Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-09
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New England News summary.
RosroN AND VICINITY.

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are laying new track from Boston TO Read
vile, and contemplate running passenger trains
every few minutes, for the accommodation OF
mechanics and laboring men.
The directors of the New England agricultu-
raj society are to meet in Boston to-day to pre-
pare the premium list, and to make other ar
rangemenis for the annual fair of the society at
Lowell in September next.
By the expiration of one of the contracts with
the Tucker manufacturing company, 200 prison.
ers at the state prison will be released from
work on the LIST of July next, and the labor OF
that number will be open TO further contract be-
tween the warden and manufacturers.
The Boston Herald says There is penti-
full supply Of stupidity on the part of somebody
when man is appointed to an office who has
been dead half year-as was the case IN tne
board of aldermen, in appointing the held
drivers for the southern district
1t is singular fact, but Invertebrates TACT,
that the average term of life sentences IN the
Massachusetts state prison during the last nlty
years is only five years and one month, WIile
that of prisoners sentenced for ten years is SIX
years and twenty-year sentences amount to nine
wears confinement. This statement includes
only those who have been pardoned, and not
those who have served out their sentences
man who gets life sentence may therefore con
slider himself fortunate IN mol having HIS t'i'H
limited by years. ,.ho-o
Considerable feeling is manifested over lle ~
moval of Capt. John Wright, captain oi tle
watch in the Charlestown navy yard ana the
appointment OF George /. Ripley 10 the posi-
ton, BY the death Of Admiral tarragut capt.
WRIGHT Is the last survivor of the old trlgate
Essex. which did such noble and effective SER
vice in the war of 1911 This frigate sailed from
New York soon after the declaration of war
with Great Britain in command of Capt. David
Porter, q native of Boston, and father of the
present Admiral Porter. He had just been pro-
NOTED to the rank of captain. In very short
cruise he captured a number OF merchantmen,
and one vessel of a feet of transports with $50
troops on board. The frigate Alert fell into his
hands, and then the British packet Motion with
$4,000 in gold and atterward Peruvian prlya-
tcer, twelve British whale ships and 400 prison.
ers, besides having other successful engage
ments, but being at last captured on the 2Sth of
March, 1914, by the Phoebe and Cherub, two
British frigates, after one Of the most remarka-
BILE engagements ever recorded, and just after
the Essex was crippled by squall off Valpa-
raiso Through all this Capt. Wright passed,
and now, the only survivor, he is left out in the
cold by an "uugrateful republic"
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Miss Mary Hubbard of North Hadley drowned
herself in the Connecticut river on Monday
night, while temporarily insane.
MAINE.
Arthur +. Pearl of Portland, son of the late
Rev. Cyril Pearl, was drowned near Apalachico-
Ia, Fla. short time ago.
A large delegation Of prominent men from
Harlan, st. Adams and Canaan, in favor of an
eXtens.o on of the MooSehead Lake railroad
through their towns, had public reception at
Belfast yesterday. Three-fourths of the tax
PAYERS Of Belfast are opposed TO any alliance
with the Maine Central road
A young man named Fiske, at work in Cir
cuar-saw mill in Leverett, on Monday, slipped
while handling a heavy piece of timber, coming
in contact with the saw His foot was cut
nearly off, and caught in the machinery in such
q way that both bones of the leg were broken,
producing q compound fracture, shattering the
bone into many pieces. The large bone of the
leg was forced through the fieshy calf, where it
protruded several inches
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The republicans elected their entire town
ticket at Newcastle without contest
The Nashua Telegraph reports an unusual
amount of sickness among children in that city
The recent rains have raised the water in Lake
Pangus six inches, and the machine shops are
supplied with water.
AT Nashua ON the Sth Colonel A. o. Brewster
of Boston addressed large and enthusiastic
assemblage Of the democracy at the city hall
Henry j. Chapman, Esq, presided.
The directors of the New Hampshire !agricul
tural society have received applications from
Great Falls and Portsmouth TO hold their next
annual fair in those places, and there is nc
doubt that it will be held in one of them.
At Portsmouth on the It'll Alfred Tucker, 0
prominent grocer, died very suddenly of hear
usual during the day. He had been a leading
democrat and a prominent Odd Fellow. His
age was about siXty-fiYe years.
A Manchester dispatch says: at is well un
derstoOd in political circles that Hon. JacOl
Ella, late member of congress from the first dis
trict is TO be appointed pension agent at Con
cord in place of Hon. David Cross, the presen
incumbent, whose term will soon expire. Ii il
also well understood that the majority of thu
New Hampshire delegation in congress have
given their influence in favor Of the appoint
ment of Mr. Ella"
A correspondent of the Boston Journal writes
"Ihe trustees of Dartmouth college held a
special meeting here last week, at which much
important business was transacted. Mr.. Frank
A. Sherman was elected assistant professor of
mathematics in the scientific department. Mr..
Sherman is a gradua' c OF that department, and
is now very successful teacher in the Free In
stitute at Worcester, Mass. He is expected TO
enter on his duties here at the opening of the
next college year. Professor Albert Smith ten
dered his resignation of the chair Of matera
medica and therapeutics in the medical depart
ment and Dr. Henry NJ. Field of Newton, Mass,
who has given several very successful courses OF
lectures here, was elected in his place. Rev.
DR.. Barstow of Keene, the oldest member of the
board of trustees, having been thirty-seyen
years in the body, offered his resignation. 1t
was laid on the table, but will doubtless be ac
cepted at the annual meeting, and the place of
the worthy and venerable doctor be filed by
another He has been one of the most devoted
and faithful members of the board His sue
cessor will be the sixth new member elected
within little more than a year, all Of them
alumni of the college"
VERMONT.
The amount received for the entry of suits in
court in Essex county, in 1870, was only S31 &c.
Richard Newton, of Bennington, committed
suicide by shooting, on Wednesday evening
He lived about an hour.
William Esn oft
and successful farmer Of Alburgh, died in that
town recently, aged nearly SO years He was
the first male child born in that town.
Brattleboro' expended over $4,000 last year,
over 81 600 of the amount being spent on high
ways and bridges. The town debt amounts TO
about 5000, which the citizens propose to
clear off right away.
The st. Adams Messenger says that there is in
that town a horse whose upper lip bears heavy
moustaches, fully three inches in length, which
parts in the middle and gracefully curls out on
either side in the most approved fashion.
The St. Johnsbury Caledonian has very Sc
we're article upon the classes of business men
who visit that town as commercial travellers"
but who it designates as Boston Drummers"
Ii admits that some of them care doubtless good
men," but the majority it calls Getty rakes."
II charges them with committing midnight
orgies" in the hotels; with driving the "best
horses in the livery stables to DEATH; with mo-
nOpolizing all the seats in the ladies' cars with
their feet and yalises, and with driving through
the town on the Sabbath, with cigars in their
lips aud curses between their teeth; and it
closes its bill Of indictments as follows: "If
Boston merchants knew the character and oc-
cupation of many of their servants while in the
country, they weuld keep them under closer
surveillance, or abandon this plan of doing
business altogether"
CONNECTICUT.
Nilsson is to sing in Hartford on the Goth inst
Rev. Mr.. koerner, Of the German Lutheran
church, Norwich, has accepted a call from a
church in Chicago.
Ii the stamp tax on renewal receipts was taken
off, il would make yearly difference of $50 900
10 Hartford insurance companies.
Divers are at work TO recover the cargo of the
schooner Baldwin, recently sunk off Black
Rock
The Rev. f. G. Beckwilh has begun his min.
isterial work with the Second Congregations
church and society OF Waterbury.
An old lady in Middletown is the happy pos
SCISSOR of twenty hens which have collectively
laid 49O eggs in the last three months.
w. Fl. II. Blackman, for long time city edi.
tor of the New Haven Register, has received the
appointment Of fire marshal of New Haven at a
salary of $1,000 per annum.
1t is stated that Prof. Barker, of Yale, has
recently received intimation that profess