Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-04-01
ao1urrester Daily spp,
New England New. summary.

Robert Wilkinson and wife have been held for |
mai IN $1,000 bail, charged with setting fire to |
a dwelling house in Newton from which they |
had been elected by the owner.
Sometime Thursday night a large drove of |
sheep got into the orchard of John ". Hollis, |
oil Allston, and destroyed his pear trees, valued |
at $500, besides doing other damage 10 the |
amount OF $500.
Eight vessels are en- route for Boston from |
Calcutta; other ports in East Indies, IS; Africa, |
6: Australia, 6; South America, y; London and |
Liverpool 2S; North of Europe, 4; Great Brit |
ain, Is; Mediterranean, 20; West Indies, ~; IN /
all about 125 vessels.
The Boston and Albany railroad have pur- |
chased of the Samuel Seaverns estate in Weston, |
near the line Of the railroad, about thirty acres
% Gravel beds, for which they paid $500 per |
aers. This gravel will probably be used in fill |
ING in the lands OF the corporation on the Back |
bay, Boston.
IN The case of Alonzo H. Kingman of Chelsea, |
captain of the barque Warren Halett, indicted |
for manslaughfer in negecting to take proper |
measures TO save the life Of a seaman, who fell |
overheard from his vessel, District Attorney Ma
son, for certain judicial reasons, has abandoned
the prosecution, and placed the indictment on
file, and the accused has been discharged.
Albert Perkins Of Charestowu, forty years of
age, died in the prison hospital, Saturday. of
asthma. He was sentenced to the prison in 1868
for term of ten years, for burglary, and pre-
vious to that time had served out two short
terms for criminal offences. He had been an in
mate of the hospit al for about year.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
If there wasn't an earthquake in Lowell at or
about nine O'Clock Friday evening. there was
something so much like one that il answered the
purpose. Several residents of different quarters
OF the city felt the shock, and a Tewksbury
gentleman felt it distinctly
Constablcs Morse and Piuder seized, Saturday
forenoon, the double team of p. Lynch, used in
the delivery Of ale, standing in front of his place
of business in Lowell. After a very severe
struggle with the driver for the reius by the con-
stables snd two assistants, he was overcome and
committed TO the police station, and the team,
with six barrels of ale, was driven away by the
constabuary.
A richly stained memorial window has just
been put in place in St Anne's Episcopal church,
Lowell, by two of its prominent members. One
section OF the window displays representation
of charity; the other, devotion, while under
meath are memorials to Jane Green, obit Sept.
q, 1871; TO Catherine F. Burke, obt March Z,
1870. Other windows, illustrative of the prin-
cipal events in the life of Christ, are to be
furnished.
ESSEN COUNTY.
States constables Bowler and Boynton arrest
ed, on Thursday, Frank Phbrook and George
Boswell on suspicion OF robbing a pedder
named rockingham, on Wednesday evening,
and the Ipswich hosiery mill.
The machine shop Of the Eastern railroad car
works at Salem was badly damaged by fire Sat
urday morning about five O'Clock. The fire is
reported to have caught spontaneously from oily
cotton waste under work bench. The upper
story Of the shop was mostly burnt ont, but the
work in this department will be interrupted only
for a few days.
The Gloucester Advertiser saws that the
Eastern railroad have decided to connect with
the Essex, and have taken $4,000 worth of
stock therein. The work of finishing it will be
commenced as soon as the weather will permit,
and il is hoped to get the road in running order
early in June
The Georgesmen are arriving at Gloucester
slowly from their second trips. About twenty
vessels have arrived the present week averaging
good fares, a considerable portion of which have
been sold fresh to supply the market at good
prices. The vessels report very severe weather
on the banks the past fortnight
The family of Mr.. William H. Steele of Glou-
cesier, have been great sufferers from the
scourge of small poX Within three weeks the
oldest and Youngest sons have died of this dis
ORDER and himself wife, two daughters and
another son have all been sick with the va
Tiooid.
William Roberts, for many years street com
missioner OF Salem, and a prominent temper
ance man, died Saturday He built many of the
most substantial buildings in that city, incud-
ing the Eastern railroad depot, St. Peters street
church, and East India Marine building. For IA
few years past he has been almost totally blind
his sight having been gradually failing for If
teen years. He was born in 1888.
About three weeks ago, after an acquaintance
OF several years, young lady of Detroit was
married TO young man named Taylor OF In
when Taylor received a telegram from Lynn
that his aged mother was dying, and in an hour
had left the city, calculating to return within
ten days. at the arthest. He wrote one letter
back, and on Monday his bride received news
that mother and son were both dead. He was
exposed 10 the smallpox somewhere on his
route, took a severe cold, and died the day be-
fore his mother died The wife tainted on read
ing the sad news, and the attending physician
believes that she will be rendered maniac by
the blow
PLYMOUTH COUNTY
A butcher boy in Plymouth, playing with a
long bladed meat knife on Monday last, acct
dentally run it through his comrades leg For
tunafely the knife was not fourished near a
very vital part of the body, hence both were
quite frightened, and the smaller received an
ugly wound.
BRISTOL COUNTY
Mrs. Hannah A. Russell was found dead in her
room, at the residence of her son Benjamin
Russell, in North Easton, on the morning of
the 18th inst. She was over eighty-four years
of age
On Tuesday, at Whttenton Mills, Taunton.
the large steam cylinders, some five feet in diam
eter, for sizing cloth, exploded throwing the
cast iron end of each through the side of the
building The report of the explosion was
heard a considerable distance, Earring the dwell.
ings IN the neighborhood, causing a loss of about
$1,000. Fortunately none were injured except
one of the attendants, who was slightly wounded
in the head.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A young mechanic of Holyoke became &C
quained, Tuesday evening, with a gentcel but
poorly dressed young man, who stated that he
had been unfortunate and had not money 10 pay
for nights lodging. He accordingly invited
him 10 his room at the Holyoke house, and al
lowed him 70 occupy part of his own bed; but
on aWaking IN the morning found the stranger
missing, and that be had taken the wrong suit
! OF clothes, leaving his old ones in their place.
No trace Of the swindler has yet been discov-
cred.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The horse car track between Northampton and
Florence is in a bad condition; the earth is
washed away to the depth of several inches on
the down grade, and it is estimated that $1,000
win be needed to put tie track in good shape
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A gentleman recently died in Pitts6eld who,
for iortY or fifty years past, has firmly believed
his stomach to be the abiding place of a lizard
serpent, or some other reptile of that species
On Monday last, at the request of the widow of
I the deceased post mortem examination was
3 held, which revealed the fact of chronic fam
NATION of the stomach, enlargement of the
hearr, with ossifcaton, but the lizard wasn't
there.
MAINE.
The Washingtonian moral reform temperance
revival at Augusta, Hallowell, Gardiner and vi
entity bids fair 10 accomplish large results.
Thomas S. Kolfeld of Portland had his
head crushed off by the fall ola boiler which he
was helping unload from a car onUdion Wharf,
Saturday afternoon.
Patrick Hasey of Winterport, who had been
for the last two days in search of work in Ban
gor, fell dead Saturday mo ling of heart disease
while walking on the Six Mile Falls road He
leaves wife and several children.
A Sfdgwick letter to the Belfast Journal says
there IS a hay famine in that section, and one
third OF the inhabitants of that Town Brooks.
vile and Bluehill. have not a hundred mounds
Of hay in their barns. There is none to be
bonght, and no corn nearer than Belfast, with
navigation closed by ice. Ir this weather holds
many cattle must sarve
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Waldo Z. Tyrell Of Hancock, N. H., lost both
arms by being caught in a shaft in the box fac.
tory of Howard s Chandler, in Wincbester Sal
urday forenoon 0'''
One OF the largest drives OF logs ever seen in
the river has been put into the Pemigewassett
and is now on its way down. Ii is estimated ~
not less than $4,000, 600 feet at
Capt. Peter L Hadey, prominent citizen oe
GOiislOwn, died very suddenly Saturday No
retired 70 bed perfectly well, aud died about Gye
hours afterward. He was a bachelor. and egh.
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