Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-03-04
a0lurtrster 4aiIp Spp.
new England News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

council that the city shall establish home for
II cost $500 to put up fire alarm boxes in
Charlestown, while the boxes were put up in
Cnmhri Ire for 500 each The advocates of an
nexatiou would like to know the cause of this
The Welsh residents of Boston celebrated st.
d vid's day, the patron saint of Wales, We'd
nesday, ny the anniversary of the Sons of Cam
bria the only Welsh society in Boston, SER
mon in their native tongue in the afternoon and
an English lecture on "Wales and the Welsh"
in the evening.
On the I'd George A. Blunt, fve-years old
child of Harvey Blunt, Boston, attempted 10
cross the street just as two cars, one bound out
ward and the other inward, were approaching
each other. He stepped across the outward
track after the car had passed and did not see
the inward bound car. The latter struck him
and one of the wheels passed over his head,
crushing ii shockiugly.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
A correspondent writes TO us as follows, on a
matter already mentioned: 'The Harris bond
Harris was charged with stealing three one
Thousand do lar bonds, was decided in court by
the discharge Of the defendant. Mrs. Harris
testified that she took the bonds herself previous
TO her separation from her husband last fall.
Mrs Denton, wife of Prof. Denton, as an act Of
ne4hborly kindness to one whom she regarded
as persecuted woman, negotiated one of these
bonds, at the request of Mrs. Harris, and re-
turned her the proceeds. she was arrested as
being implicated with Mrs Clark in thealleged
robbery"
"There lives a family in Dorchester" says
Cambridge paper, "every dark-eyed male men,
Der of which, for the past fifty years, has gone
blind at the age of twenty to twenty-five years.
Those with blue eyes escape the terrible Attic
ton. There is tradition about this singular
circumstance which we lay before our readers as
we heard il: Some sixty years since beautiful
blackeyed girl of twenty being reduced TO beg
garv, she went about asking aims. Instead of
hel helpless condition exciting feeling OF SYM
pathv, she was treated with ridicule by some of
The younger members OF the house her evil star
had led her into. Two of the boys took her
out, promising to conduct her to a place where
plenty awaited. Instead of giving her a safe
conduct, they carried her into a swamp and left
her. 1t is said that she cried out, bcseeching
them to put her on the public road but they
needed not. Finding herself about to be de
serted among the tangled brushwood, she turned
her prayer into a curse, asking her Maker 10
punish her hetrayers by making their offspring
for seven generations as helpless q she was. II
was said that she was found dead in the swamp,
having perishei from hunger and cold. This
may appear somewhat romantic, but it is as
suredly fact that the male offspring OF the
family referred 10 lose their sight as Indicated"
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
petition for another savings bank and a re-
monstrance against the same are being circulat.
ed in North Adams.
MAINE.
c. W. Hanson, a native of Danville, is in the
diamond business at Rio Janiero
TIL municipal elections in Auburn and Lew
iston take place next Monday.
Warren W Rice, Esq, has been re-appointed
for third term, warden of the state prison.
The Kennebec steamboat company line sold
the steamer Eastern Queen to parties in New
York.
Alvin Palmer of North Wayne recently lost a
valuable COW from heart disease. The heart was
lt,rally consumed.
Fifteen or twenty fine looking horses WERE
shipped from Auburn depot on Tuesday. The
prices paid were from 800 to $500.
Michael Kief, of Lewiston, who assaulted Mr.
Page, oveTseer Of the Hill mill, on the 8th O
February, because the latter refused to give hin
his time bill, and then cleared out, made hi
appearance before the municipal court on Tues
day and gave bail TO answer TO a higher cour
for the offense
A son of W. Fl. Washburn, of Augusta, eigh
years old, was trampled under the feet of hors
in Turner, on the 10th ult., and died that eve
ming from his wounds. When found the hors
was jumping on the head, body and arms of tn
child, which were horribly mangled
VIM. NJ. MUIR and daughter of Winthrop
while returning last Saturday from August;
home, were thrown from their sleigh and tn
former injured severely; has not been able t,
leave his bed since. The trouble appears TO bt
internal The daughter escaped with Sigh
bruises.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Concord Odd Fellows are active in Ornan
izing another encampment in that city.
S. P. Boardman has been appointed postmaste
at Fremont, in place of |. L. Robinson,
A slight fire occurred in the coth-room of tn
Amoskeag mills at Manchester, on Monday
caused by friction of machinery. No great dam
age was done.
The surveys of the Portland, Rutland and Os
wego railroad have been made through Tam
worth, on the south side of Bear Camp river
which will make the proposed road pass through
the villages of Tamworth Bridge and South
Tamworth.
The other day, when about mile from An.
dover crossing, the railroad men discovered a
beautiful hound with his nose on the ground
and coming towards the engine at furious rate
The whistle was sounded but he paid no heed to
it. Presently the engine struck him. They
thought it was all up with the fellow, but as
luck would have 1t he turned a double somer
sault through the drive wheels, struck upon his
feet all right and bounded away on the scent as
though nothing had happened.
The Nashua Telegraph says campaigning in
New Hampshire has obtained considerable
celebrity for its stirring and noisy character.
No other New England state equals it as a
stun ping ground, and there are few polit
cal orators in the country of more than local
note that have not at one time or another LET
their eagles scream on the New Hampshire
stump. But the character of the present cam
paign would seem to foreshadoW the decay of
our peculiar electioneering fame We have had
no rauying, no excitement, no noise. Until this
week the stump has been as vacant as last
years birds nest Now the political heart be-
gins TO papitate a little. The politicians show
something of their won led briskness, and the
stump here and there lights up with its oldtime
fire.
VERMONT.
Woodiord recently had "gum-chewers'"
match.
The state normal school at Randolph opened
its spring session with 1876 pupils the first week,
and is having re-enforcements weekly.
Mrs. Deborah Bragg, a widow of 65. recently
became oewildered during a storm on the noun
tain IN Berlin, and her body was found next
morning at the foot of a crag, where she had
fallen and frozen TO death.
disastrous fire occurred in Chester on the
morning Of the 18th ult. 1t was discovered in
b-mis' block, which was entirely DESTROYED Il
was occupied by L. Bemis, dry goods J. R.
Ri harrison, drugs and medicines; Centre Lodge
no; ~ |: .. of Q. f.; aud.by Porter Brooks, G.
A. r.. Nothing was saved. The Odd Fellows
We're insured for $3.50; Messrs. Richardson and
bemis were also insured. The fire spread from
this block to the depot, which was DESTROYED
together with the Western Union Telegraph
conpahy once. The railroad company saved
thelr DOCKS aud tickets, and the telegraph com.
pany their instruments MIR. Spencer station
a5eht, lost furniture, clothing, and his watch
Inc trel5ht depot, woodshed and Messrs Rob
pluS q Mdrsls hardware store were saved.
tS~s 1AsNe q hAt 6u1lue, the depot cOuld
easily have been saved. The railroad huiIdin5
was Insured IN the North America. Supposed
to be incendiary. Npp'''O
CONNECTICUT.
to Meriden. 'i0iu
The barn of Grant II. Sweet in Lakeyille. was
burned Wednesday night, with two horses
Loss $500; insured for 5000.
Among the articles on sale at fair in WaIling.
ford, Tuesday evening, was a quilt made of .14e
pieces by lady seYenty-six years old.
Colts band, Hartford, is to have an elegant
new uniform Light blue pants and dark blue
coats showily trimmed.
One Of the most trusty boys of the state re-
form school took the best team IF the establish
ment one evening last week and ran away. He
was caught the next day in New Haven.
The safe belonging to the First national bank
OF Bridgeport having since removal, recently,
resisted every effort made to open it, has been
shipped to New York, to be opened there.
Ia the United States district court of New
haven wednesday, the bonds of Francis E. Ba-
con, the mail roober, were fixed at $500. and
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