Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-22
Ca a.ldlortestrr Daily spp.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The Boston marine society have sent a pro-
test to Washington against the law whlch pro-
poses to do away with compulsory pllotage
The confirmation OF Hon. Charles Hale rs as
sisfant secretary lof state is gratifying to his
many friends in Boston.
Rogumil Dawson, the celebrated German
traredian is dead He played nj the Boston
Theatre Nav is. 1867. appearing as Othello in
German, 10 Mr.. Edwin Booths laso IN English.
Gov Claflin 1t is stated, declines TO be q atate
director OF the Boston and Albany railroad.
Gentlemen who regard the interest of the state
will regret to lose his services in the board OF
directors Of that corporation.
At Boston. in the municipal court Monday
forenoon, Maggie Gilbert and Maggie Ihomp-
sou, for the larceny of two gold rings from :, Is.
lhnSon, were each held in the sum OF slOOO
for trial at the superior couri.
The COrOners inquest, IN the ChelSea mnTdeI
Sc resulted in the following verdict: "Ihat
Charles 7. Storer came to his death the lIth DAY
of February. 1872, ator about the houroi PM.
from bemorrhaoe caused by a wound IN the
heart, inflicted with dirk knife in the hands oil
AFRO B. Bartholomew
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Mrs. Y Barnicoat a dealer IN adies FURNISH
ing goods left on Monday night or the next
morning for parts unknown. She had Prev
ouslv Skinned off the most valuable part of her
stock. which is believed to have been purchased
from Boston houses on credit. Two jewellers
lose considerable bv her. and her landlord is ont
about $50. The extent of her liabilities is not
vet known She is believed to have gone to
New York, and measures are being taken TO
secure her arrest.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Abba F. PIERCE carpenter in Taunton, died
suddenly on Monday just after eating dinner.
companion, hearing a groan, turned to him
only to witness his death without a struggle.
He leaves a dependent wife and three chill
dren
"Cohannet' is the name selected for the last
new mill projected in Fall River, and the capital
stock is TO be S550,000.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Scarletiua is prevailing at West Lebanon.
The late Richard Jenness of Portsmouth left
an estate valued at 100000
There are seventeen farms in RoliInsford
owned by persons related TO each other, and all
the farms are adjoining.
g. W. Conant, postmaster at Enfield, has re-
signed, having had chance TO do better in the
Boston custom house.
Two pines were cut recently on land of John
Baichelder in Lacona, one OF which scaled $500
and the other 5000 feet One was 40 feet long.
The Canaan Reporter says: Chester is bragg
ing over four miles of wood-pile That wouldn't
be thought worth mentioning here, where pile
half a mile long has been put up in one day,
and we can show eight miles of wood pile
At Great Falls, on the DIST, Deputy Sheriff S.
S. Chick arrested man named Addison Drew,
of Rochester, who is supposed to be the man
who entered Mr. Wrght's house on Sunday
night, and who had such desperate fight with
young Blood.
The democrats of Manchester, according to
the Boston Posts accOuntl are so hungry for
good straight republican talk that they COM
posed large portion of Senator Wilson's audi
ence on Monday night. They are just the class
the senator wishes to reach, and the home truths
he gave them will yield good republican fruits
on election day.
VERMONT.
Eairnprs orp cautinuad apsinst a m Nyh is
reported to have practced sharp game in the
swindling line in Vermont, in pretending to be
negotiating the purchase of real estate, getting
bill of sale of the personal property and sud-
denly disappearing, when soon after a third
party comes upon the scene with a bill Of sale
and takes possession of the property.
A correspondent Of the Boston Journal says
the stationary engine in the Wamsutta mills is
not the largest in the world. He thinks the larg-
est has been put INTO operation at Feudens-
vile, Lehigh county, Penn. 1t is of 5000 horse
power, weighs $50 tons, and can pump 1900
gallons oil water per minute from a depth OF 300
feet. The heaviest sections of the beams weigh
"A tons. The connecting rods weigh II tons
EACH and the cylinders are 11Gl inches in diane
ter. The engine possesses more than twice the
horsepower of the one in the Wamsutta mills.
CONNECTICUT.
Norwich expects $50 900 opera house within
year All the stock is taken.
The Connecticut river is used as a regular race
course.
The South Congregational church of Hartford
is TO have a new organ.
Levi Yale, an cid and prominent citizen of
Meriden, died on Monday night
Good Samaritan temperance meeting was
held at The state prison last Sunday.
O.. Range, OF Meriden is the temperance
candidate for senator in the sixth district
John w. Hubbard, Of Glastonbury is the
democratic nominee for senator in the second
district.
There are about twenty applications for the
position OF inspector in the New Haven custom
house.
The tobacco yield in the Housatonic valley
this year will amount 10 5000 cases, worth owe
S50O,000
Philip Shenauer, of New Haven, had one O
his feet badly injured the other day, by pil
falling o it,
A little child of James Lego, of New Haven
severely scaded itself Sunday, by upsettng
pGt of boiling coffee.
The Hartford public vaccinators have vacci
mated twenty-three hundred, eighteen hundret
being children.
Elijah Harwnod, an old and much esteemed
citizen of Meriden, died suddenly in the lorme
place on Sunday. He was a prominent Mason
and member Of the order of Knights of Pythias
1t is expected that Immediately after Easter
St. Johns parish, Of Bridgeport will commence
the erection Of their new church edifice Ii
will probably take about two years to COM
pete it.
On Monday afternoon team fell through the
ice, on the river, crossing fTom Middletown tC
Portland, drawing with it Two of the oxen
After much eXerliou, they were rescued without
any special damage.
sAThe schooner Burmah, Of Bangor, Me-, CAP
tam WinsOw, ran ashore on Battery point
Black Rock during the heavy storm of Tuesday
the 18Th, at half-past twelve O'Clock, and nov
lies high and dry upon the beach.
RHODE ISLAND.
bus ness is brisk in securing summer resi-
deDces in Newport.
The Old Colony railroad corporation is t
build new passenger station house in New
pert.
young man, whose name has not been a.
certained, endeayored to cross the river on th
ice at PdWtucket on Monday evening, and wa
drowned.
On Tuesday morning. carpenter name
Plant, while working upon the new depot build
ing at Pawtucket, fell distance of forty fee
and received very serious injuries.
The Providence Journal states that the cit
council of that city has voted to dedicate th
farm recently devised TO the city by Betsey VII
lams, partly in Providence and partly in Gran
stOu, 10 public use as a park, to be known a
Roger Williams park, and appointed commite,
to procure plans for a proper and artistic lay.
out OF the grounds A committee was also APP
pointed to petition the general assembly for au.
thority TO reduce the limits of the Fields Poin
park 10 not less than one hundred and twenty
five acres, and TO connect the same with th
newly projected Roger Williams park. Tn
Journal considers the proposed union of the tw,
localities mpractcable, and if the new schem,
be carried out il must lead to an abandonment
OF the project for park on Fields Point.