Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-16
aaiIp spp -. aalurestn GBus oap anng august 49, 1880


ESSEN COUNTY.
The Newburyport Herald says that on Sun
day night last, two young men by the name
OF John and Frank Colby, entered the yard
of MIR. Robert Armstrong of Salisbury, and
wrung the necks OF forty young turkeys leav-
ing the game upon the ground. They were
arrested and lodged in Jail.
The ladies of the division of the Sons of
Temperance in Ipswich, invited the brethren,
on Monday last, to picnic, provided on their
own responsibility at Whipples grove The
ladies managed the affair very handsomely,
taking all the advantage they could of the
year and the season.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
While the circus with the bear menagerie
was passing through the streets in Fall River,
! Tuesday, two of the bears in cage one a
| grizzly and the other a black bear, got to
| fighting, and one of them, the black bear. was
killed by the grizzly bear. 1t created consid,
cradle excitement. TWAS the best performing
bear attached to the menagerie.
Erastns Clapp of Mansfield was found dead
IN his tield on Saturday last. When found he
| was IN sitting posture, with one arm over
the middle rail of the fence, and the other on
the ground by his side. 1t is supposed he
| died in fit.
one OF the Migrants recently sent from the
insane asylum in Taunton to New York, died
on Saturday last at the Bellevue Hospital.
She was woman seventy years of age in a
state of helpless idiocy.
there Is now residing in New Bedford
FAMILY OF fourteen persons. The father of the
family Is 40 years of age, the mother Al. and
thelr twelve children, all of the same parent
age are from TO Il years of age, all of them
remarkable for their quick intelligence
ihere mas been no death nor sickness in the
family. ~ ''ie
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The fourth national horse show is to he hold
at Springfield on September 4th, 9Th, 9Th and
Ith. l he most liberal and attractive arrange
ments have been made for the occasion. Four
thousand dollars are offered in Dremiums
There will doubtless be large attendance.
The German musical societies, which have
been holding festival at Springfield the pres
ent week, in the style OF similar societies at
home, have voted to observe the anniversary
annually hereafter. The storm has been Sc
rious impeachment to their festivities
CONNECTICUT
Jirah Thompson, formerly passenger clerk
Of the steamer Connecticut OF the Norwich
line, now resident in Michigan, fell under the
knife OF moving machine, few days since,
receiving injuries from which he is not expect.
ed to recover.
Kate Golf, in foolish fit of brayado, chal-
lenged another girl to leap from the third story
of a factory in Chester, last week, which was
accepted. Kate took the leap first, receiving
such shock to her system as to render her
insensible, and endanger her life
The store of Allen Bitgood in Voluntown
was entered on the night Of the 4th inst, and
robbed of 5000 in money, together with notes
and valuable papers. John a. Brown has
been arrested, on suspicion Of being the bur
glar.
Thomas Slattery, lad of Is years, recently
robbed the store of Augustus Blackstone, in
Branford, of some SIS in gold, and other vaIu.
ables. He made off with the money, and has
not since been heard from
Two barns belonging to DR.. John Hooker of
Hartford and DIR. Sumner of Pennington, and
both situated in Pennington, were destroyed
by incendiary fires Monday night. Loss on
Hooker's building $500, and Summers $500.
One of the students in the Divinity College,
New Haven, recently tried the pleasing and
well known experiment of filling lighted
lamp with burning fluid. 1t was attended
with the usual triumphant result, and "sci-
ence inundated another victim. Fortunate
ly he was only slightly burned in the hand
MISCELLANEOUS.
There is an diotic child in the town of Raj
sin, Michigan, boy of some twelve years
whose unteeling parents keep him in pen in
corner of the kitchen, fed and cared for, pre-.
ClSSiy It's any OllCF animal would be. The
parents are often absent an entire day or night,
Or both when the neighbors are procured to
raise the window, toss in crust OF bread into
the pen to stop the poor creatures hunger, and
it is again left.
Mrs. SwiSshelm, who hasn't lived happily
with her husband, announced a lecture in ST.
Paul on her wrongs as wife" Mrs. S. used
little private negotiation so successfully that
the lecture was suppressed, and she apoogized,
through the papers, promising, however, to
lecture on "woman and politics"
There is among the inhabitants of the oath
ward of Philadelphia man 76 years old, who
is native Of East Bohun, Persia, and who is
believer in the Mohammedan religion. He
is familiar with all the Oriental and European
languages. He is now engaged in making
mathematical instruments
The Boston Transcript regrets to learn
from New York that Mr.. Church, the noted
painter, has met with quite a serious accident,
having been thrown from a carriage while on
his way home from his cottage, the building
of which he has been experimenting. Al.
though several ribs were broken, it is thought
the injuries will not prove serious.