Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-15
G0lurttstcr Daily Spp.
new England News summary.

"A uO1 hnlNly hNCu ClSutSNug was siiANoANN
Boston on Saturday for snatching a portmor
naie IRON lady on the street, and unsucces'
fully irving TO get another the same way shOrtl
after lot OF roughs, who undertook TO res
cue the thief from the police, were also arreSte'
and taken to the lookup.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
At Lowell, on Sunday afternoon, Terrence
Hanover the veteran Catholic undertaken, wa
turning his hearse TO leave grave when, b.
some means, he tipped it over, breaking three o
his ribs .
of taxation, S11 20; gain in polls, las.
Mrs. John J. Eaton of Arlington was ruI
away with by frightened horse, Friday even
ing, which overturned the buggy in a collision
with passing team, and dragged Mrs Eator
some distance, fracturing her skull and inlict
ing other injuries, from which she died Satur
day morning.
Samuel G. Blodgett's house, in Waltham was
destroyed by fire on Saturday. Cause-a child
used matches for toys.
The small pox is increasing in Lowell. The
board of health, in view of the alarming fact
that the disease is beyond their control, have
reported TO the city government that compuI-
sorry vaccination and other measures were neces.
sary, and they were ordered TO take such meas
ures as were required to prevent the spread of
the pestilence. There were thirty new cases of
small pox and number Of varioloid reported
last week Yesterday, eight cases of small pox
and sixteen OF variooid were reported. The
number of cases among the Irish population
reported is probably not more than one-third
of the number existing, as they have great
aversion to regular medical attendance in this
disease.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The depot of the Boston and Maine railroad
at North AndoYer, was broken into between two
and three O'Clock Friday night, and the safe
blown open and robbed. The burglars obtained
but fifty or sixty dollars in coppers, scrip, &C.
One of the largest temperance meetings ever
held in Lynn took place at High Rock on Sun
day evening Nearly two thousand people
were present. Rev. Edwin Thompson and John
W. Berry, Esq, addressed the multitude. The
Hutchinson family were present and sang some
OF their songs. The meeting was grand sue
cess.
Marblehead voted, the other day, 546 to 231
to loan its credit for $4,000, taking first mort
gage bonds as collateral security, for new rail-
road from that town to Swampscott, an offer
having been made by John E. Gowan of Lynn
to build and equip the road in eight months on
those terms BY the new road the rail cOnuec-
ton between the two towns will be three and
one-half miles instead of eight, as now, by way
Of Salem.
The Odd Fellows of Essex county propose to
try their fortune again this year with an an
nual gathering at Lynn on Thursday, Sept. %.
The features of the day will be procession in
the morning with some thirty or forty lodges
and encampments with their bands; picnic at
the beach, under tents, and concert by the
consolidated bands, some two or three hundred
performers, in the afternoon, and a promenade
concert and gathering at the largest hall in
town in the evening. Col. Roland G. Usher
will Officiate as chief marshal.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Geo. c. Elliott, who INDUCES in the luxury of
a farm in Norton, commenced digging his Early
Rose potatoes last week. The first tuber he took
out weighed one pound and six ounces Then
he rested.
John NJ. W. Pratt, eldest son of Hon. Horatio
Pratt of Taunton is missing. He went out on
the river in a boat The boat has been found
moored four miles up the river, but no trace of
the young man.
The Taunton street railroad has been graded
and the rails laid from Whittenton Village to
the -Four Corners at Hopewell, nearly mile.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
republican caucus was held in Brookline
on Saturday evening to nominate delegates to
the state convention The question having been
asked why 1t had been called so early, the chair
man OF the town committee, Mr.. A. Kendrick.
Jr., explained that certain men, not considered
suitable, appeared to be endeavorng TO foist
themselves upon the party as candidates, and it
was considered best to show in the most unmis-
takeable way, that the republicans of Brookline
intended 70 exercise their own choice Resolu-
lions were then unanimously passed to the fol-
lowing effect: THAT if our delegates shall aid in
presenting the names of either Hon. A. H. Rice,
AIOu' AluINcl JEWELL 11Ou. w b. w aSlOurOe
or Hon. Il. X. Hoar as the candidate for govern
or, they will well have discharged the trust we
now impose upon them"
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
/. K. Quincy, phrenOlOgist, was recently ar.
rested at Wellfeet on charge Of stealing a
yacht from Squantum.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The little daughter of Spencer A. Knox of
Chester tipped over kettle of hot water, on
Friday, and scalded herself fatally.
Thomas Bailey of Lenox is out wife. After
living with him in peace and comfort for seven
teen years, the seductive wiles of a boarder,
John Taylor by name, proved too much for her
virtue, and they eloped together, taking an in
tant child, and going toward the setting sun.
Thomas, at last accounts, was looking through
Troy and Albany after them, pretty sure that
unerring instinct would guide them to one place
or the other.
VIM. j. Cove, of Newcastle, and Francis A.
Spaulding, of Waterville, were both sentenced
10 the Maine state prison for life by the supreme
court, at Augusta, day or two ago, for rape.
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
North Conway has not been SO full of visitors
for many years as il was last week. II is now
accessible by railroad.
Peter Dudley, well known as senior proprietor
OF the Phoenix hotel livery stables and nearly
forty years ago stage proprietor and driver be-
tween Concord and Lowell, died on Friday of
consumption. VI
Mr.. z. q. I. Yeaton, steady and industriou 8
man, OF Portsmouth, started to hunt I'D a cow
which had stTayed away Thursday evening. and
has not since been heard from. Search has
proved unaValhng, and fears of foul play are
entertained. F' "'S
That was good, comfortable old soul who.
when told by Nashua man that he should
Inlnk she would live in constant fear of some NJ
her large family of children being drowned in
the river near her house, answered with mater
Tenderness
four that wayP ~ VI
Inc MlodleDury college has conferred the bon.
oraTy degree of ID. d. on Rev. Merrill Rjchard
son, the distinguished pastor of the New Enc
ialu church, New York, formerly of Worcester.
CONNECTICUT
Clarence Thurber a Pr ,v;denoe lad or,,,o,
with two loaded reyol'yers, a dirk knife and a
EO -J ma'CH was arr sted on suspicion in Hart.
r todu vi ounuS He had ridden in a train
n mVm NC" -Aayen in truck under one of the
=, Re late Charles Hosmer of Hartford made
the following bequest: To the Hartford theolog-
ical institute, TO be held as a permanent fund,
the interest of which is to be used in aid of
poor and pious young men studying for the
ministry, $4,000; to the Hartford hospital,
$1,000: to the American bible society of New
York, $500; TO the American tract society
of New York, $500; TO the board of foreign
missions, $500; the charitable society of
Hartford, S10O0 to the widows society of Hart
ford, $1,000.
RHODE ISLAND.
The churches of Rhode Island are now hold
ing their annual clambakes
1t is stated that in Providence no coal is al
lowed to be dumped on the street or on the side
walk. 1t must be carried directly from the cart
into the cellar or wherever it Is to be deposited.
Miss Almy, daughter of the late John r. AL
my, who was taken ill in consequence of the
oppressive heat while riding in Tiyerton Mon
day, was taken into the residence of DIR. West
where she soon died.
The granite quarries of Westerly are next in
rank and importance TO those of Dix island
Divided between two companies, they together
employ about six hundred hands. The work is
various and extensive. Among other pieces
now on the ground is an immense block. weigh.
ing seventy tons when quarried, and designed
to form q massive basin of one stone for the
Central park of New York, at Il cost of $40 OOO
Blocks Tor building purposes, memorial stones
elaborate columns, little blocks made from the
waste for payements, finely carved eap-stones
anu brackets and splendid statuary for public
puildllgs are IN course of construction on every
slde' ms Westerly company put up the Get
Yaourg monument, and are about preparing a
similar one for Antietam. They are also en-.
eaged upon several edifces of the most costly
ana ornate description, notably the new build.
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