Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-05-11
SHurtester Daily SPY.

Saurtesttr 4ailp SPY.
New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The Universalist festival takes place at Faneuil
hall Wednesday, May 81. Governor Perham,
Of Maine, will preside.
Among the generous bequests of Miss Nabby
Joy was one of $1,000 to her pastor, Rev. Rufus
Ellis of the First church, Boston.
A dispatch from Washington states that Pres
ident Grant is ill, and that he will not attend
the reunion of the Army of the Potomac, in
Boston.
The Journal says: alt is enormously report
ed that Mr.. Orlando Iompkins sustained the ac-
,ident on Berkeley street Monday. Mr.. and Mrs.
oliver Ditson were the sufferers, and the latter
were severely injured"
The recent rains have raised the water in
AXE Cochituate to ten feet eight and a half
inches above the bottom of the conduit. The
lake is not yet up to its full capacity-thirteen
feet and four inches, above which point the
waters run over the dam
The Boston Traveller, of recent date, says:
" A boy was detected at the post Office, yester
day, in abstracting money from letters taken
from the post Office boxes. He had destroyed
in three days nearly thirty letters containing
checks, drafts, bills, orders, &C., and by the pro-
business firms learn not to send boys TO the
post office"
The following is q copy Of paper picked up |
on the shore at Shediac, on the southeast coast |
Of New Brunswick, and telegraphed to Boston |
Monday: March 21, 1s7O-City of Boston
Shin siuking; over half full now. Goodbye |
ali, Look after my boy. Be gone in two hours.
THOMPSON" The original paper is in the
hands of Catholic priest at Shediac, who sent |
the above dispatch to his brother, member OF |
the bar in Boston. A copy was also sent to the |
agent of the Inman line. The Boston Adyer-
tiser SAYS: The name signed to the paper APP |
pears in the list of passengers by the City of |
Boston. This Inflated steamship, it will be re-
membered, sailed from Halifax in January,
1870, and was never heard from afterward.
Quite q curiosity in the animal Kingdom can
be seen upon the farm of Reuben Stone, on Ded-
ham street, near Newton Centre, in the shape of
a three-legged calf, about week old, apparent
ly in an excellent state Of health. The right
fore leg is missing, and for few days after its
birth its motions were rather awkward. 1t is
gradually, however, attaining marked agility in
motion. As it walks the bone to which the fore
leg is usually attached moves back and forward
with considerable rapidity. Some trouble is ex-
perienced in feeding, any movement of the
mother, producing unfortunate results for the
calf, throwing it down, and it was found neces-
sary to hold it up while engaged in feeding. To
save trouble it has been weaned. 1t appears to
be unusually lively.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The "Drulnmer Boy" realized over 81 900 in
six nights for tie Haverhill Post.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
II is claimed that the dastardly vitriol assault
inflicted on Mrs. Wellman at Stoughton, recent
ly, was inflicted on account Of an officer having
been allowed TO remain in the store where she
was employed to watch liquor shop, the pro
prietor of which had recently been convicted of
being common seller. The men made mis-
take in the person, supposing 1t was Mrs. Ames,
owner of the store, whom they assaulted. 1t is
very doubtful if she RECEIVERS the use of her
eyes.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
AT North Bridgewater on Tuesday the vote
was taken to see if the town would accept the
bill passed by the legislature, changing the name
to Standish, with the following result: Four
hundred and twenty-seyen for and four hundred
and sixty against
About fourteen hundred herring were cap
tnred on Wednesday morning of last week at
the weir at the lower bridge on Water street, in
Plymouth. This is the largest haul that has
been made foi' over forty years in that locality.
BARNsT TABLE COUNTY.
Wellfeet advertises To- 300 or 400 men FAC
uuainted with mackerelng evidently wanting
only those who have been to mackerel
School"
The Yarmouth town house has been closed
since the last annual town meeting On open
ing it on the I'd inst, it was found that squir-
rel and her five young ones had taken posses
sion of the ballot box. The mother had made a
nice nest among the ballots cast for selectmen
and other town officers. The nest and young
were removed, but when the town meeting was
dissolved the nest and young squirrels were re-
stored to the possession of the ballot-box, and
the town house locked up.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Tho nf Vim COmqQ SYDNEY
Putnam and two Boston officers, which had been
on trial for three days in the supreme court at
Dedham, resulted in a disagreement of the jury.
Under the ruling of the court the jury released
Mr.. Putnam. 1t is understood that the only
question of disagreement was as TO the amount
of damages to which the plaintiff was entitled.
As various exceptions were saved at the trial,
the case will probably go TO the supreme court
as TO the liability of the defendant Putnam.
MAINE.
The graduating class of the Bowdoin medical
college numbers twenty-seyen "depity saw
bones, as Sam Weller would remark, this year.
Buxton has just completed its new town
house, containing, among other necessary things,
thirty pews," for some purpose or other NOT
explained.
The body of an unknown man, apparently
about forty-five years old, was found in the
Penobscot, Monday, at Baddeshalls landing, in
Brewer. 1t was dressed in the clothes of labor
the water
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A few days ago, little fellow some three
years old, son of NJ Z. Merrill at Manchester,
while at play with an instrument for buttoning
ladies' boots, caught it upon the under lid of his
eye, and becoming frightened, pulled it away,
tearing the lid nearly off. Drs. How and French,
using anRsthetics, operated upon the little suf-
ferer, and succeeded in taking a sufficient num-
Der of stitches to secure it in its natural place
A silver thread was found necessary near the
inside corner of the eye. The boy is doing nice.
-ly, and will not be badly marked by the scar.
VERMONT.
A French woman, named Cross, living in Bur
lington, who for several months has suffered
from a tumor in the throat, so large that for
nine weeks she was unable to take solid food,
and at times even liquids, had it removed last
week. She refused to take ether, placed herself
on the operating table, assisted the surgeon in
dressing the wounds, and then got up and
walked to her bed unassisted. She had been
accustomed to work out doors, chopping wood,
etc., and was very masculine IN her strength and
habits.
CONNECTICUT.
Mr.. Bishops proposition to give land TO the
city for park, is that New Haven shall spend
$4,000 on improvements.
Petitions are beiug circulated in Middlesex
county asking the legislature to re-establiSh the
state board Of agriculture.
The Poultry Standard is the name of new
paper in the interests of poultry raising, pub
lished at Hartford.
The cigar mandatory Of c. L. Nichols, in
Bridgeport, was entered, Friday night, by bur-
glars who stole $500 cigars.
The Norwich Bulletin says:-"If man steals
an umbrella in New Haven he is arrested and
fined for it. New Haven is very moral city so
we might expect it."
The Hartford and New Haven railroad will
build bridge over Camp street, Meriden, the
expense of which will be borne equally by the
city Of Meriden and the railroad.
The grand commandery of Knights Templar
OF the state of Maryland have invited the New
Haven eommandery to be present at the grand
encampment to be held in Baltimore next Sep
TENDER.
The Germans at Hartford are making arrange
ments to have grand festival in that city Au-
gust 2lst and 22d, in which clubs from all por'-
nons OF the state and other states will be invited
to participate.
A Hartford firm has just made contract TO
supply the Indian department with 1000 dozen
puteher knives. The unfortunate frontiersmeD
VIII probably have to pay for them in more WAYS
than one. "''
Susan B. Anthony, Isabella Beecber Hooker
the Rev. p A. Hanaford and other DISTINGUISHED
advocates of the enfranchisement of women are
to address the citizens Of Bridgeport on the
18th.
A gentleman of New London, of an investigat.
ing turn of mind the other night during late