Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-17
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New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The receipts for entrance to the homeopathic
fair at Boston amounted to Sl1 600.
The revenue derived by Boston from the water
taxes last year paid the running expenses of the
water department for the first time since watei
was introduced.
The lady who was injured at the Music hall
Boston, by the falling of portion of the deco,
ratons, on the occasion OF the ehildren's festival
in honor Of Duke Alexes, has sued two OF inc
city committee for damages.
The Boston harbor police took from the etoch
al Union wharf, Tuesday afternoon, the Oouy " "
man apparently about thirty-thres leai I , VI
age five feet six inches high, dressed ~ ulue
coat, vest and striped brown PANS la" wv"
in the water three or four DAYS. - -,
Elizabeth Carpenter of Boston recently TOOK
fortv-two wards Of bingham from STORE on
Summer street. She was yesterday seeh 10
enter the house of correction, where she INTENDS
10 remain until the middle OF November, when
IL viii he TOO cold for gingham and storekeepers
among whom Elizabeth is wont TO traffic will
have 4 watcnful eye on their heavier fabrics.
The story has some circulation that the Har-
ward Advocate is threatened by the faculty Of
the college with suppression on account of a hui
morous poem entitled :" the Jersey calf" pub
lished in the lastnumber The editing and pub
fishing students secured from one of their col
leagues a rithmica story of the fortunes OF a
calf drawn by rafe at the homeopathic fair and
the affection il proved to be 10 the professor who
held the prize ticket.
1t appears from the report of the state board
of health that the use OF opium as a stimu-
liant is by no means uncommon in Boston
Twenty or thirty druggists were consulted IL
regard TO this point, Professional men, they
report, are more likely 10 use the drug than thu
poorer classes. noted temperance lecturer j:
the only opium consumer OF one druggist. Sol
diers TO whom it was first prescribed in army
hospitals frequently continue its use. The salt
of the drug 10 the country trade is dispropor-
tionately large. From half an ounce week 10
halt drachm day are consumed by persons,
some of them merchants, who reside ID boslon'
MnDDLEsEX COUNTY.
An extensive fire was reported I'D esuord
Thursday afternoon as consuming large guam
tity of cord wood and Overrunning large
wooded territory, preventing travel on the high
way.
There is a man now serving ont a sentence in
the Jail in Lowell who has been an inmate of
the iail three years and one month out of the
past five years, his sentences being each for
short terms.
Ira Dinsmore, an old and respected citizen, for
number Of years an oyersecr in the MiddleSeX
mills, died at Lowell, Wednesday, after an i'll
ness of few days. He was fifty-Seyen years old,
and leaves 4 family
Col. }. A. Harwood of Littleton, has been APP
pointed chief marshal for the New England fair,
to be held in Lowell in September next. Col.
HARDWOOD filled the same office last year in
highly satisfactory manner. Four assistants are
TO be appointed.
ESSEN COUNTY.
Chas. A. Derby, well known mason of Salem,
has three Arabs in his employ who came TO this
country about two weeks ago, and finds that
they give complete satisfaction.
A mau who was delivering an address at Law
renee a few evenings since, accidenty stepped
from the platform on which he stood and fell
some distance TO the ground but, striking his
feet, continued, undisconceried, Ito come down
TO the level Of my audience"
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford and Taunton railroad cor
poration have voted TO authorize the directors
to subscribe for stock in the New Bedford and
Farhaven street railway, as largely as they
deem advisable for the interests of the corpora
ton.
The American print works at Fall River are
arranging TO suspend operations for season on
account OF the price OF print goods. The amount
OF business done at these works requires S24,-
OOO a day TO carry it On, and nearly So 100000
worth of cloth is in process of printing from the
time it goes into the mill before it is finished.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
At about seven O'Clock Tuesday evening a fire
originated in the freight depot of the Boston,
Hartford and Erie Railroad at City Mills station,
in Norfolk, which resulted in the total destruc
zion Of the building and of $50 900 worth of
wool belonging to the Eliot feltng mills. The
property was insured for about $4,000 in Bos-
ION and Worcester offices. The depot was in
sured to its full value.
HAMDPEN COUNTY
A Springfield policeman discovered a man
hshlng in the river from the bank near Hamp-
den park, Sunday afternoon, and crept quietly
toward him. The angler did not heed his APP
proach until "A large fat bass caught the hook
and then he saw him. Instinctivey he gave the
line Jerk, the bass floundered in the grass
The officer was close upon him, so he jumped
and ran. The policeman didn't catch him, bu
he got the bass and a good string of perch
which were lying on the bank.
MAINE.
The house Of John Thompson, at Bucksfeld
was destroyed by fire a short time ago.
The house and oufbuildings of Antonio Ratio
at Bloomfield, were burnt on the 18th inst. Los
$1,000; insurance $500.
Chas. knowlen, a son Of John KnOwlen o
Masardis, aged twenty-seven years, was drowned
on the 4th of May, while engaged IN rafting log
from an eddy on Pollard's fat
On the 18th inst. son Of Andrew Perkins c
Linneus, about four years of age fell from
loaded cart, wheel passing over his heat
killing him instantly.
George Jewet's barn in Portland was burne
by an incendary Thursday night Loss $1,000
insured Thursday night his house was set o.
hre but discovered in season to prevent its de
slrBciion
As Tuesdays express train on the European
and North American railroad arrived just be-
low Lincoln Centre, it ran into flock of sheep
scattering them by the roadside in all cOnceiva
Die attitudes and shapes. One old ram, the pa.
triareh Of the flock, evidently indignant at the
unceremonlous manner in which his charge had
heen handled, lowered his head and went for
the iron horse. The cow-catcher struck him and
threw him up ON the forward part of the engine
when til ehreman ran out, and before be could
fall or jump off, caught and held him until the
Train was stopped. lie was then released and
was found TO be uniniured with the exception Of
having one OF his horns knocked off.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The United States steamship Tuscarora went
n pnrfgpnoufl, Tb,,ra I.,.r
commander Geo. L. Belknap, commanding
fat oil logs covering two acres was flowed
INTO marlborough, Monday morning, by the
steamer James Bell
Norman H. GriswOld, Of Reading, committee
suicide, by hanging, on the morning Of the 6tl
instant lie was found suspended by a 10,
chain, attached TO the high beams in the barn.
A fam house belonging TO Henry Howe, an,
occupied by .. r Kinne, one mile southwes
OF Lebanon, was burned on Thursday the fir
taking from defective chimney. Loss on hous
and furniture probably 500 or $500 each Bot
insured. The FIRE communicated TO a larg
piece OF woods, endangering the other farm
buildings.
George Chase Of HOpkintOn, went fishing tb
other day, aud saw black snake about six fee
~ length, drove Inn up tree and then LAID
siege 10 linn with stones. This condition OF
things lasted short time, and then his snake
ship concluded TO make a sally, and charged
down the tree, actually driving Chase several
rods. Chase, however, finally killed the snake
cONNECTIcur
The Yale divinity school celebrated its firtieth
anniversary yesterday.
Hartford basappropriated $500 for public oper
air concerts this summer.
Professor Packard Of Yale has returned from
Aiken, S. G., where be has been spending III,
winter months for the benefit of his health.
Fort Hale at New Haven is being dismantle,l
and all the ordnance taken TO Bassett's fonndr,
~ Derby. The men in charge of the fort are t.