Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-12
daOrttster Daily Spp.
New England News summary.
RosroS AND VICINITY.


and Miller, arrived at Boston Thursday morn
ing, with Mr.. RheeS of the Smithsonian insttu-
tion, Washington, and are at the Marlboro
hotel. They are busy arranging the extensive
apparatus to be used at the Lowell institute lee
lures by Prof. Tyndall, next week, on light and
heat
MDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Three Mddesex farmers have taken to tobac-
co raising this year, and a correspondent of a
local paper wants 10 know how long il will be
before sudden destruction will come on the
workers of iniquity."
ESSEX COUNTY.
The most sensational case recently tried al
Lawrence is that of two young men who care
lsssly spit tobacco juice out of a window on
lawyers tall hat, and were fined each $40 and
one-halt the costs, with the alternative of sixty
days IN jail. They appealed.
A young man named Russell W Burnham,
of Peabody, has just been arrested by Mr.. /. H.
Beebe of the same town for telling naughty,
wicked lie to the city clerk of Charlestown, who
issued certificate of marriage to him, sup
posing that he lived in Charestown and was
over twenty.oue years of age. The lie don't
really trouble Beebe SO much as the fact that
young Burnham came with the certificate and
successfully married his daughter, pretty
blonde Of seventeen. Little wiley cried when
the cruel officer read the warrant; but tears
didn't count, and they took her dear boy off to
Charlestown, where he succeeded in getting
bail.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Springfield Republican says: The ord.
nance board met at the armory Thursday morn
Ing, and entered upon its duties. In addition to
the arms presented at New York, Smells gun, a
modification of the Spencer rifle, and Col. Rice S
trOwel bayonet, with ChillingwOrth's handle,
were brought before the board. The first test
was made on the Evans gun, which was tried
solely with reference TO rapid firing, Thirty
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and the board then made trial of the trowel
bayonet. Four men were taken who had had
no experience in digging, each man was given
a bayonet, and they were told to throw up rife
pits large enough enough to cover themselves,
which they did in just four minutes. The bay
onet is never used unless detached from the gun.
The workmen took them in their hands,
dropped on one or both knees, and commenced
cutting junks of turf about one foot square,
without removing them from the ground, at the
same time working backwards for SIX or seven
feet. About two minutes were consumed in
cutting the sod, when each man stepped to the
front side, placed himself by the side of the cut
sod, and began to scrape them forward so as to
form parapet from eigteen to twenty inches
high, and one foot in thickness on the top.
This gave q trench about six inches deep, six
feet long and wide enough to allow of their lying
down at full length. The board are TO be in
session five days IN the week, commencing at
ten in the morning and closing about three in
the afternoon.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A large engraving OF the late Alfred b. Ely of
Newton has been placed in the library of Am
herst college.
The directors of the Ware River railroad are
talking of raising funds to complete the road TO
Wincbendon by selling second mortgages to the
amount Of $3.50 900, to be apportioned among
the present bondholders.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Pitts6eld had marriage Tuesday, in which
the bride and groom were respectively seventy
two and seventy four years of age.
The eternal fitness of things was boldly diSre-
garded when masked ball was given in the old
Jonathan Edwards mansion at Stockbridge, &
few nights ago.
DUKES COUNTY.
The house of Benjamin NJ Luce, at Vineyard
Haven, was burned Wednesday evening, and a
boy named Harry Waite was burned to death.
MAINE.
Somebody, after looking over and examining
the whole matter, has formed the opinion that in
1873 there will be general revival of shipbuild-
ing IN New England, and that more tonnage
will be put afoat from the Maine yards than in
any year since 1850.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Kepnn PnN~N''~--
- establishment
r,v.Ivc court.
James X. Spalding, Esq founder of the New
YORK world, and more recently an editor of the
New York Times, died at the residence of his
brother, Rev. Geo. b. Spalding in Dover, Thurs
day afternoon.
VERMONT.
The official investigation into the accounts of
Gen Stannard, late collector of customs at Bur
hneion, show deficit of between $50 900 and
$4,000 Ii is charged that Stannard was in the
habit of receiving brides and hush money! His
a RurliOnton in nbsr
A bottle of wine in good preservation was
found IN digging out cellar under a house in
Barnet, built some twenty years ago. The
original owner, Judge Abbott, who has always
been temperance man, said it was not his. for
his bottles Of wine were always empty.
CONNECTICUT.
The bid of Mr.. j. G. Patterson for the Hart
ford state house contract has been accepted. He
is to erect the buildings on the Uplohn plans
for Ss75,000, the material to be white marble.
The building will probably be placed about on a
line with the bronze statue Of Bishop Brownell,
leaving an extensive esplanade on its north
front TO the brow of the knoll on the western d.
vision of the park.
Everybody who has ever had or expects to
have occasion to 20 to New Haven will rejoice
10 learn that the days Of that cavernous retreat
called by courtesy depot are ended. The New
York, New Haven and Hartford railroad has
decided to replace this abomination of travellers
by depot which the papers proudly say will
be "unexceHed by any in the country, except
that oil New York." Nearly all the land needed
has been obtained, and work will be begun as
soon as practicable.
Mr.. VIM. II. Marcy, who was accidentally
shot while practicing at target some six weeks
ago in Merden, died Wednesday afternoon. At
the time of the accident it was supposed by all
that he could not live but few hours. During
his illness the attending physicians, supposing
him near death, told him several times that be
could not live Iwenty-four hours longer, and as
the time rolled on and he was still alive he
seemed much disappointed and wished for death
TO come, as he was helpless and knew he could
never get well again. He was about twenty.
four years of age, and was TO have been married
in short time.
At GeeTs printing ONCE in Hartford some
trouble mas been experienced in getting the
water from the pipes to drive the machinery, The
services of plumbers were called 10 the other
day, and the result disclosed a huge eel. which
had been growing in the pipes, probably for
years, until II had completely filed the pipe. 1t
was three feet long, and five inches in circum.
ference and weighed two and one half popnds
The Times says it never came from the West
Hartford supply, for no cells are found there,
These fish have been in the pipes ever since the
supply was obtained from the Connecticut river
Nellie Chamberlain, fifteen year old Hartford
girl, visiting at Manchester, accidentally shot
herself on Tuesday, infcting very serious and
dangerous NouhNs II oSSlUS llhl q member OF
The family had been showing her loaded pis-
tol, and she had taken it and placed it in her
trunk, saying, laughingly "I'll keep this to
highten away burglars" Afterward the lady
With whom she was visiting suggested to her the
adyisabiity of placing the weapon in a safer
place, and she went up stairs 10 get il and put
it away. Soon after the lady heard the report
Of pistol, and Miss Chamberlain ran down
stairs, exclaiming, ooh Pm shot through the
hearth II appears that while handling the pjs-
tol il was discharged, the ball passing through
her thumb, entering her breast near the poirt of
the heart bone, just grazing the heart and lodg-
ing under the skin in the left side. She has
been taken 10 Hartford, and it is thought NAV
recover.
RHODE ISLAND.
Patrick +. Dennehy, the alleged murderer of
George II. Favor, in Providence, a few weeks
ago, was brought to that city Yesterday from
Ottawa, Canada, where he was captured
Edward Philbrook of Ellsworth, Me-, a sea.
man Belonging TO the schooner Cicero of Bangor
was drowned yesterday noon while attempting
10 Jump on board the vessel as she was leaving
the dock at Providence. The body was soon
recovered
The Rhode Island branch of the New England
ten hour association has been for some time All.
tating the question Of sixty hours work per
week, and in furtherance Of their plans they
have presented TO the employers petitions to that
effect numerously signed by employees, The
hrsi result Of these petitions which were pre-.
scented last week, is an offer by the Lonsdae
company to grant 623 hours per week. This the
leuuonefs accept, but viii still continue the agi-
taton until the desired result-sixty hours-is
obtained.