Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-19
General news summary.
NORFOLK COUNTY.

socket high school while Mr.. Farrar was the
the principal Ho0Hsocfet Patriot.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
John S. Brayton, Esq, the clerk of the
courts in Bristol county, has made arrange
ments to remove his resi- dence from Taunton
to Fall River, and WILL within few months,
resign his office.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The nine and ten feet dahias crowed about
in Rockville, CT, and elsewhere, must be
dwarfs. Miles Dickerman of West Spring
field, has only the medium kind, one of which
is twelve feet eight inches high and the other
eleven feet.
\ West Springfield lad named Seward Cha
pin, who has been pupil in the high school
IN Springfield, was arrested on the 18th for
stealing five dollars from Mrs Mary IL. Lamb
Lamb of West Springfield.
Important changes have been decided upon
by the Western and Hartford and New Ela-
ven railroad companies at Springfield. Sew
eral new tracks will be laid and several build
ings have been purchased, which will be torn
down to make room for switching, &c.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Nearly fifteen hundred people out at New
Marlboro at picnic given to the soldiers OF
that town on the 18th inst.
Il. L. Gibbs, OF the firm of Gibbs K Win
chell of Great Darlington, slipped while at
tempting to get on an engine at Bridgeport,
CT, on the 18th inst. and the wheels passed
over his right foot, crushing it badly.
Charles B. Clark a returned soldier of the
44th regiment stabbed Peter Finley, clerk
in saloon at North Adams, few days since,
but the knife struck one of his RIBS and
glanced off. This isn't the first time Clark
has done such things.
~ Dittsfiall hos raised and
ripened, this season, upon less than two rods
of ground, more than twelve bushels of to-
matoes, being at the rate of more than one
thousand bushels to the acre.
The Berkshire agricultural society have
voted to exclude all Intoxicating liquors from
their grounds at the coming show. Wont
some OF the humans have to stay out?
Michael Murphy, an Irishman about twenty
years of age, employed in the plcker-room Of
the Pontoosac wooden factory at Pittsteld,
was drawn into the picker on the 10th inst,
and so seriously injured that he died in two
hours.
A man in Portland has proposed to give
$4,000, on condition that an additional sum of
$4,000 shall be raised, for the building and
endowing of an orphan asylum.
VERMONT.
Hon. o. L. Shafter, formerly of Whining
ton, VT, has been elected one Of the Judges
of the supreme court of California.
The residence of Ii. Ii. Beardsley, East
Fairfield, VT, with nearly all its contents, was
consumed by fire on the llth inst, together
with nearly one hundred cords OF wood. Mr..
| B. was badly burned.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
| A large fire took place in the town of Hop
| which Cd no oil
ling house, jewelry shop, barn and shed of G..
II. Moore, and the dwelling house OF j. S.
| knowtOn, with the barn and other Outbuid-
| ingS. James Fellows also lost about two hun
dred dollars worth of property stored in Mr..
| MUore's barn. There seems TO be no doubt
that the fire set.
The faculty of Dartmouth college have
gone vigorously to work to suppress the
absurd and barbarous custom of 'hazing
freshmen and some half a dozen sophs have
been hauled up, admoniShed and put on pro-
baton.
CONNECTICUT.
The fall term of Yale College began on the
18th. The freshman class will number about
$50, although 100 have applied for admission
.AN,.o ssnu' JtiiIoI CIooSvo anu -tut'IC
new members of the scientific school, besides
the usual number of admissions to the law,
medical, and theological departments.
| A letter has been received at the Pequot
House, New London, addressed Peak What
Hotel" The writer was doubtless the same
man who booked himself at the Rockville ho-
tel, during the horse fair, as mailing from
| ''Norrtsh."
The Hartford and New Haven railroad
company held its annual meeting at Hartford
on the 10th. The income for the last fiscal
year was S95S, 459; the expenses were SOLO,
sos, leaving the net receipts S4Il, S54-an in
crease of SPILL 5S from last year.
JONES Frederick and Sophronia Sweet were
arrested at Brooklyn on the 18th, for cattle
stealing, and in default of surety in the sum
of $500, they were committed. The young
man is an old rascal, and the young woman is
an old something that it would not be polite
to name.
A little incident (weighing eight pounds }
came to light in New Haven few nights since.
As the night train was approaching that city
the conductor observed a lady passenger APP
parently in great distress, and ascertained
that she was about to give birth to an heir.
When the tram stopped she was assisted to a
carriage, and IA couple Of policemen also went
inside to render what assistance they could,
while the driver was ordered to put 'em
through. But he wasn't quick enough, for in
three minutes there was dollars worth of
passengers iii the hack, the fresh arrival being
a nice little girl Mother and child and god
fathers are now as well as could be expected.
RHODE ISLAND.
Margaret Boyle, young woman recently
drowned in Pawtucket, was borne to her grave
on the 10th by female bearers the coffin, ex-
posed and decked with flowers, being carried
upon bier by women. \ hundred women
and fifty men followed on foot in the process
sian, two by two.
AT the Aqudneck fair. held at Newport,
there were several things presented that were
worthy OF notice, among which was Il calf
from the farm If Isaac White Of Tiverton,
fifteen weeks old, that weighed $50 pounds;
also two pairs of silk gloves. entirely of home
manufacture. The worms were raised on the
island, and the silk prepared, colored, and knit
by the lady who entered them.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A salute of one hundred guns was fired in
Albany on the 10th over the result of the
Maine election.
The junk dealers of New York have organ
lied an association for the purpose of contest
ing the right of Superintendent Kennedy to
compel them to cease the ringing of their
bells while plying their trade.
A man with one leg went into a gun store
on Broadway, New York ON the 18th, called
for pistol, which he proposed to purchase,
and taking it to a place in the rear of the
building for the purpose of testing it, as he
said, thot himself through the heart, falling
dead on the spot.
1t is a striking fact that the recent proca-