Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-14

| The irst Greeley and Brown flag Of the cam
paign was unfurled 10 the breeze Monday eve
| ming at the residence of Commodore Churchill.
4 Speeches were made by Mr.. Hamlin, delegate
| TO the Cincinnati convention, republican,, and
Hon. Bion Bradbury and VIM. H. Clifford,
| (democrats), enthusiastically endorsing the nom
nations Music, fireworks, cannon, etc., add
| ed TO the enthusiasm.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
| Concord gentleman fired seven shots from
a revolver at partridge without hitting or scar
| ing the bird, and then in disgust threw the
empty revolver after the harmless bullets and
knocked the birds head off.
richardson's portable steam saw mill at
Hampstead was burned Friday evening while
the men were at supper. A spark from the en-
CINE was the cause. Loss about $4,000; insur-
anee not learned.
A barn belonging TO the farm buildings of
John Kelley, and situated in the north part of
Hudson, was destroyed by fire Sunday night,
together with two horses, three cows, some hay
and farming utensils. Cause of fire, loss and
| insurance not learned.
City Marshal MOrdough, VIM. Kimball, chair
man OF the Fitchburg selectmen, and the police
department, have made thorough canvass al
Nashua, but fail TO obtain any clue to the iden
| hhcatlon of the woman found murdered a
Fltchourg, who is supposed to belong there.
Lizzie Atkins of Dover, about twentv-fou
| years OF age, attempted suicideIAIonday by TAX.
| ing laudanum and then jumping into the river
| A gentleman walking on the railroad bridge saw
| her and rescued her. 1t was a case of unrequit
ted love, as shown by letters found on her per
| son. She lett short note on the river bank
giving her name and the name of the one sh,
wished to marry. She was originally from
| North Andover, where some of her friends nov
live An antidote spoiled the poison.
| The sudden disappearance of a prominent anC
wealthy physician of Wimot and also the wifi
of respectable farmer of Andoyer, has giveT
rise TO apprehensons of first class elopement
There are reasons for believing that the doctor
took with him the greater portion of his prop
erty in the shape of money and different securi
ties He leaves an interesting family. and III,
missing woman had husband and children
| The parties had been intimately acquainted lo
some years. The affair has caused much excite
ment in Andover and Wilmot.
, VERMONT
: The valedictory address at the next commence
ment at Dartmouth college has been assigned t.
E i. d. Mason ofPassumpSic and the salutatory I,
. | W. A. Holman of Deering.
A fire broke out in the wholesale store at Bar
2 nett Saturday noon, and the store, with on
} dwelling house and two sheds, were consumed
1 | The sheds contained some fifteen hundred
cords of wood. belonging to the Passumpsic rail
/, | road.
CONNECTICUT.
: A skeleton, probably that of an Indian, wa
found in Michigan on Saturday. Ii was of her
culean development, and measured over six fee
in length.
One hundred and twenty-five cords of wood
| owned by the New London Northern raroat
: company, was burned Friday morning, abou
. six miles south Of Stafford, where it lay nea
the track awaiting shipment.
: La SignOra Clemence Muzzarelli died in Hart
ford on the 9th A daughter of the disiu
J gushed family Of Liable of Paris, Mrs. Mui
zareli enjoyed the highest advantages of schoas
tic and gentle social education which the cap
z tai ofFrance could afford; and she was persona
N n1 will loo lfr,frr MI.
of her native country especially during th
reign of Louis Philippe, and with the chiefs O
, | the present republic. Born and reared in afilu
! ence; married TO nobleman who was in grea
favor at, and by cabinet relation attached II
the Sandman court in the time of King Carlo
Alberto, the father of Victor Emanuel; pros
trated by exile from her adopted country in
period of political commotOn; shipwrecked al
sea, losing all her personal effects; and finally
restored TO wealth, she passed through all witt
undiSturbed equanimity. Coming to this eoun
try about twenty years ago, she conducted, with
her husband, plantation in Tennessee, but re
moved to Belleville, ILL.,, where her husband
died; and on the breaking out of the late civil
war she took up her residence in Philadelphia
whence she removed to Hartford IN October
last.
RHODE ISLAND.
The horn jewelry mandatory of Bowen
Preston, at Rockland, Scituate, was partially
DESTROYED by fire on Saturday. Loss estimated
, at GAOOVs
man named Terence Hines, employed by
the Providence tool company, while engaged il
oiling shafting, Saturday afternoon, was caugh
by belt and carried around a shaft severa
times, and very seriously injured. His right
arm, being badly broken, was amputated Satur
dav evening.
| During a thunder shower at Woonsocket
Sunday morning, a passing electrical curren
struck the flagstaff which for eleven years ha.
SO often hoated the stars and stripes from thu
ridge of the Providen'e and Worcester railroad
depot, shivering it from top to bottom. The
splinters few in all directions, but the ball ant
rod which crowned the summit were not in thu
least injured; neither was any injury done Il
the building, unless it may be the displacement
OF few shingles. The night Waterman was il
the passenger room almost directly under thu
staff, and received considerable of shock, ant
many people in the immediate vicinity were
good deal startled 1t rained briskly for a shor
time, but not large quantity fell.