Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-24
Gaurtester aaiIp SPY.
new EngIand News summary.

of the tIlODe LnCnLrc, mas Oeen tlHdGeu Us JUST
ness manager of the Boston theatre.
The gross expenditures of all kinds incurred
by the city of Boston, on account OF the south
ern rebellion, amount to 4,2S9, 1880; the re-
ceipts, 81 1904 214.90 Net war expenses, $780,
S6S,61
The number of deaths in Boston for the week
ending July D was 166, Of which 20 were by
consumption and 55 by cholera infantum; ~
were under year of age and II from TO D; 90
were of American and 40 of foreign parentage.
Mr.. Thomas II. Brewer, of Cambridge, has IN
his possession a colt about week old only twen-
~ three inches high, twentt,nlNs inches long
and weighs twenty-seven pounds. The dam is
eight years old and weighs 249 pounds, and the
weight of the site is $50 pounds.
A boston paper says: "A mammoth cod, the
father OF many generations, perfect leyiathan
of the deep, and the largest one ever brought
to this MARKET measured ms length on the
counter of Joel Foster, in +. III, market, this
week He was caught on the Middle Bank, and
weighed over one hundred pounds. This mon
ster was the center of attraction to all who
passed through the market, and made the ten
and twelve Founders look like exceedingly
small fry.
steamer which arrived at Boston early last
week, from Norfolk, Va, brought seven thou-
sand watermelons to this market, with quite q
variety of other produce and fruit. Melons will
be very plenty this season, and the variety
known as the GYPSY" raised in Georgia, is
said TO possess superior qualities and is having
received at Boston this season, and are being
rapidly sold and distributed TO all sections of
the state.
The Commercial Bulletin says: "The market
is now well supplied with blucbeffies, the bulk
of the supplies thus far coming rom New
Hampshire AT least two hundred aid hfty
bushels per day are now received here, beng
put up mostly in quart boxes, and selling on an
week they will commence to come in bulk. The
bushes in this section are loaded down with ber-
ries, and a good smart shower, with day or
two Of hot sun, will ripen them off and bring
them forward in great abundance. Blackber-
ries are, thus far, mostly received from New
York, natives not being ripe, but the yield prom
Uses to be large
In Boston harbor there are beddcd at least
10000 bushels of oysters, which is not near as
many as were put down last season, though at
Cambridge and Dorchester there are several
hundred thousand bushels more. The extreme
hot weather of late has materially interfered
with the demand from the country, and the
supply will be all sufficient to last over until
the vessels begin to run south again for a fresh
supply, which is generally about the first of
November About two hundred men are now
employed in Shocking" them out at the differ
ent oyster houses along Commercial street and
on the wharyeS, and about one hundred bushels
per day are disposed of at the wholesale price of
S1.60 per gallon.
The following is the latest style of reporting
boat race as actually given in Boston paper:
"Tbe start which was admirable, was made at
thrty-two minutes past five O'Clock. The
Browns, who had the inside way, pushed for
ward valiantly, but at 1924 the Harvards had
gained half a boats length, and al 5:33 were
still ahead At 5:344 the Harvards put in
forty-four strokes to the minute, and the Browns
forty. AT 5;36 the Harvards still lead, and at
5:87 were vet only about half length ahead.
BY $685. they had gained full length, and
here the struggle was exceedingly close. At
$40 the Haryards had fallen back TO forty
strokes per minute. When 5:41i arrived the
Brown crew seemed gaining, but the Harvards
perceiving this struck out most enrgetically, so
that at 5:42 the Browns lost visbly. At ;43
the Brown crew rowed forty strokes per minute,
and the Harvards forty one.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The Lowell Courier says the most humiliat-
ing domestic use full grown man can be put
to is to be sent to the bakers for "a cents worth
of yeast Evidently the Courier man "knows
how it is himself"
ESSEX COUNTY.
AT Lawrence, on the 22d, the body of an I'M
known man, apparently from thirty to thirty
five years of age, was found floating in the
north canal 1t had the appearance of having
been in the water week or two.
Mr.. Charles Judge, one of the proprietors of
the Stones hill granite quarry, at West Glouces-
ter, was considerably injured in the face and
head, last week, by the premature explosion of
blast which he was experimenting.
Gloucester paper says: Schooner Mary
Carlisle, Capt. VIM. Thompson, which has made
so many large halibut trips this season. arrived
on Monday from the Grand Banks with rs, 654
pounds halibut and 4435 pounds Goldfish, her
net stock amounting TO S2541 Is. Capt. Thomp-
son has landed in his five trips this season 247,
343 pounds halibut and q, 1859 pounds Goldfish,
his net stock amounting to about SIP 900. He
is high line of the Grand Bank fleet, and bids
fair to make a big years work."
Schooner w. Roberts, Capt Thompson, of
Rockport, arrived there on Friday from the Bay
of St. Lawrence, with four hundred barrels of
makerel, having been absent but five weeks
The mackerel were caught outside the prescribed
limits, and are OF very good quality. This is the
first bay trip of the season, and in view of the
good prospect there some fifty of the mackerel
catchers of Gloucester have abandoned fishing
on this shore, which has been very Door the
past month, and are fitting for the bay. The
Roberts was not troubled by any of the cutters
The shoe trade of Haverhill intend offering a
general picnic to the shoe and leather trade, at
Kenoza lake, Haverhill, on Thursday, July q,
10 which they invite all members of the trade
visiting Massachusetts'at this time. Free trans
portation from Boston is furnished and enter
tainments and collation. on a liberal scale at the
lake grounds. We expect it will be a very en-
Joyabe and notable occasion, the Haverhill
people being famed for the thoroughness with
which they do up all matters of this kind.
Members of the shoe-buying fraternity, and all
Others favored with an invitation, ought to i'm
prove the opportunity of seeing the suburbs of
one OF I1e most beautiful t0W0S IN this COM
monweath, and Of receiving the Inequalities of
community fully able TO carry out efficiently
any enterprise so heartily taken hold of as this ;"
The commercial Bulletin says: "a new line
Of steamers between Salem and New York will
beginltheir regular Sem-Weekly trips TODAY"
At Marbehead, where a specially is made of
the manufacture of childrens boots, shoes and
slippers, there is considerable activity lust now
with the opening of the season for making up
supplies for the fall and winter trade. There are
Hrpn oVDo - 49, -.
business in this enterprising town, and between
three and four thousand men and women are
now actively engaged. The business at this
place ioots up, on an average, 900 aunu-
ally. There are twenty Mckay and at least ff-
teen hundred other sewing machines kept cou.
stantly in use. Two or three new factories have
been erected this season, and extensive repairs
and additions made TO old ones At every street
corner, and posted prominently in the windows
and at the entrance of the factories are signs
bearing tie inscription, 'Stitcbers Wanted, )" and
considerable difficulty is experienced in getting
competent machine workmen. Manufacturers
are anticipating good demand for their pro-
ducts, and most of the shops are being run up
TO their full capacity.
BRISTOL COUNTY
Thieves broke into the store of n II. Harden,
in Mansfield, last week, and carried off $500
worth of goods.
v, Egg stories are beginning again. Alanson
WIliston, of New Bedford, leads off with A
seven weeks old chicken, which LAYS quarter of
pound eggs as regular thing.
The horse pestilence which has caused so
much alarm among horsemen in New York.
has appeared in New Bedford. The Standard
mentions three cases.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY
The Plymouth Rock states that passenger
on board the up train last week, near Sayin
HILL handed to conductor Ellis twenty dollar
bill from which to pay his fare. Thinking the
bill was counterfeit, the conductor told him he
would hand him his change on arrival in the
city. AS he turned to leave the man rushed
through the car and leaped from the platform
while the train was under full headway, and
ran for the woods, without any apparent injury
10 himself. Ii is supposed the man had com
mitted some robbery and feared arrest on arrival
in Boston.
In preparing for raising the Union meeting
house IN Sandwich, the corner stone was taken
up and the leaden box deposited there June 49,
1888, was removed. Its contents were in such
STATE Of decomposition that it was impossible to
10 read any OF the papers except copy of the
Semi-Weekiy Chronicle and Independent Pat
floI p1DIshed IN Boston by Nathan Hale. Ii
bears date June 10, 1888, The church whose
editiee is now being raised was ORGANIZED in