Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-10
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.

of consumption and of lung diseases; 70 were
children under five years of age, Al Of Ameri-
can parentage and 104 of foreign parentage.
About midnight Friday night Police Officer
David Wilbur was shot dead on his beat in
Chelsea by a man who came up and said, GLOW
are youT and instantly fired The assassin
fed, and was fired upon twice by
Officer Abbot. He returned the fire once and
then escaped. Cornelius Connors, keeper of a
saloon, was arrested on suspicion of being the
murderer.
There was a meeting of the executive commit
tee of the National peace jubilee of 1869, held
on Saturday morning at the piano forte ware
rooms of Messrs. Hallet, Davis & Co., at the So
licitation of p S. Gilmore, to take into con-
sideration the feasibility of the worlds peace
jubilee proposed to be held in june 1872
There was but one opinion expressed by the
gentlemen present at the meeting, and that was
that the jubilee must take place. The prelimi-
nary steps are already entered into, and IN
few days the full scheme of the great undertake
ing will be laid before the public. Never was
Mr.. Gilmore more sanguine than now, and
through his indomitable energy, backed, as he
will be, by the most public spirited and liberal
citizens of Boston, we already look upon the
work not as question of the future, but as an
actual occurrence of the present.
The Harvard crew has lately sustained Sc
we're loss in the forced withdrawal on account
of illness, of Mr.. Rice, who has up to this time
been rowing No. 8. He was suddenly attacked
to his room for many days to come. Mr.. Rice
was one of the original international four, and
one of the best oarsmen in the university, and
the crew seem greatly disheartened by his loss,
and have very little confidence of a successful
season without his assistance; but they have
rightly and plnckily determined to fulfill their
engagements with the Atalantas and their col
lege rivals, as long as they have six men able
to row. Immediately on the doctors declaration
that there was no possibility of Rice rowing,
had To I Of 10 Ia
the vacant place, which he accepted. Loring is
an honest and good oarsman, his only public
performance, however, being his position as No.
in the winning freshman boat at Worcester,
year before last.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
According to the census returns two estab-
ishments of Natick are devoted exclusively to
the making of base balls. One of the estab-
lishments has $4,000 capital, employs men,
so women and twenty children, and makes 300,-
600 dozen balls q year, valued at S42,0 1t
uses tons rubber waste, 5000 pounds wooden
yarn and 1900 sides OF horsehides The other
has $500 capital, employs one man, 10 women
and children, and makes 5000 dozen balls of
the valne of $3.50. 1t uses 1000 pounds of rub
Der waste, 1900 pounds of wooden yarn and 400
sides horse-hides. In both shops S21 $50 are
paid for wages during the year. A company
in New York has $4,000 capital invested in
making shirts and belts for base ball players,
and 1000 yards of flannel and 5000 of web are
made up.
ESSEX COUNTY.
James Armstrong, who was arrested in Salem
on Friday, charged with the murder of his wife
in September, 1869, in North Bridgewater,
makes full confession Of his crime, which, he
says, was instigated by quarrel with his wife.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mrs Horigan, housekeeper at the Washington
house in Taunton, was killed by the explosion
Of kerosene lamp on Thursday evening, the
blazing fluid being thrown upon her person and
burning her.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Apples are a failure in Northampton this
season. Some blight has betallen them, and
the young fruit is falling from the trees.
The cabinet at Amherst college has been en-
dowed with a fragment of the meteoric stone
that fell at Searsport, Me-, on the I'D of May.
The @rolite broke in falling, and the fragment
obtained weighs eight pounds.
MAINE.
The house, barn and outbuildings of Enoch
Blaisdell of Lebanon, were totally destroyed by
fire on the 18th; also 20 acres of wood and
tillage land were burnt over. Loss about
$4,000; insured for $500.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The New Hampshire asylum for the insane
had sOS patients last year, of whom 131 were
discharged in different states of mental health
The White Mountain region is thronged with
tourists. There is no better place for recovering
a lost appetite than the Franconia Notch, or the
wild country about the Crawford house. ThreaA-
ing the jungles of the Yosemite on mule bach
isn't circumstance for genuine comfort to
trudging on foot among the White Hills, where
every prospect pleases and not even landlords
are vile.
In Manchester Friday evening, little son of
Volney 1. Simmons, who resides at the corner
of Manchester and Pine streets, fell out of
window of the third story twenty feet and
struck upon picket fence. One of the pickets
penetrated through the liver. The child lived
about ten minutes. He was three and half
years old.
The house has passed through one reading of
bill in relation to diseased cattle, and which
provides that when epidemics among cattle oc-
cur the governor is authorized to appoint a
board of commissioners to direct the board of
agriculture to take the subject into considera-
ton, and to perform such action as may appear
necessary for stopping the spread of such dis
eases.
Thomas Garvin and VIM. Grant, two young
men nineteen years old, who were arrested at
Lowell on the It'll inst, on suspicion of larceny
giving contradictory account of the possession
of some eighteen dollars in money and twenty
dollars worth of fancy goods acknowledged to
breaking into the store of Mr.. Clark Of Nashua,
and were taken back. They escaped from the
New Hampshire reform school two years since.
The following bill has passed one stage in the
house of representatives: Marriage shall not
hereafter render the husband liable for the debts
contracted by his wife prior to their marriage.
Second sectiOn-No marriage shall hereafter
discharge the wife from liability to pay the
debts contracted by her before such marriage,
but she and all her property which she may
hold in her own right shall be held liable for the
payment of all debts, whether contracted be-
fore or after marriage in the manner as if she
continued sole and unmarried.
CONNECTICUT.
The Rev. W. l. Doubleday has closed his con-
nection with the Congregational church in Go
shen, on account of i-health.
A son of Frederick Smith of New ROston
thirteen years old, was drowned while bathing
in Manning's pond last week.
The Brantord fruit association sent to market
this season, forty thousand quarts of strawber-
ries, and expect a similar yield of raspberries
The trial of Peter 5. ellis fcr the murder of
Charles Gregory, in Bridgeport, on the morning
Of June 4th, was begun in Bridgeport on Thurs,
day.
An Irishman named James MCGEE, committed
suicide In Waterbury, last week, by hanging.
He had been low spirited for some time on &C
count Of domestic difficulties
VIM. Okell, New York broker recently
convicted of selling United States bonds stolen
from the National bank of Norwalk, was SEN
fenced by Judge Cardozo to FIVE years imprison.
ment in the Sing Sing prison.
Eli Whitney, of New Haven, who, some time
ago accidentally shot Mr.. Bush fatally. while
examining pistol, has generously provided a
home for Mrs. Bush and her children, and an
income of six hundred dollars per year during
her life.
The legislative committee appointed 10 INQUIRE
into the management OF affairs at the state pris-
on have prepared their report, which is to the
effect that the prisoners, both under wardeDs
Willard and Botelle, have been humanely treat
ed.
No further hearing is to be had in the case of
Wilson, the murderer of Warden Willard, before
the judiciary committee, and further proceedings
in this case will probably be suspended until Oc-
tober when the condemned man is to be hung.
few nights SINCE at late hour, the speak
ing tube at the Office door of one Of New Ha-
ven's popular physicians was used by some mid
night wag, to the following effect The doctor
was in sound sleep, when he was partially
awakened by "halloo' through the tube when
the following dialogue took place: "Well, what
Eyes; what do you wantP care uo1t DR.
Jonesr "Yes." Or Simon Jones Pr DYES
yesl what do you want2" 'cWhv how Iono
have yon lived here7" "Some twenty vears.
whyT "Why? why don't Won 1aoge ., az
you stay there about ten seconds more ,,o,Ju
find am moyingi,' and he bounced ont ~ hed
but the patient was heard "moyinq'' doS1, ~
street, at a rate thar defied pursuit. '"0
The examination of Mrs. Sherman. cbo,oos
with the murder of her two husbands and sS,,
eral children, began on the 9th, at Derby w r
Morton and E. X. Foster, Jr appearing for the
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