Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-04
So4urttster Daily Spp.


Rev England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The small pOx in Boston is diminishing
There were only sixteen deaths last week.
A fight in Cambridge street. Boston, early
yesterday morning, resulted in the killing of
Timothy Deasy, aged so, by Maurice Lamasney,
aged IS. with knife. Lamasney was arrested.
The jury in the case of Barieau, on trial in
Boston for the murder of his wife, returned
verdict of not guilty at hall-past eight O'Clock
Saturday evening, after being out about two
hours.
The Golden club Of London has invited the
young mems free trade association Of Boston TO
send delegates TO q free trade congress, TO be
held in that city next spring, and delegates viii
be sent
The first railroad to attempt TO run cheap
trains is the Eastern. The experiment will be-
gin to-day train leaving Lynn at 5.S5 A. NJ.
and Boston SOS P. NJ Twenty tickets will be
sold for dollar. Ten miles for five cents Is the
cheapest Taroadng ever known in America.
The Medical Journal says a woman recently
died in Boston Of small pox who had, only
twelve weeks previously, recovered from an at
tack Of the same disease. In the first instance
she gave the disease to several Others in the
family, in the second it took the hemorrhagic
form. Not many months ago child, not over
a wear old, died in the same city of a well au-
thenticated second attack of small poX.
The Advertiser tells the Boston public that it
will be gratifed the first of this week by the
sight Of the best horse car ever seen in Boston,
which the Metropolitan railroad will put on its
tracks. 1t contains every improvement in the
horse car line, including the patent light in the
dome, and many other spccialties. 1t is painted
in bright and lively colors, and on the chief
panel has picture representing Ida Lewis, the
Newport heroine, rowing TO the rescue of the
drowning man, aud the car is called the Ida
Lewis"
A very well dressed, gentlemanly, and appar
court, at Boston, Friday, to obtain papers of
citizenship, and addressed the following inter
rogatories to Mr.. Willard, "the venerable clerk" :
rs this the Greeley trOupeP what says
clerk; "do you mean to insult the court 4"
No, no; mean, is this the Greeley concern
The clerk with more dignity in manner and
indignation in tone-"I don't understand YOU
yet. Do you intend to insult the court! What
do you meanP' With some impotence and
energy the applicant said: 81 mean, if man
gets naturazed here, can he vote for anybody
he pleasesp C lerk-"Yes, sir. This court
don't make votes for Greeley or Grant" Appli-
cant-"Ah, well; all right. Go ahead"
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The manufacturers of Norton offer to buy the
fish rights Of the town for $1,000, which is con
sidered liberal price.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Captain Sol Wiley of the schooner Cosmos
caught one day last week, on Eagle Ledge, of
q
largest taken for some years.
Nearly all of the cottages owned by Lowell
people on Marblehead Neck have been broken
into by Marbehead boys, and the police are in
vestigating the piliering accomplished.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
A Norwegian who arrived in Fall River on
Tuesday, and found board at respectable
house on Pond street. was robbed during the
night by fellow lodger, who took all his
money, about 800, and decamped before the
Norwegian woke up. The name OF the thief Is
stated to be VIM. S. Alden.
A building in Fall River, occupied by Peter
Cornell for winding spool thread, and James
Leach for the manufacture of card clothing, was
destroyed by fire, with all its contents, Thursday
night. 1t belonged to the American print works
company. Mr.. Council had on hand large
stock of manufactured goods ready for market.
He was insured for s775O, which will not cover
his loss
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Ruff1ans in Weymouth are revenging them
selves upon ladies by throwing oil of vitrio
upon their dresses.
A party of gamblers were arrested in tht
woods in East Arlington on Sunday, October
goth, and each fined SIC. Two lockers on were
fined SLIGO each.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
A gang of thieves is carrying on large depre-
dations at South Wellfeet.
The wife of a respectable citizen of Sandwich
has eloped with young man supposed to be
from Boston.
President Stearns of the Old Colony railroad
has assured the people of Provincetown that the
road will be extended to that town and be COM
pleted in season for next summers travel.
Deer are getting TO be quite plenty on some
parts of the cape. Mr.. Ansel Fish of South
Sandwich has seen fourteen in one herd in the
vicinity of his house, and nine have recently
been shot III Sandwich woods. Capt. Fisher,
boatman for the Santuit house, recently shot a
red fox on Oyster island, in Cotuit harbor.
The captain has killed fox every fall for the
past nineteen years.
DUKES COUNTY.
The horse disease is not known to have reach
ed Nantucket or any of the islands iii Martha
Vineyard Sound.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The proprietor of the American house, at
Palmer, is mad because some people who
stoned TO have their team fed a few DAYS ago
ate some lunch they had with them instead OF
buying dinner. The Palmer Journal pub
fishes the terrible affair.
The barn of Michael Powers, on the old Ma
than Stevens place at Wibraham, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday night. Five head of cattle and
years produce from the farm were!consumed.
Loss $1,000; no insurance. The fire is supposed
to have been the work Of a tramp.
Mount Holyoke seminary has received from
the national department of agriculture valua-
bic present of greenhouse plants, numbering
some forty different species Now is the time
for that benevolent friend who proposes to build
the seminary a conservatory.
The diaboical mischief of throwing kerosene
oil on ladies' dresses is now practced nightly in
Springfield, and as yet the guilty wretches es-
cape detection. One of the recent victims is a
Holyoke lady, who had 1925 dress ruined in
front of Gilmore's hall, last Thursday evening.
The back pay was distributed to the employees
at Springfield armory Friday. The customary
red tape, which would have kept it back some
two weeks yet, was dispensed with, thanks TO
Mr.. Dawes intervention, in order to get it here
at once. The shop tenders and others, whose
pay was cut down SO per cent. by a mistake of
the treasury department, are TO have new roll
made out for their benefit at once; and Mr.
Dawes is going to Washington as soon as posi-
bic, to endeavor TO obtain a reconsideration of
the decision of the controller of the treasury
against them,
MAINE.
There was heavy snow squat in Watervile
Yesterday forenoon, which lasted ten minutes.
In the supreme Judicial court held in Angus
ia, Saturday, the case of Be rtlett & Wood
against the Western Union telegraph company
was referred to the full court for decision.
Three routes for the proposed railroad from
Bangor to Buck port have been surveyed, and it
is probable that the shore route, the survey of
which has just been completed, will be the one
finally approved.
The North Lubec Goldfish feet has arrived with
their last fare and reports the best seasons fish
ing since 1868. The herring fishery has been
almost a total failure. The fish have been
plenty, but small and poor, and sold to the
farmers forIdressng. In 1871 there were smoked
in Lubec 100000 boxes Of herring, including
$4,000 of Magdalens; this year there have not
been more than $4,000 boxes, including 1000
boxes Of Magdalens.
While Micah w. Norton, ESQ.,, of North New
Portland, was sitting near a window, one night
last week, nine shots were fired through the
window passing on both sides of his head. Mr..
Norton's face was filled with fragments of the
broken glass. No clue has yet been obtained of
the perpetrators Of the deed. Several years
since Mr.. Norton was tarred and ieathered, and
the matter has since been in the courts.
AT a meeting Of the directors Of the European
and North American railroad company of
Maine, held at Bangor, the terms of consolida-
ton with the European and North American
railroad company Of New Brunswick (western
extension) were signed, subject to a ratification
OF the stockholders, meeting Of whom is called
for the 9Th instant. The new company will be
known as the European and North American
consolidated railroad company.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Ira Holt Of Milford was recently found dead
in his barn, and is supposed to have fallen from
the loft while in fit
John Libby of Freedom, an industrious poor
man has allen iutO Of QoO 81, ra,,rI,