Worcester daily spy., 1872-08-01
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fiou. WSS the sad and touching story OF wee
little sirl ST the orphan asylum at South Boston.
Words could add nothing to its plaintive iLpres-
siveness.
Half century ago a worn-out field in Connec-
ficnt was planted in timber. The field has
yielded ten cords per year and fencing for the
farm for twenty years past, and last year When
cleared produced fifty cords per acre
A young woman is under treatment at the
Massachusetts general hospital for the recovery
of large glass-headed pin, which she swallowed
while picking her teeth. The surgeons are un-
able to say whether it has entered her wlndpipe
or passed into the stomach, and consider II a
curious case.
During Jubilee week a paragraph appeared in
the papers that Rev. ID. c. Osborn of Titusville,
Pa, had given a contradictory report in regard
10 his pocket being picked-one being that it
was picked at the coliseum, and another that it
was done in a Cambridge car. The police au-
fh1rities have investigated the matter, and have
sent Mr.. Osborn letter fully generating him
from telling two stories about it, and admitting
that the discrepancy was the fault of the officer
in making his report.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
A carpenter named Henry Guillett, French
Canadian, while at work on the new Davol mill
in Fall River on Saturday afternoon, was pre-
cipitated to the ground by the giving way of the
staging, distance of fifty feet, breaking his
thigh bone in four pieces, and forcing part of
them out through the flesh. He also sustained
severe injury. The staging was one which the
injured man himself had constructed. Another
man who was at work on the staging with him,
and Mr., Peleg Borden, who had just stepped on
TO it when the accident occurred, saved them
selves by catching hold of the building.
ESSEX COUNTY.
party of six individuals, under the direction
Of a female medium, began digging at Marble
head on Saturday seeking for hidden treasure.
The owner of the farm where they were opeTat-
ing ordered them off, but they persisted in their
work till the police took them in charge. The
manager, a man named Clark, was fined S17,
which was much cheaper way out than tokeep
on digging.
NANTUCKET.
There are thousand marriageable young la
dies on the island of Nantucket, and only one
hundred young men.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Charles Z, Dexter, 80 years old, hanged HIM
self in the cellar of his house in Springfield,
Sunday night, but was not discovered till Tues
day morning, He has acted strangely for sew
eral weeks, and was thought TO have been erazed
by Disappointment in love.
A band of stuffed squirrels, the work of a
Troy cripple, may be seen in Springfield win
dow. A mighty gray leads the procession, and
after him comes a frog with gun, and chip
muucks bearing flies and trumpetS, while
little squirrel leans on a farmers rake in the
distence, with wonder depicted in every line OF
Of his countenance.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Hinsdale farmer recently took his usual
marketing trip to the village, and, after he had
made his purchases, the salesman attempted TO
shove the bundle under the wagon seat, but met
with such fierce and determined opposition that
he withdrew his hand in great haste. The cause
was found 10 be an old hen that was sitting
there upon nest of eggs, and which, with the
pertinacity of fowls at the period of incubation,
had stuck to her nest throughout the two miles
fy1a from fha for aor,c ha1 nd
put in "bill'' to stay the proceedings. The
plucky biddy was allowed 10 remain, and the
next time the owner comes to market we shall
expect to hear brood OF chickens under his
buggy seat
The Pittsf1eld Shakers last year put up 100
barrels of dried sweet corn for table use, which
was all sold at remuuerative prices, and they
had orders for $50 barrels more, which they
were unable to supply. The present season
they are cutivating many more acres of this
corn, and erecting mammoth brick dry
house, 100 by so feet, and three stories high, to
cure the corn, after it is boiled and cut off the
cob. The drying apparatus is to be composed
of boiler in the basement, with circulating
pipes running through the building beneath the
screens on which the corn is spread. This busi-
ness bids fair TO constitute new and important
branch of Shaker industry, whereby they will
add to their wealth as they diminish in num-
bers. The Shakers consider the stalks cut up
green, after the corn is gathered, of sufficient
value for fodder to compensate for all the labor
and expense of the crop, and about equal to the
same amount of hay for cattle in winter. 1t is
crop, too, that is early, and not liable to be
destroyed by frost.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
S. A. Walker on Monday sold the well known
Indian Head hotel property in Nashua, for S23,
900, to Mr.. w. b. Dexter.
An "Acton digger" named John Reilly, wa
sentenced in Nashua police court 10 four month
slank kss. &C. -
bird from cage and selling it, last Thursday
On Saturday last, as a small party of mel
were standing in front of one of the hotels il
Concord, watching the antics of a monkey at
tached to hand organ, a gentleman asked hi
democratic neighbor how he would like TO b
monkey. Anything to beat Grant," was til
instantaneous reply.
VERMONT.
little girl, five years old, daughter of Mi
chae Buckley, who lives near Wells river, was
playing on the bank of the river with her sis
Ter, recently, when she fell in and was drowned
Mr.. James Fisk, Sr., who has been for many
years an inmate of the insane asylum at Brat
tleboro, being out occasionally at lucid inter
walls, last Wednesday horsewhipped Gen. J. W
Phelps in the office of the Revere house Brattle
boro. The cause Of the affair is supposed to be
some imaginary insult received by Mr. FISK
from Gen. Phelps.
CONNECTICUT.
The right of citizenship was conferred on the
Mohegan Indians residing in Connecticut by the
house, Tuesday.
A young colored girl named Mary Warren
was outraged in the cemetery in Hartford, Sun
day, by six colored and three white men, from
the effects of which she died Tuesday.
The dead body of woman, with child
tightly elasped in her arms, was found on Thin
Die island, near Branford point, on Saturday
afternoon. They were dressed in what seemed
to be bathing costumes, and the belief is thai
they were drowned from some watering place
The woman was apparently twenty-five year
old, and the child about two.
Strange stories about wild OK having beeI
seen by several reliable citizens of Stonngton
are freely circulated. He is said to be of ex
traordlnary size, exceedingly feet, springin,
over the highest fences without difficulty, luxu
rating in the most tempting fields at pleasure
and Immediately disappearing in dense cove
when aware OF being discovered, when all at
tempts at pursuit are useless. We shall doubt
less hear more of his black and white oxship
wherewlth to astonish the public.
RHODE ISLAND.
The torpedo station at Newport was yisite
on Monday by Admiral John Rogers, who wa
received with salute Of thirty-one guns. Tw
t0rpedoeS were exploded in the outer harbor i
the afternoon, the light battery was inspecte
and drilled at Fort Adams, and altogether th
sleepy Old city by the sea had sensation.
The last victim of trashy literature is Mis-
Sarah Bedson, girl of Wheeling, w. Va, who
has been in the habit of reading vast quantitie
OF novels" and thence imbibed reckless ant
morbid notions. Of late she alluded FREQUENTLY
10 death, and threatened suicide, but her famiII
PAID little attention 10 the matter On tbt
evening of the 18th several young persons cam,
IN and sat some time. Miss Bedson tried to in
duee one of these visitors to insert her name
and after 1t "ded July 18TH" in the death col
umn OF the family Bible She not only asked
once, but several times, and even asked hel
lather to do it, After the visitors had left, Mr..
bedson and two daughters, the youngest abou
zen, went up stairs to retire. Sarah put her sis
Ter TO bed and staeted to 20 down stairs: her lit
ue sister called her back and asked If she wa,
not coming to bed, but she replied, 6you anC
father can sleep here; will sleep in the bottom
Oh the great Ohio river My bed is thousands
OF Yards long and hundreds of Yards wide j
sue then passed down stairs and out the front
door Her father hearing her 90 out. tbonoht
sue was going to the neighbors to see where bel
mother was, or else going TO sit on the porcb
since that time she has NOT been seen. The mex
day the following entry was found in the FAM
ly Bible: Sarah Bedson thinks she will die or
the 18th OF July, simply because she is tired q
living" The river has been dragged, but III,
badly not recovered.