Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-14
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New England News summary.


MaD8LEsEA NOLNA1
The counting rooms of the Lowell corpora.
tious are now connected by telegraph, so that all
hours may be struck at the same moment in all
the mills
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Springfield city government has author
lied the permanent employment Of steam FIRE en-
Cineers al SIS per month.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The Northampton Jail and house OF correction
is having $4,000 expended in modern improve
r1ents, for the accommodation of its thiIty-lhree
prisoners.
vouug lady in a manufacturing village not
so many miles up the river from Springfield, re-
Gently visited the next village with her fellow"
and on her return gave out her marriage, even
inser Inc the notice in local paper "aud all
went merry as marriage bell" But not very
long after the clergyman who was supposed to
have performed the ceremony appeared on the
scene and stoutly protested that he had Joined
no such couple in The holy bonds; whereupon
the young lady admitted that the whole thing
was intended only as a joke. Where tue laugh
comes in is not apparent
BERKSHIRE COUNTY,
A reduction OF three-eighIhs cents per yard for
weaving caused a general stlke among the
weavers al Pomeroy's mills in Pittsield, Mon
day afternoon.
MAINE.
L. Haverhill, station agent at Lincoln centre
on the European ana North American railroad,
y
locomotive, The render passed over his left
arm sgyefing il iron the body.
Ccnd lctor McDlnald Of the Grand Trunk
railway, who gained some notoriety lew weeks
ago by asserting that he had been poisoned by
a Portland apotheCarv, was found in a freight
car al Portland, Monday morning, in an apo
pletie nj. He cannot recover.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A steam saw mill at Plymouth Village, owned
by Clark & Austin, was burned Tuesday night;
loss $4,000; insured Tor $1,000.
According 10 a re- ent decision of the supreme
court, man VINO keeps biting dog is liable 10
a fine Of $3.50. AT least such is the experience
OF James Randall of Ossipee.
VERMONT.
A Vermont paper ialk; about the horse dis
ease under the head of "Ebb of the Epihlppic
Wave." End of wave is good.
The Blaisdell block, at st. Adams, was badly
damaged by FIRE, Saturday morning. Loss
$4,000; Insurance $4,000.
The legislature mas appointed 2 committee to
investigate charges recently made by the Boston
Traveller, that certain members Of the Vermont
legislature in 1869, or since, have been fed IN
The interest Of the Vermont Central railroad.
The committee are authorized TO summon wit
nesses.
CONNECTICUT.
Jordan's Music hall, an unfinished threeStoIy
building at Danielsonvllle, Conn, was blown
down Tuesday night; the loss exceeds $4,000.
A lady IN Norwich was awakened three times
Saturday night as she SAYS, by dreaming that
she heard the fire alarm bells in Boston, where
She lived for several years.
A Hartford result Of the epizootc: At a
funeral on Spruce street, Of an adult person, the
coffin was carried on the shoulders of four stall
wart men, with relief walking beside them,
and long procession OF moumers and friends
following on loot; not carriage OF any kind in
the procession.
The Western Union Telegraph company in
Hartford sent nearly 1900 messages on Monday
Averaging these at TWENTY-FIVE words to a mes
sage, ii would make over 80, 900 words sent, and
the press reports would swell the number TO
over 10000. The Boston fire was the cause of
the unusual rush OF business.
The following is a list of the losses of the Con-
neetlcut insurance companies by tie Boston
fire prepared by the state insurance commis-
sioner; Etna, 81 100000; Hartford, S525 200;
Phoenix, SAP 800; Connecticut, sos, 600; Ma
tlouai, S15O000; Orient, SIS 600; Fairfield
Connly, $4,000; Meriden, $50, OOO Total
s. 81 800
The New York, New Haven and Hartford
railroad company are about 10 put into their
cars new heating apparatus. 1t is the Higgins
house and ear heating apparatus, and is said TO
be very much cheaper than the Baker heater
which is now in use both IN first cost and in
consumption oil fuel The pressure of steam
cannot be more than ten pounds to the inch,
while the Baker heater raises pressure as high
as ZOU. Inc neatef warns all tue seats.
RHoDa ISLAND.
Providence is jubilant over the purchase of
large tract of land at East Providence by Penn
sylyanIa coal company for the establishment of
an immense coal depot, and sees in the project a
coal centre for New England.
The murder OF Mary Hughes at Central Falls
by her husband, Francis Hughes, proves to have
been a most brutal affair. The pair returned
from Pawncket Saturday night, about II
o'clock, both Of them intoxicated; aud from
that time until morning Hughes seems to have
amused himself by kicking, beating and jump
ing upon The woman. Her body presented a
most righHui spectacle, all paris Of it being
bruised aud marked With boot heels, while the
face and head were frightlully dishgured.
Hughes is an ignorant lrishman, scarcely more
than malt wtted, about IS years of aye, and has
lately worked IN the tannery at Central Falls.
lie seems 10 have httle appreciation of the ex-
tenI OF his CRIME, and is apparently unconcerned
as 10 penalty,