Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-07-11

Some days since Mr.. Sanderson, of Sweden
was badly injured by falling tree crushing
!, the large bone of the left leg in a shocking
manner. He lay apparently at the point OIL
death for several days, but is now doing finely.
The dedieatory services incident to the open.
ing OF the new Congregational church at South
Bridgton, will be held on the 18th. Dedication
sermon by PIof w. NJ. Barbour, of Bangor.
George L. Chapel of New London met with q
fearful and it is feared fatal accident on Thurs
| day. He was employed feeding circular saw
in Browns cotton gin factory, and a piece Of
solid timber was thrown against him by the
flying saw, striking him on the breast and
hurting MN against the window, gashing him
| terribly.
New interest is felt in the cause of education
at Ihompsonville, and some advocate still better
schools on pecuniary grounds, believing that
| superior educational advantages would be an
lnducement to many families to locate in that
community. The geography of the school dis.
trict line Is somewhat singular. The south
schoolhouse is located within few feet of sew
| eral families who belong in the Bell school dis
| trict, and almost the same anomaly exists on
| Alden avenue, in the northern part Of the viii
lage. The consequence is that scores of chill
| dren are found in the Thompsonville schools
who belong in other districts
A Derby correspondent says, concerning the
modern Borgia: Of course the people here
all say that if they were poisoned she did it,;
and have no doubt that, were she left TO the
| Judgment of the community a vigilance COM
mittee of women would hang her to some of
our elms before tomorrow morning. No one
| ever hints at her innocence, and great will be
| the Indignation in case Of an acQuittal The
| defence has not shown its hand as yet but there
is little doubt that the course will be to force the
| prosecution TO relieve itself of the OnuS prO-
| bdndi before taking any step to prove the pris-
Oner's innocence. The people here say that of
course the defence will put in the plea of in
sanity or monomania. 1t certainly appears, to
an unprejudiced observer, that monomana
alone could account for such a series of crimes,
purposeless in many cases, as is charged upon
this woman; and moreover, that is the fash
ionable plea, The villagers are already recol-
Letting strange actions on the part of the pris-
oner and abnormal appearances; and it is not
probable that she will lack witnesses If that plea
is adopted. But it is unlikely that the defence
will be driven to the last resort There is evil
dence enough that her husbands and children
died of arsenical poison, but there is no proof
that she administered it.
RHODE ISLAND.
On Friday next the second Rhode Island vol
unteers will hold THEN second annual reunion at
Rocky Point.
The Providence Herald saws: "a case of sick
ness from eating Chelsea clans is reported by
the Boston Journei-anOther illustration that
none but Rhode Island clans are the genuine
article"
Tie principal of the Rhode Island state nor
NAL school has been elected in the person of
Professor j. G. Greenough This gentleman
has been acting as assistant principal or the
Westfeld normal school, Massachusetts.
Rev. n. NJ. Williams of Wexford, the distin-
euished author Of civilians Notes on the Cos
peIs," has been hoRored with the degree OF Doc
tor of Divinity by the university of Chicago,
worthy honor worthily bestowed.
c. G. Chadwick of Boston, an elderly inmate
of the Butler asylum for the insane, while in
charge of an attendant in carriage, at Valley
Falls, on Saturday, eluded the vigilance of the
keeper, idtsped into Blackstone river and was
drowned. The body was recovered.
A Providence paper says: SUNDAY eXcuT-
sions are now fully lnaugurated Many believe
them to be wrong and IN utter violation of the
Sunday law, certainly in violation Of the Sab
bath. There are others, and, judging from the
number on these Sunday excursions, by no
means a small portion of our citizens, who see
no harm in passing few hours on Sunday, in in
halng the fresh air with which old Neptune fS-
vors our beautiful bay"
AT Providence, on Sunday morning, Isabella
Keegan was filling a kerosene lamp with oil
near the stove, and drop of the oil falling ON
the stove became ignited, and the flames at once
communicated TO the oil can and lamp. The
lady's clothes Immediately caught fire, and she
was soon developed in flames. Her screams
brought assistance, but she was so badly burned
that she fingered in great agony till eleven
O'Clock Monday evening, when she died. Miss
Keegan was about twenty years old, and her
sad fate adds another to the victims of kerosene
accidents.