Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-06

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New England News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
New Bedford bride and Bridegroom, visiting
Boston, last week, on their wedding tour, were
taken from the station to their hotel in hack
drawn by oxen with white ribbons on their
horns.
During a fire at 154 North street, Boston, YES
terday afternoon, causing considerable damage
TO George F. Comins' bedstead factory Thomas
Young, a fireman, was instantly killed by fall
ing down the elevator from the fourth story
AT a meeting of the New England historic
genealogical society in Boston this afternoon,
John H Sheppard Esq, of Boston, will read
paper entitled "Ihe Progress Of Civilization, or
the nineteenth century compared with the two
or three preceding centuries"
A scene not down on the bills occurred at a |
! Boston thcater the other evening. Jimmy Kelly |
| of East Boston was playing the part OF a woman,
and j. Carroll was 10 pretend to shoot him. |
BY a miscalcuatiOn, the heavy wad from the |
gun was lodged in the back of Kelly, penetTa- |
ting four or five inches, and making large |
wound. The injured man dropped naturally |
enough when shot, and the curtain fell amid |
applause, but while the rest Of the play was
going on a physician was attending the sufferer
in the rear of the stage. The wound was pain
full, but not dangerous.
Charcstown was treated to a first-clasS sensa-
ton, Sunday morning. 1t seems that man
named John Sylvester, employed by the city to |
fumigate houses where small poX exists, was |
tending patient in the worst stage Of the dis |
ease who, in fit Of insanity, expressed desire
for morning walk. Accordingly, wrapping |
his patient in a sheet, he took him into the |
streets barel0oed and nude, with the exception |
of the slight covering, the time being five O'Clock
in the morning and the air at nearly freezing |
point. The pair made the circuit of several |
stables. and most Of the principal streets, Great
ing a general panic, Sylvester is described as a |
man of singular appearance, and would make |
good an mpersOnation of Dickens Fagn the |
| Jew. He has long, black, snaky hair, stoop- |
| ing, crooked figure and boasts that he has not |
| washed himself for twenty years.
ESSEN COUNTY.
| One of those rare events the celebration Of the
| sxtieth anniversary of a marriage, occurred at
| TOpsfield on Saturday the couple being ZacheuS
| Gould and wife and the guests including a |
great granddaughter The house in which the |
anniversary was celebrated is about 200 years |
old, and is the very house in which Mr.. Gould |
was born. Among the company assembled |
were two persons who were present at the orig |
inal ceremony in 1872, and brother of Mr.. |
Gould and wife, who celebrated their golden |
wedding about n year ago. Mr. Gould is the |
father of ten children, six ofwhom are still liv- |
ing, and his family has been remarkably |
healthy one never having had any severe sick |
ness and the medical expenses averaging only |
about dollar year. His family trace back |
bltlt dItESliN " 1900 ana HIS always DeCu Ia |
nous for longevity,
BRISTOL COUNTY
There was much excitement on the Fall River |
train, Monday evening, first, by an attempt of a |
passenger TO shoot an eXpriest who, in adrunk- |
en- condition, repeatedly insulted his wife and |
after that by an attempt Of lrishmen to lynch the
| man who had defended the honor of his wife.
| The passengers first rescued the ex-prest, and
| the conductor succeeded in saving the husband
| from the mob.
| HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A lot of shark skins for sword scabbards has
| Just been received at the armory in SPRING
| field.
| While Wallace Stanchfeld was at work, Mon
| day, on the new mill at Three Rivers (Palmer),
| the staging gave way, precipltating him some
40 feet TO the ground. He struck on his feet,
badly iniuring an ankle and breaking finger.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
In one Of the forests of Huntington there |
stands group of hemocks, consisting of Is |
large sized trees, all of which were killed by |
single discharge of electricity during the transit
of violent thunder tempest in the summer of |
1870, while several Of the group were severely |
shattered by the terrible force OF the bolt.
The grass fields and pasture lands of western |
Massachusetts were never in better condition |
than now for the setting in Of winter. The sod |
IS almost as green as in June. The extreme |
molStness of summer and autumn has preserved |
the iuXuriance and sustained the freshness of |
moving and grazing fields to an extraordinary |
degree and should the winter prove one adapt |
ed to the protection of the grasses, with snow |
enough to shield their roots from the frosts, |
there will be every reason to anticipate that the
grass crop Of 1878 is destined to surpass in
amount and quality that of any previous har-
vest for years.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Charles Wood Of North Bennington dropped
dead few days since, after taking long walk
laughable incident occurred while the COM
mittee to examine the asylum for the insane
were being chaperoned by Ex-Governor Hol-
brook, who is one of the trustees. One of the
lady PATIENTS who was extremely high toned
and dressed in the height of fashion, vet uumis-
takably insane, was introduced TO the bland ex-
governor, when she drew herself up and re-
marked: "Ah, | have the honor of knowing
| Gov. Holbrook Sir, was at Montpelier several |
| years ago, when you were sworn out as govern |
or, and Gov. smith sworn in; and" she added, |
| all the people rejOiced." The governor courte- |
ously and smilingly said good day to the ''daft"
| lady, and passed on to the next patient.
VERMONT.
The town poor housein Dorset was burned one
night last week, the inhabitants barely escaping
with their lives.
twill cost the town of Sheffield $500 TO re-
pair the damage to roads and bridges by the
treShets this fall.
Greensboro has had only two deaths since
January l. a good record for town of over a |
thousand inhabitants.
Manchester farmer lost fifteen sheep by |
bears, and then the animals began on his apples. |
He couldn't stand this and set trans; but the |
bears stole one of his traps and all the satisfac-
ton he could get was to find three bears toes |
left behind.
Some scoundrel has placed stones upon the |
railroad track near Barton Landing twice with |
in the past three weeks, with the evident inten-
ton of wrecking the train, aud a $50 reward is |
offered for his detection by the superintendent |
of the Passumpsic road.
CONNECTICUT.
Chas. Clark, forty years of age, was drowned |
in pond at Seymour, Saturday night.
A Connecticut man took two yoke Of oxen to |
New York last week, expecting to get a big |
price for them, but found he was too late, as |
there were plenty of horses to be found, and has
returned with his oxen, $50 out Of pocket.
1t now proves that Leonard Russell, the in |
sane man, who was thought to have murdered |
the Foote child at New Haven recently by |
throwing 1t down a well, could not possibly |
nave committed the crime as he was in another |
part OF the city at the time, SO that the affair is
ilkely always 10 remain mystery. Russell, |
however, suffers from his reported connection |
with it, as be has just been refused admittance |
TO the Providence asylum on this ground, |
which is particularly unfortunate, as the Mid |
dlelown and Hartford asylums are Just now fun. |
q number OF prominent citizens have written |
to Providence in his behalf, so that his admit |
lance will probably ultimately be obtained
a dispute has arisen as TO the exact boundary |
OF the tract Of land purchased for the new rail.
road depot and yard at New Haven. It is |
| claimed by the New York, New Haven and |
Hartford company that the tract of land extends |
from Oyster point 10 the western boundary of |
Meadow street. Other parties claim that il |
reaches only TO the eastern line of Meadow |
street. Inc importance Of the dispute lies in |
the fact that the property has IL valuable river |
frontage and II is desirable for the city to build |
a wharf Of its own at its extremity. Another |
dispute has arisen on the right Of the city TO re. |
lease this property al all, IL having been held |
under mortgage by an act Of the legislature |
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