Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-18
G0lurtrstcr Daily spp.


The daughter oil Ten. BANKS IS the oelie VI
Washington this winter.
ChaTleStown proposes to have its annual munlc-
ipai election on Tuesday instead OF Monday.
The Catholics cleared S64, 629 from their cathe-
dral fair at Boston, the gross receipts being
S70,6OS.
The receipts of the Massachusetts horticultural
Sociefy for the last year were 81, 591, and eX-
penditures S24. 1856. The debt of the society is
S94 500 and il owns real estate valued at $780,
2S5, and one-iourth interest IN the profits of
Mount Auburn cemetery.
The "Soid men OF Boston" are moving shoulder
to shoulder in laying plans for the successful
development of the great International muslcal
jubilee TO be held in Boston next June. The
whole people viii rally around this band, and
the festival in prospect, under the able admins
tration of such men as are uniting TO carry 1t
through, viii eclipse all musical demonstrations
in the grandeur Of its effects, that the world has
ever known.
A Boston paper saws: "The Tribune says it
was not the natural advantages of New York,
but the enter prise Of its merchants, that gave
that city its commercial supremacy, and it adj
mits that it is not growing so fast as Boston
and some other American cities. If our bust
ness men improve our present advantages, ana
those we are likely TO have within i've years
Boston will have a much larger relative grown
in the future"
An exchange says: "B. B. Dyer Boston
broker induced Augustus Marks ana ms wlie
and acting under it, drew $1,000 from the East
ern railroad which was to settle claim Of theirs
against the company, their son being killed on
that road. Marks is bedlidden, and Dyer has
collected various sums for him IRON the beneyo-
lent which, with the $1,000, DYER has meanly
kept himself They have accordingly sued him,
and he was also arrested on Monday, and, in
default of $4,000 bail, locked up TO await tiial
on a criminal charge" This Is probably the
same man who was known as General" Dyer
in New York, some years age, afterward suffered
somewhat in reputation at Providence, as Ben
iamin b. Dyer, and, later, has figured in not
very enSiable light, in Boston, as "B. Bruce
Dyer.
ESSEX COUNTY
Mrs. Cuddihy, a widow, living at Lawrence,
was found dead in her room Monday night. She
was alive and well Monday.
a movement is on foot at Lawrence among the
veterans who participated in the late war, to cs-
ta"lish a colony in Kansas under the bounty
land claim for discharged soldiers. Ii meets
with much favor.
Last week, Mary Weeks, Of Lawrence, was
surprised by the return home of her oldest son,
George Weeks, from Kansas, whom she sup
posed was dead, having received the sad intelli-
gence that he was killed last October by the In
ulans whlie herdiEg cattle on the plains. tie
had been CAPTURED by Indians, and killed as
they supposed, but revived and got away,
BRISTOL COUNTY.
surance company at New Bedford, at their adj
Journed meeting on Saturday afternoon, voted
70 taEe stock notes at once to the amount of
sSOO,OO0. These notes will be readily given,
aud with the SURPLUS fhe company now has,
VIII constitute an ample carital;
New Bedford, with population Of %, 900,
paid last year for the support of the poor neatly
S3OOO0; Springfield, population 27,500, paid
about $4,000; NeHbdfyport, population 70 SEQ.
paid slSo0O; Worcester Population $4,000,
paid little more than $4,000 and Chel-
sea, with population OF 10000, paid lsss than
$4,000.
NANTUCKET COUNTY.
fhe Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror says the
births ON the island in 1871 numbered 81 mar
riageS, IS; deaths, 81,
RAMfbEN COUNTY
Mayor Spooners Of Springfield, has appointed
ana the CITY council has confirmed lake II.
Tease as city marshal, an excellent appointment,
he having been the incumbent of that Office fol
many years, and most efficient officer. L. G.
Pvtiis, formerly captain under Mr.. Pease was
appointed assistant marshal, and A. IL. Smith,
captain Twenty policemen were appointed
double the usual number. The chief engineer
Will be appointed next week, and the chances
are in favor of Capt Fl. &. Lombard.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Portsmouth is supplied with native oysters.
Scarlet fever has made its appearance in En-
field, but in mild form as yet.
The eleventh chapter of Hebrews was read
from five of the Portsmouth pulpits on the
morning Of the 18th inst.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. G Lyman Of North STRAIT
ford were thrown from their sleigh in Cole
brook on the Sth inst, and both were badly in
jured.
Carroll, where the White and Twin mountain
houses are located, is made lively, this winter,
by the buzz of seven steam saw mills each do
ing heavy lumber business.
MIR. Francis Cutting of Croydon has sold a
flock of several hundred sheep for So a head,
except some ordinary ones that went for 81.
Messrs. Chadwick & Rawson sold forty for 81
head.
AT a concertin Colebrook not long since, were
five gentlemen by the name of Moves, whose
aggregate length was thirty-one feet five inches
and half The tallest was six feet four. 1t is
time for some one to suggest that the aforesaid
concert mast have been noveSy affair.
The Nashua telegraph says few days since
lady came to a business firm in that city to
pay debt contracted by her deceased hus-
hand eighteen years before, and which had been
outlawed before he died The bill was S35,
and the honest. Woodworking Irish woman re-
ceiYed SO in reward.
The Portsmouth Chronicle says: Aaron Young,
Esq was not removed Dee Both by order OF
the secretary of the treasury" The secretary
issued an order in compliance with Collector
Barley recommendation TO that effect about
the middle of December, but ascertaining that
move, revoked the order before the time of re-
moval came. Mr.. Young has remained continu-
ously IN office since.
The Boston Shoe and Leather Record of Jan.
9Th has an article in which the excellence of New
Hampshire manufactures, referring TO Dover,
Rochester, Pennington and Portsmouth, in the
boot and shoe line is endorsed, closing as fol-
lows:-"So far as our observation extends, the
course of trade will favor the New Hampshire
line OF goods the coming season, as the goods
are wanted, and prices are favorable to a rapid
sale. All kinds of prepared shoe stock and artif-
cial leather is regarded with dsfavor by New
Hampshire manufacturers, who propose to main
tain their place in the shoe trade by making
quality which will give to consumers their
moneys worth in durability.
VERMONT.
The butter market at st. Adams this week was
dull, prices ranging from 25 to 80 cents per
pound. Amount shipped, 291 tubs.
Lake Champlain was closed by ice on the Sth
inst. This is the earliest date of the freezing
over OF the lake in fity-six years. with one ex-
ception, in 1868, when it shut over Jan. 7.
The fat men of Rutland county are going to
organize an association and indulge in dinner
Nobody will be considered anybody unless he
weighs 200 pounds.
The department convention of the grand army
held at Burlington, last week, made this choice
Oh ofheers: Grand commander, w. g. Veazev
OF Rutland; senior vice commander Romeo ri
ID.
i. TAYLOR of Brattcboro; medical director, Vim
7: Russell OF Middlebury; chaplain, Rev. Harvey
Webster of Essex.
The court OF inquiry in reference to the fatal
shooting ARRAY at East Arlington, has closed its
labors, the justice holding Sherrod Farwell and
Franklin Laurence guilty of willfuI murder.
declining TO allow them the benett of bail.
They were taken to Bennington and committed
TO jail, where they will await the action of
the grand jury, which will be in session next
June.
Hon. David French, an old and respected cit-
zen OF Burlington, died on the 9Th He was
native of Williston; graduated from the uni
yersitv of Vermont, class Of 1913; was a state
senator in S4l.42, and for many years register
OF probate for Chitenden county.
CONNECTICUT
A Daubury boy twelve years old has fl our-
ishing beard.
The "a REGIMENT holds its reunion in Hart
ford on the 18th Of February.