Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-15
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New RnsIand News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

week ending MAY IS, 1871, is reported by the
city register as 112. OF these rs died of con-
sumption, of diseases unknown, 10 of intiam-
nation of the lungs, Of heart disease. Under
five years of age, Al; American parentage, ~;
foreign paIentage, 70.
Not long since, young man, graduate of the
Boston public schools, only TWENTY-FIVE years of
age visited the state prison on one of the pub
lie days in which the prisoners are allowed free
dom in the yard and there he found four of his
schoolmates, all young men of good abilities
and of respectable parentage in Boston, not one
of whom did he know was there till then.
At Boston, on the 18th, the fifth army corps
society, at its annual reunion, adopted the fol-
lowing resolution, with but one dissenting
vote: "Resolved, That in view of additional evil
dence affecting the case developed since the close
of the war, and of the opinion which the officers
and soldiers under him have alroys entertained
in regard to the matter, o. 4at,cctful petition be
presented to thepresdent OF the United States,
in the Name of the fifth army corps, requesting
him to reopen the case of our commander, Gen-
eral Fitz John Porter, in order that Justce may
be done him." The society elected the following
officers: President--General Joshua L. Cham,
berlain. of Maine Vice PreSdents-General
James McQuade, of Utica, New YORK, and Ten
eral c. W. Roberts, of Bangor, Me. secretary
Colonel George NJ Barnard, of Boston. Treas
urer-Geueral F. 7. Locke, of New York. Ex-
ecutiye Committee-General Andrew Dennison,
of baltimore; General James Groyune, of Phila-
delphia; General Locke, of New York; Colonel
J. w. Mahon, of Boston; Colonel A. P. Marten,
of Boston.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The Lowell Courier says the reports of the
prevalence of small poX in that city are absurdly
exaggerated. The city physician reports that
there are at present less than twenty cases in the
city.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Ocean mill of Newburyport has voted
- 49, ~
and convey to purchasers all of the property OF
the company, and apply the proceeds TO the
payment of the company's debts, and the diyi-
sion among the stockholders of any excess
Mr.. Edward Lesley was reelected clerk, Mr.. j
b. Morss, treasurer, and as directors, j. b.
Morss, George Gardner, John H. Spring, VIM.
Balch and John Gardner.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Calvin Rowland, a well known painter of
Stoughton, left town on Wednesday to go to
Boston. He had with him some three hundred
dollars, and he having failed TO return, fears
are entertained for his safety. 1t is said that
the last seen of him he was in an intoxicated
condition.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
New Bedford has a first class rat story. A
man set rat trap, one of the sort which holds
the animal by the back of his neck, and a rat
having been caught in it, his fellows went to
work and turned the skin completely off of him,
all the meat on his bones, except the hind legs.
Strange things happen in New Bedford.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Negotiations are pending with the Amherst
glee club TO give concert in Worcester for the
benefit of the Plymouth church. They will give
q concert at Ware next Thursday evening,
A company Of Hsdley gentlemen have erected
hotel on the southern spur Of Mt. Holyoke,
and are to build railroad to it from the valley
below.
1t is stated that Samuel Williston, the rich
manufacturer Of Easthampton, has offered Am
herst college an endowment of half a million
dollars, on condition that the name be changed
to "Wiliston university"
The crew from the agricultural college at Am
herst has entered the New England rowing asso-
citation to row at the forthcoming regatta.
George Leonard, of New Bedford, is captain of
the crew and commodore of the agricultural
college navy.
President Clark, of the Amherst agricultural
college, has notified the boating association of
that college, which was short of funds, that they
might draw on him for $500, payable when con-
Tenent.
Mr. French, proprietor of the Mt. Holyoke
railway, has just purchased a twenty-horse
power steam engine, which will be used as mo-
tive power to draw the cars up the mountain
instead of horse power, as formerly. The rail-
road is TO be extended to the river. The Mt.
Holyoke house will be open to the public this
week.
sad accident occurred at Leeds a few days
ago. A little daughter of Lucius C. Taylor
aged four years and ten months, fell into Mill
river, and was drowned. She ate her supper
with the rest of the family, at six O'Clock, and
afterward going out of the house, il is supposed
she was attracted to the water,-as the stream
was swollen almost to a food by the recent
rains,-and, while standing on the edge of the
embarkment, it must have given way, preeipita-
ing her into the water. In the course of half
an hour, her sister, as though governed by some
mysterious impulse went TO the river and dis
covered her little mate lying in the water dead.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
berkshire paper ays:-"We have been
visited by man represented himself as minis
ter in distress, who is going round imposing on
the charitable and credulous. He gives the
name OF Thompson, sometimes as of one de-
nomination and sometimes of another as it
suits his needs. He likes whiskey too well. He
IS an old man, one eye defective. He halls from
all around the compass"
Monterey blacksmith has a hen which has
lad and Matched dozen eggs on his forge, less
than three feet from the blazing fire. She was
white when she first took her station there but
the coal dust and heat have changed her com
plexion materially.
MAINE.
In the exercises at Evergreen cemetery, Cum
berland country, on Decoration day, this year. a
man will be stationed with flowers at each
decorated at the same time.
Next Tuesday the directors of the Eastern,
the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth, the Maine
Central and the European and North American
railroads, several prominent railroad and bust.
ness men, and other invited guests, will make
an excursion in the Pullman palace train from
Boston to Bangor, via the Portland and Kenne-
bee division of the Maine Central road, stopping
Tuesday night at Bangor, and proceeding next
day to Mattawamkeag, the eastern terminus of
the European and North American road
The Prof. Greanleaf who died recently in
Burnham was formerly a teacher in that state
but was neither Prof Greanleaf of Vermont
author OF treatise on grammar, nor Benjamin
Greanleaf, formerly the distinguished principal
of Bradford academy, and author of the popular
series of mathematics which bear his name. The
paragraph chroDicling the event, published in
various newspapers in distant parts of the coun.
try, does violence to the memory of two emf
nent authors.
The directors Of the Eastern and the Portland,
Saco and Portsmouth ralroasd, with few inyi-
ted guests, officials Of both roads, dined at the
Falmouth hotel, Portland, on the evening of
the 10th, social sit down in honor of the new
contract, the papers signed by both parties last
week being passed previous to the dinner The
dinner party consisted of President George M.
Browne, Messrs. Franklin Haven, Samuel Hoop
er and Henry L. Williams, directors of the
Eastern railroad, and b. I. Reed, president of
the Eastern railroad in New Hampshire, Super
intendent J. Prescott and Treasurer ]. B Parker
of the Eastern, President Ichabod Goodwin,
John B. Brown, Superintendent Francis Chase,
Treasurer Eliphalet Mott, Clerk Charles T.. Bar
rett, Attorneys G. L. B. Jackson and Nathan
Webb of the Portland, Saco and Portsmouth
road. 1t was most enjoyable occasion.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The town of Nelson wants physician.
c. H. Lynn has been appointed postmaster at
Richmond, vice L. W. Wright, resigned and j.
w. Robinson at Brentwood, vice II. Robinson,
resigned.
The Nashua Masonic fraternity claim the oldest
Mason in the state, in the person of Mr.. James
Swallow, who is lightweight years of age, and
was made Mason sixty-four years ago last
November.
Dighton Jeffers and Albert Montgomery of
ContoocookYille, had narrow escapeilrom seri.
GUS injury recently. While riding in Henniker
their horse was frightened by dog, and LETTERS
was thrown from the carriage. He was dragged
some distance before he could release himself
from his perilous situation. The horse ran
down two OF the steepest hills in town, hauling
up in the woodshed of Mr.. Calef, after passing
over pile Of lumber, chopping-block, saw
horse, etc. LETTERS in the meantime had chung
TO the carriage, and escaped without bodily in
jury: Montgomery received some severe bruises