Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-16
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Please uncheck your NOTSeS gong up NIL
meets the eve at many places in Boston where
the grade is steep.
Mr.. Gilmore has been the recipient of q check
for $500 from Mr. J. F. Paul, in personal Tecog-
milton of the services rendered to promote the
Jubilee and the fame of Boston.
The passenger elevator in the Sears building
Boston, carries over 800 people up and down
each day The elevator daily travels eight miles,
aud since it was started it has journeyed 5000
miles and carried 100000 passengers.
The Boston Sunday Courier saws: "a thrifty
citizen effected insurance on the life of his wife
TO the amount OF $4,000, the other day, took
home a box of the little red Maryland plums and
enjoyed a whole evening in watching his wife
cat them. His enterprise had its reward. De-
Quoting S29S for funeral expenses, he is now
S9702 richer than he was a week ago"
A new insect, thought to be a species of grass
hopper, has appeared at East Cambridge and
taken possession of tract of meadow and gar
deu. The efforts of the people whose property
is being destroyed have as vet been Of but little
avail.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The graduates of the birmingham normal
school organized an alumni association, Thurs
day, with Annie johnson as president, Z. L. n.
Walter vicepresident, and Emily A. Bullard
secretary.
Gen. Stark, of the Boston and Lowell railroad,
promises the petitioners therefor acheap morning
and evening train at the beginning of the next
quarter. The Lowell road is the FIRST to indicate
duN luIenLOu Oh complying Win tue aCtl0n OF
the legislature in this manner.
james Quantell, brakeman employed upon
the ice train of the Lowell road was thrown
from his train at an early hour Monday morn
ing. near Bllerica and instantly killed-the en-
tire train passing over him, severing his arms
and legs and fracturing his skull.
In connection with the recent bank robbery at
UXbridge, suspicious circumstance was no.
tced in Holliston, Friday evening and Saturday
morning, being no less than the passage through
town o! the persons supposed 10 be connected
with the affair. At about p. NJ Friday, a
barouche drawn by a pair of bay horses, con-
tanning four gentlemen, passed leisurely through
town IN the direction of Uxbridge, and returned
the next morning at about 5 a. NJ driven at a
RAPID rate, and the company having been REIN
forced by one other gentleman in the interim
TINS making the exact number thye) reported 10
have been engaged in the robbery. The same
four were noticed to return who went up the
previous evening.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dncharme French Canadian
woman, residingin an alley-way off Middlesex
street, Lowell, while sewing in her room, Satur-
day night, one of the curtains was fred by COM
ing IN contact with lighted lamp, and in her
endeavors TO dislodge the lamp, it was upset and
her clothing despatched with the kerosene, to
which the James at once communicated. She
rushed TO neighbOring room, and her frantic
endeavors TO extinguish the flames then eucir-
cling her person, only served TO fan the ERE,
which IN less than five minutes had burned her
clothing to ashes. The body of the unfortunate
woman was horribly bistered and burned. She
survived IN excruciating agony till about SIX
O'Clock Sunday morning, when she expired.
she was twenty-one years of age, had been mar
ned about three years and leaves two infant
children.
ESSEX COUNTY.
At the recent anniversary of Lawrence acad-
envy, the president of the trustees George Cum
minss, Esq, pledged ten scholarships of ten
dollars each to those who should make the
most progress in study during the coming year.
In Salem has existed for a considerable time a
baud of thoroughly bad girls of ages from
dozen to fourteen years old and their conduct
OF late has been such a nuisance that the cti-
zens have commonly termed them "the kuklux
girls" and the police have been busy anon.
them. In the municipal court Monday morn
ing, FIVE of the disreputabe parties answered
to warrants, four in number against each,
charging them severally with the worst forms OF
lasclyIous behavior on the streets They were
held to answer before the judge of probate.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
young man named Charles Douglas fell on
tne street IN tal River on Saturday evening
and died soon AFTER evidently from the effects of
poison. 1t appears that during the evening he
had treated number of his friends at liquor sa-
looms, telling them it was the last time he should
drink with them. Also that Young woman
named Brady, with whom he had been living
recently left him for another man, a fact winch
is supposed TO have preyed upon his spirits.
Several Taunton companies have just declared
dividends as follows The iron works, 10 per
cent; the Dean cotton and machine company 10
per cent the copper company, 10 per cent; the
Taunton locomotive company 10 per cent: the
va colony IRON company, 20 per cent and the
fhRnlX manufacturing company a dividend of
800 per share. The Parker mills of Warren
nave declared dividend of 40 per cent; the
weymouth iron company one of 30 per cent I:
aud Lazeli, Perkins & Co., of Brdgewater, paw
dividend of $500 per share
WIN. Golf aud VIM. Parker employed by
Dexter b. Wheeler, brick maker at Taunton.
were arrested there Friday evening on suspi-
clon OF having murdered the man CUMMINGS
whose dead body was found in the Assonet river
on the 9th OF July. All three were on the excur-
SION party OF the Taunton Freewil Baptist So
cety to Assonet on the 4th of July, and it is ru-
mored that Golf made certain impicatory con-
LESSONS on the day of the supposed murder
The two defendants were arragned before Jus
lice FOX OF the municipal court Saturday
morning on the charge of assault and battery
upon Cummings. Hon. s. R. Townsend ap-
peafed for the defence. The officer said the
government would require a postponement of
the examination to allow the case being worked
up, and accordingly the investigation was post
poned for one week, Golf being ordered TO recog-
nlze IN $4,000 and Parker in $4,000 for their
several appearances at that time. Both de-
PENDANTS were committed TO prison. Golf is the
son Of Enoch Golf of Taunton, a respectable
man living near the Berkeley line Parker be-
longs in Lakeville. They are each apparently
ABOUT twenty-five years of age, and have hereto
fore sustained fair characters
HAMPDEN COUNTY
The Bowdoin college crew has arrived Mt
Springfield and gone into practice for the re-
satta. 1t is composed Of d. A. Robinson. 14g
pounds, stroke; d. A. Sargent, 100 pounds, two
and captain; G. II. Hunter, 165 pounds, three;
A. L. Crocker, 100 pounds, four; A. G. Ladd, 1853
pounds, five; w. o. Hooker, 154 pounds bow
IL a powerful, muscular crew
The oarsmen at Springfield still complain of
me nuisance of floating logs in the river One
Doat has already been smashed by them. The
committee had procured $500 of the $500 neces
sary for the prizes on Saturday. The ''profes-
slonals are exercised over a report that there
will be no chance for them to row after the col
lege regatta NJ. Harrigan, the boatman, de
clares ne VIII raise the money for the prizes
himself, if no one else will do So
John Russell, who stole a Southwick horse NJ
Westheld, the other night, and fed to New York.
was brought on from that city by Sheriff Riley
Saturday, examined before Judge Lewis at
Mestheld, held for trial at the December term
OF court, and promptly lodged in Jail in SPRING
held. The stolen property has all been recoT-
cred.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The annual prizes at the Amherst agricultural
college were awarded as follows: Strong prizes
class OF 20, W: B. Ely and 7. P Ballard; Porter
prizes, class of IA, W. B. Ely; SAWYER silver
medal. class of 49, g. w. Minis; class of ~.
.. n. Mills; Compositions, class of 70, first. Fl,
Adams, second, A. H. Thompson: class of
10, first, +. W. Damon, second, L. p. Merriam:
Bertram Latin scholarship, class Of ~, H. B.
adams; Phi Beta Kappa prize, class of 10 c.
T.. Garnan; Woods prize, class of '72 j. B.
Clar9; Hardy prizes, class of ~, first. C. F.
Morse, second, A. J. Benedict, third, H b
Adams. -
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Seyenty-hve men are RAPIDLY building nm the
fomeroy iron works at West Stockbridge and
VIII have them completed by the hrst of October
At cost OF 100000. Gen. W. F. Bartlett of
Pittsheld is in charge, aud the buildings will he
u stone, with roofs of corrugated iron from
Boston, The company have just opened a new
vein at Richmond. "'"
Earnest Goodrich, recently returned from
China has visited the Chinese shoe makers AZ
North Adams and found none of them smoke
the written language common TO Northern Chi
ma, with which he is himself familiar One of
them, however, was sufficiently educated in the
mysteries of the Chinese dialect to converse in
hieroglyphics "a kind of hand figures represent-
ing ideas, IN use in every part Of the Chinese
empre) and with him MIR. Goodrich held an an
imated conversation, quite in the style of two
deaf mutes. Where did you come from and
where have you been. was Chinaman's resnonse
TO Mr. Goodrch's FIRST salute with Chinese SYM
bos. In answer TO Mr.. G.'s question as 10
whether ne was not going TO marry Yankee
vile and become family man and citizen of
North Adams, the Chnaman responded 6No.