Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-06
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New England News Summary.



The barn Of James Muiehahey, in Maltham,
was burned Sunday morning, with its contents,
including four horses.
Mrs. Harriet White, of Waltham, died on
Thursday, from the effects of dose of poison.
which she swallowed while temporarily insane
She leaves husband and four daughters.
ESSEN COUNTY.
A son of Capt. George H. Ward, of Newbury-
port, about seven years old, was found drowned
Monday afternoon. He had been hshlng from
the wharf, and il is supposed lost ms balance
and fell into the river. He was not missed I'M
til some boys discovered the Dody on Inc Dot
tom of the river, and although every effort was
made to resusitate him, life was extinct.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Six thousand persons were thrown out of en-
ployment by the bursting Of the walls of the
upper canal at Holyoke, Friday.
The heaviest contract which has ever been
taken BY the Wason car manufacturing compa-
nv of Springfield has just been received from the
Canada Southern railroad and is TO the amount
of S3S0,000. This will cover the building of
fifty first-class and finely appointed passenger
coaches, and twelve baggage, mail and express
cars for the road which runs from Buffalo TO
Detroit and Chicago.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A gentleman from New Haven, guest at one
of the Northampton hotels, recently wrote to a
friend in the above named city that Northamp-
ton was so strictly temperate that he could get
nothing to drink In a day or two he received a
package by express, {. o. D., containing bottle
of wafer. He passed it around
confidence scoundrel named Ira Brown,
hailing from Auburn, n. Y is travelling about
Hampshire county with patent cutter-bar for
a moving machine. His method is TO appoint
agents in towns, and make contracts which are
so ingeniously. worded that he cuts them in
two, making notes ofthem.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The murder of an Irishman by a bartender
and the discharge of the latter without trial by
Judge Briggs of the local court al PittStield,
has created great excitement and some Grace
feeling" at that place. The release of young
Burbank is based on the suppositiOn that he
acted IN Selt-deienSe, a suppoSition very
charitable to the murderer, but not very con-
sideraIe to the dead lrishman. Is it to be ac-
cepted as a principle of Massachusetts law that
rumseller may sell whiskey TO a man already
drunk and then break his skull for showing the
inevitable pugnacity and rowdyism of an inc
briate2 Such ruling might conduce to TEN
peranee, but would rapidly reduce the Irish
vote. There is vet an opportunity to bring the
case before grand jury, and the public senti
ment will not be satisfied until it is so disposed
of'-Springfeld Republican,
CONNECTICUT.
A nine-year-old son of Patrick Leary was rur
over by dirt cart at Middletown, Saturday
and instantly killed.
MIR. Levi Smith of Bristol recently attempted
10 commit suicide by taking a large quantity OF
hydrate of chloral. His life was saved by the
use of emeticS, and he was taken to an insane
asylum.
A man, name unknown, was taken sick on
board New York and New Haven train up,
Saturday afternoon, some distance below Bridge.
port He got off the train but grew rapidly
worse and died in few minutes.
The Hartford Post says the Putnam Phalanx
have joined the Cadets of Temperance. The
Post has probably reversed the order of things.
For the puts" to join any other organization
in Hartford would be as absurd as trying to
force the contents of full barrel into gallon
demijohn.
The Connecticut legislature has set the noto-
rious Mrs. Harper free, in spite of the governors
veto. The senate first passed the necessary reso-
luton over the veto, and it was finally worried
through the house on Thursday by vote of 1O4
to 10S, Ex-Governor English changing his former
vote in order 10 effect her release.
Connecticut amateur farmer swings the
scythe with one hand and bears alolt his trusty
umbrella with the other. The doctors are sale
10 sit upon the fence and watch him with I'M
selfish interest, and even the potato-bugs droI
their implements of toll TO watch the energetic
agriculturalist
On Thursday last, Mr. fainter, the postmas
Ter at Clinton, was arrested by a United State
detective for opening letters in the office and ap
propriatlng the contents. Some time ago &
letter directed TO Clinton, and containing fifty
dollars was missed, and the detective went to
work TO find the thief. He sent three decoy
letters, and accompanied them in the mail car
lie found that they were opened at Clinton, and
he then arrested the postmaster, who denied
committing the theft, but finally admitted that
he opened the letters, but said he did so out of
curiosity.