Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-27
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air. Murray aud Nit. Hepworth are soon TO
exchange pulpifs.
When vaccination was first introduced in
Boston, in the wear 112l, the house OF repre-
sentatives passed hill prohibiting the prac-
lice.
Il is said that a pipe leading from the tank of
JOY street church baphstery, in Boston, IS out
oi order. and after each sacTamental service tue
tenants below are treated 10 disag4eeahe
shower bath
MDDLEsEv COUNTY.
A Lowell yOungsrer astoniShed the physician
of his family on Saturday by calling At the office
and ordering a new baby--to be sent round to
the house. He was disguised not to find the
order filed when he came in from his afternoon
play.
Mrs Sarah Livingston, mother Of the late
William Livingston of Lowell, died Monday
eVtujnr at the advanced age of 90 years and a
few months. She was Miss Sarah Slater, a ma
tive OF Boston, and leaves four children, all wen
advanced in wears.
Gen. James Waterhousc, a wooden manulac-
turer at Centreyille Rhode Island, died in Low
ell Monday morning, from brief attack of
ervsipeas, while on a visit to bis relatives in
that CITY. He was for several wears superin-
tendent OF the MerIimac wooden mills in Dracut,
and an experienced manufacturer. lie leaves
widow but no children.
There ale at present about forty prisoners at
the Jail in Lowell, Heating, of Llttleton, who
made the murderous assault upon his wife, and
herty, the Maiden murderer, being among the
number. Young Watts is also al present con-
fined in the Jail here. Elizabeth Hart, one of the
inmates, claims the distinction Of having been
the first female prisoner, who was committed TO
this jail, and has served twenty-five terms of i'm
prisonment in it.
ESSEN COUNTY.
On Monday evening, as Miss Lizzie Baker was
visiting some friends in North Salem, she was
taken suddenly i'll and died in few hours. She
was 10 have been married soon.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The name of the East Randolph station on
the Old Colony and Newport railway, has been
changed TO Holbrook, to agree with the name
OF the Town il principally accommodates
Mrs. Isabella Black, of New Bedford, who
lives with her mother, esSayed TO scare the Old
lady the other day by making a feint of Jump
ing through a chamber window. There was ice
on the sill, her hands slipped, and Isabella land
cd fat on her back, thirty-five feet below,
bruised but not broken in bone. 1t seems thar
the mother went out and locked the daughter
in, which act provoked the latter, and led TO the
unintended leap.
Considerable excitement has prevailed in
Taunton and in adjoining towns for the last
week in consequence of an outbreak of the
small poX in the western part of DightOn. Thus
far there have been six cases in that town. four
OF which have been fatal, all being in the lami-
ly Of John A. Baker, who has himself been one
OF the victims. He worked IN shoddy mill,
and is believed to have taken the disease from
contact with some infected rags. Two of his
children died Monday, and the father and one
other child died previously. The roads APP
preaching the injected neighborhOod have been
fenced up.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Joseph IillSon, forty years OF age, committed
suicide at Oakland Cal, on the 10Th inst. while
laborng under great mental excitement arising
from refusal Of his offer of marriage by young
lady TO whom he bad been paving attention
Iison was born in Halifax, Plymouth county
lie leaves mother and one son aged fourteen.
NANTUCKET COUNTY.
The old family names on Nantucket are borne
up as follows: The Collins, as might be expect
ed, still take the lead, numbering 1S5. The
Foigers come next, 13S in number, and the
SWANS and GardneIs have 112 each Other
family names follow in this order: Chase SO,
Hussey I6, Macy 76, Ray e., Fisher "a, Coleman
81, Durham 50, Starbuck so, Brown 45, Chad
wick Al, Barnard IS, Clark 3S, Gibbs SO, Cath
cart 35, Winsow 81, Smith %, Bunker 80 Pad
dack 80.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Chicopee and Williamsburg are duarreling in
the superior court at Springfield over poor old
Ienas Curtis, a deaf and dumb town pauper,
seventy-nine years old.
Roger b. Hildreth, "a well known and highly
esteemed lawyer of Springfield died OF conges-
tion of the brain Tuesday morning after only
one days illness. He was lorty-seven years of
age.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A iour-year-older in Greenfield was caught the
other day clipping off the cats tail with big
pair of shears. Upon being reprimanded by his
mother, he replied, why, want to be tailor
The precOclous punster has since beel watched
with great solicitude.
MAINE.
The nomination Of Charles Clark as city mar
shat Of Portland has been unanimously con-
hrmed.
The house Of Z. L. Hall, deputy rsheriff in
Unity, was burned, Monday night Insured for
500.
The house and shop of VIM. NAVAL, at GRAY
corner, were destroyed by fire on Sunday morn
ing. Loss $1,000; no insurance.
The saying that corporations have no souls -
does not apply to the Bangor gas company,
Which has reduced the price of gas 10 50 80.
The amended liquor law, which makes ale
and cider contlaband, and is mandatory upon
sheriifs for lis execution, goes into operation on
Friday next.
The house Of Charles Green, az South Brooks.
vile, was destroyed by fire on the 18th inst. The
family barely escaped with their lives. Loss
partially insured.
A lady at Skowhegan village, the other eve
inng, entered her house and stepped upon a
furnace register for the purpose Of warming her
ltet, Wheh lhc Whole apparatus gave way and
tie lady fell through the floor, catching only bv
heI arms ana shoulders. Fortunately her bus
band was in the room and supported her till as
sIstance arrived and she was lifted out by main
force.
A man in Corinna, by the name of Clark, has
been advised by the spirits that a fountain or
lake of quicksilver is beneath his house, and
goes Tor plckaX and drill. He began digging in
the ledge in his cellar about two years aao, and
has penetrated over sixty feet. Neither argu.
nent nor ridicule has any effect upon him. He
is guided by ms daughter, girl of twelve or
fourteen, who has obtained some local celebrity
as elairyOvant.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
There rs talk OF putting q milk car upon the
man tram from White River junction to Boston,
ewing the farmers in that vicinity and along the
line Of the Ntrhern road, fine chance to mar
ket their MIX
Geo. Robbins, well known citizen, was found
de33 in an out house at Nashua, Tuesday. lie
was IN his usual good health when last seen
alive; cause supposed to be apopleXy. He was
fifty years of aye, and leaves a family.
Concord correspondent, who says he has
driven on the road in New England and New
York for Thirty years, never before saw such a
winter for cold and snow Monday was the
first day since the first part of December that
the Hopkinton stage went out on wheels.
VERMONT
The house Of Mrs Gaut Brigham, in Fairfax,
was burnt on Sunday night. Insurance $500.
Citizens OF ST. Adams have subscribed $780,
600 toward the capital stock Of an extensive roll
ing mill proposed to be established there
Mrs. Thomas NJ Clemens OF Wells. commit
ted suicide by hanging herself on the 10th inst
She was out OF her mind, and had made preyi-
GUS attempt
CONNECTICUT.
The stock Of measles having been exhausted
in Norwich, the humps are now offered as a
cheap substitute.
Mrs. Ellen W. Vanderbilt, wife Of Cornelius
Vanderbilt, Jr., died suddenly al her residence
in West Hartford, Monday, Of pneumonia
Ridgefed is visited with a new cattle disease
which is called pleuro-pneumonia. 1t is vio-
lent and contagious disease, and generally ter
inmates fatally.
The case Of Richard S. True, the Hartford
musician, for seducing Miss Seamans, one of his
church choir has been postponed until April
ID, as Miss Seamans is still unable to leave her
house.
The Hartford Times, a democratic newspaper,
Is Tor some reason giving much assistance to
the republican cause IN Connecticut. Il prints
every day, in several different positions, the fol-
loving statement: "a vote for Jewell is a vote
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