Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-04-24

either brakemen, switchmeu, engine-drivsrs, 4
firemen, or laborers On the Boston and Maine |
road there were twenty-nine injured either by |
falling from the train while in motion or BY
being run over. On the European and North
American road there was one killed, child. On
the Portland and Kennebec road there were four
killed and sixteen injured. OF the killed, thrB
were employees of the road, and of the injured
four were employees. On the Portland and
Rochester road one boy was killed and nine per-
sons injured. On the Portland, Saco and Ports
mouth road there were three persons killed and
one injured"
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
1t is reported that new temperance paper rs
| to be started in Portsmouth.
A new Baptist church, at Suncook, was dedl-
| Gated last week with appropriate ceremony
| The town of Keene has voted to raise the sum
of $4,000 for a soldiers monument
| 4 daughter of Martin W. Williams OF cornish
was fatally scalded a few days since by pulllhg
upon herself a boiler of hot water.
The earliest time that the ice has gone out OF
Lake Winnepiseogee is said TO DC Aprn o, 1901,
and the latest, May ~, 1852; -.
cultural college at Hanover farm OF one hun
dred and sfNty-eight acres.
The Y. NJ. c. a. lecture course in Nashua the
past season resulted in a net profit to the asso-
| citation of S251.50.
Rev, Charles Burnham, for fourteen and a
half years pastor in Meredith Village, was dis
missed on the 18th inst, by a council called for
Mrs. Nellie Moulton was sentenced to the
| house of correction for drunkenness by the
| Portsmouth police court few days ago. She is
! only thrty-three years of age, has been the
mother of ten children, four of them are now
| living, one of them young man of promise at
| college.
The Canaan Reporter says that Mrs. Storrs of
| Dorchester, during the sickness of her husband
| this spring, tapped their sugar orchard, cut her
wood and gathered her sap, and made alone
| four hundred pounds of sugar.
| On the 18th, in Lebanon, n French lad of
eighteen years, manned Joseph Caprance, was
crushed by the fallingof pile of lumber in the
yard of Sturtevants Factory. Both legs were
broken, his head cut, and such internal injuries
received that he died on the Goth. Laprance
came from Claremont about two weeks ago.
His remains will be sent to Canada.
| The Laconia Democrat says: "This has been
a great season for fresh water smelt. For the
, last week or ten DAYS the small streams rum
ming into Lake Winnepesaukee, Squam Lake,
: | Winnesquam, and other lakes, have been full OF
these fish. They have been taken by the bushel
from waters where never caught before. To dip
up bushel of them has been but a few minutes
i work"
The Keene Sentinel says: "The republican
, club has taken the north front rooms on the
> third floor in bank block, which are to be fitted
up as the headquarters of the party. All the
principal daily and weekly papers of Boston,
and New York, &C., and many of the weekly
state papers, will be found on file at this place,
|
tica matter of interest TO the public The rooms
will be open May /.
, Jean ingelow has sent to Capt John G. Moses
Of Portsmouth an elegantly bound copy of her
illustrated poems, with an autographs inscIip-
hon-in acknowledgment of the courtesy eX-
tended her in naming the ship of which Capt
Moses is principal owner after the talented
poetess. Messrs. Roberts & Brothers of Boston,
. her American publishers, have also presented
. the vessel with pennant bearing Miss lnge-
| III a OhOtOUranh
etess, with an appropriate extract from one of
I her poems, in fac Sineile of her chirogaphy,
+ which will adorn the ships cabin
! VERMONT.
Thirteen carloads of Canadians came out
from Montreal, Thursday, by the Vermont Cen
trial. to seek their fortunes in the United States.
. CoNNECTICUT.
e New London proposes to erect monument to
! its early settlers.
II The authorities of Hartford have resolved to
/ uniform the members of their fire department.
d The postmstresses who receive the largest
f. salaries are those of New Haven, Ct, Louisville
lie KY, and Richmond, Va, each being paid $4,000
v year.
l. The Montervere lodge of Odd Fellows, of
New Haven, organized in 1876, and broken up
at the beginning of the war, is to be reorgan-
~ lied
:. Out of 1916 steam boilers inspected in
If Hartford, last month, 511 were discovered to
e be defective, over 100 being regarded as danger
ously so.
\ | UeoTge +. davenport, who was arrested IN
, bridgeport for passing forged check on p T.
e Barnum, has been placed under 500 bond to
appear before the superior court in June.
Bishop Williams has appointed Tuesday, the
festival of st. Mark, April 25th, for the nstalla-
: tOn of the Rev. John q. Middleton into the rec
+ torship of st. Marks church, New Britain.
s Smith ). Gilbert, a one-armed veteran OF the
I | Eleventh Connecticut volunteers has been APP
: pointed letter carrier, in Hartford in place of
| E. S. Elmer, resigned. Mr.. Gilbert was a mem
/ Der Of the last general assembly from Saybrook.
RHODE ISLAND.
; DIR. Loveioy, of Haverhil Mass, has ac-
cepted the position of superintendent of the state
farm.
The Woonsocket Patriot says that troutfis
in that vicinity this season is a complete failure.
Last summers drouth was fatal to thousands of
front in all the smaller streams.
The cattle commissioners of the state are de-
termined that no cattle shall be brought here
from Albany or Brighton as long there is danger
from diseased cattle.
Some of the Providence boot-blacks have found
new lodgings, one of them being seen crawling
out of waterpipe on Washington street, re-
cent morning.
The Boston Journal, referring to the revenue
Irregularities in Providence, now undergoing in
vestgation, understands that some thirteen large
establishments have been placed in possession
OF United States keepers, and that suits have
been instituted in the United States court for the
forfeiture of the property. Meantime the deal
ers themselves will be called to account before
the United States commissioner.