Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-09
Daily spp.
.lngInnd Ncws summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


BOSTON AND VICINITY.
P. Noonan, carpenter, fell forty feet
day from a new building on Milk street,
was probably fatally injured.
Charles II, Spencer, arrested in New York,
charged with forgery, was yesterday held in
5000 for trial. Spencer is young Boston
lawyer.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Newhuryport police are investigating as
saults by the employees of the arms company
upon people passing on the river. No less than
five boats have been fired on within a week,
some Of them containing women and children
BRISTOL COUNTY.
John Malloy was found drowned IN the upper
harbor near the WamsuIta mills, at New Bed
ford, Monday morning.
The Fall River cotton mills, It is said, have
total OF POS, $40 spiudles, or more than any
other city 10 this country. The number OF looms
is 1908. About S14,O0o,00O is invested in the
mills.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
few weeks since, while getting some hogs
ready for the exhibition at bingham, Mr.. Sea
yer Jones, the foreman Of Mr.. David Whiuns'
farm, was badly injured in the calf of his leg by
a boar, the wound being very deep. The best
medical attendance was procured and Mr.. Jones
was apparently improving, but on Sunday he
rapidly declined and died
There is great sympathy in MiddlebOro and
Lakeville for Charles Bassett, now in Jail in
Plymouth, awaiting trial for shooting Mrs. Sta
vile, one of the county commissioners for Ply
mouth county, and some new facts REGARDING
the case are revealed. Ii is said that BaSsett
would have lived with and provided for his wife
had be not been prevented by the mother from
so doing, who had succeeded in keeping the
welded pair apart, save for one day, during the
whole two years. Basset went 10 the house of
the father-in-law and sought an interview with
his (Bassett's) wife, but was met at the door by
the mother-iu-law, armed with cane, with
which she commenced to beat Bassett furiously
upon the head. Bassett retreated toward the
sueet and the mOther-in-law followed, still lay
ing on the heavy blows till Bassett shot her.
The reason assigned for the objection 10 Bassett
is that he is not socially equal TO the family of
Staples.
DUKES COUNTY.
The Vineyard Gazette has been sold by Chas.
NJ. Vincent to Edgar Marchant, its originator.
Mr.. Vincent has purchased the Norfolk County
Register at Randolph.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
VIM. johnson, the little negro boy who was
accidentally shot by a schoolmate named Ar
thur Davis in front of the Warrington street
school house, at Springfield, last Tuesday, died
from the effect of the wound on Saturday even
ing.
A young man in the employ of A. L. Haynes
of Three Rivers (Palmer), while blowing, on
Saturday, with a span of horses, undertook TO
correct the motion of one of them by throwing
a stone at its head and the result was a dead
horse in the furrow, with loss OF SIS.
The Republican says that Mr. and Mrs. Gen.
Tom Thumb and Minnie Warren, Sunday even
ing took tea with a near relative resident IN
that city, who weighs considerable over 200
pounds, and their contrast at the table together
was quite noticeable
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The chimney stack TO the Sheffield steel and
iron works at Florence, when completed will
be 100 feet in height-prohably the tallest pile
of brick and mortar in Hampshire county.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Pittsfield census takers have finished
their work, and find that the town contains 12,-
$50, an ample number over the margin required
for a city charter.
A cruel and inhuman affair took place in
Piusield, Monday A short time since pet
canary bird was caught and eaten by cat be-
longing TO a neighnOr of the owner. The bird
owner, Monday, caught the cat, and broke
curling iron over its back, when the cat made
good its escape from thrd-story window. The
cat was again caught and beaten with poker,
aud driven from the same window, and was
then caught the third time, taken to the cellar
and actually chopped up with an axe.
MAINE.
The Bangor police make almost daily seizures
of liquors on the steamboats,.
Sheriff Perry has arrested young woman for
aiding and abetting the escape Of the prisoners
from Portland Jail recently. She furnished
them the knife with which they cut the window
cords.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A little French boy, seven years of age, was
killed on Friday at Berlin, by falling from the
tresie works of the Berlin Mills branch rail
road
New Hampshire was more fortunate with its
state fair, last week, than Maine or Vermont,
the books showing balance of $500 on the
right side.
John L. Bracket, Esq, of Greenland, has on
his farm an oak which, starting from the ground
this spring, has already attained the height Of
eight feet The main stalk of the tree is about
one inch in diameter.
The semi-annual meeting of the New Hamp-
shire medical society took place at the Senter
house, Centre Harbor, yesterday. This was the
first semi-annual meeting that has been held,
but hereafter they are to take place in different
parts of the state.
CONNECTICUT.
New Haven lady had the whole of an eX-
pensiye lace trimming 10 her dress stolen from
her in church the other day
A injury citizen sent over to a neighbor
one evening recently to borrow the Danbury
News, and was told that he would have to wait
until 'our Jane gets back from the ball"
The Norwich Bulletin has this little moral
item: Some naughty boys in New Haven went
chestnutng on Sunday. We know of boy
who once went after chestnuts on Sunday, and
three months after had typhoid fever so severely
that for number of days he couldn't eat any
thing but grapes, pears, canned peaches and
wine jelly. Boys, be warned.
RHODE ISLAND.
A crippled soldier in Newport, r. L. has re-
ceived a check for 500 from George w. Gibbs
of California, who was once Newport boy him
self