Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-08-28
Sdlurttstrr Daily spp.
New England News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


ton is S44S, 2SS $50, an increase over 1871 of
S4S e6S, 500; personal S2S9, 440 $50, an increase
OF 81 1872 $50; total increase 70,06O,150 rate
of taxation S11.70 per S1170, last year S1310
per $1,000.
Monday morning woman named Mrs Wal
lace, with three young children, arrived in Bos-
ton from Elmira, n. Y, where, as she states, she
was driven from her house by her drunken hus-
band. The woman, il seems, with her little fam
ilv, travelled partly by the cars and partly on
foot She obtained board, herself and the chill
dren being much exhausted from their long
tramp During the forenoon one of the children
named VIM. H. Wallace, died from exhaustion
and the want of proper care.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
boy named Gibson, ten or eleven years old,
was killed on the Fitchburg railroad, in Maiden,
yesterday morning.
The managers of the concern claim that the
grounds Of the New England fair, which is to
be held at Lowell, September Sd, 4th, 9Th and
9th are the finest ever occupied by the society.
They embrace more than forty acres of land,
well erased over so as TO prevent any annoy
ance from dust There is an abundance of
water in all parts of the grounds both for man
and beast The horse stalls and covered cattle
pens are built Of dressed lumber, and are the
best ever provided by the society. A large eN-
hibition building three stories in height, con-
tanning more than one half acre of available
space, viii be used for the display of carriages,
stoves, furnaces, hardware, vegetables, &C., on
the first floor fruit, flowers and miscellaneous
articles on the second floor; sewing machines,
needle work, paintings, fancy goods, &C., on the
third floor. The largest tent in New England,
SOx20O feet, will be provided for the exhibition
OF agricultural implements and farm tools. A
tent 50x100 will be devoted to the poultry show.
A covered grand stand, capable of seating 5000
people, has been built, from which a view of the
track and entire grounds can be had. The press
headquarters are ample and conveniently located
near the centre of the grounds, and are in charge
of an efficient committee. The Boston and Low
ell and branches; Concord and branches; North
ern; Boston, Concord and Montreal; FitChburg;
Fiichburg, Clinton and Boston; birmingham
and Lowell railroads will sell round trip tickets
at reduced rates. The entries are large and
everything indicates one of the most successful
and interesting fairs ever held by the society.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Mr.. Patrick Henry, shrewd business man of
NewbuTyport, and large proprietor of real eS-
tate, died in an apoplectic fit on Monday morn
ing, having been in an unconscious state since
Saturday
George Greenleaf, Esq, the oldest merchant
in NewbuTyport, died Monday morning He
had occupied the same store for sixty-two years.
He was a grandson of Hon. Jonathan Greenleaf,
who repI esented Essex county in the continent
tai congress.
In the Boston Journal of Monday there were
two items, one from Salem relative to the find
ing of dead body of an unknown man under
the Essex bridge, and the other from Lynn re-
cording the sentence of Margaret Moriarty to
the Salem Jail for three months on charge for
the larceny of ladies wearing apparel Some of
the keepers of the Salem Jail recognized the body
of the man as one who had been frequently put
under their care on charges for drunkenness and
other misdemeanOrs, and they also had suspi-
cion that he was the husband of this woman.
80 tVh he in, OH 49, an
GERS from Lynn, she was taken into Butfum's
coffin warerooms and at once identified the
body, and gave way to the most frantic demon
STATIONS of grief. The name of the man was
James Moriarty, and both parties have for some
time past led sort of vagrant life in Lynn and
vicinity.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The September term of the supreme court will
begin at Taunton on Tuesday, Sept 10, with a
large docket of civil cases and an unusually
long and important list of criminal trials il
was expected that Judge Scudder would preside
during the term, but his resignation having be
come extremely probable, and his anticipated
departure for Europe before the session Of the
court, It is likely that some one Of the other JUS
tees OF the court will sit in his place
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Sunday evening, about nine O'Clock, a man
named Morris Sullivan, with his wife, while
walking on the railroad bridge which crosses
the ChicOpee river, fell through into the water
below The man chung TO the bushes and was
rescued by the police, but the woman was
drowned. The river was dragged but the body
has not yet been found
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
5. {. Parsons, druggist at NORTHAMPTON.
has been fined $50 and costs for selling liouor
on complaint of a husband to whose wife it
was sold
MAINE.
There are 10000 less cattle in Maine now than
ten years ago, caused by succession of light
hay crops. The hay crop is large enough hi.
year, but still the sale of cattle 10 90 ont of The
state continues.
The Methodist annual camp meeting at Yves
leyan grove, Northport, began Monday and will
continue till Friday. The indications are thai
the attendance will be larger than that of last
year.
Schooner Frances Ann of Harpswell thence
Tor Boston, was run into Sunday night at 1C
O'Clock by an unknown schooner, twenty-five
miles south of Cape Elizabeth, in dense fog
and sunk in twenty minutes. The crew took
to the boats and rowed to Portland, reaching
there Monday night. The Frances Ann was
loaded with dried fish, oil and bait was thirty
tons burthen, and owned by Trufant of Harps-
well; insured.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The body of Wilmer Leavitt of Grantham
eighteen years old, was found in Suckers pond
~ tNit tNRbJ OH SATURDAY. he mad Deen miss
lng since Wednesday night, when, having zone
hshlng with companion, both fell asleep.
Ieavltt was missing when his companion awoke,
lie may have walked into the pond in his sleep.
but the whole affair is shrouded in mystery. and
the authorities are investigating it. The young
man mad been drinking. Some of his clothes
were found in the woods near by.
The lightning played queer freaks with the
dwelling house occupied by George H. Tilton,
IN South Newmarket, on Thursday. Entering
at the caves It tore off plasterinG and in cham
Der threw dressing-table over bed to the op-
Poslfe corner Of the room, then passing through
the ceiling and breaking a lath, went out
thfongh the root. 1t entered at another point
below stairs, tearing away portions of the door
posts, passing close to two children of Mr. Tilton
without injury to either, breaking a mirror and
burning hole in the corner of the frame, and
cutting out as with gauge parts of the window
casing, 1t made an exit through a square OF
glass, cutting a hole the size Of a button, and
damaging the house in various places to slight
extent.
VERMONT
oscar Brown, who has been on trial for muir.
der in Vermont, was acquitted on FRIDAY.
VIM. Hail, painter, tell S5 feet from a stag.
ing to the ground at St. Johnsbury, Tuesday
the 18th, striking on his head and shoulders
ana the next day his lower limbs were found to
be parayzcd.
Application to the next legislature will be
made for a continuous line of railway through
the centre of the state, from Newport on the
north through Montpelier, Chelsea, Woodstock
and Oayendish, to Brattleboro on the south.
CONNECTICUT.
A Cheshire farmer, Mr.. Thomas Hull. expects
10 harvest 1000 bushels of apples this year
An insane woman escaped from the New Ha-
ven almshouse, Sunday, with her newborn
enid, and has not yet been found
The Methodists of Tolland are building
wooden tabernacle for their own accommodation
on the Wilimantic camp ground.
one OF the young ladies admitted TO he com
ing freshman class az the WESLEYAN university
is daughter of Mrs Lucy Stone Blackwell.
The citizens of Naugatuck have instructed
inc seiectmen not 10 license more than two rum
sellers Tor that town, which has now score.
Mr.. VIM. Marcy was accidentally. and proba-
Dly fatally, shot at Merden on Saturday, by a
COMPANION, while engaged in target shooting.
The Norwich soldiers monument, which is
yet unfinished, is twelve feet high, and the
Dlock from which it is cut weighed 80 900
pounds.
stranger entering Willimantic is surprised
10 ma an immense sign bearing the word "cof-
hns the most conspicuous object in the land
scape; but If he stays there overnight he is ant
10 be convinced Of its appropriateness
Gosh darn him, he's always falling down "
was the encomium which the youthful Mr.. Cav
lord Of WATERFOWL pronounced the other day
upon his horse, when that perYerse animal sunk
TO repose in the streets of Waterbury.