Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-21
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY


dore Hudson, at Charlestown TO OBTAIN slt'
uation for the ship at one of the navy yard
wharves The commodore considered 1t mex
pedent to give permission, as crowds passing
through the yard would interfere with the
work going on there.
1t is understood that the prince OF wales
and retinue will visit Boston some time in the
month of September. He comes this way at
the invitation of Harvard University, to pay
a visit to that institution. President FELTON,
will proceed to Montreal in few days to pay
his respects to the prince.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
w. L. Waterman of South Hadley Falls,
one of the bondsmen of Ingraham, the de-
faultng postmaster, has been released from
Northampton Jail, where he had lain four
months, by the surrender of every vestige of
his property to satisfy the bond He has the
sympathies of the entire village, and will not,
we trust, lack for friends in the recovery of
his former business position
BRISTOL COUNTY.
A dark bay mare ten years old, and GOV.
cred wagon, were stolen from the stable OF
Henry L. Round in Rehoboth, last Wednes.
day night. On the same night horse belong
ing to Mr.. Leonard Burt, in the westerly part
of this town, was taken from his pasture,
probably by the same thieves.-IdtatOn Ga
zete, July 49,
The enamel cloth factory near Bonneville,
Fall River, with the adjoining stone foundry,
was destroyed by fire, Thursday morning.
The enamel company owned the factory, and
it was occupied by B. S. Haight The loss
was heavy, but the insurance was ample to
cover the loss.
MIDDLEsEY COUNTY.
In Woburn, Monday night, July IT, barn
on Church street, owned by George Fogg and
occupied by James Dooley, was set on fire by
an incendiary and totally destroyed, together
with its contents of hay, harnesses, stools, &C.,
| and three horses.
| ESSEX COUNTY,
The largest tree in the state is an American
elm on the Hubbard farm in North Andover.
1t is one hundred and ten feet in height, and
its branches spread one hundred feet in width.
Its girth, at six feet from the ground, meas
ures twenty-five and half feet. A currant
| bush, which has taken root in a notch about
| fifteen feet from the ground, can be recollected
for nearly half a century. The diameter at
the surface of the ground measures thirty
three feet.-BoSton Transcript.
The Boston Courier states that two msera-
BILE towards, Michael Mullane, and another
| fellow whose name was not aScertained looked
on without venturing to interfere, while viii
lain named James Brown knocked down and
outraged a respectable Irish woman, by the
gas works, near Lawrence. The humanity,
| cowardly, contemplate, despiscable sneaks
kept quiet, because they feared to risk their
persons in fight Set all the dogs on them,
wherever they go.
| BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The manufacturing business was never so
brisk in Adams as it is now, and several firms
are Boosting Of net profits of from $4,000 to
$4,000 within year. Improvements are
constantly being made in the old mills, and
new ones are now building.
| CONNECTICUT.
The grand jury of Hartford county have
found bills against Thomas Wilson for the
murder of Michael Brady in Hartford and Mi
chae Daley for manslaughter, in killing
James O'Neil in Windsor. Wilson's trial was
commenced Oh Wednesday and concluded on
Thursday, the jury finding him guilty of muir
der in the second degree, which is punishable
| by imprisonment for life.
Andrew Phelps, man 60 years of age,
while grinding bark at the tannery of Leonard
Kelley, in Goshen, Saturday, July 18th, was
| kicked in his abdomen by the horse with such
force that he died in twenty minutes.
The Norwalk Gazette perpetrates the follow
ing:-Bridget was called in and informed that
the census taker wished to see her. "rhe
SenSeS-taker is it 2 Be-gorie and is it meeself
that came a thousand leagues across the wa
Their to Ameriky to have me senses taken from
me! Howly virgin protect poor woman who
has never sense 10 spare" SC.
] he Connecticut cattle commissioners re-
fuse to let Berkshire men drive stock through
their state, for fear Of pleuro pneumonia, dis
ease which has never appeared in Berkshire
county. On the whole, we think the Massa-
chusetts commissioners can afford to be COM
pared with those of Connecticut.
VERMONT.
Daniel Day of Hartwellville having enticed
the wife of Hiram Aldrich into improper init
| III oF
him from her bed one night and rode him
through the town on sharp rail- He comics.
ed his crime, and was released by promising
to do better hereafter.
Three kegs Of powder were placed under
boulder weighing one hundred and nine tons,
in Thornton, VT, on the 4th inst, for the pur-
pose of hurting the mighty stone down the
mountain side into the rushing waters of Mad
River. The boulder flew into fragments in.
stead of tipping over, but even some of the
| pieces made crash resembling distant thun-
der as they went down the mountain side.
The wheelhouse of Quackenbush & Arm
strong's powder mill, near Fairhaven, explod.
ed on Wednesday morning last but no one
was injured. Loss $1,000
Bears continue plenty in Bennington coun.
ty. A cub was killed in Somerset the other
day, the old bear and another cub making
their escape The large bear that has made
so much havoc among the sheep in Reads
boro', though several times seen, has not vet
been killed.
A colt belonging to o. P. Barrett of Ben.
nington has five feet, one of his fore feet being
double. He should be able to "put his best
foot foremost" surely.
Simeon Richardson of Irasburgh was fined
$50 and costs, on two indictments, for yiolat
ing the liquor law. A gallon of whisky was
found on his premises, which was seized and
spilled
Mr.. Charles Goodrich of Bradford killed
speckled adder nearly four feet long, who was
making sad work among the barn swallows,
last Tuesday. The adder was found up un,
der the caves among the swallows nests, and
had already swallowed two fu-grown birds.
Henry Clark of Poultney, has been appoint
ed mail route agent between Boston and Bur
lington, via Rutland, vice w. z. Gibbons,
resigned.
Some jewelry, spoons, and table cutlery,
missed from the Island House, ut Bellows
Falls, last summer, have been found among
the effects of Whitcomb, the mail robber, re-
Gently arrested at Rutland.
Seven of the 500 eounterfeits on the New.
| ton Bank of Massachusetts, which made their
| appearance short time since, were passed at
Bradford by man calling himself o. Hardy,
Of Manchester N. II. lie pretended to be
buying horses.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The new census of Nashua makes that city
contain at this time population of l0,064 in
1850 it was S942 Increase in ten years, 1922
The number of males is 4497 and of females
5577.
The extreme southside notions of President
Lord of Dartmouth College do not seem to in.
fiuence the students OF that venerable institu-
| finn They arc noIitipollv f.laoeifiod nc foI