Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-28
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New EnaIand News summary.

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New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Boston paper says: Zone Of our leading
city architects is confident that in less than
twenty years all buildings here will be built of
brick, stone and iron. Timber is growing each
year relatively scarce and high"
There is coal enough in the yards OF Boston
to last the people until the last of May, and il
the weather ssill holds mild, even longer. small
supplies of anthracite from various points are
constantly arriving, and there seems to be no
good reason why coal should sell TINS season in
that city above SO per ton.
In an article on the tanning business, the
Commercial Bulletin says: "a large amount Of
Boston capital is now invested in tanneries in
PENNSYLVANIA, New York and Maine, where
bark is plenty and is worth about S4 per cord.
1t is claimed that on rough leather it is cheaper
to send the hides to the bark, and then do the
tanning, than it is to bring the bark to the
hides
At Boston, the prospects for good trade in
sugar the coming summer are very fiattering.
The stock of old sugar has seldom been so well
cleaned out as now. The stock on hand March
1, 1871, was 2446 hogsheads, 1864 boxes against
1900 hogsheads, 220O boxes March /, 1870.
The amount now stored at Boston wharf, where
about nne-tenths of the sugar and molasses for
that market are held, is 1851 hogsheads, 1000
boxes, and 800 bags of sugar, and 1855 tierces of
in store at that place $4,000 hogsheads and 5000
boxes. The Boston wharf has water accommo-
dOtions for forty vessels, and in busy seasons
twenty-nine have been discharged in one day.
A preliminary convention of delegates of
Catholic temperance societies of Massachusetts
was held at Boston Sunday afternoon at the
rooms OF the st. James young mems total alb
stinence society. The proceedings of the meet
ing were preparatory merely to the work OF the
larger public convention which is to be held in
Boston on the 30th of May, and consisted main
ly OF the appointment of a committee of one
from each society represented to draw up a con-
stitution for the state organization to be sub
mitted to that convention. In the larger con-
vention all the temperance societies of the state
are expected to be represented, each being en-
titled to five delegates. The call for the public
convention declares in the preamble that "the
rapid increase of intemperance IN this state,
and, in fact, throughout the whole nation, de.
mands that some active measures be adopted tO
destroy its power and TO revive the great and
noble cause of temperance" and accordingly, as
the means most likely to accomplish the object
in view, the delegates of the different Catholic
temperance societies of Boston, with the APP
proval OF the right reverend bishops of Boston
and Springfield, and of their respective pastors
call on the various Catholic temperance socie.
ties Of the state of Massachusetts to send dele
gates to a convention to be held on the date be.
fore mentioned.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Irish residents of Lawrence gave most
enthusiastic reception on Saturday evening to
Gen. Thomas +. Bourke, the distinguished Fe-
MAN exile, who was sentenced 10 death in the
identical dock where Emmett stood to receive
his sentence. Gen. B1urke, after languishing
for a long time in British prison, was released.
All Of the Irish societies. numbering several
hundred men, with three bands of music
marched to the Franklin house and received
their guest in a barouche, and escorted him
through the principal streets to the city hall. A
national salute was fired on the common during
the progress of the procession. The chief mar
shal was Capt. Timothy Deacy, formerly of the
Ninth Massachusetts, regiment, who afterward
was rescued from the prisoners van" at Man.
chester, England.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Rev. DR.. West, of New Bedford once heard
that his choir would refuse to sing on the next
Sunday. When the day came he gave out the
hymn: Come we who love the Lord" After
reading it through he looked up very emphati-
cally at the choir, and said: you will begin at
the second verse, Let those refuse to sing who
never knew our God.'" The choir sang.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Seventy-three persons spent one day and one
night fishing at Ashley's pond this week, and
caught one dase and one trout. None of these
want their names mentioned.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A citizen of Amherst has imported dozen
N.
his fellOw-citzens are building up bright pros
poets of immunity from bugs.
South Hadley expended S37 ,944 last year, aud
starts the new fiscal one with a clear balance of
$10S9 in the treasury.
MAINE
The Portland Press has the following: "a
Maine correspondent of the Norfolk Journal,
democratic paper, trusting that distance may
give his misstatements exemption from danger
of contradiction, takes the most gloomy view OF
the condition OF things in this state, due to rad
ical rule of course. This jeremiah of ours
rather gives the impression to his Virginia SYM
pathizers that Maine is now chiefly desert
waste, and that Peol Sockabasin or some other
aboriginal genius will soon be found sitting on
the steps Of the debris Of the Augusta house,
sketching the ruins of the capitol. There is I'M
doubtedly some distress in Maine at the present
time but there is as little as at any period since
it became state, and as little, we believe, as in
any state in the Union"
few days ago barn on the premises of
John McAlpine, in VIM, was destroyed by fire,
with most of its contents, including a horse,
wagon, harnesses, farming tools, and a number
of tons OF hay. A heifer in the barn was gOs
out and saved. Mr.. McAlpine was away at the
time, and it is supposed the fire took from a
spark from the house chimney, as the wind was
blowing from that direction. The loss is esti-
mated at $500, on which there was $500 insur-
ance.
The Union state temperance league, state
convention of which was to be held in Merden
on the 10Th of this month, finding it impossible
TO secure as large a representation at that early
date as is desirable, shave concluded to postpone
the convention for while.
Rev. Sherman Barnes, Methodist preacher
in Redding, died suddenly last week. He was
on his way to call upon a neighbor, when be
fell in the road and Immediately expired Heart
disease was the cause of his death. He was
about fifty years old, and had been settled in
Redding four years.
When the board of selectmen were in session
last week in East Bridgeport making new voters
one man was brought before them who plainly
avowed that he couldn't read. This honest CON
fession somewhat dumbfounded the board, when
the urbane clerk beseechingly asked the afore-
said individual if he didn't think he could learn
by Saturday afternoon"
A clerk in Mr.. Frederick Boardman's drug
store, New Milford, committed suicide Thursday
by shooting himself with pistol Mr.. Board
man was absent from the store at the time, and
upon returning to it from dinner found it closed
and the clerk gone He was subsequently found
in the attic of the building in dying condition,
and about four O'Clock in the afternoon he ex-
pired. He had fired pistol shot through his
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