Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-15

BOSTON AND VICINITY.

| hONNIb HOuSc, DOSlOH, OU Lllb lOll. ON lDelT
way from the White Mountains to Washing
ton. General Totten, U. S. A., and Colonel
Harris, of Washington, are both at ne Re
we're House.
| Michael Welch and his daughter Mary died
very suddenly in South Boston, On the l It'll.
DIR. w. j. Readford, who had examined their
stomachs, said he could not find any VA ses of
poison.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
A child of L. S. Hosmer, in Belvidere, two
pears old tried the experiment Of swallowing
some coal oil on the tn, but it didn't set
very well, and for time fatal results were
apprehended, but at last accounts it was i'm
proving.
Mr.. Oliver A. Robbins was drowned in Pei
ham Pond, Wayland, on the 18th, by falling
out of boat.
The Trumpet states that of the fund of thir-
ty thousand dollars undertaken to be raised
for the benefit of Tufts College, tine sum of
forty-three hundred dollars has already been
subscribed.
The sloOp-of-war Marion, a ship of instruc-
ton in the United States navy, is now TT the
navy yard, Charlestown, where she will re-
main until about the Goth. Many of the schol-
ars and crew have been furloughrd until that
time.
man, whose name has not yet been GER
tainly asCertained, was killed on one of the
Eastern railroad bridges in Somervile on the
18th.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Rev. VIM. l.. Gaylord of Fitzwilliam, n.
H., has received unanimous call from the
Mather church and society of Jamaica Plains,
to become their pastor.
The following are the statistics of the town
of Dorchester for the present year; Number
of polls 1887; total valuation, $l2. l2O, 800.
| The rate OF taxation per thousand dollars is
| $3.50.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
They have big apples in New Bedford. Mr..
| 0. G.. Brownell has produced one which meas
ureS l-2 inches in circumference.
The Very IdileSt.- Mr. L. j. Wimarth has
shown grass in Taunton which measured SO
| inches.
John Grace Of Boston, brakeman on the
Boston and Providence railroad, was instantly
| killed near Mansfield, on the l4th, while pass
ing under bridge.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
VIM. Quinn OF Springfield was arrested ON
the 18th on the suspicion that lie set fire to
Roderick Lonbarls tobacco shed on Long
! Hill on the 18th.
Il recent flag of truce from Richmond
brings intelligence of the death at M0ntgom.
cry Of S. r. Olmstead formerly associate ed
itor Of the Springfield Argus. At the time Of
his death he was editor of one of the most
rabd secesh papers, the Montgomery Adver-
| tiser
A building has recently been erected in
| Springfield for the free accommodation of SOL
| dierS who stop over night in that city.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
| A daring and successful robbery was per-
| petrated ON the 18th, at Northampton The
post office was broken open by expert thieves
and every letter in it was stolen. The New
| Haven and the western way mails were rifled
and considerably booty taken. 1t was one of
the bOldest and most completely successful
attempts of the kind that has been made in
the state for years.
A valuable COW owned by George Gilett of
Belchertown was killed by lightning on the
llth. She was standing about twenty feet
from tree which was torn to pieces.
BEKKsHIHe UUUNTf-
I'll. Arnold Il Co.'S new print works at Ad-
ans, turned out $500 pieces of calico last
week, Of II yards each, making in all l47 900
yards.
Mrs. Shaw. wife OF the gallant Col. Shaw,
commander of the tifty-fourth (cOlOred) reg
| iment, who was killed at the recent storm
ing Of Fort Wagner, i'll the Charleston har-
Dor, has been spending some time i'll Stock
bridge.
The brigade of Gen. Henry s. Briugs beino
| broken mn Inv the ext,iration of the time nj
,,listmnnt of tho rina mop,Ls mon no b,s
ham ,I,n,.d IN non,r,and If tIn frst Gyis;nn
of the army OF the Potomac.
The wife and family of Gens Fremont are
passing the summer at LenoX.
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and othor of thn mnSt haa9tituI towns in
Snntbern Ror,shire
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