Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-02
G1urtcstrr Daily spp.
New England News Summary.


day afternoon, killing himself instantly. de
belonged on the schooner Diana, and Is sup
posed TO have been insane.
In the Boston municipal court, Saturday, Ly-
man Rumley, clerk in jewelry store, was fined
one dollar for aSsaultng with horsewhip Carl
Marble, an atiache of the Commercial Bulletin.
The alleged pTOyocation for the assault was
some personal ausions in verses written by
Marble and published in weekly paper.
NIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Owen Garland, aged 81, a teamster at Lowell,
was killed, Thursday, by falling from load Of
hay which he was driving near the fair ground.
He leaves wife and six children.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
IL Your name is Perry change it before you 60
TO Weston TO live. Joel and Oliver Perry,
struck by lightning at nearly the same instant
the other evening. sister living in Esston
had her house struck the next day.
HANPDEN COUNTY.
Belchertown dog tried TO stop train going
at the rate Of % miles an hour, the other day.
He lost a tooth, and gave it up.
Smart boys in Springfield give blind organ
grinders ten cent scrips made OF wall paper, and
make their own change out of his hat, leaving
him five cents ahead as he supposes.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Potatoes are badly rotting in some parts of
the county, andin Others the bugs tunnel them.
The Catholic priest at EaSthampton having
given the apples which were on the lot attached
to the residence of the Catholic clergy to his peo
pie, few OF them decided 10 give him in re-
turn barrel of cider. As they were putting it
into the cellar the barrel slipped from their
hold, and passing over the body of one of their
number killed him instantly.
Williston seminary at Easthampton opened
IFS fall term on Wednesday with 100 students
present, which number had been increased TO
$50 Friday. This indicates an attendance of 200
for the term. A teacher of drawing and pen
manship has been added to the board of instruc-
ton, and two exercises in drawing each week
will hereafter constitute a part of the regular
course in the scientific department during mid
die and senior years. Mr.. H. b. Adams of Am
herst succeeds Mr.. Parkhurst, who is now in
Europe: Rev. E. NJ. Wright, teacher of elocu-
ton and English grammer during last year, sails
Tor South America early IN September
MAINE.
Timothy Lines of Bangor, aged %, twas
drowned this afternoon by the capszing of
boat.
Within the last TWO years and half the
liquor sellers of Androscoggin county have paid
$4,000 into the county treasury as fines.
The Maine general hospital at Portland, at
present used for the storing of choice woods,
took fire Friday morning, from the upsetting of
a stove Loss about $500.
Miss Emeline Watts of ST. George was shot
in the neck aud nearly killed on the ed, by
young man named Keilar, who foolishly pointed
ga young lady has successfully passed the re-
quislte examination and been admitted d men,
Der of the freshman class of the Maine state col
lege Of agriculture and the mechanic arts.
Gushing & LeVensaler of Thomaston have
manufactured ~ 900 barrels of lime the present
season. $4,000 of which they have shipped over
the Knox and Lincoln road.
South Sanford has precocious boy-burglar
who eludes the utmost vigilance of the officers
OF the law. The youths name is Bickford, and
he has entered nearly every store and many
private houses within radius of twelve miles
from his own residence Either Maine boys are
uncommonly smart or the sheritfs are not what
they should be.
There is a Russian at Old Orchard beach
whose tondness for the sea and everything con-
nected with it is eccentric to the verge of MANIA
He drinks TWO or three galloDs-lt is said-of
sea water daily, eats seaweed by the handful
and battles four or five times a day. He is very
healthy and robust, fat as a seal and has a
round red jocund face.
The Augusta journal reports that in Bruins
wick, recently, child of MIR. Merryman, about
Two years old, was badly bitten by dog The
child was coming out of the house with its
mother when the dog jumped violently upon it,
threw 1t to the ground, and tore the skin from
It's neck and face, and making some terrible
wounds. A cat that was near by jumped upon
the dogs back, and bit and scratched it so furi.
ously that the dog soon left the child to attend to
child would have been killed outright As it
now is there is prospect of its recovery. This
reyerses the usual order-usually it is the cat
which makes the assault while the dog is the
defender.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A woman keeping house for a Canaan man
got into huff lately and started for the river.
The man followed and smelled suicide The
river was searched until the supposed drowned
woman was found in quiet snooze in her little
bed.
little boy five years old, son of Omar Rob-
erts OF Enfield Centre, was almost instantly
killed Thursday afternoon by falling from
cart IN which he was riding, the wheels passing
over his body. The team was driven by the
boys father.
The example of Mrs. 0'Leary and the fate of
Chicago did not prevent AIr. Amos F. Bartlett
OF Hill from taking kerosene lantern TO his
Darn Tuesday night, 9th, when he went to
milk. The lantern was broken, the barn with
IFS contents was burned also the house and
connecting buildings. The household furni,5re
was mostly saved. There were CONSUMED in tho
barn about ten tons of hay, two MOS, a lot of
slESeys ana cnlekeDs, and fty bushels OF wheat.
On Wednesday last a man, who lives alone in
house situated in the south part of London
derry, committed a severe assault on young
man named Edwin Anderson. A few hours az
terward Sheriff Dustin of Derry, with several
assistants, attempted to arrest Randall, but the
latter made stout resistance, declaring that he
would not be taken. He entrenched himself in
his house, and armed himself with a shot gun,
pitchiOrk and other weapons. He discharged
the shot gun at a young man named Edward
Ella. A small shot struck the hand of the latter
but no injury was done. Randall also threw
pitehiork at young man named William Aver,
striking him in the lace near one Of his eyes and
lnjuring him considerably. The sheriff, finding
that further. assistance was needed, retired for
the time after setting watch upon the house.
On Thursday forenoon the sheriff, with num-
Der OF citizens, again approached the house.
when Randall, seeing that further resistance
was vain, surrendered. The affair created con-
siderable excitement in the neighborlIOod. Ran
dali Is about 65 years Of age ard is man of
very eccentric character.
VERMONT.
The little town of Reading celebrated its CEN
tennial anniversary on Wednesday. The histor-
zeal address was by Mr.. s. A. Davis. The town
whlch up TO 1870 increased in population, has
since that date decreased, until the inhabitants
now number only 700.
CONNECTICUT.
A gentleman in New Haven has expended
$1,000 in purchasing fddles, ard says now he
has one unequaled in the city
IhompSonyille is getting so distinguished for
drunkenness and rowdyism that even the saloon
keepers express themselves as disguised with it.
and one OF them is going to give up bis business
a Danbufy man has an interesting heirloom
IN the shape of "a hat which was worn through
~ dIunks and still retains traces of its former
beauty
Elder Williams, the octogenarian clergyman
Of East killlngly, has attended $500 funerals
during the period of his ministerial abors, and
has probably solemnized more marriages than
any minister in eastern Connecticut, if not in
the state.
young man giving the name of Tdw ard
Barnett, and hailing from New York has been
vlcllmlzng business firms in Hartford by engag-
ING to pant fancy signs for which he collects
from $40 to $50 in advance and then fails to
carry out his contracts. Look out for him.
al the lat mems clambake" in Norwalk on
wednesday, the heaviest man weighed 857
pounds, and the heaviest woman go pounds
Total number ", against 1866 last YEAR arpre.
gate weight 1882 pounds, against 80, ESQ last
year; average weight 229i pounds, against 222i
last year.
An insurance agent by the name of Troy has
been Yletimizing some Of the Canadians of
Putnam. lie took Sl84 from one man, and
smaller amounts from several others. He pre-
tended 70 be am agent Of the Hope company, but
proved TO be bogus. Troy was arrested in Hart
ford on the nth inst, and has been ia ken to
Boston.
The round CLANS now caught in the waters of
the sound are declared TO be better than previ.
Gus crops for years, and the same is said of
lhe oysters, which those posted aver will be dc.
llcious. The yield will also be plentiful. as
ihlngs look now, which will be good news 10
lovers q the biYayes. Ia this case, also. the
price will be lower, which few will object TO-
singularly painful circumstance attends the
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