Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-08
S0HOrtrster Daily Spp.
New England News Summary
RosroN AND VICINITY.

New England News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
There was 1870 diplomas distributed to pupils
o the public schools of Boston last week.
A complimen tary dinner was given the French
band on Saturday afternoon at the Clarendon.
BY premature explosion Of fire works in
South Boston Friday night, eight or ten chill
dren were badly hurt, one of whom died Satur-
day.
Secretary Boutwell, and Senator Wilson will
leave Boston for North Carolina this week,
where they will speak on political topics.
Three of the boys injured by the explosion oil
fireworks at South Boston, Friday evening,
have since died.
An Italian woman named Benedieta Guenuo,
was burned to death last evening IN Boston, by
the explosion of kerosene lamp.
The contract for the printing required by the
state has been again awarded for term OF
years to Messrs. Wright & Potter, who for many
years past have done it.
John Dirk, German, aged sixty years, hung
himself Saturday morning at his boarding house
in South Boston. He was laboring man, and
during the past week was subject TO fits of mel
ancholy, superinduced by intemperance.
Early Sunday morning an atfray occurred
between sailor named John Mitchell and two
young men named Timothy Coffee and James
Cavanagh. Mitchell drew a pistol and fired
two shots, one of which took effect in the left
leg of Coffee and the other in the abdomen OF
CaYanagh, which proved latal.
Friday morning Charles Deanson, Norwe-
gian sailor, was found on the sidewalk under
meath his chamber window, at Boston. He had
fallen out, and though insensibe no bones were
broken. He was taken TO the city hospital,
where it was found that he was severely injured
internally. The fall was q three story one.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
A barn belonging to VIM. Welch of Waltham
was burned Saturday morning, together with
three horses lone very valuable) and COW.
Lowell bookseller bought peck of peas
Friday for dinner, shellcd them, bagged them,
and sent them home, as he thought. On reaching
the house he was told that the vegetables had
not appeared, but a bag had come containing
"Taylor's Holy Living and Dying" and other
good spiritual food. All that could be said
was, let us have peas" but there were no
peas.
An agent of the "Alphabet society" reports
the unloading of thirty-three dead animals from
fifty stock cars at Watertown, Tuesday morning.
Four or five cars contained sheep and calves
packed under the bellies of cattle, and all had
been without food or drink and unable TO lie
down for from twenty-four to sixty hours.
There were several hundred dead fowls; one
crate was completely foored over, and the living
birds were Obliged to crawl over the dead ones,
the roof being too low for them TO walk
ESSEX COUNTY.
A little child of Theodore K. Perkins, of New
buryport, 10 months old, fell into priyy vault
on Wednesday evening, and was suffocated be-
fore its condition was discovered.
At Annisquam (Gloucester) on Wednesday a
charge of powder Unexpectedly exploded al the
quarry of Messrs. Jordan 4 Co., and three men
were seriously injured, one of whom, Elias II.
Trumbull, died the following night.
-Four inmates of the Newburyport almshouse,
Enoch Floyd, Daniel Pike, Stephen Stickney
and Enoch Jaoues, started down the river on the
Fourth in dory. As they have not been seen
since, while an inverted dory was observed in
the river, it is feared they were all drowned
during the squall.
Gen. Buffers granite quarry down at Cape
Ann has had an order from Gen. Babcock, COM
missioner of public buildings in Washington,
TO cut stone 26 feet long, II wide, and high,
TO be used as the base of the Scott statue at the
national capitol. The stone is nearly twice as
large as any that have heretofore been quarried
and cut in this country, and will weigh over 100
tons.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The engine house of the Taunton locomotive
works caught fire Saturday morning, but was
saved with damage not exceeding $500. 1t is
said the fire took from a burning rocket stick
which fell upon the roof.
Capt. James B. Wood, one of the most es
teemed citizens and prominent merchants of New
Bedford, died in that city Thursday noon, aged
So, having been quite i'll for the last three
months, and an invalid for several years. He
was born in Dartmouth 1909, and commanded
several ships, retiring from the sea at the age of
thirtytwo.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The Provincetown Advocate says the North
Truro Highlands, near the lighthouse, have been
purchased for summer resort
DUKES COUNTY.
The subject of a railroad from Bellevue
Fails to Edgartown Village and Katama, via
Martha's Vineyard camp ground and Oak
Bluffs, is earnestly agitated.
HAMPDEN COUNTY
Deacon Lyman Sabin of Belchertown has
taken the first premium for the best managed
farm in Hampden county.
George B. Morris, for 20 years clerk of the
courts in Hampden county, died suddenly in
Springfield Sunday morning, aged "a years
The Harvard and Yale freshmen crews have
withdrawn from the coming regatta. This will
have no effect, however, on the University race,
in which centers the chief interest.
VIM. Warner, wealthy citizen of Hadey,
who has been subject to fits of insanity, shot
himself fatally, Saturday, from fear of coming
10 want.
John Simons of Springfield, freight brakeman
on the Boston and Albany railroad, fell from a
train and was run over and killed, at Russell,
Sunday afternoon.
The inmates of the Sprinield jail were treated
to FIRST rate dinner Thursday afternoon, and
after enjoying the eatables TO their fullest ex-
tent they had three hours for recreation and
amusement in the hall.
Seventeen deaths occurred in Holyoke, week
before last, most OF the victims being young
children, and mostly confined to the foreign
population only two Americans being included
in the list Measles and cholera iniantum are
proving particularly fatal, and six funerals were
attended on the Fourth of July.
Constable Moses F. Warren was just entering
the village of South Wilbraham on Wednesday,
with prisoner whom he had arrested upon
a charge of stealing watch, when thei latter
leaped from the buggy, plunged down a steep
+ the Scantic, and made good time in
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