Worcester daily spy., 1871-08-14
d0lurtrster Daily Spp.
New England News summary.


thirteen TO eight
There were over one hundred and fifty ar
rivals at one of the Boston hotels on Saturday.
P. S. Gilmore sailed for Europe Saturday TO
undertake what may prove the hardest part Oh
his jubilee project; but his heart is well iorti-
fed.
Hon, Moses Kimball is spoken of by large
number of the citizens of Boston as candidate
for lieutenant governor at the approaching re-
publican state convention.
finding that the three infants, suspected OF be-
ing killed with opium, died from natural causes,
and the woman Callahan was discharged from
arrest.
Five thousand crates of peaches, the largest
single freight of fruit ever carried east, were
brought from New York to Boston by the
steamer Stonington on the 9th inst The Ston-
ington railroad company runs a special fruit
train daily subsequent to the arrival of the
boat.
The local passenger rates upon the Boston
and Albany railroad, on and after Oct. l, are 10
be reduced TO three cents mile for all distances
of twenty miles and under, and to two and
eighty-three one hundredrhs cents mile for all
distances over twenty miles, where the present
rates are above those figures.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The school committee of Maiden have ap-
pointed Miss Isabella Mcintosh of Sutton, Mass,
formerly teacher at the "Oread Institute" Wor-
cester, as assistant of Mr.. Rice in the high
school.
The suspension of the well-known building
firm of Hanson & Hunnewell is announced.
They have various contracts under way TO the
extent of S225,OOO.
The town of Hudson was greatly excited on
Sunday, 9th inst, by the shooting of man by
State Constable Micah b. Priest OF Marlboro.
The Catholics of Marlboro dedicated their new
church that day, large numbers coming from
Hudson One team containing six girls ran
over two aged women, badly injuring them.
Officer Priest came Immediately to take the
names of the girls, and when he appeared, the
Irish suppoSing he was going to search for
liquor, assembled in numbers, man named
James Hurley had some words with the officer,
and aWempted TO pull him out of his team,
tearing his shirt and vest open. Hurley then
picked up q rock, and Priest warned him not to
throw it or he would fire. Hurley raised the
rock, and at the same instant Priest fired, hit
ting young Irish girl named Mary Murray in
the shoulder, who was standing in door oppO-
site, making a severe wound. The officer, miss
ing Hurley, fired again, the bullet going through
Hurley's wrist, and entering his temple where
it was afterward found and extracted. Hurley
was under the influence of liquor at the time.
The officeris said to be very quiet, but deter
mined man, and as he once before was badly
beaten by the Irish, be did not intend TO give
them chance to repeat the operation last Sum
day.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The second brigade of the M. V. N. will mus
ter at Swampscott on the 22d inst.
One night last week the residences of Rev. X.
p. Rogers, Mr.. Calvin c. Herrick, Mrs. Solomon
Center and Captain Augustus Thomas of Glou-
cester were entered by burglars, by means of
ladder, and robbed of small amounts.
The citizens Of Boxford believing that they
are "better init out them" refuse to allow any
divisions of the state militia TO encamp within
the limits of their town.
While Mrs. Ella Davis lockwood aud her
cousin, Miss Marietta Rice, were out boating
from Marblehead, where they are summering,
the other day, they drifted mile and half
away from mainland to sea, and were unable to
recover their position, While in trouble, Rev.
Mr. Hewes, clergyman of Salem, fond of his
yacht, sailed by, took good look at them, and,
mot being acquainted with them," left them to
get back as best they might, although he Deem
ed them in danger. The lighthouse keeper, see.
ing their dilemma, put off TO them and navi-
gated them ashore.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Ames iron works, at Fall River, have
been purchased by the Housatonic railroad
company, for SIS 900, and will be demolished
and a locomotive round house erected. The re-
cent death of Mr.. Ames caused the suspension
of the iron business at this place, which has
been carried on for fifty years.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
Last week grumpus, fifteen feet long, and
yielding barrel of OIL was caught in net at
Provincetown.
DUKES AND NANTUCKET.
Three young men, named CosgroYe, Hunt and
Wheeler, while out fishing, a few days since, off
Great Point light, Nantucket, caught two enor-
nous sharks, weighing respectively 200 and 400
pounds.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Eight of the horses entered for the Springfield
races arrived Saturday night, and twelve more
come Monday morning. On Wednesday there
will be fifty horses on the park, two-thirds OF
Fba ,nrbn1 rnr,aho hat u,
S2500 purse will not fill, but the club proposes
to get up something to take its place.
Springfield has Is law firms, go boarding
houses, II commission merchants, 16 confection.
ers, II dentists, so dressmakers, dry goods and
19 fancy goods stores, 13 -four stores, wholesale
and 6S retail grocers, p insurance agents, IA
manufacturing companies, u merchant tailors,
Il milliners, II music teachers, A physicians 10
publishers, 10 banks, 29 carpenters ard builders,
besides many people of other crafts too numer-
GUS for mention.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
President Hopkins of Williams college is re-
covering from the carbuncle on his back but
his brother, Prof. Albert Hopkins, worn out by
hard work, is suffering under a slow fever, and
is reported quite low. Both diseases were con-
tracted by exposure in camping out with the
Alpine club.
HoOsac tunnel progress for July: East end
heading advanced 167 feet total distance in,
9O49. Extension enlargement No. advanced east
800 feet, No. 10 west 225 feet. West end, brick
arch 70 rings), 511 feet; whole distance in 1904
feet. West shaft, brick, 100; total distance in,
$3.50; heading, 110; total distance in $780,
The Pittsfeld Eagle has unearthed the mean
man of that village He is fifty years old
worth $4,000, has driven all his four boys
away from home by his stinginess and mean
ness, and when one Of them was fatally hurt late
Iy, refused to bring him home. When his wife did
bring him, he refused both admission TO the
house, and turned his only daughter out of
doors beside, because she went to visit her diving
brother. She then bought a trunk, into which
she packed her few Clothes and went to another
town, to relatives The old man found she
had not paid for the trunk, and did so out of
his own pocket and then sent an officer to the
town where she was to attach the trunk and
bring il to Pttsfeld.
MAINE
Jacob Trip, aged seventy, committed suicide
on Friday in the woods near his residence at
North Yarmouth, by shooting himself
The Soldiers Orphan Home at Bath has re-
Gently received bequest of $4,000 under the
will of the late Horatio Wood OF England.
The Bangor Wing is informed that good cows
can be bought in that vicinity for SO, and the
prospects are that the price may 90 even lower
than this. Beef ought to be cheap this fall.
An effort is being made to have the Maine
state fair held at Belfast At last accounts the
prospects for that city were bright.
The large ice house belonging to the Cedar
OAofS Solhpdny VI IOTtlduu, ana situated at
Dresden, was destroyed by fire Saturday morn
ing. 1t contained large quantity of ice. The
fire must have been the work of an incendiary.
Mrs. Caroline McGregor died at her home In
Lu0ec last week of hydrophobia, the result of a
bite from lap-dog in June last. She suffered
severely for some days before her death, The
dog exhibited no signs of madness, and the
wounds had entirely healed.
Mrs. }. j. Black of Belfast has received A let.
ter from her husband, first mate Of the shin
Emily McNear, Captain Scott, which was
wrecked and totally lost near the island of lava
May 10; He writes that the officers and crew
were all saved, but lost all their clothing ev.
cept what they stood in. Two weeks Dreyionsiy
he was prostrated by paralytic shock, and Is
now in hospital at Batavia, and has fears that
he will not recover. "'
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A water adder three feet long was found in
the body of horse owned by Geo b. Cilley of
Nottingham, which had to be killed a few days
ago on account of sudden illness, the cause Of
which seemed mysterious till the snake was dis
covered.
Deacon John Kelley of Kelleyville, aged 81.
died suddenly on the 9th instant, from an injury
received from being thrown from his carriage