Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-11-13
Sa1urtrsttr Daily spp.
New FpgInnd News summary.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Jordan. Marsh 4 Co. removed million dol
lars worth Of goods on Saturday night, in eX-
pectation that their store would follow the fate
of the neighborS on Summer street. Their goods
were conveyed 10 the Somerset club house, the
Jewish synagogue in WarrentOn street, and the
private residences Of the members of the firm
and their friends, all of which were packed with
costly fabrics.
When Leavitt Alley, the man who is believed
10 be guilty Of the murder of Abjah Ellis, and
afterwards to have quartered his body and cast
il into the Charles river, was arraigned on
charge of murder in the Boston municipal court
Monday he desired TO see counsel before making
answer to the charge, and, after consulting with
John NJ. Way, Esq, he decided TO waive an eN-
animation. During the half hour or so that he
was seated in the dock, he seemed to be perfectly
Indifferent to what was going on about him.
He looked auietlY into the faces of men who
stared over the dock to see him, not exhibiting
the first shade or shadow of anxiety. During
tile days that he has been in custody, he has
had the most perfect control of himself and has
not by word or act given himself away 10 the
interviewing and pumping officials who were
permitted TO converse with him. Alley is a
heavy-but and muscular man, fifty-SiX years
Of age, born in Eaton, N. H., where he has lived
till about four years ago, when, with his family,
during that period.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Boston, Clinton and Fitchburg railroad
has purchased the New Bedford and Taunton
railroad for one million dollars, which the New
Bedford Mercury says is less by at least $780,
GOO than thrty-fve miles Of road, the length Of
the track of the New Bedford and Taunton road,
could now be built for, yet it is a satisfactory
sale for the shareholders.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Chas, s. Bennett, of the extreme east part of
the town, and Austin T. NASH of the north part,
IL. sl,Ts, r1,..1.
neighborhood TO church in Ludlow, Sunday, be-
cause Of the horse disease.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A COW was found in the second story of South
college, Amherst, few mornings since No
one put her there.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY
Hoosac tunnel-SiN hundred cords of wood
are consumed per month at the central shaft.
On Friday last but $50 feet remained between
the east end and the central shaft. The opn-
ion prevails among the miners at the end, that
the engineers have made mistake in their eSti-
mate Of the distance, distinctly can the drill
ing and blasting be heard at the shaft heading.
Two 19-inch pumps, capable OF throwing 600
gallons of water per minute, are being built by
James Hunter & Co., for the central shaft
As an illustration fwhat education would do
for them, the pupils Of one Of the public schools
in Southwick received, short time since, the
following harangue from one of their school
eral boys, who were uneducated and never got
their lessons when at school, tried to separate
them, butcould not. Soon, however, a boy who
always had his lessons came along, and the
dogs stopped fighting at once. So you see,
children, that if you get your lessons well and
become educated, even the dumb beasts will re-
spect you.
MAINE.
A Portland man, with love that could not
brook delay, applied at the city clerks office for
a certificate OF intention of marriage, Saturday
When informed that he must wait five days be-
fore the certificate could be issued, he ordered
his name SCRATCHED off the books
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
On Saturday evening q kerosene chandelier
in the crockery and furniture store of Howard
& Copp, in Nashua, fell and set fire to the estab-
lishment, and the flames sp cad to the adioin-
ing stores in the same building, occupied by
Geo. w. Moore and Henry ]. Chapman. Their
stocks of goods were partly removed, but in a
badly damaged condition. Other tenants of
the building removed their goods, but in dam
aged condition. The losses are as follows ::
Building $4,000, Geo w. Moore $4,000, H enry
j. Chapman $4,000, Geo. W Harris & Co. dam
aged principally by removal, $4,000; n. p.
WasbbGrn, loss by removal, $500; DR. George
Gray $500, DR.. G. F. Wilbur $500, DR.. Albert
Lull 500, George Y. Sawyer & Sawyer, Jr., law
library damaged $780, Episcopal church, third
story, loss about $500. Nearly all the sufferers
0lt lueu4tu SiiliVleullN &c 10 cover lUsS6Ss
VERMONT.
A bill prohibiting any one with wife, child or
parent, to bcqueath more than one-third of his
or her properly TO any public or charitable in.
stitution, failed to pass the Vermont legislature
by a vote of IS to lis.
The Windsor buggy burning mystery, where
in an unknown man is reported TO have burned
his buggy and killed his horse, is partially solved
by Alanson Mclean of Cambridge, N. Y, who
identities the establishment as one stolen from
him on the night of October 5. He reports that
on the night previous he had a twenty years old
mare, with foal and a wagon, taken out of his
harm, but found her in front of his place the
next morning, safe, and supposed it TO be joke,
as there was dance that evening at the village.
The horse which he lost the next morning was
one of pair valued at $500, and he was put
of his guard somewhat by the feint of the pre-
ceeding night, expecting that the horse might
return the next morning.
RHODE ISLAND.
boy named John Sanders aged eight years,
died in Portsmouth on the 3D. from lockiaw He
had received no wound to cause lockiaw, but
was seized few days previously with severe
earacbe, accompanied by offensive discharges
from the ear. Locbiaw set in on the I'd, and the
poor boy died the following day.