Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-10-15
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


considerable furniture stored there by o. W.
| Merriam & Co, WAS badly damaged
1t is very probable that work will soon com
menCe Gu wide avenue leading from the foot
of Summer street over the water to a point
near the Insane Asylum in South Boston.
Christ Church, Old Cambridge, will ceIe
brate IL centennial anniversary on next Tues
day. AHd from the old tower the chime bells
are to sound "ui particularly jolly peal.
The afternoon services at Bralle square
church, tUnitarinu) are begun by the reading
OF the commandments, with musical responses.
Drury'S gravel bank in RoNbury, cayed in
Monday, killing Patrick Garvl V, and severely
| iuJuring a companion.
Postmaster Palfrey has been notified to re.
move the post office to Safe street forthwith,
and in about ten days the old Exchange build.
ing will be occupied as in times past.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The poet Whittier has been robbed thief
came by night and stole all his pears last week.
He had watched with the enthusiasm Of poet
and the sOlictude of Il proprietor, the ripening
Beurres, Duchess, and other choice varieties,
and awoke one morning to find his trees
robbed. his hopes blasted, ''Of all sad words
by tongue or pen, the sadlest are these, it
might have been" A man must be thorough.
ly mean and fiji for treason, stratagem, and
spoils, who would rob John G. Whittier.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford Standard has had in its
hands pear-a Flemish Beauty-weighing a
pound, and measuring foot in circumference.
When will the Spy have one We pause for
reply.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The Plymouth county cattle show amounted
| to SZlOO. The society is in furnishing con-
dition. 1t holds property to the amount of
$4,000 and owes but $1,000.
A couple called at the residence of clergy
man m Abingdon, few days since, tor the
purpose OF being married. 1t lacked but
few minutes of six o'clock, and the bridegroom
informed the minister OF his desire to take the
train due at ten minutes past six. The SER
vice Immediately commenced, though with
reluctance on the part OF The clergyman, who
looked upon the marriage ceremony as too
sacred TO be performed with such unseemly
haste; and when the whistle Of the approach
ing train was heard, the pair were at the de-
pot, ready for their wedding journey.
NANTUCKET.
QudRtum MutdtuS Twenty five wears ago
ninety sail OF whaling vessels hailad iron,
Nantucket--now only fifteen, and OF these sew
cral are dismantled at the wharf. Formerly
three tourths of the hats worn here were
broadbrlms-now Quaker is getting to be a
curiosity. Years age 10000 sheep roamed at
will over the sland-last week not one was
shown at the fair, and there are but few lett
alive. The old salts talk blubber and sperm
whales around kerosene lamps. Houses ave
selling at tenth of their cost 10 be transport,
cd to the main lard and there re erected
Grass is growing in the streets
HAMPDEN CoUHTY
Leonard Converse OF Springfield, exhibited
at the show on Hampdcn Park, a steer three
years and four months DID, that weighed 1880
pounds, the pair weighing 3 30 pounds
Extensive preparations have been made for
the horse show al Palmer this week, conf
mencng Tuesday. ~ premium of 500 will
be given for The best truck team OF four horses,
in addition to the published list Of premiums
This premium will be competed Tor on Thurs
day, the last day of the show, and the entrance
fee is $25.
They now make fifteen hundred guns
week at the Springfield armory. During the
month OF August four thousand were manulac-
tured, and in September forty one hundred
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
he WOODEN manufacturers of Adams are
producing $500 yards Of blue army cloth per
day, running some portions OF their mills both
night and day.
Deacon Rugg of SandisGeld, has I,aO0
pumpkins ON one acre, with corn, many of
them weighing 40 10 A pounds each, and all
| of them sizeable and mostly ripe.
VERMONT.
n fatal accident occurred at Grotom on the
night Of September 30 h. Az Moses Durham
was passing over a urilge on his way to the
village, only IA few rods distant he lost his
locality, owing to the darkness OF the night
and stepped off the abutment, falling ten feet
upon the rocks and causing his instant death.
He was Go years of age, and leaves a wife and
two sons. Mr. Bnrnh M was famous Joiner,
having worked over 1000 days at his trade
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
A fire, last Saturday, in Manchester, de-
stroyed the John III. Moore house aud barn,
and Dickeys block adjoining.
a letter from Mount Washington saws a
large body of snow remains in Tuckerman"s
Ravine, which will not be likely to diminish
this year, as snow has begun TO fall on the
mountain already.
RHODE ISLAND.
Twenty six laboring men lett Newport on
Friday evening, for Key West, where they are
to be employed on Fort Taylor under Captai:l
Hunt, of the engineers.
Burglars broke into several houses in Paw
tucket, last Saturday night, carrying off silver
ware, watches, clothing, &c.
CONNECTICUT
The train which left Hartford last Saturday
midnight had narrow escape. Some scoun-
drel had drawn out most of the spikes holding
| the rails to the ties on the bridge near the
West Hartford road, and had placed dunn
! Ply car" across the track The bridge is thirty
feet high.
Some boys in Danbury undertook to burn
off pigs tail, some days ago. and did it; but
with it went the pig, and the barn and other
property of Eliakim Trowbridge.
MISCELLANEOUS.
| Punch thinks that they had better have
stuck to the name of ''Leviathan" for the
Great Eastern, for it seems that the sharehold
| ers are doomed to blubber
The fashions tell us that for the month of
| October dresses are to be comparatively plain,
| with one or Two founces only as the rule.
| Bonnets suffer elimination in size.
| Gen Changarnier, the renowned French OIL
| fCer wishes TO take some command in our
| army.
Grain OF all kinds is arriving at Chicago at
| the rate Of two million bushels per week, aud
an amount raging from one to two millions is
weekly shipped, chiefly for the ports OF En-
| gland aud France.
Bondin lately had narrow escape at the
| Crystal Palace, England, While performing
on rope 100 feet above the floor, his balance
ing pole broke short off in the middle, and lie
dropped it, and fell with easy skill astride the
rope and was safe.
Three cheeses were on exhibition at the
New York state fair, that were each "a inches
in diameter, Is inches thick, and weighed 628