Worcester daily spy., 1872-04-15
a0lurtester Daily spp.
New Ensiand News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
News has been received by bis family at Bos-
ton of the death Of MIR. Nj. IL. Simpson, in
Italy
The supreme court at Boston, Friday. gave
jeremiah Burns So in verdict against Charles
J. Holder, whose dog bit jeremiah.
The base ball game in Boston, on Saturday,
between the Bostons and HarvardS, resulted in
favor OF the Bostons by "a score Of II to ,.
Friday niaht 4 man named Charles Hughes,
while engaged in drunken squabb'a on Bedford
street, Boston, had the top of his nose bitten OFF
by one of the party 10 him unknown.
Henry O'Brien, sentenced TO the state prison
in December, 1869, tor a term of three years fol
breaking and entering, was pardoned by Gov.
MashhuTn on Thursday. Hens in the last stages
of consumption.
Thomas Wandless and George Mercer. carpen-
tiers, while at work in Hyde Park, Friday, fell
IRON staging TO the ground, distance OF
thirty feet, striking on pile Of rocks and tim
bers. Mr.. Wandless was severely injured IN his
head and otherwise very badly bruised. His re-
coyery is hardly possible. Mr.. Mercer had one
leg badly injured, but apparently is otherwise
unhUrt. The accident was caused by the break
ing of stage bracket.
In the superior criminal court Saturday fore
noon The following sentences were imposed ::
Frank E Powers, VIM H. Mcintosh and John
Powers, sevetaily convicted of mutual assault,
ined respectfully $40, $50 and $40, with costs /;
Frederick Whitten, indecent exposure, three
years house OF correction; Lawrence Keough,
assault $40 without costs; Dennis Prior, assault
one year house of correction; Sarah Ware, lar
ceny from the person, one year common Jail; /;
James Doyle, keeping liquors with intent 10 sell,
$40 aud costs and twenty days Imprisonment in
the house Of correction; Patrick II. Gibhn, IL
quor nuisance. fined 500.
The baIque Oder, Capt Rich, which left Mes
= OTltb he nf osf lApr wit
Of fruit. entered Boston port Saturday, after a
tedious passage of one hundred and sixteen days.
She has been driven about on the Atlantic all
winter, having encountered fearful northwest
gales. Capt. Rich brought into port the ship
wrecked crew of schooner Zeyla Capt Crowel,
which was abandoned at sea in n sinking condi-
tion on the Slh of March, in lat. 81, Ion 64. She
had encountered heavy gales in which her sails
were blown away, and the vessel sprung dam
: gerous leak When left there were five feet of
ASvaaer in the hold. She was bound from Port
Dsna for Georgetown. The Zeyla was a good
s2169 tons register, and was built in Penn
Gke, Maine, in 1861 Owing to the high sea
Captain Rich was Obliged 10 lay by the sinking
vessel sixteen hours before succeeding in taking
off the mariners, and although short OF plo-
visions himself, supplied their wants.
ESSEN COUNTY.
Mr.. w. w Hawkes., of the firm of Hawkes. &
Holmes, shoe manufacturers of Lynn, died sud-
denly of apopleXy on Friday evening. Mir. IL.
had only returned from New York in the morn
ing, where he had been on. business.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Mr.. SCHUYLER 7. Deanc, an old and respected
citizen of Canton, dropped dead of heart disease
at his residence Saturday noon. He was about
sixty years of age.
BRISTOL COUNTY
The wife of Mr. Edward W. Jenkins, of Taun-
ton,sgave birth few days ago TO a daughter
weighing only about two pounds and measuring
tive in Tba oh; sc
formed, and has all the ordinary appearances of
healthy infancy, and crowds of ladies are visiting
the new conner.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
An ovarian tumor weighing forty pounds
was removed from Jennie Rice, girl of seven
teen, at Chicopee Falls, on Thursday.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
German child about ten years old was
drowned in Green river, near the old cutlery
works, on Wednesday
Two barns at Cummngton, belonging to J.
W. Norton, wereblrned, Wednesday night, with
eight tons Of hay, a valuable horse, several head
of young cattle and a buggy. The fire was
probably incendary; no insurance.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The North Bridgewater Gazette says sign
board put up by the selectmen al the corner of
the street leading 10 the new liquor agency bears
the inscription Dangerous Passing" in leuers
so large that be who runs may read. "Danner-
ons Stopping would be a better inscription.
MAINE.
There are eight vessels lying in Portland har-
Dor awaiting cargoeS of lumber for South
America.
A Bangor saloon keeper bad barrel of cider
ana wishing 10 get ahead of the officers hired a
jigser and sent the cider to the city marshaPs
office with his compliments. That is out-doinr
Davy Crockett's coon.
car loaded with powder on the Ogdensburg
and Grand Trunk railroad Friday, took fire
from heated journal, but was saved from de-
strnction. The Portland Press complains of
earelessness in the carrying of powder on the
road
The loggers are all out of the woods. The
operations of the past winter were more exten-
slye than ever before known. The total product
OF The state, as near as can be estimated, of the
cut of logs, is 7000000 900 of feet OF this
amount, the Kenuebec lumbermen have cut
ll00O0,O0O feet, the largest ever cut. The Pc
nobseot lumbermen have cut at least 225, ,OO0. .OOl
feet Most of the timber product is spruce. An
intelligent lumberman says that within five
years the supply of pine will be exhausted In
the operations of the past winter at the head
waters of the Kennebec, there were cut some
20,OOO,OOO feet OF pine, while the Penobscot lum-
bermen cut some thirty TO forty millions of feet
The average depth of snow in the woods is
about three feet; but it is rapidly disappearing,
and little fears are entertained of damaging
freshets.
on the 2Sth of March Mr.. G. C. Bucklin of
Grafton shot wild goose whose extent of wines
was five feet and ten inches
meeting was held on the 9th at Pelham TO
arrange for securing a charter and means for
constructing a railroad between Plaistow and
Nashua.
The rivers in New Hampshire, especially the
Sugar and Contocook, ere tearing bridges and
Dams away at a fearful rate by the. breaking up
OF their ice
On the 9th, in Mount Vernon, Mrs. Vernon
Smith, widow lady Of eighty, was left alone
sitting BY an open fire. She had an apoplectic
attack, fell forward, and was horribly burned
all over the lower part Of the body, so that she
died.
As the freight train on the Sugar river road
was going north Friday, through a cut few
miles above Newport, large granite baulder
estimated TO weigh five or six tons, was seen
coming down the embankment at a fearful
speed. II was observed by most of the tram
men and by the conductor, and the engineer did
his best to stop. The rock, however, came on.
lnst grazing the coweatcher, tearing up several
rods of the track throwing the engine fnd some
OF the cars into a ditch and thus embedded itself
deep into the soft ground II was a wonderful
escape IRON loss OF life. Later in the evening
another rock came down into the same cut. but
did no damage. These rocks are loosened by the
frost, and the road being new such,occurrences
cannot be guarded against Those places are
gang Of men and pilot engine.
CONNECTICUT.
Inc Old state house at New Haven is being
patched up.
The negro Clark who killed the almshouse
-eFerseer in New Haven, has been indicted for
murder in the first degree.
John NJ. Edison, one Of the victims of the late
boiler explosion in Stafford, died Thursday af-
ternooD. He was a married man, and leaves n
family. The other injured ones are doing we'll
A house at South Glastonbury owned by Mr.
Dunn, an lrishman, was recently DESTROYED by
fire, and Mrs. Dunn, in seeking to save a feather
bed 10 which was slowed away $3.50, was fatally
burned.
The Hartford Times says: "Ihe venerable
Miss Beecher's torch light procession of beauti-
ful seminary girls, along the main water pipes,
VIII never secure pure water so long as sediment
Is allowed TO remain in the pipes. Neither will
blow-ofis"
This story has made its appearance agan-in
Hartford, this time; A deacon who Keeps gro-
Gerry store IN ncighboring town, having in.
sirucied hls clerk, when out Of desired article.
to call the attention Of the customer to the next
nearest thing, was not little astonisbed when