Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-01-10
SddIurcester Daily spp.
New England News Summary.
BOSTON AID VICINITY.

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main.
The Boston Times makes desperate attempt
10 be funny, with the following result: "Now
suppose some member OF our legislature were to
move for an inquiry into the encroachmcnt of
the Providence town pump-handle inro AIassa-
chusetts territory, with power TO send for per-
sons and papers%
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A colored man was found dead in the road
near fhe depot in Stockbridge, last week Tues
day morning, under circumstances which indi-
cate foul play, wound being discovered in his
head which was probably inflicted by Large
club that was nv his side. The body, on inveS-
tigation, proved TO he that OF Edward Wooster,
formerly Of Canaan, CT, and twenty-three years
Of age. He was observed about seven O'Clock,
the preceding evening, in an alteration with
some Irishmeu in front oil the bank, after which
he went away. When near the iron bridge,
however, he was struck on the head by some
unknown assailant and probably died within an
hour No arrests have been made, but some
persons are suspected.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Benjamin Chandler has been appointed post
master at ChandleyiHe, the new post Office at
Newburv.
On The 9th at Baskerville, Peter Glover, an
eccentric Englishman, committed suicide by
taking cyanide of potassium. He leaves no
children
Mrs Eben Wilcomb of Thornton recently gave
Dlffl 10 tftlitlS-tNo DONS anu Il HlTl. lue az
gregate weight was eighteen pounds, and they
are all as lively as crckets.
AT the republican convention in Exeter, this
morning, Matthew Ii. Taylor of Salem was
nominated by reclamation as candidate for SEN
ator in district No. ..
AT Manchester, on Tuesday, boy named AL
fred Hutchinson, who was employed in the spin
ming room of No. 8 mill Of the Manchester print
woi ks. was crushed to death while passing upon
an elevator 10 the room above. He was twelve
years old, and recently came there from Maine
On the 9th, in Branfurd, Charles Morrill, a
twelve wear old son OF MI. Chas. II. Morrill,, was
struck by the sled of another boy who was coast
ing at right angle to him and had his left leg
broken.
In the town of Rye, last year, whose popua-
ton was 936 by the last census, the number of
deaths was thirteen, the oldest person being
Stephen Rand, who died at the age OF eighty
eight years.
AS Mrs George Tarlton of Pennington was
sitting in her sleigh, waiting for friend, on the
2Sth ut., passing team ran into the sleigh and
threw her out. She was picked up senseless and
her collar bone was found broken.
In Swanzey on the LIST inst, Mr.. Edward Har-
Tinaton, young man of eighteen, had his right
arm caught in planning mill at Lanes pail fac
tory. The bone was cut into halEinch pieces
up TO the elbow and had TO be amputatcd
AT the democratic councillor and senatorial
conventions, held at Marlborough January 3d.
A. II. Rust was nominated for councillor, and
John c. Moullon, of Tacoma, for senator, Hon.
Ira A. Eastman and William Rand, delegates
TO the national convention; G. w NJ. Ptman
aud JUDGE Roberts, alJernqIes.
fhe Coos Republican says: The republican
convention did a noble work in nominating for
governor Ezekiel A. Straw, of Manchester
Alter carefully considering the other worthy
gentlemen whose names were before the con
venion, we believe no selection could have been
made which would so commend itself to the
4 a ~ Vt.s IL
state"
At West Hopknton on the ID inst, Mr. Jona-
than Brown, gentleman Of fifty-four years was
hit on tue head by the fall of tree and lnocke ed
senseless. MIR. Perry Scott, who was with him.
got him ont OF the woods aud summoned medi-
cal aid. Up to the following night, the Sd, he
was yet insensible, though no fracture of the
skull could be found. One arm was broken.
CONNECTICUT.
man has been arrested in New Haven for
selling diseased meat.
new Catholic temperance society has been
formed in Meriden.
The working force on the Air Line east of the
Connecticut now number $50
Noah Hall, the oldest citizen of Meriden, born
in the town. died last Saturday.
A "Disconsoldte Bachelors" society is to be
started soon in Sionington.
"Ybe Poultry World is a new monthly de-
voted to The poultry interest," at Hartford.
The small poX is on the increase in East
Lyme.
A thief undertook to steal horse in New
Haven, Sunday, and the worst of it was he did
it.
The prospects are that there viii be double
the building in Meriden this year that there was
last.
he Bridgeport police are giving the BOYS
trouble who LOAF around the entrance to the
opera house.
A police raid on a house of i'll repute in New
Haven, Saturday evening, resulted in the arrest
OF seven persons.
The house Of George S. Arnold, New Haven,
was robbed last Sa urday morning of three
overeOats and a shawl.
The Mlddlet0wn monumental association has
voted TO erect soldiers monum cnt which shall
cost not less than $4,000
Gei man will he at once introduced in the puh-
lie schools oil Mcriden. Rev. Mr.. Graeber has
heen appointed instructor
Lyman ii. johnson, BranfOrd blacksmith
has during the past year shod 2173 horses
with the assistance % only one workman.
The DanielsonVile Herald appears in an en-
larged form with new type, and looks as bright
geographically as it is ediorially.
Hartford is TO have Madame janauscheck in
Mary Stuart on the 12th, and Wachtel with Pa
repa, in Italian opera, in February.
Mis- Stowe in her public reading at Hartford,
confined herself to her last book, cod Town
Fireside Stories
A coon was killed in White Hills the other
day, weighing nearly thirty pounds, and meas
uring four feet from his nose to the tip of his
tail.
Hanlord's German sangerbund and turnyer.
EN- are to have grand masquerade ball in
short time.
An elopement in which the principal charac-
tiers were an aged parent and young married
lady, occurred lately in Norwich.
New London street lights are the source of
much complaint. All OF them are not lighted.
and those that % iva a ttat. L.
FRED. +. Ives, graduate of the Litehfeld
Enquirer, at the age of fifteen publishes the
Lillputian Advertiser, and is an extensive job
printer.
The large bell which hung over the late Chi.
cago court house, is in East Hampton, and is 10
be manufactured into small bells, relies of the
great 6ce.
Governor Jewell, in behalf of the state, has
offered a reward OF $1,000 for the capture OF the
Two SCOTS, the windsor Locks murderers This,
added 10 the town reward, makes $1,000.
new Baptist church has been recently fin
lshed in Brooklyn, at a cost OF eight thousand
dollars. Inc building is of brick, sixty feet bv
thirty eight, and an audience room twe.ty feet
high.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecheris TO deliver course
of twelve lectures on Preaching before the
theoiogleai students at Yale, during the present
season.
During Me month of December the number of
bows in the REFORM school was greater than any
month previous, and the average number on the
Sick list was less.
Tob0cco buyers have been through Kent. and
have bought up very nearly all the tobacco
there, me price ranging from twenty-three to
twentyseven cents per pound.
Merden is said to he the only town in the
state where man can lose his wife. get eDoaged
10 another marry still another and get suqd for
breach Of promise in the brief space of twenty
days.
Several Of the Yale party which started 10 OK.
piore the Rocky mountain region, and search
for pa9oniological srecimcrs, have returned.
The expedition has been successful in Il scientific
point of view.
4 be traditional "two pedlers, dressed as sail
ors, have been in New Haven, endeavoring 10
sell SILK goods which they carried under their
coats, intending to dispose oil poor goods by NV
ing the impression that they were Struggled
Mrs. Anna Hurlburi wife OF Mr. Henry w
Terri, formerly Of Hartford, died in Wnsted on
the ON. She was the mother Of Rose Terry, the
well known story writer
The New Britain national bank secures its
treasures in new Bacon safe, which weighs
four tons ana cost S3lO0. The outside lock Is
capable Ot 44I 10000 combinations.
The Winsed Herald saws: Fourteen trains of
cars nov come and 20 daily through our town
and the scleech OF the locomotive Is very numer.
ous. That Of the "City Of Hartford sounds
IKE the sqneal Of an elephant with the end Of
bis trunk in rat trap"
Somebody threw large black cat into thn