Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-09
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New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

fore work can begin on the new coliseum.
There are now ihirIy-three surviving members
of the class of 1929 Of Harvard university. 1t
originally numbered lilty-eieht.
IT is rumored that the widow Of the late An
drew Carney, whose generous requests are held
in grateful remembrance, is the lady who has
recently given $4,000 iorchsritable purposes
The selectmcn OF Brighton have issued pub
lie notice to the inhabitants, requiring all cti-
zenS 10 have their families vaccinated under
liability Of the enforcement of the penalty for a
Noncompliance with the law.
\ good-Sizcd audience assembled in the Bos-
ton theatre Sunday night 10 hear Miss Edith
O'Gorman lecture on Life in Convent" The
lecture was substantially the same as the one
previously given in this city, and was partially
devoted 10 an exposure OF the wrongs inflicted
on children in Roman Catholic orphan iustitu-
tons. Miss O'Gorman carly in the evening
enlisted The sympathy of her hearers, and her
remarks referring to the RomiSh church were
received with hearty applause, mingled with
few Kisses. Among the audience we've Mr.. Carl
Rosa and Nine. PaTepaRosa, MeSsrs. Castle,
Campbell, Sothern and Frank Mayo.
A portrait of Mr. Charles X. Dillaway, tor
merry master of the Boston Latin school, was
presented to tue school on Saturday. Rev. L.
E. Hale, in his presentation speech, happily al
lulcd TO the "reminiscences of his early school
d VS. ana SAID he had conversed with men who
were school bcyS at the battle OF Lexington and
heard them tell Of the struggle as they saw it
through the keyhoe. He also alluded to the
laNL mat MlCu Tue Ou SllllS On fremont Street
were set out, Master Lovett of the Latin school
told the boys that if they broke them down they
would be logged. AS the laws of the Latin
school were supposed TO be interchangeable, he
was now watching the action of the city gov
ernment relative 10 cutting down the Gins, to
see whether the aldermen would not be sent
down TO Mr.. Gardner some day TO be tiogged.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Mr.. John o. Sargent who is passing the winter
In Europe, has sent $1,000 for the relief OF suffer
1ng families OF Gloucester.
The marine society at Newburyport was nsti-
tuted in iII2, and incorporated in Ill., the pres
emit year completing a century of its existence.
Its objects are LIST to improve the knowledge of
Inc coast by communications from its members
who are exclusively ShipmasterS; 2d-to raise a
common fund for the relief of members and their
families when in poverty. Since its organiza-
ton there have been 293 members, seventy-tw0
oil whom are now living. The amount of funds
now on hand is $4,000. The amount distributed
the past year is $500. The number OF widows
who received aid is fifteen The following gen
hemen were elected at their last annual meeting
as its officers Giles p. Stone presidents VIM.
Graves, vice president; George Lunt, treasurer;
Charles L. Bdyley, secretary.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The subject is being agitated of railroad
IRON New Bedford TO Fall River, starting from
the New Bedford and Taunton road at Braleys.
The importance of Somerset as n shipping
point is becoming every wear more apparent
year 1871 upwards OF 1000 tons of coal and
some 5000 tons of iron, which is large increase
over previous years With its ample facilities
Tor receiving and forwarding freight, both by
rail and water, it is becoming noticed abroad
and rumors are circulated TO some extent that
manufactures are now talked Of
BARNsTABLR COUNTY.
The Proylncetown Advocate says it is "glad
TO learn that the beautiful Centenary church was
not at all injured by the crowd attending Gen.
Buffers lecture"
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
K. S. Lincoln of Amherst, while shaking ont
stumps last week, uncovered nest of twenty
eight snakes and two lizards, all sound and live
".
FiirB's hotel, Northampton, is to be closed till
May, when it will reopen for the summer season.
MAINE
The house and barn of Mr. James Calls in
East Lowell were burned on Thursday, with all
the contents. Loss about $1,000.
Levi Marbles house at Richmond was par
TALLY destroyed by fire, Friday. Loss $1,000; no
INSURANCE.
The late Henry Goddard of Portland leaves in
his will $1,000 for the American tract society of
Boston
man named Towne, who passed forged
check for $500 on the BIddelord national bank
has been arrested in Hayerhil Mass, and will
be tried in Biddeford.
Mr.. Charles Carroll of Rockland was serious
~, II not fatally injured a few nights since by
the breaking OF lamp which was filled with
kerosene OIL.
little girl down east who was impatienhy
waiting the taIdY movements of her mother a
few Sabbath mornings since, cried out, Come
mamma, the BELLS atolln' and Dod's awaitn'"
There is a woman in the state who has swal-
lowed go bottles of Ayers cherry pectoral, and
her lungs are still doing duty, not vel entirely
drowned out.
"Ihe Willows" the new school building at
Pennington, built at cost of forty thousand
dollars for Miss L. G. Belcher by her father,
was dedicated by a Christmas party on the
2Gth.
There is proposition before the state agricu-
tural society 10 have annual fairs alternating in
fixed succession between Portland Lewiston
Augusta and Bangor.
There were $50 intentions of marriage record
ed in Bangor in 1871, and the Wing disposed to
make the most of this doubling up, eXclaims
Rive hundred souls with but Two hundred and
htfy thoughts; five hundred hearts that beat as
two hundred and 6lty!'
new paper has been started in Aroostook
county, portion of which will be published in
the Swedish and French languages so as 10
meet the wants of the emigrantS in that Sec
tiun.
Colonel John F. Deane, formerly of Bangor,
and graduate OF Bowdoin college in 1858, was
buried at New Orleans few days since After
graduating at college he taught school at Au-
gusta with eminent success, and afterwards at
Bangor.
At the Bowdon college alumni's meeting at
Portland, on Thursday evening" Mr.. John Rand
was chosen president, and John NJ. Brown and
Edward NJ. Rand were elected delegates TO at
tend the dinner of the New York association
at DelmonicO's, in New York, tomorrow even
ing.
The statistics Of commitments to the Kenne-
bee Jail, for the year 1871, have been published
and it appears that out of 30S commitments one
offender was cast into prison for profanity, and
one for Sabbath breaking II Justice is admin.
lstered IN kennebec county, these facts argue a
high state Of morality in and about the state
capital.
The adjourned meeting of the Portland cii-
zers and railroad men TO consult about a union
passenger depot in Back Cove, took place Oh the
9th. The railroad men brought some argu-
ments against ii and asked for further nforma-
tOn as TO the facilities TO be afforded them, and
what guarantee would be given against future
disturbance. Judge Rice of the Maine Central
and President LothroD of The Portsmouth, Saco
ana Portland roads, seemed somewhat opposed |
but Arson p, Morrill, of the Maine Central com |
mitted himself fully in favor of the scheme.
Inc meeting adjourned to meet when called by |
tue committee. The proposition is being earI-
estly pushed and will probably be carried
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
considerable excitement prevails in Concord
on account Of the small pox, of which there is
at least one genuine case
Rye Is considered a healthy place. There was
oRy thirteen deaths there in 1871, and ten of
iutse-Mc e over MY years OF age.
The Western Union telegraph company is 10
rebuild its whole line through the state along
the Eastern railroad next summer
The Rev. Z. Is. Claggett, Of Nashua has re-
eeived call from the Congregational church in
New Fairfield, Conn.
Samuel 5. Vose, Of Peterborough was nomi-
mated Thursday as the republican candidate for
senator in the eighth district.
HE schoolhonse on Bible hill in HillsbOro
was burned on Tuesday morning, the 2Gth ult.
The books belonging to the scholars were all
destroyed.
The state normal school has sixty normal pu. |
pills 10 attendance the winter term and more |
than seventy OF the one hundred and thirty in |
the school last fall are now employed in teach |
ing.
Henry Holt, Of Woodsville, one of the repre-
seniatiyes from the town of Hayerbill, died on
the 23d ult. from fever brought on by a severe
cold taken while attending the late democratic
state convention He was tbirty-sx years Of
age and leaves wife and three children.
VERMONT.
dwelling house aud two barns, owned by
George BicklOrd of Barton, were burned last
week. Loss about $500; insurance $1,000.
Inspector Kelley Of ST. Adams seized two
Trunks the Muufraa1 troit, ono oxyou;u,r lns,