Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-26
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BARNSTABLE COUNTY.
The Providence conference of the NJ f.
church meets at Provincetown on the 2I of
April next Bishop Baker of New Hampshire
will preside.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Miss Clara Games ct Springfield. WAS bu
ried tnr 4 short lime, under snow slide from
the rect OF the court house, on Monday Sew
eTai legal gcntemen rallied to the rescue, but
So completely was The lady hidden, that they
dug in various places before finding her Her
injuries are painful, but il is hoped not dan.
gerous.
The Springfield insurance company lost
1850, and the MaSsasoit of Spring field So,
600, i'y the late fire in Boston.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
he use 10 which LamsOn GOoduow & Co.
are putting the HoOsac boring machine, winch
they have purchased, is to the manufacture OF
gun machinery, at their works at Windsor,
| VI.
| Alvah Croker Of Fitchburg has been clio.
| sen president OF the Troy and Greenfield Rail
| road, in place Of ID. N Carpenter OF Green
| field.
! AT Montague, on the 18th, while john VIII
liams was engaged iii chOpping wood in the
woods, limb OF a tree fell, striking him upon
the top of the head, aud badly fracturing his
{
The pail factory in Mortified together with
! all of the machinery, stock, tools and 1900
| buckets, was DESTROYED by fire on the l7th,
/ from boiling oil in the basement, which took
| fire by using benziue. Loss about $500.
! Building owned by J o. Webb; stock and
machinery by B. b. Murdoch No insurance.
VERMONT.
Alvin Flint tile hardest faced miser in
| northern Vermont, left an estate of 100000,
| al his uniamented death in Stanstead.
The large store in West Randolph, occupied
by Willard Gay. was destroyed by fire Mon
day morning. Mr.. Gays loss is $500, partly
insured.
Mr.. Ladue Of Vergennes was taken with
fit last week, fell upon tie stove, and Knocked
the oven off. His vile iIteI it to its place,
and Immediately died because of the eXerton.
The Burlington Times says that Blake
Brothers, Boston, have recently taken $780,
900 Vermont state bonds, at per cent. pre-
MUM.
Levi Vincent of Fayston cut his throat last
week Wednesday, with Il razor. He was sick
abed, and alone at the time. lie had been pre-.
viously thought dersnged.
The State Agricultural Society has issued a
call for Il wool growers convention, To be held
at Rutland in the afternoon of the first day OF
the state fair next September.
Wilson Higgings OF Jamaica, was aroused
from his sleep not long since by rapping at
the door. On opening it lie found an infant
child done up in bundle, accompanied by a
| five dollar bill and nute containing the fol-
| lowing words "a gift sent from God" The
little stranger was taken in and is beng kind
| ly cared tor.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Jonas Clark OF Peterboro' recently found
about 100 grasshoppers hopping about his sit.
ting room. They probably came from the
house plants, among which they had been
Matched by the heat i'll the room.
James II. Norris, agent of the Exeter man.
utacturing company, and Miss Helen Lord, an
operative in the mill when it was in operation,
both mysteriousy disappeared from Exeter,
about eight weeks ago, aud it is supposed that
the couple have clipped and hidden their mi
guilty III some distant locality. Mr.. Norris is
very social and agreeable man, about 80
years OF age, with wife and family OF grown
up sons and daughters. Miss Lord has been
regarded as a clever and honest girl, not beau
tiiul or accompli he'd, aad is aged about y.
RHODE ISLAND.
On the 18Th INST, Mr. Horace Z. Lake of
Seekonk committed suicide while in lit OF
insanity. His wife was preparing his supper,
and lie stepped into tile bed room and loaded
his gun, Shortly after he went into the en-.
try, held the gun with me hand, and placing
the muzzle against his forehead, discharged it
with his toe, blowing OF the entire top part
OF his head
The bark Ariel, recently seized off Bristol
on suspicion Of having been fitted out as a
SLAYER, has been released.
In Newport, on Saturday, Rev. Richard
Vaughn, manumilted Save, who was mar
ried in Virginia, Feb. %, 1872, had the mar
riage covenant renewed. Mayor Cranslon
performed the ceremony Mr. Vaughn was
born a slave in 1893 in Virginia, aud ordained
Baptist preacher in 1927. He purchased his
wife and two OF his children for 5000. Six Of
his children and seventeen grandchildren are
still in slavery.
CONNECTICUT.
j. Warren Ntwcomb, recently editorially
connected with the New Haven Palladium
has become an attache of the New York Her
aid, as a special war correspondent. He goes
with Buffers division, and has started for Ship
Island.
The mail clad gunboat was towed from Mys-
tic to New York, on Saturday, by the steam
tug Rapid.
Mrs. Ann Tinker, whose husband has gone
to war, got drunk in New London, on Satur
day night, tore off all her clothes, and trav
elled about the streets, astonishing the natives
She was finally arrested and locked up
). j. Phelps & Co. have recently established
in New Haven, "a large brewery tor the manu-
Iacture of different brands of ale
The students Of Yale College on Saturday
presented Mrs Commander Foote with a
large national banner.
PERSONAL.
AT the late term OF the superior court of
Connecticut for Litchfied county, (Judpe
Park presdngl the Rev. DR.. james Rich
ards, tor some ears minister of the Presbv.
terrain church, was admitted an attorney and
counsellor at law, and took the prescribed oath
in open court,
DIR. Holmes brilliant novel has Just made
its appearance in Paris in a translation nv NJ
Emile Forgues.
Charles Dickens. on the It'll of the present
month, completed his filtieth year, hayir q
been born az Portsmouth ON the TN OF Febr6,
airy, 1872.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Ii is reported that Senator Chandler of
Michigan has loaned TO the government, since
the July session OF congress, Sill 900. Every
dollar he has been able TO spare from his board
inghouse life lie has invested in the war
bonds.
A Norman elder, in one of his sermons
said, at man feels rich, and has not Il dime
in his pocket; ii he is righteous, he is rich in.
deed but, if he has pengrious disposition.
and is misery, though his hands are full of
riches, he does not turn it TO good account.
and in little while, he is like the child thai
takes an apple in each hand, but undertakes
to hold another, lie is apt to drop the Two TO
secure the third"
The Herald OF Progress, spiritual paper.
says that James Gordon Bennett and family
are rppulnr DgtrOnS of tho basf tast ,,,,,i;,,...