Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-16
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New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Water carts we're employed 10 lay the dust
in some of the streets OF Boston on Saturday.
The funeral services of the late Isaac Rich will
take place from his late residence in Beacon
stIeet. Boston, to-day.
The late Mr. Isaac Rich was to have been
married on Friday, the day before his death,
to the lady who has been his housekeepcr for
many years.
DR. Holmes speaks of the great organ as 'that
Hmalayan home OF harmony which you are to
see and thcn die, if you don't live where you
can SEE and hear it Often"
Rev. William L. Alger who recently returned
from Paris insane, is rapidly recovering at Som
eTve, and the prospects OF complete restoration
arc excellent. 1t is doubtful, however, whether
il will be advisable for him TO resume literary
work for some time, if ever.
Tue state temperance alliance has called a state
temperance convention TO be held at the Meio.
naOn in Boston on tie oath and 18th. The
object of the convention is declared to be agita-
Iion for the repeal OF the beer clause" and the
restoration OF the. prohibitory law in It's in
tegrity.
The funeral of David Lcavitt, the reporter of
the Boston Journal, took place from the chapel
Of the Old South church on Saturday. There
was large attendance, including many repre-
seutatives of the newspapers and magazines.
The United States court al Boston has granted
the asslgnecs in bankruptcy might be asth0itz led
TO release to the state the equity Of redeeming
the Burdell bonds, held as collateral security for
loanS 10 the Hartford and Enc railroad, the
vaiue OF the bonds being much less than the
amount of the loans
tsosioH has a number of rich men in disguise.
One of the most poverty-siricken looking men,
who searches the city for old paper, owns half
a dozen brick buildings at the south end; an
old apple woman on kilby street pays taxes
m S10 nQ0 bpuSps and n a State
street bank is at the close OF business hours
disguised in Overalls and an old hat, and sweeps
out sd dusfs down. During business hours
he acts rs messenger, thus drawing two sal
aries. He owns eight houses and is worth
So, GOO.
Several Of the gentlemen interested in the
neace julilee which Mr. Silmore has planned
for tits YEAR, met Saturday for consultation. The
gathering included many of the executive COM
mittee of the last Jubilee with mary other prom
input ciuzens. Several railroads were repre-
sented and pledged $4,000 toward the gBaranfy
fund required before The work on the coliseum
can be commenced. Several other gentlemeD
pedled 5000 EACH This fHnd already exceeds
1000, and ii is believed tho balance will be
forthcoming during the current Heek. A deep
interest was manifested by all, and the present
week will probably witness the cOnSUmmation
Of necessary contracts for the erection of the
building, and other important items, the organ
izatIon of subcommittee, and the official com
mcncement of the enterprise.
The new Boston post office is rapidly assum-
ing shape and Its general outlines sfe BOW rec
ognizabie. The outer walls are completed as
high as the second story; the interior sails are
also finished, and on the third floor the iron
work is being laid. BY the first of June next
all the stone is expected to be delivered, and by
the fourth of July it is confidently expected the
roof will be on. The designs for the furniture
ere now in preparation.
MIDDLEsEN COUNTY.
At Lowell, Sunday uirht n .Fl.lut airbf
O'clock FIRE broke Glti in the barn in the rely of
Walker street, owned t,y Rev. Mr.. Warren and
il was almost totally destroyed before the flames
were STAYED. The loss is estimated between three
and four hundred dollars, on which tuere was no
insurance. The fire was thought to be incepdiary
very full meeting of the stockholders OF she
birmingham and Lowell railroad was held IS
South Framlneham on Saturday afternoon, at
which it was voted to lease the road to the Bos-
ton, Clinton and FltchDurg company for the term
of twenty years, the stockholders TO receive
thirty per cent oil the gross receipts II this ac-
ton is ratified by the legislature, the lease will
be assumed in April.
At Lowell, on Saturday, coapIe of Young
men hired pair Of horses and a carFyall at the
livery stable OF G. L. Huntoon. After driving
about the city and taking in some lady friends
they started in the evening out of town on the
Nashua road, and the party have not been heard
from yet, hut the police found the team put up
in a barn. II was picked up by a teamster,
astIay.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Robert Gardner, thirty years of age, recently
elected surveyor general of California, is a ma
live Of Fall River.
MAINE.
Seventeen boxes of trout, en- route to Boston
: have been seized in Bangor Maine. The fish
were caught In violation OF the law that forbids
all eStching of trout III Maine between October1
and FEBRUARY 1.
Last Friday evening Mr. Reuben +. Bracket
oc Rprxvifi while friViuU a t.Co-horsa toap,
loaded with wood from Salmon Falls to South
Berwick, was struck by freight train on the
Portsmouth, Great Falls and CONWAY railroad,
ar their crossing in Berwick, near Salmon Falls
bridge, at Hog Poiut." One horse was killed
and the other iniuIed bat Mr.. Bracket FORUM
ately escaped without harm. The absence Of
snow on the crossing, with the heavy load, re-
taried the pace OF the horses, and in some mea-
sure contributed 10 the accident.
An exchange SAYS: Gov. Perham finds him
self poweiless to enforce the prohibitory law,
and the legislature will be strongly urged to
place the county shertfs under the control of the
executive Tor that purpose. The governor re-
commended this plan in his annual message
and the state temperance convention at Angus
ia, on Wednesday, is expected TO declare for
il. II is argued that the sheiiffs would be virtu-
ally state police, while no new offices would be
created"
As already stated, a powder house at the
granite quarry near Cedar Point, Vinalhaven
denially blown up at about five o'clock Friday
evening, killing one of the quarrymen instantly
and sevcrly wounding several others. The pow
der house is short distance from the quarry,
and blast being about to be fred the fuse was
lighred and all the men, six or seven in number,
Jan up back of the powder house 10 he out OF
the way Of the explosion. When the blast ex-
plOded they ran back and were near the powder
house when it blew up. A can of powder which
had been used in the blasting had been set down
nufSilp Of the uOWlpT bOusp and
thai fire was communicated 10 this from bit of
burning fuse from The blast and from this to the
powder house. The man Bryan, who was killed
had the upper portion Of his head blown off.
Another man was Injured SO badly that his re-
covery is doubtful, and Mr.. Austin Mink, the
overseer at the quarry, was blown some distance
and received internal injuries which may posi-
bls prove fatal. Some Of the others were more
or less injured.
VERMONT.
The house and barn vi a farmernamed Lamb.
at Burlington, were burned on Sunday week
while all the family were at church, except a
crippled brother of Mr.. Lamb, who persisted in
the fimes
Now that BTatteboro has just gathered to
ITSELF with all toe honOrs it had the power to
bestog, The Eiortal remains Of tue late Mr.. JAS
Fisk, jr-, the story is renewed of the result Of
an application 10 him, last summer, for aid in
putting new fence around the burying ground
in which he now lies "No" said he ssnot a
(pcolane) cent-you don't need a fence there
Those that are in are in no danger OF breakiue
out, and those that are out surely have 10 de-
sire to break in"
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
There is q story current that the burglars
who passed through Nashua last Friday, and
attempted 10 enter the bank at Great Falls on
Friday night, returned to Portsmouth the fol.
lowing morning, and took the S.15 train for
Boston. 1t was evidently their intention to
drive back to Nashua in the team they had
hired there, but by some means their carriage
became wrecked and they then engaged a
farmer to take them to the city in season TO
take the Boston train, which leaves at G15, but
failing 10 reach the station before $50 they
missed the train, and were OBLIGED IN stay ov,,p
till the next, thus waiting there two bours-,Il
OF which seems somewhat Improbable
The court room in Nashua was well filled an
Saturday evening with republicans, who path
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