Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-21
G0Iurfrsttr Daily gpp.
New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

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The ninth regiment will not parade on 81.
Patrick day.
The police force of Boston ask for an increase
of salaries. The captains desire $500 year;
lieutenants, Sl400; scrgeants, $500, and patrol
men, $500.
On Monday, Mr.. Tourjee received offers from
over 5000 singers for the grand jubilee choruses,
the Handel and HAYDN leading the list. II
would not be surprising if the list should be full
before Saturday night.
The recent conference of Mr.. Gilmore with the
Boston board Of aldermen resulted in the pas
sage OF an order for the erection of permanent
iron bridges on Huntington avenue over the
Boston and Albany railroad, and on Newton
street over the Boston and Providence railroad,
at cost Of S175,000.
The priests OF the Roman Catholic church in
the vicinity Of Boston are paying great attention
10 the subject of temperance, urging their hear
ers to lead sober and industrious lives. ON a
recent occasion gift of $50 was returned to ne
donor by the priest, when il was asceIianfu
thar it had been made by liquor selling. Last
Sunday one OF the priests in addressing ms an-
dience at the Boston Highlands pictured ne
evils of intemperancc, and stated that unless tne
traffic was abandoned in that neighhorhood ne
should himself become complainant.
MAINE
The Cobb lime company manufacturer during
the year ending January /, 1872. nine hundred
and seven thousand casks of lime.
The Brunswick Telegraph Is so quarrelSome
that it seeks controversy with the New York
Observer on the su9ject Of the teachings of Con-
fuclus.
Alexander Thomas, highly esteemed citizen
of Camden, who died last week, died at the very
hour be was to be married, and was laid out in
his wedding suit. He had his will made five
hours before his DEATH
The Portland Press says: CAS- the name of
Hon. Charles J Morris mas been used on the
street quite freely in connection with the mayor.
atty at the coming election VIC are authorized
by INN to say that be is not and will not be
candidate for that office"
Fire was discovered at Camden, in Carleton,
Norwood Co.'s counting room, between twelve
ana one ocl elk Friday morning. Ii burned
many OF the valuable papers upon the shelves
and two holes in the floor of the hail above when
the alarm was given.
The citizens of Pennington are becoming
alarmed regarding that pestilential disease
small poX. Rumols reach them that it has made
It's appearance in Lewiston, also in MI. Vernon,
ABOUT twelve miles below Ihc selectmen have
engaged physician 10 canvass the town and
Vaccinaie AL who wish TO be. In addition to
inc SINAI! pox scare, they have the measles in
to~0. Several cases are reported.
Joseph b. Smith of Veazie, convicted at Ban
cor for the murder of Thomas S. Josselyn, at
Charleston, Sept. 10, 1871, is reported to be
about twenty years old. He has dark eyes ard
hair, his face is smooth and boyish, he dresses
neatly and plainly and is extremely youthful
and prepossessing in his general appearance-not
Al all like the generally received notion of
murderer
The grocery dealers in Lewiston are running
one another on graduated sugar, which costs
Twelve and quarter cents per pound by the
barrei. They are advertising it at ten cents a
pound, and one already advertises it at eight
cents, but he viii sell only one pound to a Gus
to.Hei' MeanWniie Inc consumers are enjoying
l , lgn ana are naVlng their buckets filed up,
DAY amer day. The consumption of sugar in
lewiston, just now, appears 10 be enormous.
Inc consumers can stand this sort of fun longer
than the @ioceIs can.
The Lewiston journal says a rumseller
brought to that city few nights ago, on the
iate Tram, 1Ye twenty gallon cgs of liquor. He
h au Just S4I one oil me Kegs INTO his shop when
some OF the sly and thirsty ones raised an
alarm OF an officer approaching. The owner of
the hq1or drove OF with his single keg, leaving
me other tour ON the platform. Returning
some tme afterwards he found that it was a
false aalm, raised by the bystanders, who had
sloien ono OIL MS kegs IN his absence.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The property Of the late Richard Jenness, of
Portsmouth, amounts TO over S5OO,OOO.
ne STATE mil at East Lebanon is being put in
or9er LOT eflhdlnG corn.
Mills are to be erected at South Lancaster
ms season. The boarding house is TO be put
up at once.
A hunting party in DiXville, consisting of
Jour gentlemen, recently captured and killed
eight tine deer in one day, with bounds
Rockingham Academy shoe manufactory, at
hampton FANS, Is making twenty thousand
pairs Oi SHOES mon'h.
An oak tree, interesting for its locality, stands
III Two counlleS, Rockingham and Stafford,
and in three towns, Epplng, Lee and Noting
ham.
Inc citizens of Hartford, VT, have sent S11O
10 Mascoma engine company of Lebanon for
being instrumental in saving large portion of
Their village from fire.
A great democratic mecfina was held Monday
evening at the town hall at Goffstown. Judge
Carpenter OF South Carolina was the principal
speaker.
Oh rles Cole OF Stark was found dead in the
woods on Thursday last, having died suddenl
while engaged in drawing lors, it is supposcd
from over exertion.
Alfred Chandler, an emplOyc of A. L. & W
u Brown & Co. of White6eld, was killed on
saturday oy being caught between the hunters
OF TWO cars that he was coupling.
Tue receipts oil the Sugar River railroad at
Newport for the up freight for January were
SISO0; for passengers going down for same
PERIOD, s4'5
There are nineteen divorce and two hundred
and fourteen other cases on the Stafford county
docket. Judge Sargent has begun in Dover to
reduce these figures.
Deer are plenty IN the vicinity of Madison, on
me PORTSMOUTH, Great Falls & Conway railroad
Ohe was seen TO cross the railroad track ON the
I'm. Elguteen have been killed in that region
this winter.
On the 14th Brooklne held town meetinr
and voted unanimously TO give five per cent. Of
the town valuation toward building the
Tyngsborough and BrOokline railroad The
amount thus voted will be about SIT 900, which
private subscriptions will make up to 100000.
The kearSarge mills in Portsmouth are soon
10 manufacture their'own gas. The prOprietOrs
OF the kocklngham house contemplate similar
move. They expect to save ninety cents per
thousand IN this way.
Cagt John LamSou, a prominent citizen of
New Boston, died SudlpulV nf on,
the I'm INST, while engaged in coupling two
OK SECS to2ether. lie was seyenty-nine years of
age ne had nIed various town offices and
was Tor several years representative in the
legislature
me Newmarket manufacturing company,
VINO have for their agent Col. Geo. Frost, have
1Our cotton mills, three built of granite, and No
OF slatc-Stone taken from the quarries within
two miles Of the village. They have bult a
block Of stores with dwellings above, three
blocks of bOardlng-houses, and are now finish
inc four French rooted houses, and propose
building another stone mill 10 be 500 feet in