Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-09

ROSTON AND VICINITY

BOSION AND VICINITY.
We alluded some weeks since, SAYS the Boston
Gazette to Il singular wager which had been
made by gentleman in this city, who was to
forfeit suit of clothes if he did not eat pigeon
day for sixty days, or to win suit if he sue
ceeded-his opponent to find the doves. The suit
OF clothes has been won, the sixty pigeons have
been eaten in sixty successive days, and the gem
tlenan is III excellent condition, and more dove
like than eva i'll his disposition.
In Boston, on Saturday, Mir. John Penney, in
the employ Of Mr.. James McNulty, was directed
to 90 to SOmerville aud drive in sleigh, which
had been newly painted, to the stable OF the Bun
ker Hill branch Of the MiddIeseX Horse Railroad
on Bunker Hill street. Upon arriving at the
stable he stopped the horses, a span, and waited
until room was cleared for tie hor7es to enter.
Instead of driving i'll he took each horse by the
head and advanced toward the door backward
but instead of entering he struck the side of the
door, and the horses moving quick, he received
a violent blow in the breast by the sleigh pole,
inflicting such serious injury that he died almost
immediately after. He was about 50 years of
aye, and Il wid0wer.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The catholic church in Brighton caught fire
on Sunday afternoon, from defect in The fur
macs and was totally destroyed. The building,
which was small one, was worth between five
and six thousand dollars, and had been erected
only five years. The loss is nearly covered by
insui ance.
ESSEX COUNTY.
On Thursday, two boys who were skating on
Patterns pond, in Amesburv, broke through
the ice and were drowned One was n son of
Mr.. William Foote twelve years old and the
other was named Taylor, son Of Mrs. Schofied,
aged ten years.
George Hodges of North Andover, the we'll
known manufacturer, fell while descending a
flight Of stairs, on Wednesday, and injured him
self so severely, that he died ON Saturday. He
was II years of age.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Major Ethan Earle, formerly Of Middleton
ough, now of LeavenwOrth City, Kansas, is act
ing major Of coored regiment in that state
The probabilities are that he will be commits
stoned colonel.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
brilliant meteor was seen at New Bedford
about seven O'Clock Sunday evening" passing
from the northeast to the southwest.
MAINE.
The erection of the new wooden mill of Colonel
Thomas S. Lang of Vassalboro, was remarka-
Bile instance Of business energy; it is two hun
cred feet long, four stories high, and required
four hundred thousand brick; but in just twelve
weeks from the time that Mr.. Lang gave the
orders for the bricks, they were made, burnt and
laid
A married couple escaped death at the time
the Glover runaway pond skedaddled in 1910,
in a manner which might be called more pol
tito than pious. When they heard the roar
ing ana Crushing sound OF tne sweeping tide,
they thought that the day Of Judgment was
at hand and the wife said; Let US pray !"
but the husband went to the door, saw the APP
preaching cataract, and exclaimed: lie; us
run, to which the wife assented, and they thus
saved their lives.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The sorghum sugar they manufacture in Ohio
is as white as the best New Orleans The crys-
tails are large and translucent as honey, and the
flavor is equal 10 any sold in the Cincinnati mar
ket.
Real estate in Chicago has recently risen very