Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-02
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BOSTON AVID VICINITY

and after three hours discussion voted to call
a convention in that city on Wednesday, Au-
gust 18th, TO nominate state officers and trans
act such other business as may properly come
before it.
Mr.. Benjamin Means, of South Boston, was
found dead in his room at about ten O'Clock yes
terday morning. His son, becoming alarmed at
his non-appearanee, went TO his room and found
him lying upon the floor, having apparently been
dead for some hours. Mr.. Means was man
about fifty-five years of age, machiniSt by
trade, and an old resident OF South Boston.
Ii is proposed TO give, during the month of
August series of harbor excursions to the
poor children of Boston. The committee con-
Mrs. Thomas Russell, Edward W. Kingsley,
Ezra Fansworth, F, B. Fay, S. H. Gregory, J.
Greene Jones, Mrs. VIM. Clafin, Joshua b.
Smith, r. Worthington, A. Monari, Mrs Jas.
T. Field, Thos. Russell
Benjamin r. Woods, driver of one of Haw-
thorne's coaches, who was before the Boston
municipal court Wednesday morning for Sc
ereting pocket book containing sos, which he
picked up in the city recently, and was dis
charged because the court had no jurisdiction,
was rearrested in the afternoon by Officer
Hodges, and lodged in the Charlestown mupci-
pal Jail. He was held in $500 to explain why he
kept the wallet.
About two weeks ago the number of state
prison convcts engaged in the polishing shop
of the Tucker manufacturing company became
so small that it did not pay to keep an officer
specially TO watch them, and the contractors
engaged six outside hands to perform the work
These men became dissatisfied with their re-
muneration, and on Tuesday afternoon struck
for higher wages. Their employers declined TO
accede to their demands, and informed them
that they could dispense with their services.
The strikers accordingly left the prison.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
From pond in Easton from ten to fifteen
hundred pond lilies daily have been carried into
Boston and sold. Over two thousand of the
flowers were sold in one day upon the Old Col
ony railroad.
ESSEX COUNTY.
VIM. II. Kendall, of Newburyport, died on
Wednesday at the age o! 6S. He had been
drummer for the military companies OF that city
Tor nearly half century. He was one of the
oldest Odd Fellows in the CITY,
young barber of Lynn, named James Dean,
who left wife and family in that place two
years since, and married an unsophistica'ed
girl OF Noburn, has at last come to grief. He
was arrested in Providence Tuesday, and taken
10 Woburn for examination. Meanwhile how
ever, his second victim has died of broken
heart.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
TheiLowell Courier says: "The insignifcance
OF what are called hats nowadays may be in
lerred from the fact that lady went all the way
from Chapel Hill to Belvidere this morning
oare-hcaded and unconscious of the fact that
she had left her hat at home"
The body of Michael McAnulty, a second
hand IN the wool asserting room of the Middle
sex mills, was found Thursday morning in
canal belonging to the Wamesit power COM
pany, near the bleachery. He was at work as
usual Wednesday, and was seen in the evening
about half-past nine O'Clock with companion.
He was 3S years of age and unmarried. He has
worked for the MiddeseX company eighteen
years.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The man who pulled out the baulky horses
tongue at Somerset last week, was arrested and
hned S25 and costs for the brutal deed.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Lizzie Nj. POmeroy of Westfeld, the young
lauy who caused the arrest of Harry Williams
some time since, on the charge of rape, has been
arrested for perjury, and placed under $1,000
bonds. The case will have hearing August
26th.
cable dispatch has been received announc-
ing the death, at Southampton, England, of
Rev. J. b. Moore, acting pastor of the Church of
the Unity in Springfield. He was a native of
Concord, n. H., and for six years was pastor of
the Unitarian church at Lawrence. He leaves
wife aud one son, the former being the daugh
ter OF Rev. DIR. MuZzey of Cambridge.
More deaths have occurred inI Springfield
during the past month than ever before in the
same length Of time. The death list kept by
the city clerk foots up %, or more than three a
day, with several more names to come in.
Forty-one children, an extraordinary number,
have died of cholera infantum. Consumption
has taken lives, cholera morbus T. scarlet fe-
yer Z, paralysis 4, accident 3, suicide, cholera,
cancer, marasmus, conyulsions, dropsy and old |
age each, and the ordinary ills of life the re-
maindeT,
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A young lady Of Lee recently sold her hair,
which reached almost to the ground, to a Pitts
field hair dealer for S55.
The Smith paper company of Lee have Just
thar aula mill soI,
80 inches wide, and is one Of the largest in the
country.
The old Pittsfield Sun, for two generations the
democratic organ for the farmers of Berkshire
county, and which has carried the names of
Phineas Allen, or Phineas Allen & Son, as pro-
prietors, ever since Jefferson's time, has been
sold to VIM. II. Phillips, gentleman Of consid-
cradle experience in newspaper life.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
George A. Bates of Shelburne Falls has been
appointed member of the police.
MAINE.
Jack Groves, negro and local character of
some celebrity, died in Portland Thursday, aged
113 years.
On Sunday afternoon, the 18th ult., James B.
Gage, of Otisfeld, a young man of about seven
teen years, accidentally shot himself with fatal
results while careleSsly at work on his gun in
his fathers barn. 1t seems that he was driving
a ramrod be had just made, into its place to see
how It htted when the gun was discharged.
The charge striking the hammer that he ap- |
peared to be using, divided, part entering the |
brain just over the right eye and the remainder |
lodging in post near him. He lived about four
hours.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
An unoccupied house owned by Bennett
SWAIN, near Meredith Centre, was burned Tues
day night.
At Dunbarton, the other day, hen hawk
pounced upon brood of young turkeys and
seized one of them, when the mother turkey,
resenting the raid, few into the air after him
and at the altitude of twelve or fifteen feet
bravely gave battle. After severe combat the
turkey came off victorious, by releasing her
young and putting her enemy to fight.
During the terrific shower of Monday evening
the lightning struck an apple tree near the
house of E. G. Shirley Of Goffstown, and fol-
lowed down to the roots on all sides. The earth
and gravel were thrown into the tree so as TO
cover the leaves and branches, as was clearly
seen the next day. The apples were discolored
and some OF them scorched and baked by the
VERMONT.
A boy at Underhlll has just coughed up
beech nut which he got into his lungs two years
and a half agol
Stark must be a healthy place to live in. A
Mr.. John Mcfarland and his wife the one aped
seyenty-six and the other seventy, never had oc-
casion 10 call in physician until few DAYS
ago.
Prof. Munroe of Boston, the elocutionist. is
snmmerlng at Hartford, and completing the
compilation of series of six reading books on
which he has been at work for the last twenty
years.
CONNECTICUT.
Inc Hartford Post says: 1.-The Day Nursery
IS meeting with excellent success. and is pro-
Viding daily blessing to many weary and hard
working mothers. just now the nursery is in
want q more cribs, cradles and high chairs for
John Six, farmer in Sodom, suffered pain
lul accideut Saturday. He was about TO I'M
hasten horse which was picketed in lot. when
ne became caught by the rope winding about
MS hps, and the animal then pulIing away
Doth OF his hips were dislocated and the base ~
ms spine severely wrenched. Fortunately helm
reached him in a moment and relieved him from
the torture Of the rope. ''-' '''-'
The Hon. Jesse 0lney, who was control;er NJ
the state under Gov English's administrat;,D
aled al ms residence in Stratford Thursday. the
10th. II is only within few years that he has
taken an active part in politics and in that he
ghlheu no special prominence As the author Of
Olneys geography and other school books no
was widely known throughout the country. He
was seYeDty-four years of age
Mrs. Hurlbut of Winsted arose frorn bar bod
about midnight, last Monday night, went up
NAN street IN her night clothes, rang the bell
oil a drug store and called for medicine-all in
a sound sleep. When the druggist asked:
who's there? she awoke and fell down over.
come with fright. She was carried back To her
nome, where her husband was sleeping pro-