Worcester daily spy., 1872-01-08
0aurtestcr Daily spp.
New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY

bridge, takes place TO-DAY.
The escaped nun lectured in Boston
night
Rev. W. H. II. Murray, of Boston. received
New Years present Of S2100.
Mrs. Abbie Sage Richardson is to give a pub
lie reading in Boston this week
Hon. Gideon Haynes is going TO Rio Janerio
BAIL, shortly, 10 remain year.
Oys els are scarce and high, being So gal
Ion at Boston. 1weDty vessels, with GO,OO(
bushels, are on the way thither
lae petitions for charter for the new High
land railway company are ready for Si9nerS
and many in Boston will sign them.
Yacht Francena, five tons burden, which
sailed from Boston Dec. n, has reached Beau.
fort, 5. G., aud will proceed thence to Savan
nah.
10 his annual report Major Jones will recon.
mend a law authorizing the arrest of any one
found in house known to be kent for gaming
purposes, the same as those caught PLAYING.
Barque Mary Elson brought $3.50 boxes
oranges and 1860 boxes lemons from Sicily
aud brig Giles Loring arrived Friday vi h 6l74
boxes oranges and 1000 boxes lemon
1 he annual inspection Of the stations on the
Inc was made by the president and directors of
the Boston and Providence railroad on Thurs
! day. Superintendent Folsom's management
oantinueS 10 he satisfactory.
Since Mr.. Gmoic'S return from Europe, says
the Boston Transcript, he has been busily en-
gased in putting into shape his official state
which be receives and in interesting prominent
citizens in the work.
1t is stated that DIR. H. B. Blackwell. assisted
by his wife, Mrs. Lucy Stone Blackwell, will
assume editorial charge of The Womans Jo.if-
nal
The number of deaths in Boston for the week
ending January 6, was 110, of whom 80 wore
males and 81 females: under one wear of are.
y; one to Ave, -; five TO ten, 3: by conSump-
u9n, -; oi American parentage, 43; foreIgn g..
he seeemen OF Brighton have issued public
hollee 10 The inhabitants, requiring all citizens
70 have their families yaccinated under liability
OF tue enforcement OF the pcnalty for nun-com-
piiancc with the law.
After thirteen months cleaning and prepar-
lng, the Skeleton OF the big whale exhibited in
Boston IL the tall Of 1870 has proved 10 be one
OF the most remarkable specimens in the coun
Try. lt IS IN possession of the museum of natu-
la history.
Perfect satisfaction is felt by the deaf mutes of
Boston with the late biennial convention and re-
union and its attendant incidents, and especially
grateful do they feel for the response of Boston's
benevolent citizens to the request for aid to de-
tray the expenses.
IN order to stimulate the public in the preven-
ton of count erleitng, the association of banks
Of New England have offered special rewards
for the arrest aud conviction of persons unlaw-
fully engaged in engraving plates stamping or
changing notes or passing counterfeit bills
Ex-Governor Clatiln and wife held a reception
at their residence, Thursday evening, in honor
of Governor Washbun and wife. In addition
to prominent members of the state and city gov
ernmouts there were present Governor Jewell OF
Connecticut, Governor Perham of Maine, eX-
Governor Hartman of New Hampshire Itwas
brilliant entertainment.
An answer TO the injunction procured by the
hom@opathists has been flied by the medical So
cletY, and the supreme court will hear the case
at the March term. Ii is thou hit that Dr. H.
I. Shauuck win again he nominated by General
Burril as medical dilector of the 1st brigade,
and the question again be agitated.
The present Cambridge board of aldermen
are owners of property in the city amounting
in the aggregate to SS12 $50, being an average
TO each OF SS1 ,235 The members of the CON,
mon council represent property valued Mt
S3i0,550, beng 8n average TO each of SIS, ,527
On Friday afternoon Samuel S Litchfield, an
employe OF the Boston and Albany railroad cor
poration, was engaged in shackng cars on the
Grand junction wharf, in East Boston, when he
was caught between the "buters" of Two ears
ard r0"oived injuries which terminated fatally
soon after.
IIe residents Of the south end who live near
the line OF the Boston and Providence rail-
road propose to present President Clifford and
Superintendent Folsom with two elegant res
ldenccs in that immediate vicinity, in the hope
that they may be moved to put stop to the su-
pertuous screeching, screaming and whstlng
OF the locomotives of that otherwise well man
aged road.
7. S. Gilmore states that me- -s2cs, have
vet been formed in ces-,niod and place tht.es
isonal -IlaaA..ieslasgest Some VS. wScommfte9eavat-
sed beneath the sea bo,0nnecton with the intern,
tie r. lidslDai festival. At his request few Gen
ueln%n have kindly interested themselves in max
ing injuries regarding a location for the build
ing, an& other matters, so as to have as mucl
insormatfqn as possible to lay before genera
meeting Which will soon he called to hear dc
tailed statement Of the plans and prospects o
the whole undertaking.
The Woman's Journal, of last week, contain
Mrs. Livermore's letter of withdrawal from til
management of that paper. She promises
however, to contribute weekly 10 its column,
and her nost office address will still be the offc
oi the Womans Journal. This step, on he
part, is explained by another writer in tb
Journal, by the statement that Mrs. LivermOr
desires 10 give more time and attention TO he
lectures. Few men or women write so constant
~ and well, speak so continuously and eli
qnently and travel so constantly as Mrs. Liver
more.
The Congregationalist sums up a notice of th
congregational churches in and about Boston a
fellows; "Of these Congregational churches il
Boston and immediate vicinity, scarcely one
not IN vigorous and fruitful condition. 81,
have lately entered new houses of worship, o
are about to do so. Six are no Y building o
must soon begin. All but five are supplied will
pastors who for pietv and scholarship and nulDi
ton. 1t is sometimes said that Congregational
ism is dying out in Boston. We are of tn
opinion that it was never stronger than to-day
Of Victoria Woodhul's appearance in Boston
the other night, "Susie V" writes. She is mac
netic,and one sees and understands the divinit
that attracts Theodore Iilton. She was evidentl
got up for Boston. The arts Of the toilet
were put aside, and she was arrayed in a pla
black woolen DRESS with silk trimmings, he
only ornament beng knot of rose buds at th
or tttao cd h.ip, B,,,s sIr
from the temples, disclosing thin, weary
ha assed, eager face, with feversh cheeks, com
pressed, defiant nostris, a positive mouth
drawn with suffering and sad, clairynyant eyes
iurlivey alancng at the audience, as if expect
ing unnecessary derision, or glaeming at some
thing afar off.
In an interesting article on the shipping inter
ests ol Boston, the journal presents the follow
ing facts: The total of shipping tonnage for tn
United States for the year 1861 was 5,539 81
tons; of this Boston had 454,251 tons, or nca
onc-twefth. As the rebellion progressed an(
ravages upon our commerce by Semmes G. Co
was the order Of the day, the aggregate of ton
mage diminished, partly by destruction and
partly by transfers to the British flag, to 5112.
100 tons in 1862, but increased to 5,126,0S1 in
1868; then fell to 1886 401 in 1864, in which the
Alabama got ITS quietus from the Kearsarge,
and lie diminutiOn went no further. 10 1862
tue Boston tonnage sank TO 423 45S tons, OF
about one-thirteentb Of the whole; to 81, 1851
lu 1908, or near one-hltcenth OF the whole; tC
225,l9l in 1864, or a little more than one-twenty.
second part of the whole.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
There were 1882 deaths in Lowell last year
eighty more than in 1870.
Michael Hughes, or Natick, died on FRIDAY
from injuries received in an alteration on
Christmas day.
letter was put into the post office at South
framingham a few days ago, bearing the fol
lowing direction: "Ulices S. Grant, president
OF ihe Unghted States, care of congress"
James Ronndy was arrested on the 9th at
Lowell, as desertcr from the United States
army, IN which he was in the general service
aud stationed at Boston Roundy deserted in
September, and wenrto Lowell in October, and
has since been engaged in the Lowell machine
shop foundry. He is TO be taken to New York
for court martial.
ESSEX COUNTY.
At Lawrence, on the 5lh, John Laughlin
an employe Of the Pacific mills, was accident
ally killed. He was attending the brake Of 4
train OF cars. While they were in motion
some Of the cars were switched and run on
70 the track Of the Atlantic mills. They JUS
cleared the main track, and Laughn, who
was IN the rear end Of one of the cars, was
lalnmed between The end Of rhe car on IN,
Atlantic track and the car on which he wa,
riding. lie lived but few moments.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The sylvia Ann Howland beauests 10 tb,
city Of New Bedford have been paid in fun