Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-07
COUNTY NEWS.

One Whitinsville doctor has attended fifty
cases of scarlet fever in that village this season.
The Plummer granite company recently fin
ished $1,000 monument to be erected in Mag
nolia cemetery, at Charleston, s. q.
s. Slater Sons of Webster have just COM
pleted chimney, ninety-two feet high, in the
rear OF the old mill at the east village
Halves & Brown, of Leominster, are about to
put steam engine and machinery in their shoe
factory to accommodate their increasing bust
ness.
There is a monomaniac in Milford who is
dreaded by the owners OF pet cats. He is de-
sgnated in the Journal as the "Milford cat
killer" and frequently amuses himself by rid
ding the neighborhood of the pests.
The installation of Rev. II. P. DeForest as
pastor of the Evangelical church and societyin
Westboro will take place next Thursday The
installation services will commence at two
o'clock in the afternoon; sermon by Rev. Alex
andra Mckenzie of Cambridge.
The house OF Mr.. L. L. Snow, in West Sutton,
was struck by lightning during the shower FRI
day afternoon, and his only child, Fred, aged 16
years, was instantly killed. The house was
damaged but slightly, the electric fluid passing
down a rod into the house, melting some tin
ware and tearing up some wood work about
sink
The Fitchburg Fusileers have voted to turn
out on the 28d and tender Lieut.. Geo. L. Law
renee a complimentary parade, as a mark OF
their esteem. He has been first lieutenant of the
company for four years. The company has re-
ceived an invitation to visit Springfield as the
guests of the Peabody Guard, which it probably
will accept.
An exchange says that the Hampden paper
company's mill property at Holyoke has lately
changed hands, Mr.. d. P. Croker, of Fitchbnre,
becoming the purchaser. Mr.. Crocker is an old
paper manufacturer, formerly of Lawrence, and
the company is now manuf acturing book and
fine newspaper exclusively.
Milford and Acton are said to be the banner
towns in the huckleberry business, no less than
200 bushels having been sent in one day last
week from those places, and the receipts for the
week from all sources will foot up about 5000
bushels Prices are fully 50 per bushel lower
than last year at the corresponding time, now
now ruling at about 81, with prospect OF
further decline.
The alterations in the Universaist church at
Dudley, have quite transformed it into fine
school building. A fine school room is made in
the body of the house, with two good recitation
rooms in the rear, and there is front and Il
back stairway TO the second story, where fine
hall is finished off, the best hall on Dudley hill.
The roof was raised and a new neat cupalo put
on, and the bell has been transferred there from
the old building.
During a thunder shower one day last week,
the lightning struck the ground, or rather
row of corn near the barn of g. W. E. Fisher,
of Westboro, shattering and uprooting the corn
in straight row for a distance of eight rods,
occasionally entirely skipping some hills, then
SCATTERING the leaves and extreme tops of Others.
In one instance an ear was shivered to atoms
leaving no other traces for several feet, about
midway at right angles branching off into an
adjoining lot.
As some western cattle were being transferred
from one car to another in the yard of the Bos
ton and Fitchburg railroad on the I'd, bull
took offense at some of the workmen land start
ed around the town on little rampage. He
was shot after having tossed dog into the air,
pitched an Irish boy upon a stoneheap, and
knocked over young man by the name of
Adams The Sentinel says that the cattle had
been several days on board the train, and had
been fed and watered but once dnring all this
time, and were naturally in wilk and leVerish
condition.
Browning pond in North Spencer contains
according to the accounts of persons living in
the vicinity-a variety of strange monsters,
among which are sea serpant and a mammoth
turtle. The sea serpant is supposed to be the
same one which was seen there about three
years ago. and is about fifteen feet long, with
head as large as four quart measure, which
he carries about four feet above the water when
moving about. He has been seen three times
within the past few days, and parties were at the
pond nearly all day yerterday watching for him,
but he kept shady" Bathing is, for the time
being, suspended in that pond. The turtle,
which has been frequently seen by parties who
are in the habit of fishing there, is described as
being as large as common dining table, with
a head the size of small pumpkin. He is so
old that his back is nearly covered with moss, and
is reported as being very shy, disappearing at the
first suspicion of danger. The old adage about
rolling stones gathering no moss would justify
the assumption that this turtle is native of
Spencer