Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-03-16
G0lurtrster Daily spp.
New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Vincent Henderson, Of Boston, a man Of forty
Years, died on Thursday in consequence of in
luries received on Monday last from a fall. He
leaves family.
Mr.. John b. Dearborn. Boston deputy sher-
if, lost a single stone diamond Thursday, valued
at $500. He is now more unhappy than many
4 poor deputy sheriff who never had a diamond
The schooner Harry White, Capt. Hopkins,
arrived at Boston Thursday, from Fernandna,
bringing into port the crew of British schooner
Maggie A. Smith, Capt. John RalSton, which
was lost at sea on the passage from St john
n. b., for Boston.
Miss Fanny Burbank well known spiritual
isl lecturer and medium died in Everett, Thurs
day, at the age of forty years. She was one of
the CARL ST to engage in this profession, having
adopted il twenty years ago. and she had large
circle Of acquaintance in New England.
Among the. persons lost from the schooner
Adelia Kelley Of HarwiCh Mass, wrecked near
South Wetect IN the gaze OF l2ih INST, was
Captain Zabud Burgess, master, and Daniel
DIVER. seaman. They both belonged in Har-
witch, where their families reside. The rest of
the crew were foreigners. The owner of the yes
sell Capt. Jonathan Young, was not on board al
the time of the disaster as was reported
During the SNOW storm Friday morning there
are said 10 have fallen with the flakes, in Somcr-
vile, thousands of greenish-hrown worms, about
an inch in length and an eighth OF an inch in
diameter. When they fell they were curIed up
into bali shape, but were alive and very
active. Specimens were sent to the museum
OF comparative zoology for examination
and classification. The report from there
viii be looked for with interest, as the occur
renee is most singular one.
lie morning express train from Concord, Fri
day, was thrown from the track near the rail-
road station IN Manchester at about Quarter-past
SIX O'Clock, by the arrangement of the
apparatus connected with the switch. 7 he forward
part OF the train was thrown across three of the
adjoining tracks, and the quarter past eight
down tram was delayed about an hour. The
engine and tender were damaged a good deal,
but no person was injured
BRISTOL COUNTY.
About thousand dollars was recently in
vested by New Bed ord parties in Il Hartford
silt enterprise, and the returns have been
about a thousand cents worth of cheap iewelry.
Ore diamond has been received, it is said, but u
very minute one, and hawed at that.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
the CRANKY boys, stimulated by the town
bounty of ten cents for each woodchuck killed
and brought 1115 heads to the selectmen during
the year.
Or. Edward NJ. Field, a well known physician
OF Bangor, died Friday morning,
The steamer Katahdiu and the tug Sanford
remain embargoed in the ice at Bucksport Mar
rows. Photographic views were taken Of the
boats and their surroundings on Thursday.
The barquc Sarah Sloane, Sloane master, OF
Bath left st. John March SIh for Cuba, loaded
with hay and shocks, and went ashore al Grand
Menan on the 18th inst She is a total loss, and
all hands were lost but one man, and he will
die. All the bodies have been recovered but
one.
VERMONT.
The coroner says that Matte Martin, who died
suddenly at Colchester, a few days ago, came TO
her death by eating arsenic to beautify her com
pieXon. She had been in the habit of ca ing
cloves. nicklpS chalk tho mr.
pose, and having seen in a newspaper that some
ladies in the old country ate arsenic to whiten
their skin, she undoubtedly took some Of the
poison for that purpose, and with fatal results.
CONNECTICUT
VIM. Merriman Of WATERFOWL, in fit of in
sanity last week, attacked his father and mother
with boOtjack, injuTing both severely.
A German Girl was abducted from her home
in Bridgeport last Tuesday by unknown parties,
and has not yet been found.
They have a boy up in Danbury afflicted with
the fever and ague. The only use they can put
him to is to set him shaking carpets and ii is
said that orders are pouring in upon him as
spring approaches.
Over one bundled tons of powder were shipped
from Stafford Springs last mohth by the Hazard
powder company, OF Hazardville, TO points south
and west.
A few days since. in the north part of Hart
ford, burglar was frightened ont of his scheme
OF robbery by the sweet simplicity of a solitary
splnster, who, putting her night capped head
out OF tne window exclaimed: "Go away amt
you aShamedp
A poor coi0red man of Hartford, named Ste
phen Bundy, has been for some time suffering
fearluliy from hip disease, and for the last sew
enteen days his pam has been so nearly unbear-
able that the clamps upon his legs have been
fastened down by lock and key. Hartford folks
are going to give him benefit.
George {. Reynolds, a convict in Wethersfied
PRISON, VINO IS serving out a six years sentence
Tor theft, was served with an official notice, a
rev days ago, Of the intention of his wife to
petition the courts for a divorce When the an
nouncemeni was made TO tine unfortunate fell
low Of ms wlie's intention, he broke down com.
peteiy and gave way to his feelings in bitter
tears, and sand that he had consoled himself in
the dark hours Of his prison lie by the hope
that when he should once again become free
man, he should have the affection and compan-
lonshp oil his wife, though all the world beside
should ignore and 0espise him; but now that
she has cast him off he cared not for the future
and there were no bright visions for him beyond
me prlson walls. His appearance excited the
Walmest sympathy,
4 Mrs. Taylor of Middletown, made crazy by
splrituallsm, believed that If young boy, one
Of her relatives who had been stopping with her
for some time past should leave her, it would
oe the cause OF her death. His parents had Ie
peatedly told him 10 come home, but Mrs. I .
under fhe advice of the 'Spirits, as she claimed
mad detained him. AT this time his sister came
after him, and the boy started down street with
her. Mrs I. jumped from her bed. and went
ID her night clothes, barefoot in the snow, after
hlm Her husband found and secured her after
sne had run through several streets. In his
struggle TO get her, even the scant clothing she
mad on was torn Off
RHODE ISLAND.
The death of little boy in Providence last
Tuesday, is said to have been the result of a Sc
we're kicking which he received from another boy
a few weeks ago.
thursday evening the dead body of q man,
frozen stltf, was found in the marsh on the south
SIDE oil the Woonasquatucket river, opposite
providence. Mud and reeds are frozen on the
lace, so that it is impossible 10 tell at present
ANYTHING as TO his age or appearance, or hardly
whether he is white or black.
-Four fishermen were driven out TO sea from
their anchor, near Block island, Monday, and
alter beating about all night and next day,
thinking their only hope was in trying to land,
tbeyembarked in their boat, small twelve foot
shallop. This swamped in the surf, and Chas.
Huddy, Newport Branch pilot, about thirty
years old, was drowned. The others fought
hard with the icy waters, and at length succeed
ed in reaching the shore, and in securing the
body oil their comrade, though utterly worn ont
and nearly dead from cold. They vet had a
hard climb up steep and ICY hill, and distance
OF half mile TO 90 to a dwelling. They were
Kindly treated of course by the people of the
pace when, after superhuman efforts they had
Struggled 70 shelter the drowned man Huddy