Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-15
Gaucester 4alIp SPY,

BOSTON AND VICINITY.

ualSs VI Noilpu On DOsllu, ana WIS buuuu ll"hi
Galveston to Bremen. Her cabin had been
Quilted and her decks swept of everything. Inc
vessel is uniuiured and valuable prize. The
Sarah sailed from Galveston on the 18th OF Feb
ruary.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The following particulars are given of the eX-
plosion mentioned in our dispatches yesterday
''At twenty minutes to seven O'Clock, Sunday
morning, March -, seven hundred pounds OF
nitro glyCerine exploded in a small wooden
building on the west side of the Hoosac tunnel
The building was of course blown TO splnterS.
The cans in which the glycerine was kept were
spread out in ragged shapes. A young growth
of birch, naples, &C., was cut through for dis
lance of twenty rods the path being six rods
wide. The trees three inches in diameter, were
torn up and twisted into withes. The village OF
North Adams, two and half miles distant was
shaken as if by an earthquake. No lives were
lost, but the explosion was terrific"
MAINE.
As we have several times mentioned Maine is
turning its attention to Swedish immigration,
and the little colony of New Sweden, IN ihat
State, bids fair TO become a thriving settlement
Such liberal inducements have been held out by
the Maine legislature that large influx OF these
sober, thrifty and industrious people may DC
looked for this year. The Irish seem to prefer
large cities; those of the Germans VINO nave
agricultural tendencies seek the west; Out II y
hoped that the Swedes, who are eImgratlilS ~
large numbers of late years, Ican be prevailed
unon 10 SETTLE in Maine, where they find a soil
and climate like those which they leIt AT nome
Each male immigrant over twenIy-oue years
of ace is assigned by the state of Maine lot of
100 acres of land, which will be his at the expi
ration of five years, provided he has built COM
Portable home thereon.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The mercantile library association of Ports
mouth, which has had course of home-talent
lectures the past season, has clear profit of
two hundred and fifty dollars to put into the
savings bank
The First national bank of Portsmouth has
subscribed for S1S0,000 of the new government
five per cents.
Lake Paugus is the modern name for Long
Bay, the body Of water six miles long, between
Lake Village and Laconia.
VERMONT.
Hugh Donnelly was drowned at Wells River,
Friday night, while attempting TO drive across
field which had been oyeTtlowed by lam of ice
in the river He is supposed to have been intox-
icated as he utterly refused the assistance of
those who went to his rescue.
gum-chewing match was the chaste diver
ment of Vermont town, recently. The winner
can chew backwards as well as forwards, and
put in all the variations with one hand tied be-
hind her.
CONNECTICUT.
The annual state Sunday school convention
begun in Bridgeport yesterday.
The Hartford papers pronounce Laura
Keenes troupe, now performing there, TO be the
best theatrical troupe that has been there this
season.
Saturday forenoon a fire broke out in the
dwelling house of Florence Miller, on Com
merce street, Hartford occupied by Geo. Wood
ward, and before 1t could be checked damaged
the furniture and building 81 900 worth.
A new York gentleman wishes to erect but
ter factory at Middlefeld, and buy the milk of
two or three hundred cows for three or four
cents quart. The project does not meet with
much favor. With butter at fifty cents per
pound, milk is said to be worth six cents per
quart.
A union temperance league is being formed in
several towns of the state, for the purpose O.
promoting the temperance reform. The organ
izations will be differed the same as other opeI
temperance societies. A state league, composed
of representatives from the local societies is Il
meet in Meriden, March Goth.
The Mystic wooden company are greatly EN-
barrassed, their liabilities exceeding their as
sets by about $780, 900. 1t is said efforts will b.
made to keep the mill running after temporary
suspension. The employees have been paid TO
January but not for February. Nearly all haC
stopped work at last accounts, and a conference,
was in progress between shareholders aud cred
itors.
Theglorious uncertainties of thelaw are forcibly
eXemplified in case between two farmers il
Bloomfield, who brought before the courts {
trouble about the ownership of load OF ma
1869, which has led TO suits and cross suits unit
settled at the last session of the court Of com
mon pleas, the total cost of the amusement beinI
not less than $500 to plaintiff and defendant.
The Hartford Times insists that employees il
factories owned by republicans are intimidated
Perhaps it will consent to republish the follow
ing, written by a responsible person living il
Salisbury: GLOW little time the member of con
gress from the fourth district devotes to his du
ties in Washington is a matter OF record. There
Sc HOW from 1srbiph 10 is al
sent. On election days he takes his stand neal
the ballot-box, where he can see each voter as
he deposits his vote, and woe be to the man in
his employ who votes contrary to his dictation.'
The Bridgeport papers say that the trial OF
Sammy Andrews in that city, last week, on the
charge of robbing the Gridleys of Hartford,
mother and daughter, of $4,000, proved extremely
humiiatng to all parties from the unpleasant
disclosures Of wanton waste of wealth for the
purpose Of mere show, and the exhibition of fe-
male vanity. The past history Of all parties
was scrutnized and commented on in manner
the reverse of complimentary, and feeling of
pity was plainly discernible during the exami-
nation of the witnesses for the prosecution.
The same story was hardly told twice alike, and
the acduittal OF Andrews gave satisfaction, as
public opinion was almost entirely on his side
He arrived in Hartford on Saturday.
The New Haven Palladium says: "Mr. NJ.
House has at last got out of the state. He
waived an examination before q justice of the
peace in Litchfeld, and was bound over to the
next term of the superior court for Litchfield
county in the sum of $1,000. He gave security,
and as he had already given security TO the
amount of $4,000 in this city, he was allowed to
depart with his faithful wife. 1t remains TO be
seen whether he will forfeit his bonds, or whether
he considers his chances of being acquitted so
good as TO risk a trial. There is a rumor, though
we cannot vouch for its truth, that House has
obtained his bonds by Matchmaking persons who
have been associated with him in his dirty di-
vorce cases and who have furnished bonds for
him through fear Of exposure"
Concerning an item which we published few
days ago, the Hartford Post says: eve are re-
quested to say concerning an article which re-
Gently appeared relating to the so-called pawn
ing Of a coffin, that many of its statements were
untrue. The man instead of being a periodical
dependant upon the selectmen, was never in the
Office before, had only been in town for about
three weeks and was brought to the office by a
policeman to show him the way. His pitiful
story was that his boy Edward, three years old,
had been dead for three days, and he had no
means to bury him. Ho did not ask Mr.. Wool
lev 10 buy the coffin back at half price, or any
other price, but only asked him to give him the
price Of drink, and was refused. The un-
dertaker, on going to the house, found that the
child had been buried for nearly week"
In the case of Mrs. Samuel Stiles of Mapping,
evidence that seems positive has been collected
TO fix the guilt of an attempt to poison the fam
lilies of Dewey and Pitkm of South Windsor
upon her. Since the preliminary trial the con-
tents OF the box sent TO Mrs. Dewey have
been analysed, and unmistakable and abundant
evidence of arsenic was found. 1t has been as
certained that she went to a store in Old Wind
scr to purchase drops, but refused them be-
cause they were so dry. After this she pur-
chased some fresh ones, to which the arsensic
would adhere better, at a store where she is well
known. 1t has also been ascertained that a
woman answering Mrs SIS description pur-
chased three kinds OF rat poison at the drug
store of Talcott Brothers, Hartford, and that In
one of these poisons was a considerable quantity
of arsenic. Further developments show her to
have been either bad woman or insane; the
latter quite probably. Her counsel has had
physicians and experts visit her since her com.
mitment, and the plea of insanity will probably
be put in for her defence. She had become SO
jealous and unhappy that her husband had left
her, and portion Of the time the past year had
lived in the family of his sister, Mrs Pitkins
which no doubt enraged her towards that
family.
RHODE ISLAND.
The East Greenwich Pendulum saws that
WIN. W. Hill, Esq, has the honor of bringing
the largest pickerel into town that ever graced
our water or land. The fish weighed fourteen