Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-11-03
a0lurtester aailp SPY.
New England News summary.
nosroN ANp VICINITY.

Gen. n. p Banks, who has been abroad iol
several months is expected al Boston, saturday
The Boston Faneuil hall relief iund this i1or !.
ing amounts TO S421, 1894 for Chicago, So0Vz'f
for Michigan, &c; This exclusive oil the Snoeaho
Leather fund OF about sS4,OOO' -u,.,..
At Roston. GOOD stocks and sound securities
are not much affected yet by the pressure Ill th'
money market, ~, -
ricnce NAV have been sad one, But havI
found most saints TO be towards.
The entering class of the Massachusetts inStl
tute of technology this year numbers 10l-rnak
ing a total in the school OF about go, pursuing
different studies in applied science.
A Boston paper says: Some of the real-estat
owners in Charlestown are ms anxious for an
neXaUion as many young men are TO marry rlcl
wives, or be admitted as partners TO wealth.
business firms.
Rev Samuel X. Lothrop, D. D., Ref: John II
Morrison, d. D., and Rev. Rufus Ellis haY
been appointed lecturers in the divinity sehoq
at Harvard college for the current year. Fran
chs Minot, NJ. d., assistant professor OF tn
theory and practice of medicine, and cIlhca
lecturer on the diseases of women ana chlldren
has also been appointed.
In view of the entire loss bv the Illinois his
torica society, in the recent fire at Chicago, 2
its building and library, including us Valu3n'
collection of manuscripts, the New England ms
torlc-eenealogical society VIII give 10 lnel sucl
OF its own publications and other duplcaies Us
may he needed and can be spared from the il
brary. They also give notice that they snail DC
happy TO receive at their house, No. Is somerset
street, Boston, 10 be forwarded to the llnols So
ciety any packages of books that may be gwen
by other historical societies or private persons.
Such packages should be marked "lllinois his
1orical society,"" with the donors name. They
will consider il a favor if the papers throughout
New England will copy this notice.
The Boston Transcript has the following;
''rhc Shakspearian idea that murder will speak
with mirupulbIlS OIuaU' finds little COllU-
tenance in the mystery pervading the horrible
killing of the joyce children in the buSsey
woods, or the aTocious crime on the Western
avenue Tuesday night by which Kate Leehan
was sent TO her account with all her lmperlcc-
tons on her head. Up to this time the author
of the double murder in the woods before men
toned retains his guilty incognito, and walks
the earth, so far as is known to the public, with
an air of easy and conscious innocence Re
spectng the tragedy, which has caused so much
excitement the past week, the committer OF the
murdCrous deed still battles all attempts at dis
covery, and it is feared will finally escape de-
lection and arrest. Two more remarkable eX-
ceptions to the Shakspearan doctrine could
hardly be cited"
ESSEN COUNTY.
The New York Times says NewburypOrt is
distinguished for nothing but having produced
Caleb Cushing. 1t iorgcts Lord Timothy
Dexter
The contract for building the Newbuyport
and AmcsDury horse railroad was awarded TO
Col. John L. Gowen of Boston, at n meeting Of
the directors of the road held on Wednesday.
The contract is TO complete the road for $780,
600, and work upon it will be begun at once
Col. Gowen takes 100000 of stock in the road.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Fall River News understands that the
Hope iron works company, of Providence, con-
templates moving their establishment, or por-
ton of it, to Fall River, and that some fifteen
acres Of land, belonging to job 7. Wilson, and
located between the railroad and the shore, just
north of Wilson's fish works, have been pur-
chased for the iron works company'S use.
NANTUCKET COUNTY.
A hundred years ago, Nantucket had 1877 YES
sells, which gave employment to 22O0 seamen.
Now its commerce is gone, and its population is
only about double the number of sailors once
atloat in its vessels.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
story is told Of lecture before the the Gag
ricultural college students" at Amherst, on
grape culture, in which the lecturer presented a
bottle of wine made from his own grapes and
requested the class to sip it to test its quality,
The bottle only lasted TO the third man.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Mahaiwe bank robbery at Great Barring
ton has an air ofmystery. II was at first stated
that Hnc, the abscondng teller, took S1S,000
then $4,000, then S27 ,000 and on Saturday the
report was current in Darlington that the
amount reached S125 900. This last is now de-
exact amount stolen was S24 $40 Although
the telegraph has been freely used and detectives
put on his track, even to st. john n. b., no
trace Of Hine has been discovered. He reached
Boston, probably, at eleven A. NJ, on Sunday
and might have gone north by train or TO Cali
fornia or China by vessels which sailed that day
man named Haggerty was violently as
saulted at North Adams, a few days ago. by
one Cunningham of Williamstown. DIR. H. P.
Phillips was called to dress Haggertys wounds,
one OF which was bad sea p wound and was
also summoned TO appear rs a witness in the
case before the district court. On the same
night some person demolished the windows of
the doctors former residence on South Church
street, probably unaware Ofthe fact that he had
removed TO Main street and occupied rooms
over ii. l.. Phillips bookstore; hut on the fol-
lowing night the front windows of the hook
store were broken in, and a stone was thrown
into the second story through the window. On
several occasions of late persons have been as
saulted or their houses broken into for express
ING an opinion regarding crime Or for some fam
cied injury.
In IVA, inIantcipation of the revolutionary
war, two companies of militia were formed in
Pittsheld, one in the west part of the town, and
the other IN the center and east. The latter com
pany was commanded by James Dennison Colt,
great-grandiather of Judge james D. Colt, and
grandfather Of Henry Colt, The latter gentle
man has found among his papers, and presented
to the Berkshire athen9um at Pittsfield, the
original roll OF the company il has seventy
nine names including many Of the Old fathers
OF the town, and in addition a "Larrum" roll OF
ten names, to be called on ohly in case of an
alarm. The document is deliberately designed,
the heading being tianked on one side by a line
Of full-dressed plump soldiers, and on The other
by the British flag, showing the cross of St.
George.
MAINE.
The whole amount raised in Augusta for the
chicago sufferers was S2.412.
The same number of intentions of marriage
were recorded in the city clerks Office at Bangor
during the month of October that there were in
the Portland otfice-thrty-one
Thomas Robson of Belmont, was lost over
board from Camden vessel in the Cult of ST.
Lawrence on the 18th ult., during gale. He
was 81 years old.
The editor OF the Belfast Journal surprised
some mischievouS boys in the act Of embelsh-
inc the walls Of his office entry with sundrv
caricature representations of himself He rave
them the choice between undoing their work or
going before the police judge. A good deal of
pemtential scrubbing followed.
q Neil w. Robinson, who forged paper IN
Portland, TO the amount of $4,000, has been ar
rested at Key West, and is now on the way to
New York by steamer.
Gov. Perham has written to Senator Trum
bull, proposing on behalf of the state TO rive
for the use of the county and the bar Of Chicago
copies oil the statutes, reports and digcsts of the
state, and inquilng TO whom they can be sent
Mr.. trumbnll has written TO Gov. Perham, kind
ly thanking him for bis offer.
Molly Nrptune, the oldest living member OF
the PassamaquaGdy tribe of indians, died al
Pleasant Point a few days ago. Her aye is
stated at 112. This tribe of Indians is growing
less in numbers every year, and will probably
become extinct, before many years, like all the
Others IN the settled portions of the country.
lew days ago little daughter of Levi Rob
ins OF Hiram, two years aud two months old
went out into the field to find her father, and go
lost in the woods, She was not missed till late
in the DAY; search was at once commenced but
the child was not found until eight O'clock tb(
next morning; she had wandered about two
miles
Mr.. Benjamin Rowe, the deaf mute, who wa,
knocked down on the Maine Central railronr
extension last week. has since died from his IN
iuries. Mr.. Rowe was standing on the sleepe
outside the raft; the train was backing; the rea
car struck him in the side, knocking him down
breaking two ribs, and cutting several glshes il
his head. Mr.. Rowe was at the time in the en-
pioy OF the railroad
The city Of Lewiston has recently been yer
much scandalized by the conduct of two of II
inhabitants, who were old enough TO know be
ter. II seems that a fair creature on the stead
side Of fifty summers, and prominent in til
church, captiyated a gay chap of about her Ow
years, and prying policeman captured the pal
under circumstances more than suspicious III