Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-05
G0lurtrstrr Daily Syn.
New England News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
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The Boston and Baltimore mines viii play
their second championship game in Boston to-
day. The BoStOnS won the first game TO !:
7. r kendrick died yesterday in Boston OF
injuries received Monday evening, at LongWood'
by the running away of his horse
A private dispatch saws the Grenadier Guards
band will sail June 9Th in the steamer Wy OF
Brussels TO take part in the international JUDI
lee. The announcement OF their SAILING May
SGth was premature.
BEACON mark. spring meeting, first day: For
horses that never beat 10 there We're nine en-
tries and six started, purse SS00-S4O0 to first,
$3.50 10 second, and $50 to third. Pail Sheridan
won in three straight heats, Bristol Bill second,
Fannie third Time 2.3ll, 2.34l, and 2.35s.
Commencement al Cambridge will occur this
wear on Wednesday, the 10Th inst. Col. Lever
cit Saltonsfall will ACT as chief marshal on the
occasion. It is expected that President Grant
viii be present.
The yacht Nettie, ex-Commodore Follett of
the Boston yacht club, in going down the har-
Dor yesterday afternoon, with a party on board
10 see some friends off in the steamship Smyrna,
for Liverpool, drifted against the steamer, In
iuring the yachts sails badly, carrying away
her small boat, and crushing in her bulwarks.
She was towed TO the city.
1t is reported that the boys on the school-ship
will be shipped to sea or discharged on proha-
ton within the next ten days, and that the YES
sci will be sold, or at least offered for sale,
early in July. The library and the best part
of the furniture on the ship will probably
be transferred to the reform school at West
boro.
Margaret Mulligan, a feeble fttlc woman in
Boston, who cannot work~eNcept in laundry,
is thirty-Seveu years old five feet five inches
in height, weighs 400 pounds, her arms measure
twenty INCHES in circumference, her waist four
feet, her cali, outrvaling the queens of the bal
let, twenty inches; thigh, two feet ten inches;
chest, four feet five inches.
A beautiful girl of eighteen, daughter of
wealthy parents who reside in one of the most
lovely villages IN the state, was found the other
day by the detectives at the establishment of
Madame Mains, Boston, rendered notorious by
the recent death of Sarah L. Brown by abortion.
Ii seems she had paid Dr. Lynn $50 for the
privilege of being his next victim. She has
been rescued and sent home to her parents
The death of Mr.. Samuel A. Way of Boston
took place yesterday. lie has been sick for
some weeks. His recent troubles with the Uni
ted States government had a serious effect upon
his health, though it was not anticipated that
he was so near his end. Mr.. Way is widely
known as the owner of large amount OF real
estate, and as the head OF the private Bank OF
the Metropolis He commenced life as a pool
boy and has accumulated large property.
Daring the lecture of y. b. rockingham, al
fremont temple, last Friday evening, large
and intelligent specimen OF the canine species
walked upon The stage, slowly advanced 10 the
speaker and after taking Il couple of good shifts
which was responded to by n gentle pat seated
himself upon his launches, and, with ears erect
and the inevitable way of the tail (evidenceS OF
the speaker. Soon, however, the laughter and
applause OF the audience disturbed his dogship's
ideas of propriety, and he rose and quietly trot-
ted Off the stage, Il wiser if not happier animal.
Charles Perkins, fireman on the engine Cape
Ann, on Conductor DOckham's siX-thirty train
out of Boston, on the Eastern railway, was
knocked into the Mystic river between Somer-
willie and Everett Monday evening, by the draw
rods Perkins was looking ont to see if an old
lady who was walking on Mystic bridge would
not get hit by the engine when he came in con-
tact with its draw-rods and was knocked into
the water. The train was stopped for a long
time, but the body had sunk, and not trace ex-
cept cap could be found. Perkins was about
tbiriy-siX years old, and belonged in Maine.
MlDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Daniel Quinlan, returned Californian, ar
rived in Lowell Saturday night having in his
possession fourteen hundred dollars in bank
notes. ana about one hundred dollars in gold
He put up at the house of a friend, on Drummer
street, occupying room with John Donovan, IL
son Of his friend, about fourteen years old.
Monday morning, on awakening, Mr.. Quinlan
ound that the lad had decamped with the ff-
teen hundred dollars. The facts were reported
at the police station, and the officers were all
day on the lookout for the lad, who il seems to-
ward evening became thoroughly frightened,
and returned home with the wallet, which was
found to contain the whole amount stolen in
the morning.
ESSEX COUNTY
AT Newhuryport black worm has appeared
upon the gooseberry bushes, and he is stripping
them OF their foliage and destroying the pros
pect Of a crop. The canker worms have also
begun their TavageS upon the apple trees.
With the prospective failure of the Washing
ion treaty, the fishing policy of the dominion
government for fhe past Two or three years has
been renaugurated by the seizure OF the fishing
schooner "EnOla &" Of Gloucester for alleged
infraction Of the Canadian fishery laws a lis
patch TO the owners announces the capture of
the schooner, but gives no particulars.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The oyster privileges of Taunton river were
last week leased by the seectmen u Dghton to
Mr.. Robert Pettis, of Providence, for the term Of
ten years from July /, 1872.
Siias ScattergOod, who mad recently arrived
from England with his wife, and gone TO work
in one Of the Fail River mills, fell down and
died instantly on Friday morning last.
The Wamsutta Mills, at New Bedford, have
reduced their running time one day per week, 80
as not to buy cotton at present high prices.
They have made corresponding reduction in
the rents Of their tenants.
valuable horse for which the owner, Mr.
Remington, of Fall River, had refused $1,000,
was Shot by nelghbor on Saturday afternoon.
The horse was near Westport harbor at pasture,
and had obtruded over farm boundaries into "a
neighborng meadow.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A large band of gypsies passed through North
Adams on Saturday. The women presented
very striking appearance, being dressed in every
conceivable garb, the "Dolly Warden" included
The band travel in fifteen covered wagons trad
ing horses, foraging, begging etc,
MAINE.
The steamer Emperor, which went ashore on
Mauncus, May 18th, and afterward filled and
capsized was towed into Penobscot river Tues
day, and now lies at the foot Of Point Stockton,
bottom upwards.
Asa Smith and Eben Fessenden of Fryeburg.
who lost twelve fine sheep at the commencement
of the winter, have Just found four of them
alive and in good condition. How they man
aged TO survive the five Indictment months with
ont shelter, and almost without food, is indeed
wonder.
Barney McNamee, aged fourteen years. son OF
widow McNamee, Of Fort Fairfield, has been
missing since Sunday. lie was IN the habit OF
playing round the river and was q good swim
Iner. II is supposed that he has been drowned,
as no one has seen him for several days. He
was nearly deaf
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A son Of Rev. S. c. Haylord, Universalist cer-
gyman at Enfield and Lebanon, fell through the
railroad bridge at Enfield on Sunday, and was
drowned.
A paintshop and storehouse at Wilton, owned
and occupied by Messrs. Putnam & Cochran,
furniture manufacturers, was destroyed by fire
at one O'Clock Tuesday morning. Loss $4,000;
insurance $1,000.
Frank Perkins of Center Harbor, while shin.
Cling house in Meredith fell from the staging
about fifteen feet, striking his head on stone
wall, breaking his skull He lived two hours.
lie was iorty-one years of age, and leaves no
family
A clerk in grocery store at Manchester, last
week undertook TO ascertain the cause Of the
head Of hogshead Of moasses bullying out, by
striking it with a mallet, when loud report en-
sued, and he was thrown violently across the
hoor, and enYeloped from head 10 foot in a flood
OF molasses lie says he never felt SO sweet in
all his life.
An old man bought a ticket in Wilton for
Milford Monday morning, and going on board
Inc cars knelt down and commenced to pray.
When asked why he offered prayer in such a
place, he replied: Travelling by rail is very I'M
eer'ain, and I'm afraid if am whsked out OF
Inc word without some notice | shall not get
time TO pray"
The Peterboro Transcript Of May 80 SAYS:
Digging after water pipes seems 10 be the prin-
clpai business o. our village people AT the pres
ent time. There is scarcely an aaneduct IN Town
that was not frozen during the cold weather last
winter, and the most of them remain so VET
Culyerts taken up Il few days since on pine
street were found quite Gled with ice and would
probably have remained so a month In cor,s
had they not been disturbed. Frost has been
found at a depth Of six feet"
VERMONT.