Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-29
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new England New. summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

DN aD0rtlon.
A telegraphic dispatch received at Boston
yesterday announces the immediate departure
of the Irish band and the band of the grenadier
guards, 10 take part in the jubilee. Fifty thou
sand dollars have already been received from
the sale of season tickets.
c. H. Dorsey, the prisoners friend. lately
sent to Warden Chamberlain, of the Charles
town stare prison, check for $50, requesting
that the convicts be furnished some extras at a
holiday dinner. The check was returned by the
next mail.
Patrick Nevens, who was injured on the 14th
inst. on the Boston, Hartford and Erie railroad,
and who subsequently suffered the amputation
Of leg, died at the city hospital in Boston,
Monday.
A Boston policeman found Peter Clark drink
ing poison from a BOTTLE as he sat on a curb
stone late Monday night, and took him away to
the station house, where the doctor came and
pumped it out OF Peters stomach.
A speedy termination of the Hobbs murder
trial was looked for in the supreme judicial
court, at Boston, yesterday, but Just before
noon, while Attorney General Train, in the
midst OF bis closing argument for the govern
ment, made some pointed illusions to the prS-
0ners physical condition (leaving the jury 10
inter whether it was real or ieigned), Hobbs be-
came suddenly seized with fit of epilepsy, and
fell lnsensible into the dock The officers of the
court Immediately provided him with aasiSSfe'e0nl-
Portable quarters, and &sJT Sioser was called,
who eHpress.Sietsuf lie opinion that Hobbs would
MOI NJ. tyssse able TO endure the trial again before
Aednesday morning. The case was finally
Withdrawn from the Jury, by consent of the
district attorney, aud the prisoner discharged on
his own recognizance.
ESSEX COUNTY.
An unoccuped house in North Andoyer, be-
longing TO Moses I. Stevens, was destroyed by
fire on Saturday night. Loss about 5000.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mr. Pardon Tabor of Aeushupf ar down in
chair and expired Monday morning about five
minutes after eating breakfast. He had been
confined 10 the house nearly two years, but on
rising that morning felt as well as usual.
Tins is what the New Bedford Mercury calls
woman suffrage: Zone day last week one of our
stevedores, in unloading a coal vessel at the
Mount Washington glass works wharf, got
short of help, and started after workmen. Fail
i'm to get his full complement, a cOlored woman
came 10 the rescue, and, DOMINIC pair of
oyeralls, took her position on the coal heap, and
dumped the tubs
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The fund now being raised by the soldiers,
sailors and Others, to be expended in erecting
monument at Hingham in memory of John A.
Andrew, promises TO reach sum which will Sc
cure fitting memorial stone over the remains
OF the great war governor. The suggestion
made, that on Decoration day box should be
placed at each cemetery throughout the state for
such contributions towards this fund as any
may be disposed to give, will be adopted by
many posts. The committee have already been
notified that upwards Of $1,000 have been sub
sctibed and vigorous effort would soon carry
the sum TO $4,000.
fiAMPDEN COUNTY
Mrs. Florence Donahue, a lady of Chieopee,
not vet thirty years old, is mother of fifteen
children. She weighs 241 pounds.
The paper mdebe works in Springfield were
DESTROYED by FIRE Ibis morning. Loss estimated
at $4,000 to $4,000. The fire is supposed to
have been the work Of an mceHdiaTy.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The furnace at West Stockbridge caught fire
Monday night, and everything except the stock
and casting house was DESTROYED.
An old man died in Pittsield, some time ago,
and his sister refused to be comfOrted because
she had no photograph of the dear departed.
Finally she determined TO have one, and, accom-
panied by photographer, went 70 the tomb,
stood the corpse up against the door, and the
photograph was duly taken.
MAINE.
Leander Miller of Bath, injured few days
Since on the railroad, died Monday night.
Capt, George Jewett, highly respected citi-
zen OF Bath, aged II, and Mrs. Chas. S. Cook,
both died suddenly Tuesday of heart disease.
Mrs. Sophia Jackson of Montyille, committed
suicide on the 11th inst, by taking poison. She
had previously given indications of insanity.
a Portland carpenter named Noah Harvey
felt unwell while at work last Saturday, and
went to drug store for something TO relieve
him, but died before the clerk could put up the
medicine.
The body OF young man was found in the
river at Sunkhaze, last Saturday. 1t was sup
posed to be the body of one Of the two boys
John Mooney or Larry Hopkns-who were
drowned by the upsetting of boat near Argyle
boom on the first day of this month.
A life insurance company Of Auburn refuse
TO pay S10,0 on the policy of Francis w. Par.
ker, who was reported TO have Jumped from q
Sound steamer last spring. The company
claims that the evidence of Parker's death is un
satisfactory. The case may 90 TO the courts fol
settlement
Mr.. Frye has passed through the commit
tee of claims and iavorably reported to the hous
bill paying Harriet Spring of Wateryilie, tn
half pay of captain from the end of the Tevolu
tionary war to his death in February 1919. MI
CARRIED objected TO the immediate considers
tiOn of the bill, not in any hostile spirit he said
but because ii reached back TO the last century
and makes a large appropriation.
Shaw's block, one of the largest buildings i
Biddeford, was burned Monday night. Til
lower story was occupied by Wardwel, grocer
Dudley & Goodwin, restaurant; Coffin, lOdgin
house; A. Lane and NJ NJ. Dyer, millinery
Strout, pictures; Kendall, periodical, and I'll
international telegraph Office The second stor
contained law and insurance Offices and billiaI
hall and saloon. The third story, Shaw's OPP
IA house. The block is reported TO be insure
for thirty thousand dollars in the Etna of Har
ford and other companies
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The steam saw mill in Carroll, owned b
Libby, Cove & French, was burned Monda
night. Loss $1,000; partially insured.
There are reports of great cruelty practced |
the Enfield Shakers upon the children in the
charge, and the Canaan Reporter publishes at
davits to that effect. Alvira Ayers swears tn
they sewed up her lips with a needle and threa
but that was ten years ago.
A man by the name of Barker, of Andoye
Mass, who has been boarding in the family
Thomas POOR of Antrim, hung himself in Il
barn on Sunday noon. Mr.. Barker was abol
sixty-hye years OF age, and no cause is give
for the act other than he seemed worried
times through fear of coming TO want, thong
quite wealthy.
VERMONT
The widow Of Capt. Daniel Landon, of Water
bury, has commenced suit under the prohib
tory liquor law, against l.. II. Horton, of Bo
ton, claiming $4,000 damages for selling he
deceased husband intoxicating liquors.
MRS Marie A. Plppin still lives at Winoosk
at the age of SO. She has been the mother of Q
children, eight of whom survive; has had q
grand children t61 now liying), and 9s great
grandchildren "a lIying), making total of %
descendants born in her lifetime. The old lad
It hale and hearty, and bids fair to see roun
hundfed and score more of posterity.
CONNECTICUT.
New Haven carriage maker is building
$1,000 carriage for Secretary Robson.
young lady boarder at the Metropolitan he
tel, New London, attempted suicide Sunday, b,
swallowing arsenic. The timely aid of a ply
stefan prevented fatal result
needle one and half inches long was takeI
from the back of O. S. Chaffee of Mansfield
the Other day, which the surgeon said had beer
in bis body fifty years.
New Haven bookseller has lust sent on
hundred copies of Professor Barker's text bool
on chemistry to Japan, TO be used in a collee,
euao. They are to be shipped via Panama
y case OF false Imprisonment is exciting som
Interest IN Hartford. A young man, Eugen,
- auni sn, brought suit against Samuel Brewe
~, Sioo JACK pay, in which he obtained ldg
i h ahu execution upon horse Last Sam,
NS brewer mad Daniels arrested on a CHARGE a
Seuueihg ms adopted daughter. whom in Cact
pdlileis mad married, Of which he had a cer,;I;
-; onnu1E brewer offered to eompromise
DaliiSls would Withdraw his suit a1ainst lin
Dut pahlels refused, and means IN sne AGAIN e.
lalse Imprisonment. Rrewer has bee,, ;,'niro
~ one Or two cases like this before - Wv y
RHODE ISLAND.
The head Of Daniel Brown nj p.o,.t,..-
tougher than cast iron griddle. Frank Smit
made the test Sunday evening. sum
The eight hour movement has reached D.,
dence, aud the workmen are holding mes,iD,
TO discuss the matter.
A man named Nathaniel McGratb. seven
years old accompanied by boy of ten arri,