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New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
One of the most attractive musical pro-
grammeS of the jubilee series wild be gwen
SATURDAY. for the benefit OF z. S. Gilmore
James Carney was found intoxicated on a
doorstep in Boston Tuesday night, and died in
few minutes.
Hon George NJ Robson, secretary oil the
navy, paid an official visit to the naval station
at Charesiown, Thursday,
Jimmy DOian of New York is in the hands of
detectives Wood and Ham of Boston, for larce-
nv from the person.
Michael Norton, who had just come from the
house of correction at Boston, whittier he had
been sent for intemperance, was found dead
Tuesday evening.
Two Boston merchants offered few years
ago to give the late father Cleveland S1oO each
whenever he should reach the one hundredth
anniversary 0i his birth; but thel good old phi
lanthropist pas sed away sixteen days before the
stated time.
a SEGA fountain in Dow's soda fountain man
uiactOry, Boston, explod, Thursday and fatally
injured Mr. Peter Thompson, brass fniSher
Two Other men were more or less injured. The
accident was caused by ignorance of the power
in the compounds and the apparatus.
Two merchants, one a New Yorker and the
other a Frenchman from Memphis, were riding
into Boston on the cars on Tuesday, when the
as tuCN MeIE passing the cOlSeuln,
remarked that il was a Boston humbug"
would not hold so many people as reported, and
passed other unfriendly criticisms on the great
jubilee. The two concluded TO attend the con-
cert in the afternoon, however, where they Wit
messed the immense audience Of thirty thousand
people, the magnificent reception of Gen. Grant,
and the splendid musical performances After
sitting awhile the Frenchman remarked TO his
friend, rather excitedly, This is worth S500p
Pretty soon he exclaimed again, "This is worth
S1000p His enthuiasm continuing to rise with
the excitement of the occasion, he finally burst
out, "This is worth S2000!' and he shouted HIM
self hoaIse crying "Brayol"
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The Lowell Courier says: "The smell from
some OF our back streets is offal."
In Lowell Thursday, little son OF q. 5. De-
lard, superintendent of the engraving depart
meDl OF the Merrmack print works, was
drowned by falling into the canal.
John Mckay of Wilton, brakeman on the
milk train between Wilton and Lowell, was
thrown off the car Thursday, at the freight de-
pot in Lowell, and received severe dislocation
% the night shoulder, the fracture of three ribs
and other painful injuries. Almost miraculous
ly, he escaped being thrown under the wheels.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Mr. II. A. Stanwood of Salem cut his throat
with razor and died He was about thirty
years of age and unmarried.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Portuguese schooner Galena, which ar
lived at New Bedford on Tuesday, had III emf
grants on board.
New Bedford is going TO take its first ride in
horse cars Saturday, at high noon, and the Mer-
curry thinks it ought TO be free one, just TO get
the people used to it,
As the 335 train from Boston was leaving
Myrick's station, Wednesday evening, Conduc-
tor George b. Bodies was called into the smoking
car, where he was presented with a handsome
.f l,-A L. e
of the members OF Co. d, Sd regiment, NJ. V. NJ,
for bis kindness TO them on their trip to the ele-
mentary drill at North Brdgewater
MAINE.
A car on the f. and N. A. freight train from
NcAdam junction, containing seven and onc-
half ions of hay, was burned Monday, near To-
nah station.
Octavius Wilbur, of Albany, young man 10
years of age, was drowned in the Androscoggin,
near the steam mill in Bethel. on Sunday morn
ing while bathing.
One of long train of freight cars at Augusta,
Monday, by some means become thrown from
the track and the jar from this threw off three
Others, broke the stakes of the open cars, and
threw their loads of lumber wildly about. About
a dozen passengers in the saloon car at the rear
were severely shaken, ana one young lady, Miss
Pollard OF WinSow, sustained some temporary
II effects from the shock.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The governor and council nominated Frank S
Dodge, jailor of Merrimack county, for high
sheriff, on Thursday.
Thomas o. K. Marslin has been elected mayor
of Portsmouth for the balance of the municipal
year.
CONNECTICUT.
If any one knows of book canvasser being
killed by lightning he will confer favor by
communicating with the Danbury News.
Gotteib Meald, laborer on the Hartford and
New Haven railroad, and Russian by birth,
was instantly killed at Hartford Wednesday
morning, by being crushed between two cars.
The National bank OF Norwalk has SO far re-
covered from the effects of the robbery as to be
able TO resume its old place among the five per
cent semraDnual dividend paying institutions.
girl about sixteen years of age was locked
up in the New Haven station house Wednesday,
at the request of her father, who complained
that she ran away from Sunday school TO 20 off
with chap who was offensive TO the "paternal
head" The young man called at the station
house TO see the girl, and upon being told that
he could not see her, insulted the officer, who
then locked him up.
James killian, an lrishman, aged forty wears
was drowned at Southington recently while I'M
der the influence of liquor. Early on the morn
ing ofthe 18th he left his clearinghouse and went
to the river near by where he took off his clothes
as if to go in bathing. Nothing was afterwards
seen of him until his body was found in the
water near by, horribly disfigured, the face and
right arm being nearly eaten off.
The noise of the explosion of the tug boat at
New London is reported 10 have been terrific.
and was heard for miles. Houses all over The
city we're Jared and shaken by the conclusion;
piece of the boiler was hurled quarter of a
mile striking neal the Marine railway on Shaw's
Neck. Two men are described as being tossed
forty or fifty feet in the air their hands and
feet extended in swimming attitude in their
descent
Mr.. Wilson Wilton, for forty-seven years an
instructor in the Hartford deaf and dumb asy-
lum, and himself deaf mute, has resigned his
position, and removes TO bingham Center,
Mass, where he will take up his residence On
Monday the inmates OF the institution assembled
in the chapel, and Mr. Wilton made an inter
estng address IN the sign language.
RHODE ISLAND.
Brown university graduated forty four bach
elors Of arts and four bachelors of philosophy at
its lO4th commencement on Wednesday, and
conferred the honorary degree of d. d. upon
Rev. Lyman Jewett Of the class of 49, and LID,
upon Rev. Ezekiel 6 Robinson, president elect
of the university, Right Rev. Benjamin Smith of
the class OF '16, bishop of the Protestant Epis-
copal diocese Of Kentucky and Senator Henry
Anthony Of the class of 49,
Hon. VIM. Sprague of Rhode Island, though
not an aumnus of Brown university, proposed,
through a short note read at the dinner, to give
ten acres of land, worth $4,000 per acre, for a
now college Site The note said: "Although |
am not graduate of the university, | take an
interest III It's best welfare, and propose, with
the concurrence of my associates in business 10
donate ten acres of ground, more suitable for 4
site for college than that which the university
now occupies, of the appraised value of at least
$4,000 per acre, provided the college will elect
10 locate its buildings thereon"