Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-23
Golurttster Daily spp.
New England new. summary.

Nuiam " Meafa, Boston printer, LETT ms
home Friday evening, and has not been heard
of since.
Lumberg and Kelley, charged with counter
telling nickel five cent pieces in Boston, have
been each held for trial in $4,000 bail.
VIM. Long, who had his LEG amputated at the
city hospital, in Boston, on Thursday last, died
at the hospital on Sunday evening.
Marshall $ 7. Laws, for robbing letters in the
Boston post office, was yesterday sentenced to
ten years imprisonment in the Northampton
jail.
Lueius E. Sanderson of Boston is suffering
from the effects of two doses OF laudanum,
which he said he had taken for the purpose Of
ending his lie.
Mr. Edwin Forrest has improved so rapidly
recently, that he hopes in a day or two 10 be
able TO ride out, although he has not yet left his
bed.
VIM OAIeara, the printer who disappeared
myster1ousy Friday night, was found in Boston
street Dorchester district Saturday morning,
unable to either speak or walk. Surprising him
drunk, be was arrested and brought before the
local court. The fact Of his paralysis becoming
known, he was returned 10 his friends.
Saturday night VIM. Godsoe, about fifty years
of age, sought rest at Mrs. Bottoms lodging
house, in Boston. He was intoxicated when he
retired, and in the morning was found dead in
his bed
On Saturday evening Patrick Mahau and his
wife Kate, OF Boston, had a little battle, in which
the woman got the best of il by striking her
ing several bad cuts over the right eve. The
woman was taken TO the lookup, and the hus-
band to the Massachusetts, general hospital.
Saturday night an officer in Boston saw party
OF roughs trying to rob a man named Lawrence
Regan IN Dock square. He interlered, the rogueS
ran, and one OF them, after being brought to
bay by pistol shot, was captured and taken to
Station /, where he gave the name of O'Brien.
Two young men, Moses and Noah Morrison,
while engaged in picking up driftwood, Sunday,
HuVerhiil c1USlypd their hnaf and
drowned. Several persons were in sight, but
were unable TO render any assistance. One of
the bodies was recovered. The elder of the two
men leaves a wife and two children.
Julius Stone, Mexican, and Jacob Middle
ton, a negro, quarreled in Boston Sunday night
in room which they occupied together, and
Julius was engaged in cutting Jacobs throat
with razor when the policeman who heard the
cries for help arrived. He had proceeded about
three inches under the lett ear when inter
rupted.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
j. A. Cheney and wife, of Waltham, will have
to pay VIM. Gritfiihs Jr., of the same place. $500
damages, for saying IN a ball room, "He looks
like thiel"-according to Judgment in the SUI.
perior civil court for MiddeSeX
Robert ). Hoggins, who has been in Lowell the
past week or two, representing himself as a la
borer in the temperance cause and who deliver.
ed stirring lecture on temperance last week,
was arrested Sunday on one of the principal
holds the manuscripts Of his lecture, and refuses
10 disgorge them till the board bill is settled.
Mary i. Brown, arrested at Fall River on
Friday for the larceny Of money and clothing
from the Lawrence corporation in Lowell, was
found guilty in the police court Monday morn
ing, and was sentenced TO eighteen months in
the house of correction.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Some maliciOusly inclined individuals
smashed no less than one hundred panes of
ulaSS in ha nor
house OF Mr.. J. L. +. Marsh, on the corner of
Summer street in Lynn.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Last Saturday, Samuel G. Merrill a man of
hityiour years, who lived in the family of Mr..
Asa Orcutt at North Abingdon, cut his throat
nearly IRON ear to ear" and died on Sunday
evening. Mr.. Merrill had lived in this family
as boarder constantly Tor 81 years He came
10 them at tue age OF 20 years, in Norwich,
Conn. where he worked in a shoe mapufactory
moved with them to Worcester, where he
worked as compostor in the Spy office, and
subsequently went with them TO North Abng.
ton, in which place he had been engaged in the
manufacture OF fancy slippers for the market
lie was lhe master OF seven languages and an
accomplished musician. For seven or eight
years he had taken opium, which Is thought to
have caused the fatal act. He was never mar
RED, and leaves no property but a library.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Two barns at CummingtOn, owned by ! W
EAsV
with eight tons Of hay, a horse, and several
head oil cattle.
A correspondent suggests that it will be time
enough to have district court for central
Hampshire when the people in the several towns
petlton Tor andSdesire II. He says Northamp-
ton justices are too fond of "ierkiDo" parties
from other towns and keeping them waiting.
with bali mill full of operatives standing
around, summoned as witnesses, until the Judge
mas dlhea ana wlned and the lawyers have had
time 10 visit few friends, Just arrived
In the supreme court Saturday at Northamp.
ton was divorce case of more than ordinary
interest, owing to the social relations of the par.
ties, who were DR.. A. w. Thompson, a we'll
known physician, and his wife, Mrs. Boxer
thompson, well-knOwn in fashionable life She
is the daughter of Albert j. Anderson, a retired
New YORK merchant, residing at Newport r. |.
Her FIRST husband was John Boxer, a son of the
proprietor Of the Boxer bitters and brother of
the Mary Ann Boxer who ran away with her
fathers coachman in New York a few years
since. Obtaining divorce from her first hus-
band, Mrs. Boxer located at Northampton,
where she attracted much attention by her dis.
play oil hne equipages, etc, etc. DR.. Thompson,
young Widower, became infatuated with her
ana they were married. She did not relish the
monoionous life Of her husband, and soon de-
serted bis home,ior scenes of gaiety. He sued
for divorce on the ground of deserton and
abusive treatment, and alterward included the
charge of adultery. After much show of defense
terminated III hearing before Judge Ames
instead of ajury Trial. The divorce was granted
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
This IS the way they talk about il in Springfield:
states Constables Miller and Phelps seized about
hall barrel OF Liquid SIM at the "Tough
End Establishments of John Fitzgerald and
Michael Donovan, at Greenwich, on Tuesday
Al the late animal meeting of the trustees of
the Cushman library in Bernardston, the follow
ing officers were chosen: President l. X Brown .
Treasurer - Rurtgrs 7 .
brarian, VIM. Dwight; Directors, J. Sanderson
5. B. Slate and Rev I. Merrill
MAINE.
George Weeks Of Sidney committed suicide
Sunday by hanging; age II.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
John Merrill, Il wei TO do farmer Of HAMPTON
Falls, aged about iorty-sX, hung himself in the
woods there Saturday evening.
The eor0ners inquest upon the body of Sarah
Conway Of Nashua, who reported that she was
treated by some abortiOnisr in tina: city, have
not been able TO find Charles Parkinson the
Dartmouth student, who could probably clear
up much OF the mystery now attending the death
OF Miss Conway. Parkinson is a Californian, and
leit for parts unknown about the time of Miss
Conveys death.
VERMONT
The Brattleboro Phoenix learns that Mrs, Jas.
Fisk, Jr., IS preparing TO eject d beautiful mon
nment over the grave Of her deceased husband
Application has been made to Larkin G. Mead,
Tie sculptor, Tor designs, the cost of the monu-
ment not 10 exceed S25,000
CONNECT1CUT.
VIM. Corning, a Hartford painter, has the
suicidal mania so strong upon him that his
friends have sent him to the state hospital. He
has made attempts to poison, stab, and hang
himself
yagrant left over by Lent's circus week
ago was picked up il Newington ON SATURDAY.,
and sentenced to the county jail. He arrived in
Hartford late Saturday night in charge of our
men, one Of whom drove the team, the other
three sitting upon the body Of the lamented in
the bottom Of the vehicle. When they bring IN
man from Newington they don't mean he shall
get away.