Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-21
Gdlurttsttr Daily spp.
New EnsIana New. SUMMARY.

BosToN AND VICINITY.
One OF the boys connected With the children's
mission ON fremont street found on Monday a
ten-dollar bill, which he restored to the lady
loser. who generously thanked him, and said if
she had any change she would give him some
Michael Barry, a resident of Boston, at the
North End, few evenings since undertook TO
correct his wife Julia, and for this purpose ap-
preached her with tin dipper. He dipped in
quite extensively before the policeman came.
A Boston teamster named Thing did the right
thing when he broke James Quinlan's Jaw with
= stake from his cart last Tuesday. Quinlan,
who had been throwing mud in the faces OF
some girls, lett Of, long enough TO throw
bottle al Thing, whereupon the cartstake was
introduced with the effect above mentioned.
HASIPDEN COUNTY.
bag containing the dead body ola boy baby
was picked mp in the street near the Springfield
depot, Tuesday morning. IL bore evidence OF
having been run over by passing teams, and
NAV have been left by some one who went
through on a midnight train. The bag was
marked, Elizabeth, n, J.
4 young man purchased two ounces Of laqda-
nun at a drug store in Westtield on Sunday,
and was soon after seen to swallow the dose by
a man who suspected that all was not right. He
accordingly escorted the wOuld-be suicide to
doctors office. where he was made to dlsgorge
bv means of a stomach-pump, and his life was
thus saved. he said he wanted TO die for several
reasons, but domestic infelicity is supposed TO
be the principal cause.
MAINE.
Bath comes up smiling with the first May
flower of the season,
The schooner Howe commanded by Capt.
Hall OF Rockland, which sailed from Holiness
Hole March 4th, was blown off Cape Sable, and
experience rough and heavy weather the whole
time since 81 left Holiness Hole, and they were
obliged TO throw overheard over fifty tons Of
iron. One Of the crew, a German by birth, was
lost overheard during the gale and drowned.
Her boats were stove in and her bowsprt car
Tied away, besides sustaining other damages.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
w. A. Mack of Amherst has an old pitch pipe
used by choristers hundred years ago. II is
about foot long, and can be fixed so as 10 give
any "pitch" desired.
The friends of Governor Straw are preparing
10 raise lofty flagstaff at Straw's Point, Rye
Beach, the governors beautiful summer resi-
Cence, on the Fourth of July next, with grand
celebration and general hurrah.
The saddest sight in Nashua last Sunday after
noon, was little girl, pretty and well dressed
and only thirteen years of age staggering along
the street in a state of intoxication. The lele-
graph is led to remark: Verify TO this complex
ion have we come at last
? Mrs. Currier of Exeter refused to feed a stall
wart and drunken tramp, Tuesday afternoon.
Tramp broke the windows, threw stone which
cut Mrs. Curriers' head open, forced his way
into the house, and broke lot Of crockery. He
was arrested and locked up.
The Haverhi Bulletin is authority for the
statement that in Nottingham at the recent cleo
ton, barrel of old cider was placed upon the
door stone at the front entrance to the town hail.
and jug of New England rum was set beside
it, The cider and the rum was sold or given
away, according TO circumstances, and the citi-
zen voters were as happy as in eye olden time"
There are two gravestoDes in the old cemetery
at Jaffrey Centre, standing side by side, on
which the following striking epitaphs are written.
The first reads thus: Sacred to the memory OF
h.. N-,.V. FraR -, 1-fa
slave in America, he purchased liberty, protessed
Christianity, lived reputably, died hopefully,
Nov. 18th, 1901, aged 91.' The second reads
thus: "Violate, by sale the slave of Amos For
tune, by marriage his wife, by her fidelity his
friend, aud by grace she died his widow, Sept.
IS, 1902, aged 49," These epitaphs are short BIZ
ographies Of the swarthy Philippians crumblin9
beneath them.
VERMONT.
Richmond is suffering from water famine
CONNECTICUT.
The straw hat manufacture is very brisk at
Norwalk at the present time.
Sixty-two vessels arrived in New Haven, Mon
day, the largest number in one day ever known.
Mrs. Charles Tissol, of New London, fell dead
Sunday morning, while preparing for church.
Fer death resulted from heart disease.
Martin Sculy, while attempting to get on a
train in the Waterbury depot, Saturday, fell un-
der the wheels, the car passing over his leg. 1t
was amputated, but the man died Monday.
There was a heavy subteraneous explosion of
some sort about six O'Clock Saturday evening,
near the Fourth church, Hartford. 1t shook the
buildings thereabouts ratified the windows and
stirred up the residents considerably A crowd
collected, and various opinions were expressed
concerning the cause of the report some ascrib-
ing il TO gas pipes, Others 10 an earthquake.
A young man recently applied to the registrar
of Braniord, for a certificate of marriage. On
being asked the young lady's name he was I'M
able to give it, stating he had known her bur
few days, and had never learned her last name.
On describing where she lived, the registrar
found out her name, and gave the happy young
man the desired paper
Mr.. Slngland Of Hartford said that Mr.. Mott
of Hartford was penurous. Mr.. Mott said he
was not, and proceeded to prove it to Mr.. Sling
land by singing ten dollar bill into the treas
ury of the city missionary. A like amount was
given by Mr.. Slingland, who would Mott be
beaten.
RHODE ISLAND.
Rev. Francis Horton, pastor Of the Cqaaaoo-
tional church in Darlington, aiie9d ,nesday a1e.
ming 's w
u,iS,,od5, were killed at Rocky Point,
Iii. morning, by premature explosion,
N..e blasting rocks. One was known as Jack
King.
The schooner Mary Z. Graham of Philadel-
phia from Jacksonville, 29th ult., for Fall River,
went ashore Wednesday morning at Beaver
Tail, and remains, leaking slightly.