Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-20
COUNTY NEWS.

The Waterman of the Fitchburg railroad at
Groton Junction, was run over by a freight
train Friday night and had one leg cut off.
Henry Warren, son of Waterman Warren of
Holden, a graduate of Yale college in 1865, is
speaker of the house of representatives of Mis-
sissippi, now in session.
panegyrc to St. Patrick was delivered in
St. Louis church, Webster, by Rev. James
Smith of Pawtucket in the evening of st. Pat
rick's day.
The school committee of Douglas were com
PEELED to dispense with the regular public exam
nation of high school pupils this spring, owing
10 the fact that onc-third of the scholars are
sick with the mumps.
The Fitchburg Sentinel says that quite an eX-
tensive revival is now in progress in Westmin-
ster under the auspices of Elder Durant. About
Il hundred persons have already been converted
to Christ and interesting prayer meetings are
held nightly in many of the private houses.
st. Patrick's day was celebrated in Fitchburg
by the Irish benevolent society of that town,
the society from Leominster of the same name
joining. The lecture in the evening was by
Rev. Mr.. Gallagher of this city.
Mr.. Philander Morse, long a resident of Gin.
Ton and well known in that vicinity as a news
paper and periodical peddler, died of small pox
on the 18th. His is the only case of the disease
that has yet been reported in that town.
Deacon jeremiah Lord of Templeton died of
paralysis on Sunday at the advanced age of
eighty-three years. He lived for more than sew
enty-ive years upon the farm where he died.
For forty-ive years he was one of the deacons
of the First Congregational church in that
town.
Mr.. Sylvanus Billings Pond, of the firm of
Firth, Pond & Hall, New York, and of consid-
cradle musical celebrity, recently died, at the
age of seventy.nine years. He was born in Mil
ford, and during his school-boy days lived in
,Northboro.
Some boys maliciously cut lot of ccth which
was stretched TO dry at the mill of the Hopedae
manufacturing company, yesterday, and two of
them have been arrested and locked up. The
cloth was stretched tightly on frames so that by
drawing knife across it it was ruined, there
being in all about 100 yards, valued at $50.
The silver wedding of Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman
Pierce of West Boylston, was celebrated on the
18th lust. Mr.. Pierce has been member of the
six years, and is the only one now connected
with it that belonged to it twenty-five years
ago. The choir and other friends, some from
Worcester and other places, to the number of
sixty, were present, who left substantial tokens
of their esteem in the form of presents suitable
to the occasion.
The WeEtboro Chronotype has this account OF
"stray shot: Gone afternoon last week
young lady passing along Cottage street, near
the residence of William Blake, was struck in
the arm by a bullet coming from an unknown
SO, -rce. The ball entered the back side of the
middle portion of the forearm, and passed nearly
through, lodging a short distance beneath the
skin upon the front side of the arm. The bullet,
which was easily extracted, was found to be
copcal, and of ordinary revolver size. 1t was
subsequently ascertained that young man at
the time OF the accident was shooting pistol at
n mark, distance of forty rods from the street
when the lady was struck. Although not aimed
in the direction of the street, it is probable the
bullet glanced from the mark at which it was
shot, and pursuing an unexpected course
lodged where it was least intended"
The police court business in Southbridge has
heeu more extensive of late than ever before
The importance of some of the cases mentioned
in the journal win make them Of interest to
some as showing who the offenders are in that
section:-
lOn the Sd inst, Thomas Pendergrass, of