Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-31
Gdlurtestcr Daily spp.
New England new. summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Boston received in 1871 for dog licenses, slo,-
1t costs $50, 129.O7 a year to light the streets
of Boston.
There is talk of new hotel in Dorchester
about the size Of the Norfolk house.
Ten years ago man gave $4,000 for lot o.
land in Dorchester, and last week he bonded i
for SIT coo.
Three of the wealthiest men on Beacon street
Boston, have died within a short time.
Lumber is so high at Boston that it is though
building operations viii be checked in tn,
spring.
gingham market, one of the leading mills haV'
ing reduced prices.
At Boston about ten O'Clock Monday fore
noon, it was SO dark that in nearly all tue places
OF business the gas was lighted to enable bust
ness to be transacted.
A Bostonl paper says: "A lady preached ir
one Of our churches recently, and it was no
iiceable fact that several ladies nodded assent
TO every proposition before the sermon was
concluded. The gentlemen Kept wide awake. ,
The new depot in Boston of the Boston and
Providence railroad will be an architectural o.
nament to the city. 1t will be in full vie" INC
entire length of Columbus avenue.
A man named Robson has been sWlndiIuS
Boston people with proposition TO oiScIoSe tue
locality Of rich gold mine, which ne pr1lessea
TO have discovered, as soon as ne couiu raise
100000. Quite number OF persons TOOK
stock in his demonstrations and mine, paving
$3.50 share; but he was Drought TO grlet by
the fact becoming known that he tried the
same game out west last summer,
AS Showing the relative consumption of Wa
Ter. in Boston, on different days of the week,
the following statement is given, the test being
the number Of gallons pumped for high service :
MONDAYS average 100000 gallons; SATURDAYS,
694 ,9S5; Wednesdays, 671, 5T3 Tuesdays, $780,
600; Fridays, 664 ,060; Thursdays, $50, 932; Sun.
DAYS, 603, 149. Ii will be seen that the average
consumption on Mondays washday," the day
Of dirty linen, is about nineteen per cent. greater
than on Sundays, and eight per cent. greater
than the average of the other days.
The sewerage system of Boston is as good as
that of the principal cities, and a good deal bet
ter than that of many. The typographical
character OF the city is rather favorable to that
end, without the use of gigantic tunnels or chic
ride Of lime. In the older portions of the city
the surface water readily escapes into well con-
structed sewers and runs down hill, together
with the decaying and purifying matter of back
yards and sinks and cesspools and water closets,
into the docks where the roceding tide takes the
filth portion beyond the sense of smell. In the
newer portions Of the city the drainage is not so
good on account of the level surface presented,
but in few instances the stencil loves to linger,
10 be waited into open windows, hence the enor-
nous sums Of money which have beeH expend
ed during tue past five or six years in raising
each locality as the Church street district to
grade instead OF waiting for some future earth
quake TO upheaye the underlying strata.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
A Lowell lady attended a prayer meeting in
the basement vesry of one of the city churches
few evenings since, and fell asleep. When she
awaked, the meeting and the doors were closed
she fOHQd n fnr tl,n nj
unable 10y all her shouting to obtain aid. The
next day, about noon, She succeeded in climb
lug out Of d window, and by making consider
able noise, in getting assistance in scaling the
high iron fence with which the church yard is
surrounded, when She hurried home, much to
the qualification of her friends as well as her
self.
ESSEX COUNTY.
At Lawrence, on Monday, Elbridge Joslyn,
one Of the oldest and most prominent citizens,
attempted suicide by cutting his throat. Since
the death Of Mr.. Bennett, his partner in bust
ness, which occurred about month ago, he has
been in a respondent state. Hopes are enter
tanned of bis recovery.
DR.. French and Col. Sherman have succeeded
after somewhat extended negotiations, in oh
tanning permission from the comptroller of tho
currency to establish new national bank il
the city eff Lawrence, hiass As the state has al
excess of several millions over its quota of ma
tional banking capital, these gentlemen mer
compliments for the success which has crowned
their labors.
HAMFDEN COUNTY.
The Springfield Republican is now printed ol
new four-cylinder press, and has new type.
Mr.. K. o Crafts, the retiring chief enginee
OF Hoyoke, records nine fires and seven falls
alarms he past year; the greatest loss at any
fire 1.-THE Hampden mill) being $500; total los
S56O2, while insurance was S43S9, making thu
net loss s1213--a good showing for town will
valuation of S6,600,000.
MAINE.
Water is scarce in Bangor.
Five more students entered the freshman class
at Bowdon college last week.
Lewiston and Auburn manufacturing enter
prises dsburse annually in the two cities nearl,
four millions of dollars, about rour.ffths Of
which is to labor.
Obed Foss has been appointed postmaster a
Pittsfeld, Wesley b. Weymouth at Fayette, ant
James NJ. Sheldon at Dresden, all the preyiou.
incumbents having resigned.
VERMONT.
The Stamford lumbermen say this is the bes
winter they have had for drawing logs duliue
many years. just snow enough.
Forty-four Baptist couples took a leap-yeal
sleigh ride from Brattleboro to Guilfold few
DAYS ago.
The committees appointed by the Caledonia
and state agricultural societies have agreed upon
ST. Johnsbury and the second week in Septem-
wear.
An old woman of ninety-one arrived at St.
Adams ON Friday, having Travelled entirely
alone, al the way from Ireland, to join her
daughter at that place.
Rutland boasts Of q woman thirty-eight years
old, vino has buried two husbands, been divorc-
ed from third, and is living with the fourth.
She was married at thirteen, and has been the
mother Of fourteen children, only two Of which
are now alive. Husbands number three and
four served in the army during the rebellion.
CONNECTICUT.
Hartford has been having the benefit of an
'inspirationap speaker, Mrs. Nellie T Brigham
Stratford talks strongly fer uniting the school
districts and having graded union school,
Bridgeport has aided Chicago, Michigan and
Wisconsin sufferers about 5000, besides send
ing about $500 worth of material.
Hartford has English opera this week, two
nights by Mrs. Van Zdndt, Castle, Campbell
and others.
Norwich was badly frightened on the 2Sd at
the discovery of case OF genuine Old-iashoned
smallpox in that city. Over 400 people rushed
Immediately to their family doctors aud were
vaccinated.
In regard to the shad fisheries on Connecticut
river, the fish commissio of Connecticut
state that mo permission has been given TO To-
cafe any pound or pounds at the mOIth of the
river, or at any other place, for the purpose of
taking shad, and no such permission will be
sNeH' Ou tue coutfaTy, tue law passed at the
last session Of the legislature viii be enforced
10 me extent OF our ability Reports TO the
contrary have been circulated.
Mr.. Watson, The Hartford man shot in Brook
lyn by young married woman, because. ms she
says, he had iiited with her, was, the Hartford
Post says, well known and esteemed in Hart
ford He leaves five children, the oldest a Young
lady oil seventeen and Il member of the senior
class at tile Hartford high school; the Youngest
only two years old. Mr. Watson, who was fol
several years in the fruit trade at the Phenix
bank store, the frm being George w. Watson
q 20. lie has been for several years a partner
IN Williamsburg firm engaged in the manu-
facture OF ladies' silk hair nets. and also plush
goods for upholstering railroad ears, and been
making money, leaving an estate valued at up.
wards of one hundred thousand dollars.
RHODE ISLAND.
MIR. Gideon Waite, who had for thiTty-Gye
years been faithful employe OF the Provi-
dence steam mill, died on Friday night Of heart
disease. He was sixty years of ace.
MIR. Crawford Alien, The Union for christian
work, and the Boston and Providence railroad
company, have each given $3.50 to the Rhode
Island hospital to establish free beds.
Henry Sullivan was murdered on the night of
the Gath, in Newport, by Timothy Lynch The
1ugular VEN was severed, the victim dying in a
short time. The murderer has been arrested
Rum waythe cause Of he crime.
BY the excellent management of Gen. Wall
warden Of the state prison, that Institution moi
only supported itself last year, but the profits
on the work there reached Yllc resnpctohln q