Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-04
correspondent of the Bath Times wbo,bas bee,

lOSt MS NE says q sister OF Lincoln is employed
in the cotton mill of the Messrs Sprague at Au-
gusta. On the day previous to the accident she
had a presentiment that her brother was about
to meet violent death, and leaving the mill
weeping, continued in an almost distracted state
of mind throughout the night The next dav a
messenger drove up to the mill to bring the
tidings of the death of Lincoln. The young
lady saw him approaching, and recognizing him
as one of her neighbors in Damariscotta, ex-
claimed, HE Is deadF' This is very singular
case, but is well authenticated.
George Savage, Esq, one of Bangor's Oldest
citizens, died on the 31st ult., at the advanced
age of IS years. Mr. Savage was one of the
first settlers of the town of Bangor, and for
many years carried on the business of ship
building. Hewas also engaged in wharf and
bridge building, and we believe built the first
bridge across Kenduskeag stream, just where
kenduskeag bridge now stands. In 1880 or 1881
he built and owned a horse ferry, which run for
several years between Bangor and Brewer.
| When the British made their famous visit to
Bangor, during the war of 1912, they entered
his house, stripped him of everything he pos
sessed, and set fire to several small vessels which
| he had on the stocks Fortunately the fire was
| eXtinguished and the vessels were saved. He
| was an industrious man. and never gave up
labor until a short time before his death.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
| DR.. Kelley's wife of Franklin was thrown
| from a carriage while riding out on the Sd, and
| had her leg broken twice near the ankle.
@The house and stable of Mr.. II. Nelson in San
bornton were burned few nights since. Loss
about $4,000, and insured for S1400.
The lightning plOwed up Horace Sargent'S
dooryard at New London last week, and pros
| trated Mrs. Sargent so that she remained in
| sensible for several hours.
The top of a stage-coach is an unsafe locality
for tipsy man. Two men fell from the top of
| a stage at Bradford last Saturday, while under
| the influence of liquor. One broke his neck
and the other was severely hurt.
A man in Temple recently caught six rats in
trap at once. They appeared to be all of the
same litter, as they were of equal size and about
two-thirds grown. The trap was of wire, with
only one spring.
The governor and council have appointed
John W. Sanborn of Wakefield and Henry H.
HuSe of Manchester additional members of the
commission for making a limited reimburse
ment OF war expenditures among cities and
towns of the state,
| A boy at Rye Beach recently accidentally
| swallowed pin three inches long. He was
carelessly holding it in his mouth with the glass
| head on the top of his tongue, when he gulped
| it down. He is badly frightened, but feels no
| bad effects from it yet
The Manchester Mirror says that early Satur-
day morning a waste house belonging 10 the
| Great Falls wooden company caught fire by
spontaneous combustion, and was entirely con-
sumed. The flames passed over drying plat
| form covered with wool, thence to the dressing
room, damaging the building badly and de-
stroying several beams of warp yarn and other
| by insurance
In speaking of the recent fatal accident an ex-
| change says 1.-The sad accident at CharleStown,
by which two valuable lives were lost and
third person badly injured, illustrates the neces-
sity of the greatest caution on the part of those
| who cross railroad tracks with carriages. Mr..
| Howe, who was driving, was careful driver
and 1t is supposed that the train was so far from
him that it was entirely safe to attempt to cross
| How teartully he was mistaken the sad result
| shows. One lesson of this accident is, that at
| every point where a railroad crosses travelled
road at grade there should be gate or a flag
man. The law ought to compel this service,
under heavy penalty for its non-observance.
Another lesson is that person ought never to
| attempt crossing track when an approaching
train is in sight. The distance and speed of the
train are so deceptive that it is very unwise to
run any risk in this way. Add to this risk the
danger of horse, from any reason, baking
| and slipping on the track and the best horses
| do it sometimes, and it proves that the only sure
safeguard aguard against such a calamity as
occurred at Charestown is not to venture across
a track when an approaching train is within
hearing or seeing distance"
VERMONT.
man in Moretown claims to have mown
this summer herd grass measuring six feet and
| one inch in hight.
A Vermont eagle, measuring seven feet and
four inches from tip to tip, came to grief while
| stealing the lambs and chickens of Calvin
I
Mr.. Abbott Pond, son of DIR. Pond, and Henry
9. Dayey of Rutland were on the ferry boat
Westfield on her last trip from Staten Island,
and had but just left the boat when the explo-
| sion occurred
DR.. H. H. Reynolds of Alburgh Springs is
dead. He had been representative county SEN
ator, Judge of county court, presidential elector,
and delegate to the republican national con-
| Vention at Philadelphia in 1856.
CONNECTICUT.
dcn1t ,F Vo1n Han
bee,, chosen principal of Woo dstock academy.
| A horse uised in Bridgeport recently of the
New York horse distemper, and several in West
port are affected.
Companies A and of the 22d New York
| regiment are to pay New Haven visit on the
| 9th of this month
The colored citizens Of Bridgeport celebrated
emancipation, Tuesday, in fine style, under the
auspices of Dolic lodge No. 80, F. and A. M.
| A young lady in Centerbrook by the name of
| Pratt, few days ago, harneSSed a pair OF
horses, and with machine cut three acres OF
| grass. She is unmarried.
| The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Sun
day school convention of the Ashford Baptist
association will be held with the Sunday school
in Andover on the third Wednesday in August.
A New York train ran over an old woman
named Martin in Stratford, Tuesday forenoon,
and severed both her feet from the ankles.
The woman was taken t0.her'hOme in Bridgeport.
At German picnic Sunday near bridgeport,
known, and two sons of Giles o. Keller of
Bridgeport, which resulted in the stabbing of
the two latter, the elder fatally.
| An escaped lunatic afforded merriment in
Bridgeport, Tuesday. He carried set of hand
cuffs and letters and claimed he chad been COM
missioned to catch and chain the devil, and had
come to Bridgeport for that purpose" The
Norwich Bulletin says: He will find him there
| if anywhere"
The seventh Connecticut regiment will hold
| their ANNA rpnniOO a MpridaU m adn oJou
| Aug 10th. Gen. j. r. Hawley, Col Rodman
| Surgeon Bacon, Chaplain Wayland and many
| Others are expected to be present. Everything
| gives promise of pleasant reunion. Several
members of the seventh were from Worcester
county, and they were at different times asso-
| ciated with Massachusetts regiments, more par
ticularly with the oath, the 10th and the saith.
A lady went recently with friend to the New
Haven railroad depot in New York, to see her
| daughter of TO Boston. The doOrkeeper refused
| TO allow the mother and her companion to pass
| to the platform with her child. "Why," said
| the companion, "no objection was made to my
| husband seeing me seated in the cars the other
| day" eyes, /" said the doorkeeper, "but he was
| a man, anf could take care of himself; but
| women who 90 on the cars don't seem to know
when to get off, and we have had so many ae-
cdents from this cause that the company has
has stopped EN- from going in altogether"
The queerest looking potato of the present
season is one which was dug in Glastonbury. 1t
has grown through a little iron band, which
once apparently did duty on an old-fashioned
hoe-handle; aud that part of the vegetable
which is iarthest from the Sprout-in other
words, the part last grown-is three times as
big as the first part before it enters the ring.
On either side of the ring the vegetable is far
too great to be extricated without breaking or
| cutting
A Bridgeport bachelor was passing along the
street the other day, when he saw young
lady drive up in a team, apparently from the
country, and calamity offered to he lip her from
the carriage She gracefully accepted, and
blandly requested him to hold the horse Gust
for minute" while she stepped into a store.
He cEeerfully acquiesced, but, after making a
htching-post of himself for about an hour, con-
cluded to relnquish his chance of making
new friend, and departed not in the best of hu-
| NOR
The Hartford Courant thus describes lunar
rainbow, seen few nights ago: Between eight
and nine O'Clock in the evening, those who were
so fortunate as to be abroad in our streets and
alive TO strange events, were treated to an exhi-
bltion of marvellous beauty, in the form of
lunar rainbow of great brilliancy, in which the
prsmate colors were plainly discernible, and
more than that, a secondary bow faint and