Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-31
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Glass day at Harvard is Friday, June %.
The Boston Journal has given $500 for the
new art museum in that city, and the other pa
pers about $1,000 more.
Arthur Cheney, proprietor of the Boston Globe
theatre, and meritorious amateur actor, will
make his first public appearance at the theatre
on Saturday evening, when his manager, Mr..
Floyd, will have benefit.
Charles G, Smith, employed as q travelling
salesman by Messrs. Ordway & Co., on Milk
street, Boston, was arrested on Monday, by a
detective on a charge of embezzling $500 from
the above named firm. Smith was taken before
the municipal court and held in $1,000 for his
appearance before the criminal term of the SUI
perior court.
In the Boston municipal court on Monday,
Jennie A. Baldwin was arragned on the charge
of larceny at different times of fancy goods TO
the value of some 5000, in the store of her EN-.
ployers on Winter street, and was held in $500
for trial, which was procured.
While the city ldborers were excavatine for
'he sewer in Davis street, Boston, on Monday.
thev found skeleton of a man about eight feel
below t,,.o surface There used to be a burning
ernund in Ia. at vicinity which may account for
the discovery.
Upwards of one hundred members of the
legislature, with the various attaches of the
state house with ladies, left Long wharf shortly
after two O'Clock on Monday afternoon, in the
revenue cutter Mahoning, for trip down the
harbor. Collector Russell accompanied the
party. They visited the principal o6jcyss OF IN
ferest and the Notifications, and returned about
dark.
The committee of conference on the difference
between the two branches in relation to the sen
ate amendment to the general appropTiation.bill
held a meeting at the state house Monday after
noon. Several hours were consumed in discuss
ing matters without arriving at any satisfactory
adjustment Adjourned till Wednesday.
Gen. Banks denies the published statement
that he will oppose the carrying out of the
joint high treaty as far as the fishing interests
are concerned. He is willing to support all
legislation necessary to carry it out and has no
doubt that ii will be Endorsed by the house of
representatives.
HAMPDES COUNTY.
Michal Lynch, grocer at Holyokes attempt
ed to kill his wife, Thursday evening, by cutting
her throat with pocket knife. He made bung-
ling work, however, and the woman will proba-
bly, recover, although he inflicted frightful
wound. The affair occurred while he was in
liquor, and grew out of the fact that he had lost
$1,000 by endorsing paper for one of her broth
ers, who failed, Lynch believing his wife instru-
mental in bringing this financial trouble upon
him. He was arrested and held in $4,000 for
examination.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Colonel Hiram Turner prominent citizen of
Hillsboro county, died in Henniker, on Saturday,
aged seventy-twO years.
Hundreds of acres of corn planted in the vi
cinity of Concord have sprouted and dried up
and will have to be replanted, while the grass
crop is a complete failure.
Rev. Jonas Merriam, who was for many wears
the editor of the Worlds Crisis, Second Adj
vent paper, died in Concord, Saturday, aged
sixty-eight years. He was a native of Topsfeld,
Mass. and graduated at Bowdoin college in
1926. He was an able writer and an esteemed
citizen. The deceased lett a widow, but no chill
dren.
A survey is being made at Sewalls Falls and
vicinity, Concord, with a view of ascertainng
the best means of utilizing the water power at
that point preparatory TO the erection of fac
tories, machine Shops ETC.
sad accident is reported to have occurred
at Hopkinton, Thursday morning about six
o'clock. Mr.. Walter ]. Gilbert, of Brooklyn
n T., boarding at StoIey's hotel while hunt
ing woodchuck in neighboring field, was &C.
cidentally shot in climbing a fence. The ball
passed under his left arm, through the left lung
and out under the right shoulder blade. At the
last accounts he was not expected to live.
VERMONT.
James Conln, of Rutland crazy individual
who had mania for stopping railroad trains
by waving red flag, has been conveyed to the
Bratteboro asylum.
Frank Richardson recently bartender at and
brother of the proprietor of the Stevens house
at Rutland, was accidentally and probably
fatally shot by the porter of the Bates house,
also at Rutland, in the office of that house,
abont O'Clock Saturday morning.
sheriff undertook to take a French Cana
dian, for whom he had writ, off the cars at
st. Adams, Thursday night, but the crowd, in
Guiding the conductor, beat him off and Frenchy
went free
CONNECTICUT.
Robbing hen-roosts will soon be dangerous
business in Connecticut. The legislature sober
1y proposes to make it "a state prison offence
Emily j. Callahan of New Haven has secured
divorce from Andrew J. Callahan, Gov Eng
hshs executive messenger last year, for "gen-
eral misconduct"
VIM. Stiles, aged twenty-one, son of Mrs.
Stiles, now in Jail at Hartford, awaiting trial for
attempt to poison family at South Windsor,
was found dead in his bed, at Windsor, Satur-
day morning.
There are living at the Center Hill district of
Barkhampstead thirteen persons who are
over seventy years of age, and ten others over
sixty, The total voting population of the dis
lTlct, however, Is only twenty-five. Nearly all
OF these aged persons were born near there
Abner Newton, who has been the editor and
publisher of the Middletown Constitution since
1887, died on Sunday aged seventy-fve years.
lie was the Oldest printer in the state engaged
IN business, and occupied an honorable position
IN ms profession and in society. Mr. Newton
was the lrst man in this country to reprint the
foreign quarterlies, the enterprise now conduct
ed by Leonard Scott Co., New York
little son of S. Bates, in Norwalk received
terrible injury from goat with which he
was playing, on Monday, the I'D. The goal
made lunge at the boy, and one of its horn,
penetrated his neck beneath the jaw, lacerat
ing his tongue at the base and injuring the rool
ing this, the Gazette says, it is believed be will
soon recover.
The Hartford Times prints an amusing cata.
logue of Missions troubles in that vicinity a
short time since. She had words with her man
ager, Strakosch; she dropped her beautiful
watch, the gift of the emperor, and accidentally
put her heel on it, she disliked the cooking at
the Allyn house, and wanted the cook to bring
chicken to her room and cook it over the CRATE,
winch the cooh utterly and CONTEMPORARY re-
fused TO do But her smiles and sweetness re-
turned, as by magic, when lovely bouquet with
Gov. JEWELS compliments arrived and would
nave continued had not a subsequeutimessage
announced the bouquet as intended for Cary .
the storm then grew fearful, her brow knitted
her cheek flushed, and as her dress of white
satin was defaced by some burnt cork left by the
negro MINISTRIES who preceded her in the hall
where the performance took place. there was A
elimination of wrath which obliged those
about her TO look for shelter. Tie papers,
nevertheless, said she sang,1 know that my Re-
deemer Liveth" III angelic style.
The report of the Connecticut board of edu-
cation gives most encouraging account of the
operations of the board and general state of ed
ucatl0n within that state. Special attention has
been given to securing the attendance at school
OF minor children employed in manufacturing
establishments during the term prescribed by
law. There are on the school returns from the
towns 12S,44S children of school age from four
to sixteen; of this number there are only II 1887
VINO attend no school. Deducting portion
from four TO sixwho are detained at home by
reason OF being thought too young, and that
other portion above fourteen who are taken from
school to assist parents who are in reduced cir
cumstances, and whose labor is considered nee.
essary for the support of the family, and the
ABOVE number will be considerably reduced
Inc number which is TO be legitimately reck-
oned IN the ranks of illiteracy will be something
more than 5000.
AT Hartford, few days ago, German, Rev.
Mr. luxembourg the singer aud reader of the
Congregation BethIsrael, was poisoned NV
what was called-incorrectly, in one sense-tbe
mistake Of druggist. 1t was not the mis-
take of druggist in any sense except this,
that the druggist, after repeatedly asking the
purchaser if saltpetre was thearticle he wanted
and receiving each time an affirmative reply
Yes salt-betre," gave him the thing he called
for-an ounce of saltpetre. What the man
wanted was Epson salts; and he called it,eor
tried to call it, sat bitter" meaning bitter
salts. He succeeded only in calling il salt.
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