Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-14
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NeuEngInnd news summary.

a man pointed pistol at him and fired, the ball
entering his abdomen. Up to late hour last
night there was but slight chance of his recoY-
cry. Mr.. Lane is 81 years of age.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
W ". Kelman of Salem, while in company
with Charles Carey in Lowell on Thursday night,
was robbed of three hundred and sixty dollars
in greenbacks. Carey disappeared the next
morning and was traced TO New Bedford, where
he was arrested Friday night.
Mrs Lucinda Tibbetts, aged So, while walk
ing on the track of the Nashua and Lowell rail
road near MiddleseX station Saturday afternoon,
was struck by the express tram due at Lowell
at $40 p. NJ, knocked down an embankment
and instantly killed.
The engine Keene, on the mail train for Bos-
ton, ran into the engine Harvard of the Worces
ter and Nashua railroad last evening at Aver
crossing. The Harvard was thrown from the
track but not very badly demage1. The cow
catcher of the Keene was badly broken, but no
one was hurt. The target was all right for the
mail train
ESSEX COUNTY.
Mr. J. ]. Powell of Gloucester, England,
queens counsel and recorder of Wolverhamp-
ton, and formerly q member of parliament for
Gloucester, who sent present of books TO the
town few years ago, visited Gloucester SatuT-
day and was the guest of Hon. John j. Babson,
the local historian to whom he brought letters.
Mr., Babson and his guest, accompanied by Col
lector Babson, made tour OF the cape, much TO
the qualification of Mr.. Powell, who took
lively interest in all he saw.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
A fire at Fall River Saturday morning dam
aged the pocket and elevator of the Fall River
coal company, and precipitated large amount
of coal into the river. Loss $4,000; insured
81, 900 each in the Narragauset of Providence,
National of Hartford, Commerce of Albany, and
s., 1000 in Boston.
The late James Arnold, of New Bedford, be-
queathed S100, 900 to Harvard University for the
establishment of an arboretum. 1t has been
decided to locate this arboretum on the BuSsey
farm in West Roxbury, where the school of
agriculture is already under way. The details
of the work are to be under the immediate con-
troll Of Prof. Sargent, who is eminently well
qualified for it.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The Miles Standish monument association
has run against snag,-nOt formidable one,
as it appears-in the person of Thomas South
worth, land owner on Captains Hill, DuX-
bury, who asked for an injunction TO restrain
the association from appropriating his land for
tlsSpurpose of erecting monument and laying
out park around the same. The petitioner
claims that the use for which the land is pro
posed is not of public nature, and that the
legislature has no authority to pass acts author
izing the taking of private lands for any other
purposes than public uses, and that in this case,
if the land should be taken, there is no way to
enforce payment for the same, for the reason
tUdI LUc county COullnsslOutTS nave Hu ~
do so. The defendants reply that thus far they
have taken no land of the petitioner, but that
they have simply laid the foundation for the
monument on line adjoining the land owned
by the petitioner, and that to facilitate the APP
proach to the monument they have levelled
small tract Of land belonging to the petitioner,
The petition was made to the supreme Judicial
court at b ston but Judge Gray did not grant
an injunction. The Herald, in speaking OF the
case, remarks: "lt the case comes before the
full bench upon the constitutonality of the act,
it will be interesting TO the treeholders OF this
commonwealth TO know if they hold land liable
to be voted away by the legislature for the pur-
poses of private speculation, provided monu-
meut TO some deceased lawyer, doctor or soldier
be erected on the site thereof"
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The shore train from Springfield, Saturday
evening, struck and killed little three years old
child named Daniels, near Peconsic. She was
playing with an older sister near the track, and
stood so near the train that the steps of one OF
the cars struck her on the head, fracturing the
skull and killing her instantly.
The Young CeestialS who recently arrived in
Springfield have all been placed at school, eight
in Massachusetts and twenty-five in Connecu-
cut, two only in one town. They are TO study
Chinese literature as well as ours, so as 10
retain their vernacular.
MAINE.
The typhoid fever has been quite prevalent in
Penobscot and vicinity, and in some cases
proved fatal. Whole families have been pros
trated with it. 1t is time of general i'll
health, aud the per cent of mortality is large
Eliakim Hutchins who recently died at Pc
nobscot at the age of eighty, served as an Off
Ger in the war of 1872, and furnished three sons
TO aid in putting down the late rebellion. His
father, VIM. Hutchings, was the last surviving
soldier OF the revolution in New England, liy-
ing TO the ripe age of 101 years.
Saturday morning the house and store of G.
in will ont n Il.
stroyed by fire, with all their contents, including
the mail matter in the post office, which was
kept in the store. The family escaped in their
night clothes and saved nothing Loss $1,000;
insured for S3000
An item of news comes from Maine which
will make glad the hearts of many aspiring
women. A correspondent at Machias informs
us that during the present week Mrs. Clara
H. HaDgood Nash of Columbia Falls, formerly
Miss Clara H, Hapgood of West Acton, Mass j,
has been admitted to practice as an at
torney and counSellor-at-law in the supreme
judicial court of the state, Judge Barrows pre-
siding. We believe this is the first casein which
a woman has gained full standing in the legal
profession in New England, and therefore give
prominence TO the fact. We know nothing of
the circumstances of the case, but presume that
the door is now thrown fully open for women's
work in the courts of Maine, in which one lady
at least has been for some time recognized as
one of the official stenographers.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
One of the physicians in Keene has forty
cases Of typhoid fever under his care.
A bear that had luxurated in five acres of
oats belonging TO Mr.. Jaques, of Northumber-
land, now graces butchers stall in that
town.
Mr.. Otis Wiswall of Wakefield, was found
dead in his field on Monday. His age was sixty
niue years and he doubtless died of paralysis,
having had several shocks before.
Lewis S. Morris, of Derry, died suddenly Of
apoplexy few days ago. He was sixty years
old.
Mr.. Almon Woods valuable mare, "Josey,"
was ndldead in quagmire lin pasture in
Londonderry last week. Mr.. E. G. Bailey, of
Contoocookville, paid $500 for her when she
was five years old.
hunt was had at Laconia, Thursday, in
which fifty persons took part. The game killed
counted up fourteen hundred and twenty-five
squirrels, TWO skunks, two raccoons, one rabbit,
twenty-nine bluejays, three crows, two owls, one
blackbird, and two partridges.
The job printing office of B. T. Thorndike, on
Market street, Portsmouth, was burned out at
midnight Saturday. Loss about $1,000; no iu-
snranee. The fruitery and millinery beneath
were damaged by water.
CONNECTICUT.
Gov. Jewell has Withdrawn from the capitol
commission because Of the adoption of the Up
John plan for a state house.
correspondent of the Boston Journal writing
the preacher al Park street church, and SAYS of
MN: Mr.. Murray is a practical business man.
dis large farm of 300 acres, with its three-quar-
tiers OF mile frontage, its five farm houses, all
occupied; its seven barns, with cattle, horses
ana Workmen, are all under bis personal super
vision. He cuts 1000 tons Of hay; his oats and
corn, 1000 bushels at time, come from the
west; he has changed the whole face of things.
10 0eneht the town and bring the people togeth-
er, Mr. Murray has, at his own cost, introduced
lyceum course, and has engaged the ablest
and most popular lecturers in the field, and
thrown all open free of charge"
RHODE ISLAND.
The muster Of the second Rhode Island brigade
oceSrred at Pawtucket Friday.
The agent Of the Corliss steam engine com
Pany, Mr. French of Providence, while visiting
Lowell, Friday, fell distance of fifteen feet, re.
ceiving injuries about the head which NAV
prove fatal. '
Gov. Padelord has been appointed one of the
oelegaies 10 the national conference Of Unita-
nan churches TO be held in Boston on the 22d
and 28d inst, by the Guam ming conference now
holding Their semi-annual session in BROOKLYN,
Conn. ~
furious bull dog belonging to a man in &c.
neya village dashed into the school room under
the Catholic church near that village. Wednes.
day, and proceeded TO bite and worry the TWEEN.
ty'hye children there assembled under charge
OF female teacher. Six of the children were
bitten, two of them quite badly, when two men
and Il IL