Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-02-01
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The Woodruff is 10 appear in Boston again
this evening.
some little agitation was caused in the
Charlestowu common council on Tuesday eve
ming bv reason Of an order introduced looking
to a more careful disposition OF inc PUBIC
MONEYS. Some serious charges were ln;iue'
At Boston, the first fresh water ior domestic
use was introduced from Jamaica pond IN the
early part of the present century. Inc capital
of the company which had its management was
S130,000 and no dividends were made during the
first ten years after the commencement oil the
work. The aqueduct supplied about fifteen
hundred houses with water, chiefly at the South
End. The fluid was conducted from the pond
through four main pipes of pitch pine logs, TWO
OF four inches bore and two of three inches, inc
lateral pipes having bore of one and one lail
inches. There were about fifteen miles OF ihese
water pipes, and they extended as far norm as
Franklin street and Harrison avenue, INTO Lon
gresS nearly to State, and to Broad street, lhey
also branched off to Charles street as Tar as tue
Massachusetts general hospital. While digging
trenches for gas pipes and sewers al the South
End it is not an uncommon thing TO strike some
OF the old logs of the acqueduct. Upon the IN
PRODUCTION of the Cochtuate, in 1S4S, the aque-
duct was abandoned to its fate.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
In Lowell, on the 30th Nlt., barn oeioHS."s
to John II. NlcDOnough on Charles siItf ,r.o %1'
burned, with a small quantity OF nay ~ arebai
Two or three adjoining houses Wele ,ooo ~
The damage may possibly amount ~ SiV ', iI''O
is covered by insurance in the Lover nlu'u s
At a recent meeting OF The directors oi me
Railroad national bank, at l0"eh, a pioPo ,
10 remove the location OF i1e oalN ~ % s, On
was referred to a committee CONSISTING Vi tne
plesident and four directors. The business OF
the bank is largely with the corporations, VINO
could probably be as well accommodated in
Boston; but il is badly probable that II Will DC
removed 1t was Incorporated in 1881.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The late Susan Rowland Of New Bedford, in
her will made two public bequests-one of $1,000
TO the 'New Bedford Monthly Meeting of
Friends, in trust, the income to be given TO
ministers of the gospel, of society of Friends,
travelling hereaway. and needing assistance;
and the other, of $500, to the orphans home.
The Taunton Republican says that new post
OF the Grand Army of the Republic will prob
ably be organized from the residents i'll the vi
cinity of Hopewe and Whittenton. 1t is pro-
posed 10 give to the new post the name of the
heroic and faithful Dean PAUL.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
- Hampden park has been leased to a party
of Springfield gentlemen for tiotting park.
The leasei is for five years, at an annual rental
of $4,000.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A woman at Northampton gave birth to four
children on Thursday, and at last accounts the
mother and all OF the children were dong well.
This makes seven children which she has had
in thirteen months.
The late Alvin Barnard of North Amherst
willed $1,000 to the Baptist church at Amherst,
on condition that the church should never settle
pastor who is member of the Masonic fra
ternity. The church is now without pastor,
and the Home missionary society will have the
$1,000 il the church calls Mason.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
North Adams is enjoying free lecture course
the lectures being gratuitously supplied by the
professors of Williams college, who, for the sake
of the higher education which they advocate,
are willing to give their services for nothing.
The course was opened, Friday night, by lee
ture on history from Prof Perry.
Stockbridge has become suddenly noted,-or
notorious-as the birthplace OF JEFF Davis. The
Washington correspondent of the New York
Times mentions curious fact which has Just
come TO light concerning Jetf. Evidence has
beea found to be in existence that, instead of
being born in Kentucky, as has always been
supposed, and as he has always asserted, he
was really born in Massachusetts, and therefore,
instead of being pure-bIooded son of southern
chivalry, he is only Massachusetts Yankee.
Lanman'S Dictionary of Congress puts Davis
down rather indefinitely as having been born in
Christian county, Kentucky, in 1908. Persons
who claim to be well Informed say that jeff
was born in old Stockbridge in 1903, and re-
moved TO Kentucky with his father when a small
child. His father is said to have been wheel
wright by trade, and the house where he lived
ON one side OF the road, and the shop where he
worked on the other side, are well remembered
by lYlng witnesses. After all the inustrous
rebel comes from pebeian stock,
MAINE.
1he YORK county delegation in the legislature
have voted TO ask for loan of thirty thousand
doh1rs TO build county Jail in Alfred.
The committee on banks and banking have
decided to report bill taxing savings banks
deposits state tax Of one-halfo one per cent
The hearing on the petition for a railroad
from Bath to Portland, has been assigned for
Tuesday.
The committee on the prohibitory law has re-
ported a sheriff enforcing act, which was laid
over to be printed
There was recently born in Alva, to Mrs. John
Berry, child with six fingers on each hand,
and six toes on each foot
The Lewiston Journal fears their new city ball
won't be ready Tor the republican state conven.
ton which is to meet in Lewiston next June.
The new post office near the East Livermore
camp ground, has been named East LiYermore
Mills, instead of Browns Mills, the latter being
so similar to the name Of another office that it
caused confusion.
A case of "back-mailing' has recently been
brought TO light in Bangor which on investiga-
ton shows that attempts have been m3de TO ex-
tort money from quite number Of persons, in
several instances successfully,
Last Friday morning Adelbert Holland, a
farmer residing near Lewiston, while suffering
from the effects of debauch committed suicide
by taking strychnine.
Inc HIOuuus at henUeUu1h WHICH nave Deel
used for many years by the Methodiss for their
annual camp meetings are to pass into other
hands, and will be used for other purposes.
The oldest man in New England lives at Ca
man, aud is 105 years of age. His wife lived
to be linety-seven, and their oldest child is now
alive at eighty-one
VIM. Tarbox, a guard at the state prison,
Thomaston, committed suicide on Wednesday
by shooting himself through the heart with his
own rifle. No motive can be assigned for the
act, which was committed very deliberately
There are more fines for selling liquor and
keeping drinking houses and tippling shops col
lected in Andgosooggin county than in any
other county in the state. The Lewiston Jour-
nal says that last week $3.50 liquor fines were
imposed and paid in the supreme judicial court.
The meanest man in Biddeford recently took a
barrel OF flour from poor tenant in payment
for rent. The -four had been given to the poor
man by the members of the Methodist church.
to which he belonged The tender-hearted land.
lord was also a church member.
Wednesday night, January 18th, the house of
Justus Woodwork, of Linneus, was DESTROYED
10y fire with nearly its entire contents. The
family bad retired, End about midnight were
awakened by the sound of fire in the chamber.
hired girl ran for assistance to the neigh
bors, and in so doing both her feet were badly
frozen,
- Mr. Alanson B. Farwell, well known citizen
of Augusta, has become insane, and has been
sent to the insane hospital. The particular form
rich, and he gives checks freely for $780, 900 to
100000 10 anybody who asks.
The passage of the Maine Central loan bill in
the house, by vote Of three to one, is received
with much favor. The bill was desperately op
posed, but its opponents were driven to the wal
in every instance. Its passage in the senate i.
regarded as certain by decisive majority.
The Portland Argus says that Albert Weber
who died from the effects of burns received a
the Dorchester avenue lime kiln in Boston, be
longed in Portland. He was a strictly temper
ate man, and the whole affair is shrowded IN
mystery, but there are evidences OF his having
been drugged and carried to where he was found
A good suit Of clothes which he had on when he
LETT home had been removed and old ones put
on instead.
The committee on claims are considering n
proposition from Neal Dow and S. B. Cum minps,
asking to be relieved from their liability in The
Peck deiacation. These two gentlemen are the
only responsible persons left of the five original
bondsmen of Peck, and they think it a matter Of
equity that they should be released from theii
obligations. The amount for which they ar,
held, we believe, is rising $50, 600.
At Portland, ON the Both, a hearing was giver
by the legislative railroad committee 10 the ne
titioners for railroad from Danyille junction