Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-25
S0lOrttstcr Daily spp.


New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The expenditure upon schoolhouses in Boston
last year amounted TO sos, 1S2 "a
Mr.. John Nell for twenty years sexton OF
St. Stephens Episcopal church. Boston, died
on Tuesday, in his eighty-third year.
Victoria Woodruff is going TO Boston again;
Feb. ! IS the date, Music hall the place, and
The Impending Revolution her subject.
1t IS said that the committee OF the legislature
viii report in favor Of selling the state school
ship, and recommend that the boys on board be
sent 10 the Westboro reform school.
Bosion's net debt is less than seventeen mil
lions, of which CoChtuate claims Sc SIP ,711.11
The ciis's property in school, station and en-
eine houses alone, amounts TO over eleven
millions.
The demand for sensational periodicals is well
illustrated by the facT of the New England
news ccmpauy's selling 100000 of single illus
trattd publication giving f0ll particulars OF the
lie aud death Of Jamss Fisk, Jr
One OF DIR. Nichoson's Boston flock has con-
tributed $500 and another S2G0 towards paving
Tie expenses of his removal to Newark. Other
contributions will be forthcoming. No doubt
the reverend gentleman thinks Boston is good
place 10 move from.
A petition is ~ circulation in BrOokline ask
ing the seectmen TO withdraw the charter Of
the Metropolitan railroad. Causes of con-
plaint-no accommoaations for passengers
trouble about inequality in the fare rates, and
unscntemanly conduct on the part Of con-
ductors.
ComBsapder H. R. Sibley, G. A R., has is
sSeT q general order assuming command OF the
department of Massachusetts, and appointing
Comrade Henry b. Pierce, of Abingdon, assist
ant adlutant general. The appointment VIII
prove acceptable 10 the order generally.
The new city government OF Cambridge is
rather slow in perfecting its organization, as
several OF the heads Of departments and the
members of the police force remain unappolnt-
ed The city ordinances explicitly state that
these appointments shall be made as early in
January as convenient and practicable. There
has yet been nothing of public Importance
brought before the city council Of 1872.
A letter from the president OF the Nashville
choral society to Mr.. Gilmore, states that the
organization he represents desires 10 be repre-
seutcd in the International peace jubilee, The
same letter speaks of the musical revival pro-
duced by the first jubilee, and says that the
Messiah was given for the first time i'll Nash
vile on the 18th Of January,
The walls of Music halt, Boston, will shortly
reSound with refrain entirely novel to that
melodlous sanctuary, and mayhap the great or
gan will be called upon for an accompaniment
TO such baton-defying chorus as has never
been seen there before. Arrangements have
been made by committee of the Massachusetts
poultry association TO hold its exhibition in this
temple of music on the 9th of next month,
continuing four days, the plan being subject TO
the decision of the executive committee,
A few days since gentleman residing in
Sharon walked from that place TO Canton, on
the Boston and Providence railroad, to take the
express train for Boston. On reaching the
bridge he discovered what seemed to him a
split nearly across one OF the main beams. On
his arrival at Boston he called on Superintendent
Folsom and told him how the bridge looked.
The popular superintendent thanked him and
tele9raphed to Sharon for the next train to be
stopped, and for gang Of wOrkmen to examine
1t before any trains passed over. subsequently
the gentleman received a yearly pass over the
road for his thoughtlElness.
The Boston correspondent of the Rutland
Herald thus explains the dark ways" Of the
lobbyists ga friend of mine who has been Il
member of the legislature for number of years,
was talking to the principal lobbyist at the
state house, a short time since My friend said
10 him, We'll, Mr.. -, you never rot around
me when you wanted 10 carry through any OF
your schemes. oh, yes replied the other, i
always got some honest old farmer TO take a
seat next to yours and tell you that his partic
uar friends in the country wished it done, that
it would be a great benefit TO their towns, and
you always voted just as | wanted you to-
The Boston Post says; There are now two
hundred and siXty-four students at the insti-
iute of technology, a larger number than al
any preceding period, and the stock Of gold and
silver ore on hand to be worked amounts IL
eleven tons. Seven regular courses of study, in
addition to optional specialues, can be pursued
The system has reached perfection unequailed
hrightens with every passing term. The seventh
annual catalogue has Just been issued and pre-
sents in elaborate form the status of the insti
tute and the details OF the system of instruc
non, together with many valuable statistics"
Very few persons take the trouble to inform
INTENSELY s upon the subject ofpenaties imposed
by nc statutes upon those who fail to notify tbs
board OF health of the prevalence of contagious
diseases ~ their households. In the southern
district court, at Boston, on Tuesday a case in
dpEaEnnn1 laa aTY,a oil 1orfh holm q
health officer, and the accused one Robert
Smith. II appeared that in the early part of De
GENDER son of the accused, named Thomas
was taken with mild case Of varioloid, o.
which he recovered in a week or two. Tit
1ather alleges that he knew not the nature OF th(
disease until after it had progressed several days
and that, moreover, he did not wish his son tC
be sent to the hospital as he was afraid he woulC
not be properly treated. The boy is now wei
and appeared on the witness stand. The city
physician has investigated the case, and was sat
isfed of It's being varooid, but neither he mo-
the health officers had received any notice of it
The case was continued until the Both inst 1
appears thar a Miss Goodwin, who lived il
another part OF the same house, took the disease
nom young Smith, and subsequently, died at tho
city hospital, and that other persons in the samt
locality took the disease from the same source
A number ofnew cases have lately been reported
in The Highlands.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
sem 10 one of the teachers in the public schools
Of New Bedford: "please tx kuse Henry at 3
oclox."
All efforts to recover the bodies of two of the
boys drowned at New Bedford on Sunday have
proved unaYalllng. A loaf of bread filed with
quicksilver was thrown into the water, with the
idea that when il floated over the place where a
body rested, it would Immediately sink. The
experiment utterly failed.
Concerning the search for the bodies of the
rlFffr nd Do IL. 49,
says: Practical ANTAGONISTS doubt the effective.
ness OF firing guns for the raising of dead bodies
They invariably float of themselves unless in
very deep water, after decomposition has pro
ceeded, in a few days. II conclusion of the
water is of any use, the explosion of pound of
gunpowder under the surface would do more
good than ton above"
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
II seems that the principal in the recent
tragedy, in which six persons were shot at in
passing his house while he was deriOus from
liquor, did not use ardent spirits until 1862
when he commenced the use of ale by the adj.
vice OF physician. His friends endeavorcd 10
dissuade him from following such advice his
nearest relatives cautioning him that it mig hit
bring him to bad life. 1t was not long after
without disseminating the ale, and the result is
now known to the public
MAINE.
The number Of inmates of the state reform
for the past year have not made good the places
of those discharged or apprentced. The new
commitments were tiity-ninc, a falling off from
the preceding year Of six, but quite up to the
average Of previous years. There was no new
commissions from Bangor, Lewiston, Augusta
or any other large places and only a scatter
ing few from the country. The number of boys
received into the Institution since its opening il
12sl; present number 1874.
The legislature is now upon its third week
and yet nothing Of any importance has come up
for consideration, aside from u few railroad
measures, aud these are mostly pending in the
committee room, where the hearings excite con-
siderable interest," and call together large num-
Der OF persons. There is such a dearth of busi.
ness, and such commendable headway has been
made with those propositions which have bee1
brought up for consideration, that the house Sc.
rionsly entertained the proposition for final adj
s-.ioprRuent on Tie 10Th proximo, and on vote
il was found tlarsN bad quarum been present
il would have been clfEried handsomely.
Maine exchange sax tlat north of the
town OF Washington, aud 6csgecn there and
Palermo, is a tract Of land known ~ Hubbard ),
Core 1t X fine agricultural COUNTY, con
tans some fifteen farm houses, aud its inhabit
ants, belonging to no town OF plantation, pas
no taxes, and cannot vote. During the wal