Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-06
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY

MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
The total amount of valuation of Lowell is
So 1856, $685. an increase OF 81 992, POP over last
yeaI. The whole number of polls is 7101, an
increase of 267. The poll tax for the present
year is 81 so, against 81 IS last year The
tax on property is rs cents on $780, against 81
cents on 500 last year.
On Friday last, j. Gardner, of Kendall &
Gardeners Band, Boston, had one of his legs
badly lacerated and fractured, his horse hay-
ing become frightened while riding from Cord
awhile to Hopkinton.
BARNSTABLE COUNTY.
The Yarmouth Register claims for the vii
lage of East Falmouth the honor of having ia"
vorable examples of vigorous, intelligent, and
cheerful old age, with which few other COM
munites can compare Upon late visit of
the editor, Mrs. Esther Robinson, in her nine
tieth year, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. Keziah,
aged eighty eight years, were found to be
still i'll excellent condition, and good to fight
their own battles at least for another decade
The husband of the latter, of nearly the same
age, had gone alone for load of wood.
A Mr. Curtis Of Boston has recently visited
Cape Cod to purchase the cranberry crop,
large portion of which he has engaged at elev-
en- dollars per barrel The crop on the Cape
is said to be fair this season.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
ty Agricultural Society will take place at
Taunton on Wednesday and Thursday, Sep
TENDER IA and 10. On the first day the plow-
ing match, drawing match, and the exhibition
of stock will take place, and on the second day
dinner and reports from the various commit
teees.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Arthur DAILY of Thorndike, Palmer, an
lrishman, who was much respected by his
countrymen, died suddenly on Sunday and
was buried in Ware. The funeral procession
consisted of one hundred and ten carriages,
and benevolent man, who looks after the
coppers, estimates the expense of the funeral
at 500 or $500, which he thinks had better
have been expended for the support of the
poor.
Mr.. Holden, from Palmer, Three Rivers,)
was committed to Jail Saturday afternoon for
drunkenness, and hung himself in his cell very
soon afterward. He tied two handkerchief
together, fastened one end of them to a nail
in the waH and with the other made a moose
about his neck then sitting down on a seat,
leaned over in such way as to strangle HIM
self. His age was Sc, and he had been in jail
once before for the same offence.
The Republican states that e. w Prentice
and VIM. L. Rice, formerly Of Worcester,)
have leased the wire factory building in IIol-
yoke, and will increase the manufacture Of
wire sufficiently to employ about thirty add
tional hands.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A six FOUNDER, cast in 1898, and taken from
the trigate Macedonian, is now on the summit
of Mt Peter at Great Darlington it was
present to the town from George r. Ives.
RHODE ISLAND.
The ninety-first annual commencement of
Brown University will be celebrated on We'd
l. IL. 1
and United Brothers Societies will be deliver
ed tomorrow afternoon by Col. L. G. Parker
of Boston. The poem will be delivered by
Mortimer Thompson, Esq, of New York.
The sermon before the Society of Missionary
Inquiry will be delivered in the evening" by
the Rev. II. S. Storrs, d. D., of Brooklyn.
owing to the illness of Mr.. Jenckes, who was
appointed to deliver the Grafton before the So
ciety of the Alumni, the celebration VIII be
omitted. Mr.. Jenckes was taken suddenly
ill, with fainting or vertigo, at Newport, and
exaggerated reports were naturally current
| We are happy to state the attack was not seri-
GUS, and that he is fast recovering.
Journal, 9th.
On Friday afternoon, about five o'clock, one
Of the steam boilers at the dyewood works of
William Chace & Co., Pleasant Valley, OK
| ploded 1t was about twenty-five feet long,
was located, with three others, in a shed adj
| joining the main building. 1t burst near the
middle, piece upwards of two feet square
being detached, without moving the boiler
from its bed. The steam chest was forced
through the roof which was completely de-
molished No person was injured, and the
damage done will not probably exceed hun
dred dollars. The cause of the explosion was
a defect in the boiler, which was an old one.
AT Woonsocket, Saturday, Lawrence Kee-
gan, was tried on three complaints for as
sault, first on his wife, second on Elijah b.
Craig, and third on William Holmes, the off,
Ger who arrested him, and on each OF these he
was convicted and sent to Jail for thirty days,
and ordered to pay costs of prosecution.
The tempest on Wednesday night last week,
did considerable damage in the north part of
Darlington. The <ilns and the sheds Of Clark S
brick works were damaged to the amount of
about $1,000. A number of large trees were
uprooted and fences blown down.
CONNECTICUT.
Daniel Joyce of Southbury, was arrested on
Saturday tile 9th, for violating the new law
for the protection Of livery stable keepers, and
was sentenced to 10 days imprisonment.
Joyce hired the horse for one day TO 60 TO
Middletown, but drove il in an nhuman man
ner for three days.
! The citizens Of Litchfcld held meeting last