Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-06-28
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New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Boston will have no city dinner and no public
procession this year on the fourth Of July.
Ii is proposed TO prohibit the running of veloci-
pedes, or any carriage propelled by steam,
through the streets of Boston.
On Thursday the Eckford club Of New York
will visit Boston and play with the Harvards.
There will be considerable curiosity to compare
the pitching of Bush with that of Martin
The Boston Washingtonian inebriates reform
association, at the head of which was Mr.. Ben.
jamin Bruce Dyer as president and treasurer,
has deceased, and the effects have been sold at
auction.
The Boston Journal SAYS: The poem before
the Phi Beta Kappa society, which is TO be deliv-
cred at Harvard by Mr.. Bret Harte on Thursday
next, will not be printed in the newspapers" If
this proves true it will he because Mr.. White, of
the Journal, doesn't exercise his usual amount
of enterprise in his photographic requirements.
MIDDLRsEx COUNTY.
At Lowell, on Monday, q workman named
Grimes, nineteen years of age, residing on
Market street, was killed at the water works
by the breaking of a derrick used in letting
down a water pipe 1t struck him in the
stomach, killing him almost instantly.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Farmers club at Atteboro' have nearly
completed a building designed for agricultural
fairs, &c., at a cost of $4,000.
Fall river rejoices in the appearance of blue
ish at the "Stone bridge"
Davis Bassett, fireman, had his skull frac-
rured aud was otherwise injured by the fall of a
derrick at the Sade mill bridge in Fall river, on
Monday, and his recovery is doubtful.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The new directory of Springfield will contain
about 500 more names than last year, indicating
an increase in population of 2000
Anniversary exercises at Wesleyan academy,
Wilbraham, began Sunday morning, with an
annual sermon befole the graduating class by
Rev. DR.. B. K. Pierce of New York, on "The
divine benediction pronounced on Christian SER
vice" Examinations occupied Monday, and
distinguished visitors arrived during the day,
including Governor Claflin, who reviewed the
ClaHin Guards Captain North, on the campus.
The annual address before the academy was de-
lvered Monday evening by Rev. DIR. G. W.
Woodruff, of New Haven, CT, on Bright days
abroad"
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY
The following particulars are given of the fire
mentioned Yesterday: The fiYe-story brick
building of the Clement Hawkes. company, at
Northampton, known as the hoe factory, was
destroyed by fire about five O'Clock Sunday af
ternoon, part of the walls falling into the pond.
The occupants were Clement Hawkes. and COM
pauy and the pegging machine company, the
loss of the former on building STOCK etc., being
$500 and of the latter $4,000, making a to-
tai of S165,000. One thousand dollars worth of
finished plated table knives, stored there by
Boston parties, were saved unhurt. About forty
men were thrown out of employment by the
disaster, which was caused by spontaneous COM
bustion. S. g. Rose, a fireman, was conSidera-
bly, hurt by falling from a low roof, and Others
had narrow escapes. The pegging machine
company will lose besides by the stopping of
their works and the destruction of much valua-
BILE machinery which they had been four years
in bringing to perfection, and having just con-
eluded contracts with the Russian and German
governments. The factory will be Immediately
rebuilt and work resumed as soon as possible.
MAINE
Edward Jarvis of Bangor had an eve blown
out Sunday, by the accidental discharge of a
pistol which he was carelessly handling.
fight occurred in Bangor, Friday evening,
between several men, during which a revolver
was used, AMI two of the party received severe
wounds from the shots.
An impudent runner, who made himself con-
spicuously offensive at the Continental house,
few days ago, was dismissed by landlord Smith,
with inverted blessings and warned not 10
patronize the house again.
The barn, woodshed and ell of the house of
Michael Gilligan, Bangor, were destroyed by
fire on Tuesday morning. The main house was
heRaa damaged condition. Loss $1,000 to
saved II. sored.
$1,000; insuI, sx0 Boston drummers were ar
At Rockland IN in the lookup on Sunday
rested and lodged respectable Young la.
night for insulting two NSiere the next morn
dies upon the street, and sere they pleaded
ing before the police court, why -.
guilty aud were fined. sne dpsh'
Samuel York, of Vassalboro', made a bad
speculation in peddling rum from his pocket on
the circus ground at Wateryille. Constable
Chase when offered drink, said he guessed he
would take the bottle aud him too! York had
TO pay fine and costs amounting to forty dol
lars.
James Forrest, confined in the Houlton jail
for drunkenness, in fit of delirum tremens, on
Thursday morning, attempted TO commit suicide
by hanging himself with a comforter, fastened
to bar in the ceiling OF his cell, and would
have succeeded in the attempt but for the timely
discovery by the jailor. He was nearly dead
when found.
About thirty-fve millions of Aroostook
shingles are now on their way down the ST.
John river TO market. Nine millions of the lot
are owned by S. W. Collins of Lyndon, sim
liar quantity by Page & Seeley, of Fort Kent,
and the balance by different parties up the river
The revenue collected on the whole lot, by the
government, amounted to about $4,000.
The grain and other crops in New Sweden
promise well. The colonists have two hundred
acres in crops, sixty in spring wheat and sixteen
in winter rye, which is headed out and will be
an early harvest. They are planting a large
amount of potatoes besides sowing buckwheat,
and will no doubt have large yield.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Senator Cragin has given $500 towards the
new hotel at Lebanon.
Efforts are being made to organize a brass
band in Enfield, with great prospect of success
The schools in Pennington are afflicted with
the humps.
There was sufficient frost to damage yegeta-
ton at Canaan on the 22d instant.
Almon, son of Silas w. Curtis, of South
Columbia, was drowned on the 29th while work
ing5on logs inIa mill pond.
The Stevens high school at Claremont gradu-
ated its first class, composed of twelve mem
beers, last week.
hose company has been formed in Clare
mont, and a thousand feet of hose has been
purchased by the town. A hose carriage is still
wanting.
The Nashua Telegraph says there are now no
cases of small pox in that city, and but one pa
tient at the pest house, and that case of vario-
lod
About noon on Friday the air chamber con-
nected with the pump that supplies the boiler at
the soapstone works at Nashua blew off, hitting
and knocking down the engineer, Mr.. Daniel
Sisco, though not doing him any injury.
Nashua is determined to celebrate the fourth
A subscription paper has been literally signed
by citizens, and petition TO the city govern
ment to appropriate $500 finds numerous
signers.
The Peterborough Transcript says: "The
freight agent informs us that one hundred and
7liTety-ttree tons of freight brought to this
place over the Monadnock railroad during the
first two weeks after the running of regular
trains. This is a good beginning certainly, and
quite loss to the business of some other road"
Prof. Hitchcock and party of students from
Dartmouth college are exploring and surveying
in the White mountains. He recently assembled
Twin uOuutdll3 anu pIouOuucts lue view from
its summit one OF the finest TO be obtained in
the whole mountain region. 1t is only about
200 feet lower than Lafayette, we believe, and
commands a magnificent southeastern view.
A pear free on the premises of Daniel Wyman,
of Diamond hill, Concord, has upon numerous
branches both partly grown fruit and blossoms
The blossoms are at the end of a new growth of
twig this year, in clusters of half dozen The
tree has exhibited the same freak once before
within few years.
The New York Evening Post, in view of the
anomalous proceedings in the New Hampshire
legislature, believes that 'our state politics
would be much purer, and our state govern
ments far more useful and efficient, if the gov
ernors, like the president, selected and appointed
their own cabinet officers"
On Sunday, at three O'Clock P. NJ, the steam
saw mill and box factory, owned by Messrs.
Libby, Varney g. Co., in Wolfboro', was dis
covered to be on fire. Ali efforts to save it were
unayailing, and the building, with its machinery
and some lumber, was destroyed. Loss, SIS 900;
no insurance Charles Elliott and William
Goodwin are supDOsed TO have set the fire and