Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-05
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New England News summary.

the Eastern railroad corporation. The private
stockholders receive 500 per share, and the
town Of Essex receives $40 per share for its
stock.
a Young man named VIM. Stanwood fell
from the platform Of one of the cars on the noon
train from Gloucester TO Rockport on Monday,
aud was picked up in an unconscious state and
taken TO his home in Rockport, where ne dled
OF his injuries.
Gloucester, after a days dissipation was out all
night, and fell dead in the street at four O'Clock
Monday morning. His face was considerably
injured hy the fall, but he was known TO he
alone at the time, and there IS no DOUBT that ms
death was the result Of natural causes
A novel claim for divorce was recently made
hy 0ue-armed Irishman before the Salem pc
lice court. Pat had got into trouble with his
wife, who was addicted TO drink, and claimed
that he was free from her, on the ground that
the hand which be had given her in marriage
was now gone. The wife refused to admit the
force of this logic, and, as she promised to
sign the pledge, Pat was finally prevailed upon
10 give her one more trial, the couple departing
inpeace.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
On Monday evening last, about eight O'Clock,
Sophia McFadden. a corporation empove, CON-
mitted suicide by jumping into Suffolk canal,
near Jefferson street, Lowell. The water was
drawn off Tuesday evening, and the body YVES
recovered in the vicinity of KtSons mill. The
cause Mnlch leo 10 the NDmlUlllai vi thls IdSu
act is said 10 have been a disappointment in So
cial life. She had threatened twice to take her
life but her friends were slow in creditng her.
She was twenty-nine years of age, and leaves
mother in the city.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
James Hughes, aged 60 years, died in yard
in Fall River Sunday night, from the effects of
intemperance and exposure,
Mr.. Joseph Atty of Fall River attempted to
demonstrate with four thieves who were strip
ping his orchard, last Sunday afternoon, and
was shot in the neck by one Of them, the wound
being serious if not fatal. The scoundrel who
fired the shot is known.
John Gilren, while gathering pears at Weir
village, Saturday afternoon, fell from the tree
aud struck upon the picket fence. One picket
pierced his thigh and ran up into the groia
seven inches. He was obliged to remain i'm
paled until the servants were called 10 his assist
ance, when he became senseless.
B Miss Mary Commerford of New Bedford has
received an offer of thousand dollars a year
for two years TO sing in the best choir i'll ST..
Louis.
An old man named John Ravens was found
dead, Tuesday afternoon, in privy in Taun-
ton. He had prepared a rough bed of corn
stalks, rs though be expected 10 die there The
deceased had no known friends.
% Fall River papers announce another bold out
rage in hat city, this time the more mysterious
because no motive for the act is known. On
Saturday evening last, about II O'Clock, as Mr..
VIM. Garlick was proceeding down Columbia
street he was seized by five men, who threw him
down on his face and gave him severe pound
ing, cutting his face badly. The men were en-
tirely unknown TO Mr. Garlick, and neither OF
them spoke word during the whole time.
DUKES COUNTY.
Fdgartown, on Saturday, voted the sam OF
$4,000 TO complete the Beach road, and the
work is 10 be done by the citizens of that place.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
patnr JOplr nj SprOpfipld lost q Mnn1aV
by a nail head which flew from under his ham
mer while at work on the Collins paper mill
at Wilbraham.
A six-horse team, with four and half tons Of
powder, broke through a bridge over the Chic
opee river, near Palmer, on Saturday. The horses
were extricated without much injury, but the
powder is very damp indeed, and will not pay
for raising. The authorities expect to escape
responsibility on the ground that the weight of
the team exceeded six tons.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The body of full grown female child was
found in Mill river, Northampton, last Satur-
day.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A hotel among the woods up in Savoy has re-
Gently become favorite summer resort for Pitts
field, Adams and New York people, and one
New York lady, charging in its praises, ex-
claimed: "Only think frosted cake and three
kinds of pie for breakfast, and only 81 a dayl"
James b. Butler of Pittsfeld has growing in
his NdIu Il lew SIalhS OF lenp, some OF winch
are upwards of twelve feet in height. Forty or
more years ago hemp was cultivated TO some
extent in Berkshire, but, probably on account Of
the healthy moral atmosphere, its cultivation
was abandoned.
MAINE
Capt Edward Mcbride, of Biddeford, who was
recently brought home from West Africa, dan
gerously i'll with the African fever, died on sun
day, leaving wife and two children.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mr.. Daniel Coggin, veteran of the war of
1912, died at Milford, last Friday, at the adj
yanced age of so years.
beWm. W. Russell, prominent citizen of Ply
m outh, died very suddenly Tuesday night, aged
seventy-one
A dispatch from Littleton announces the death
OF Joseph NJ. Edwards, Esq, who has been
deputy collector of the port of Portsmouth for
thirty-fye years. He had been i'll OF heart dis
ease.
VIM. n. Swain of Gilmanton hitched his horse
by chain to an iron bar in his field. The horse
became frightened and rearing up fell backwards,
striking on his head and was killed instantly.
Mr.. Swain is S225 out.
Wanen's pond, in Alstead, has a natural
curiosity in the shape Of a genuine "1oating
island, nmety-slx feet in circumference. 1t is
covered with low bushes, and presents a novel
appearance, as il is often seen floating about at
the mercy of the wind.
The Peterboro Transcript says that Mr.. G.
Frank Burnham of Antrim, while shooting at
grey squirrel on the morning OF the oath ult.,
was severely wounded by the bursting Of
his gun, burning his face and filling one side
Of it with powder, and badly lacerating his left
hand.
AT Canterbury lives Lyman B. Foster, who
was brought home at the close of the war on Il
lounge, from which he has not risen since. He
was wounded in the left thigh; the ball remains
there still; and he can neither sit up or lie
down, but reclines, as he has done through all
these years, at an angle midway between the
horizontal aud perpendicular. He now busies
himself by teaching classes who come TO his
room, and by this means and his pension sup
ports himself we'll. He has also ORGANIZED a lit.
erary society in the town that is nourishing
finely. He is continually cheerful, and says he
doesn't regret going TO the war. What is more
he viii be carried on his couch election day,
three miles away, to the town hall, to vote for
Grant!
VERMONT.
A seven year old boy, named Powers, died al
North bennington last Saturday, from injuries
received at the hands Of a lad of twe We
Ashby Clark, Esq, of Middletown, died sud
denly on Sunday morning. He had taken his
breakfast and while smoking fell from his chair
TO the floor anG instantly expired.
CONNECTICUT.
one OF the latest marriages in Hartford is
Of young man aged eighteen to maid of
fifteen.
Chas Ives, an old resident of the North Farms,
MalLngtoTd, fell from scaffold in his barn
Friday, and his injuries will prove fatal
gentleman in New Haven has invented
machine for printing in colored and gilt enam-
els on china and pottery of all kinds, which it
IS claimed will revolutionize the whole business
OF ornamenting crockery, reducing the cost to a
small fraction of what it now is He has APP
piled for patents in several foreign countries as
well IS In the United States
singular accident happened on a recent
night train on the Air Line railroad The train
was moving at its usual speed, when the engi-
neer heard sudden crashing of glass and, in
an in stant, there was darkness in the head light
OF the engine. The cause proved TO he that an