Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-29

The United States senate committee on pen
sions has decided TO report adversely on the me
mortal Of joseph L. Stevens of Maine.
The bill allowing females TO enter the state
COLLEGE upon the same terms and rules as pre-
Scrbed for male students, has been passed final
ly, and sent to the governor for approval.
a fine cornet band Of fourteen pieces has been
| recently organized in the thriving village of Me
chanc Falls.
Bath loots up a claim for about $500 900 dam
ages on account of extra insurance on shipping
during the war, and these are part OF the "indi-
| rect damages" claimed al Geneva.
Mr.. CreSsv, who had his skull badly fractured
| at Lewiston some weeks since by the falling of
four pound hammer, the height Of ninety feet
upon his head, is now able TO be about, and car
rieS box of fragments taken from his skull
which be exhibits.
The Bangor Commercial saws should the
union of Lewiston and Auburn take place, Ban
gor, unless she looks Immediately after her in
tcreSts, will occupy the position Of third instead
of the second city of Maine In such an event
all yon have got to do, Mr.. Commercial, is TO
follow Boston, and annex Brewer, Hampden and
Orrington to Bangor. II that is not enough
take in 0rOnO.
Nahum Warren, Esq, has been appointed
postmaster of Veazie, vice Andrew Jackson
Stockwel, ESQ.,, removed. There is considera-
Die excitement in Neazie over the change, mas
much as the remonstrance against Stockwcll'S
removal was twice as numerously signed as
was Warren's petition.
Mr. Jonathan Clark Lewis died at Buxton
Center on the 26th inst, aged ninety-two years
and nine months He was born at Groton
Mass, and was appointed postmaster under the
administration of John Quincy Adams, and was
probably the oldest incumbent of that office, at
bis death, in the United States A twin sister, a
resident of this city, survives him.
The figures eiven relative TO the cost of estab-
fishing the Swedish colony in Aroosook in the
tod prirp
incorrect idea OF the matter. The total Pxpendi-
lures in 1870 were SIC 627 "A, and in 1871, $685.
96S.55; total, SAC, 593 30. or this amount there
has been repaid to the state by immigrants in
road labor S223S; now due from Immigrants,
S76S7 Is; supplies on hand, 5000; total REM
burSement to the stats, S14 ,925.13; leaving the
total expenses of the colony to Jan. 1, 1872,
S25 ,66S.16.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mr.. Jackson Greenwood, a pensioner of the
war of 1872, died at Dublin, February 18th, aged
seventy Eve years and nine months.
On Tuesday, Marcus Rich of Milford fell
from wagon, and broke his leg between the
lootand knee.
Mr. Charles I. Longee of Gilmanton died on
Monday night from the effects of lead poison
ing, caused by drinking water which hal passed
through lead pine.
Daniel Mckinney, employed in Brown &
Simmons saw mill at East Titon. had his arm
teailully mangled by Il planning machine on the
26th. Amputation at the shoulder was per-
formed.
Mr.. Stevens, private of the United States sig
nal corps, stationed at Mt. Washington, died on
Wednesday night of paralysis. He had been
sick several days, and died before medical assist
ance arrived.
At Great Falls, on the 2ith inst, Geo Shalbet,
frcr'chman, about twenty-thrcc years of age,
was seriously if not fatally injured internally by
being caught in the main belt in the dress room
oil No. 3 mill.
Newport has voted to expend $4,000 in
the erection of a new town hall and court
hoISe, the building to be sufficiently capa-
cicus TO contain to all the county offices, post
offices, Sc.
Cant. VIM. H. Fernald of Meredith died on
the 9th, aged thirty-nine years. He served
through the war as captain in the 18th New
hampshire volunteers, and was held in high es-
TEEN by his fellow townSmen. He represented
the town in the legislature, and was postmaster
at the time of his death
Mrs. Maria Burns, while at work in the fan
mel mill in Newport, few days ago, made a
misstcp, causing her to thrust her arm through
a glass door, by which the flesh was severely
lacerated and the main artery severed near the
wrist. Immediate handaging probably saved
her life. A young lad at work in the same mill
caught his arm in the machinery few days ago
and disloeated an elbow joint.
A hearing was had before the Nashua city
councils, Friday evening, Col. G. w Lane, of
Derry, and Mr.. I. j. Melvin, of Chester, appear
ing to advocate the advantages of the middle
route surveyed for the Nashua and Rochester
railroad, which route passes through Derry and
Chester. They tDdeavOrpd to show that the local
business would he very much greater on that
route than upon the others.
VERMONT.
The Fairbanks scale company used over four
million feet of lumber at their works in St.
JOhnsbury last year.
Albert Fletchel's honse at Pittsiord was de-
stroved by fire on Monday. Most of the CON
tents were saved Loss $500; partially insured.
A bankrupt case in Vermont recently termi-
mated as follows: Total of estate, 500; allow
ance 10 bankrupt, S100; costs, $3.50; dividend
among creditors, $3.50.
A bridge 100 feet long, near Leicester juno
tlon, on the Rutland railroad, was burnt on
Tuesday, Loss S5000 covered by insurance.
The casualty Will occasion short delay OF
trains for few days.
A st. Johnsbury correspondent says the pros
pect OF good maple sugar season is excel
lent, and the farmers are getting ready to i'm
prove it,
Gov. John B. Page, president of the Rutland
railroad company, has published a long state
ment OF the affairs of the company. He denies
the alleged cOncealment of the amount CT
the corporations Indebtedness, and that the in
debtcdneSS exceeds the assets, or that the second
trustees have turned over to the CORPORATION a
debt exceeding the amount stated. In support
hnances OF the company, and analyses of the
various accounts, which are very full and COM
prehensiye.
CONNECTICUT.
A cancerous fungus has been growing for
some weeks from the eve of Miss Addie Bolles
Of Ashford, and Is now eighteen inches in cir
conference.
According to the East Haddam Advertiser
there were grown in that town last wear 1854
acres OF tobacco, weighing 29O,726 pounds, with
an estimated value of S71 ,S237S. VIM. H.
Goodspeed Esq, is the largest producer, his
crop footing up over $1,000.
The engineers in charge of the proposed Nor
wch and Colchester railroad report concerning
the section of three miles between Hebron and
Colchester, that the highest grade is forty-fve
feet, deepest cut ten feet, with very little or no
rock cutting. They estimate that it can be
graded ready for ties and rails for about SIP
600.
VIM. Goddard, aged twenty-five or thirty, re-
siding near the Congregational church in Wind
Sor, went 10 Hartford on Saturday afternoon,
and bought some arsenic at one of the drug
stores, and, having taken dose, took the 625
tram Tor hoIe. Very soon after his arrival the
poison began TO operate, and physician from
Hartford was sent for. He arrived just in time
10 save the mans life. Goddard was Jealous of
his wife.
Captain Elias Babcock, storekeeper at Ston-
ngtun, was knocked down on Thursday night
sthN ht.tt ms ohhIl iAdbluiNu w lOuI IOu1US,
James knowlton and Augustus March, of Prov
idence, Thomas ii Francis and Frederick Nom
such, OF Groton, the two latter colored They
went into his STORE to buy some boots and when
fitted, attempted TO go away without paving for
them. Captain Babcock endeavored to prevent
them, and in so doing was struck down. The
men were arrested and Jailed
Mi. Richard 5. True, well known teacher of
vocal music, who is employed in all the public
schools OF Hartford, ani has numerous classes
besides, both in that city and the neighboring
towns, was arrested on Saturday on charge Of
bastardy, preferred by Miss Emma A. Seamans.
who with True has belonged To the choir of the
North Baptist church, Hartford. Miss Seamaps
gave birth to a child one week AFRO last Friday
but legal proceedings were delayed because it
was at first Supposed that True would marry
her, in accordance with his confessions of guilt
and expressed willingness TO have the marriage
ceremony performed; but ii appearing thar he
was seeking to throw the responsibility of the
criminal act upon innocent persons and thus
blacken the character Of the young woman, her
friends had no other resort but to compel a
legal inquiry. Miss Seaman's condition has
been very critical, but it is thought she will now
recover.
A Connecticut paper says:-"Mr. lie Grand
Lockwood, whose death at his residence on Fifth
avenue, on Saturday, at the are of flty.two, we
have recorded, was born at Norwdlk, and at the
age OF seventeen commenced his career in Wall
street as clerk for Shpman, Coming & Co.
lie was afterwards connected with the firm Of