Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-31
G04urtesttr Daily Spp.
New England Ncws summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Some gentlemen in Boston want 10 know who
can tell what kind of a shoe an OK should wear
that is TO travel over the city pavement.
Thomas Sullivan, for garroting and robbing
a man Of IS on the street, in Boston, was yes
feFday sentenced to ten years in the state prison.
The deaf and dumb library and lyceum as
sOeiatiou grows in favor with its friends. The
Wednesday evening lectures and sociabes are
occasions of rare enjoyment to the many who
attend.
From the report of the treasurer of the New
England hospital for women and children, at
Boston, it appeared that the total receipts of the
wear had been S136,5I4 05, including a balance
Of $3.50 IS for last year, S65,O00 in temporary
loans, $4,000 raised on mortgage, S1941 in
Gift to building fund, s42l4 in subscriptions and
donations, $4,000 from Mrs. Sarah Shaw Russell,
$1,000 from Dr. Lucy f. Sewall to found a
Robbie" free bed, $1,000 by mortgage paid off,
S229s.S4 for board and treatment, and num-
Der of smaller Sums. The expenditures in
cluded S55, 42S.lS paid on land aud buildings,
S47 800 loans paid or SIG, 900 mortgages on
land paid off, Sl0,6S7.45 living and miscella-
ueous expenses, and other sums sufficient to
bring the total expenditures up to S185, 437 ST.
with several small bills not yet in. Dr. Lucy
i. Sewall, one Of the attending physicians, re-
ported that the total number of patients treated
during the year was 1896, that 100 was the aver
age number of inmates Of the hospital and
ing.
The Boston Post tells about two gorillas
which have lately been brought TO Boston, and
are the subjects OF no little curiosity as belong
ing to the race next of kin to man. They have
not vet learned 10 recognize their Caucasian
brothers, and evince not little non-fraternal
feeling when favored with an introduction.
They have but recently been brought to this
country from Central Africa, where they were
owned by one of the lordly natives. They be-
came thoroughly dOmesticated and were allowed
full liberty of Lord UiuTS parks and gardens.
A female slave attended them and was accus
toned to walk by them unguarded. They quar-
relied with their dusky keeper before many days,
however, and in their rage tore her TO pieces.
After this they became so dangerous that the
government ordered them TO be shot; but before
the fatal day arrived they fell in with sea cap
tain, and by him were brought to this port
They are both male animals and are genuine
specimens Of the genus Sima. This story reads
too much like the Posts arteSian well Joke to
take strong hold upon gullible public. How
ever we presume that the gorillas came over
with the sea captain, and very likely they
eyinced "non-traternal feeling when the Post
reporter went to interview them.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Mr.. GRAY, roadmaster on the Boston, Hartford
and Erie railroad, was killed at Wapole yester
day afternoon. he stepped in front of a car
that was being switched, was struck in the head
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MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
John Hogan, a brakeman, fell between two
cars at Medfeld junction, yesterday, and had
both legs taken off and also part OF his head,
killing him Instantly.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The organ which was stolen from the church
at South Wellheet about a fortnight ago was
taken to Boston as furniture, where the thief,
Charles Brown, was arrested. The key TO the
church, the Yarmouth Register says, was kept
under a certain brick in the church yard, and
it advises the church fathers to put the brick
elsewhere.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
For a frank man commend us TO the gentle
man in Springfield who announces that the fire
in his block the other day was so clearly due to
hisown negligence that he does not intend to
call on the insurance companies 10 make good
his loss.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
One Of the sherifs who assisted in the recent
liquor seizures at Pittsfed had the front of his
house smashed in by gang of roughs, Satur-
day night.
Charles Wood Of North Bennington dropped
dead after long walk, on the 18th. He was
consumptive.
Russell Flint of Williamstown, who died re-
Gently, was bitten by a dog seventeen years ago,
and in his last illness showed symptoms of by
drophobia
On Friday night last, James Coyey, at Sand
gate, while under the Influence of rum, kicked
his mother-in.law in so violent a manner that
she died in short time after from the injuries
received. This is hardly a safe item to be trav-
cling about the newspapers. 1t is SO easy TO get
dru nix, you know.
CONNECTICUT.
Professor lIadley of Yale is dangerously sick.
Mr.. Fred Williams Of Berkhamsted, who has
been insane for two years, committed suicide on
the oath by hanging himself in the woods.
Two dry goods stores in Fair Haven were
broken open by burglars Tuesday night, and
$500 worth of silk was stolen from them.
Ii took twenty men, armed with Whitney
rifles, to kill a mad bull, near East Rock, on
Sunday.
1t has since transpired that there were roughs
present at the wrestling match in Germania
hall, New Haven, few nights ago. One man
had his pocked picked of sos.
J. 6. Rathbun has funnily pettioned the
Hartford common council to have the lamp
posts painted white, for the benefit of nea
sighted people like himself.
A New Haven divine thus distinguished the
different religious denominations in sermon
on Sunday night: "The deyout Catholic, the
cultured CongregatiOnalsts, the sweet-faccd
Episcopalian, the warm hearted Baptist, and the
uncharacterized Methodist"
The Pabcock farm, a tract of about forty
acres, on Park river lust outside Of Hartford
iltto DNOh eNiNtltu W llt NoiIllltltS ds Tie new
site for Trinity college. The Courant says of
il: No more iudicious selection could possibly
have been made 1t is really delightful spot
Park river curves gracefully around its north
western and western boundaries, and a fine
grove of natural forest trees covers acres of the
rivers bank, making it a lovely park, that
needs, in its natural beauty, hardly the touch of
axe or spade. The price to be paid for the prop
erty has not as yet been made public, but the
site has from the first been favored by ma
Jority OF the trustees, among them Messrs. En-
gllsh and Sheffield of New Haven, who, it is
SAID, voted to sell the college grounds on condi-
ton that the Babcock farm grounds should be
purchased Tor the new site. 1t has not vet been
bought by the college.
The Springfield Republican says: "The four
teen foolish women of Hartford furnished sub
leets Tor some sharp sermonizing in that city,
Sunday, and probably for good deal OF think
ing which did not get into sermons. The Rev.
H. b. Johns, pastor of the coored Congregation
az chureh, was especially pronounced in his YER
aict' his text was very pat, being Philemon's
commentator oil the fugitive slave 0nesimus
Ihou shouldest receive him forever; not now as
servant, but about servant, a brother be.
loved, etc. The preacher dashed Christian ex-
peulency Hereby and also the Christian wo.
men association, or at least the fourteen out
OF the twenty-one directors who voted for the
exclusion OF the little one for whom Christ died
Mr. Johns assured these ladies that "a dav will
tianity shall be seen standing outside of a closed
door, begging, Lord, Lord, open to usP and
shall not be admitted' The subject was also
discussed ably and rather more temporarily bv
the Rev. i. p. Parker
RHODE ISLAND.
Horace lloughton, lad, died in Providence
yesterday morning, in consequence of injuries
received from a piece of wood thrown from A
railroad train by a brakeman, fracturDg the lads
skull.
Owen Hackett Of Ashton was run over Tnes-
day night by the train Oh the Worcester road
winch leaves Providence at ten o'clock. He
was laying on the track with his head on his
arm, near curve, and was not seen by the en-.
glneer until the train was within about forty
icet OF him. His body was manged.
MATRmoNr AvERTED.-Tbc old saying that
the course of true love never runs smooth seems
to be verified in the following account from the
Boston Post of yesterday:
few weeks since Miss Ellen Cronan. who
has almost reached the semi-centenniaI ami.