS, NlUUU annually llOih INK hioiAtNA oNhNS'
| fund, and S726e to be expended as the trustees
| may determine within the five years 1t IS eX-
| pccted the school viii he opened in the spring.
The labor relormers IN Grafton county, who
hardly put in an appearance last year, have
nominated Oliver w. Stevens of RumAey for
commissioner, Samuel P. Ford of Lisbon for
treasurer aud NJ Bass Of Plym9nth for register
Samuel Marble and William Mnrphy, charged
with being instrumental IN causing the death OF
Mrs. Marble, in PlaiStCw, a few weeks ago, nave
..ls IN
at Exeter, and their srial assigned for next
Monday.
On the 18th, in Rye, Mrs. eliza Remict was
badly burned by her clothes taking fire from
fireplace while she was standing with her back
toward it. Her burns are serious and her re-
covery is doubtful Mrs. r. is aged sixty.
The Portsmouth Times pronounceS the state
ment that Rev. Canon Walsh insulted the ma,
tron of the almshouse in that place as false, ana
adds: "The matrom and other inmates inter
fered with and insulted the priest while dis
charging bis duties to a dying girl who had sent
for him, and that he simply rebuked and re-
proved Them sternly and harshly, perhaps, but
no more than they deserved"
The Concord Monitor says that the election OF
United States Senator Wilson for fourth term
in Massachusetts, like that Of Senator Sumner,
gives that state more power than apy state IN
the union, and adduces this as an argument
why New Hampshire should do the same, ana
repudiate what has been termed the great
principle of rotation.
The residence of Rev. DR.. Delaney, at Hamp-
ton, was destroyed by fire on the evening of the
18th, together with its contents, including
library valued at $500, manuscripts etc. The
family were absent during the evening, and the
cause OF the fire is unknown. 1t was discovered
in the upper story, and the probability is that it
caught from defective fue. The loss is nearly
$4,000, and is only partially covered by insur-
ance. DIR. Delaney purchased the place from
the jeremiah Hobbs heirs about five years since,
and had made it very attractive country resi-
dence.
Curtis A. Wood, a school teacher in district
No 2, in Dudley, punished one of his pupils
named Erlow Kiblin, eighteen years old, on the
Nth The next morning, Kiblin, with his elder
brother Alfred, met Wood on his way to school,
and began violent assault on him. Wood
drew a revolver TO defend himself, which was
wrested from him by the Kiblins, who then Sc
verely pounded Wood. His cries of murder
brought help, and the parties were separated.
Writs have been issued for the arrest of the
Kiblins, who have escaped. They will undOubt-
eddy be arrested.
During the year Just closed the supreme court
of New Hampshire have had before them for
cons dation 3l3 applications for divorce, of
which number 222 have been decided by the
court These have been disposed of as follows:
One hundred and fifty-Seyen divorces have been
granted of which number 102 were upon the
complaint of the wife, and So upon the COM
plant of the husband SiXty-fve applications
for divorce, namely: 35 by the wife and 80 by the
husband, have been denied Nineiy-one cases
still remain upon the dockets, of which 50 are
applications OF the wife and 80 of the husband.
VERMONT.
The price of butter at the st. Adams market
last Tuesday ranged from % TO 80 cents.
Burlington is in alarm over a woman i'll
black" who knocks down policemen in her tor
his) nightly travels. Her "personelle" consists
Of dress, black cloak hood and mans pants.
Miss Julia Mead of Corinth seeks $4,000 dam
ages of Miller Richardson, wealthy widower,
for falling to keep his marriage promise. The
month.
Rutland ladies, having frequently been insuted
on the streets of late, provided themselves with
cayenne pepper, and some of the corner loafers
are troubled with sore eyes. The Herald advises
the ladies to proceed with their work of reforma-
ton, intimating that there is an excellent field
of operations there.
Conductor Bangs of the Vermont and Massa-
chusettS railroad, in taking the fare of John
Hunt of Vernon, few days SINCE was paid
$500 bill for five. Mr.. Bangs did not discover
the mistake until he took out the $500 bill to
pay it out in change, when two ciphers at
the right of the five caught his eye, and he was
somewhat astonished to find himself so rich.
He traced the bill back to the right owner, who
was also somewhat astonished to find he had
been so careless.
At Brandon, on the 18th, young man by
| name of Mcguire was stabbed by a man un-
known to him. About quarter of two in the
| morning Mcguire started for the depot to meet
friend from Castleton on the 2.09 train. He
| was accompanied by three friends, two walking
in advance of him. A little back of him was a
| man who seemed to be following. One of his
| companions in advance slackened a little and
| said, Look out, he wants to hit you" He
| turned TO the man and said "You won't hit me-
will youP He replied ono" but Immediately
struck him with knife, and then ran. 1t is
evident the villain intended more injury than
was inflicted, but owing to a thick overcoat
| dress coat, vest and underclothes, the passage
| of the knife was obstructed. Young Mcguire
| IS about twenty years old, and this crime cannot
be accounted for, as the man was a perfect
| stranger to him.
| CONNECTICUT.
| And now Waterbury has a haunted house eX-
| element. A family who attempted to move in
| the other day became so frightened they did not
| stop to get settled, but departed instantly
| Former occupants have found themselves in the
midst of the street in the middle of the night
without the least idea of how they got there
| etc , etc.
Mrs. Crosby, widow of the late D. P. Crosby
| of Hartford, died suddenly on Saturday, in New
| Haven. She had made arrangements with her
sister, the widow of the late DR.. VIM T. Lee to
reside IN New Haven, and had lately purchased
mouse tnere. she was visiting with friends in
that city last week, and returned on Wednesday
night in apparent good health She failed TO re-
| spond TO the breakfast call in the morning and
her friends becoming alarmed, went to her room
and found her lying on the floor, stricken with
paralysis. She lay unconscious until Saturday
morning, when she died.
| RHODE ISLAND.
| Most of the temperance restaurants in Provi-
dence, it is reported, are good property. Two
or three years ago, they would have been un-
| profitable. A moral revolution is being carried
on by the Temple of Honor, and restaurant
keepers are learning that temperance lis the
| test policy"
The Rev E. N. Harris, of Providence, well
| known in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as
j an earnest advocate of temperance, has depart
ed for professional labors in the vicinity of
Washington, d. c. His place in the Rhode Is.
land ranks of temperance reformers it will be
difficult to fill.
The Providence correspondent of the Boston
Journal writes; "Thus far there seems TO be no
movement toward change of the state admin
istration another year, and without doubt Gov.