Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-15
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pass the one given during jubilee days.
There was great rush tor tickets yesterday
for Prof Tyndalls Howell institute lectures on
the subject OF light and heat.
salute of thirty-eight guns was fired at Bos-
ton Yesterday by order of the governor, in COM
memoration of the discovery of America by Co
lumhuS in 1892.
Robert Shepard, seaman, was yesterday SEN
fenced at Boston TO four years in state prison,
for attempting 10 scuttle the ship Francis OF
Boston, in the Pacific ocean.
Mary Ella Lunie, three years of age, was
killed by her brother Patrick, Ave years OF age,
an idiot, at Boston, yesterday afternoon, by his
striking her on the head with his fist, crushing
in her skull
The funny man on the Boston Journal calls
the bell punches, such as our street car conduct
ors use, tintnnabulatiug tell tales, and says
that on the Metropolitan railroad, where it was
recently introduced eXperimentally, it is work.
ing well, and will earn dividend for the road
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The body of an unknown man, about thirty
years of age, was found i'll what is called the
new canal, at Pawtucket Falls, Lowell, Sunday
morning. He is supposed to be OF Irish origin,
was well dressed, had a light mustache, was
muscular in form and about five feet SIX inches
high In his pocket was $3.50. No marks of
violence were found on his person and nothing
to give any clue TO his identity. He evidently
had been in the water buta short time.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Newburyporr post office is finished and
ready for occupancy.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Mr.. Thomas Southworth, the petitioner for an
injunction against the StandiSh monument asso-
citation, will commence suit for trespass
against the association, in order TO test the con-
stitutionality of the act Of the Legislature grant
Ing the charter TO the defendants.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Gilbert Psbury, the carpet bag ex-mayor OF
Charleston, S. c., has returned to his former
home at lenksville ludlow
Edward Adams Of South Wilbraham, who
died last Sunday, worked in the same shop in
that village, at the wagon making business, fol
over fifty years
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A Springfield man no sooner heard Mrs. LlV
ermore speak than he wrote to the editors Of
the Woman's Journal to stop his wife's paper
If the wife doesn't rebel, we shall be astonished
A note from one of the young ladies of the
South Hadley seminary saws: Delegations OF
students from Amherst and Easthampton occa-
sionally wander lip and down the walks in front
of the seminary, doubtless to admire the beauty
of the buildings or the arrangement of the
grounds.
Obed Montague of South Hadley, while NOW
ing some rowen on his farm recently, came on
a turtle whose acquaintance he had several times
before made. The first time he caught this
melon eater he put his mark upon him thus
W NJ, July, looZs lne SeCOHu tlHley 1905 Int
third time, 1S47; the fourth time, 1850, and the
fifth time, 1872.
MAINE.
Vim. H. Chambers, aged Sc, hanged himself
yesterday in Bath, where he was employed as q
mill hand.
Belfast has the champion skunk killer. He
has killed eight in two weeks with strychnine
and eggs.
Another lot of the tickets set afoat by the
foraer Williams, at Portland, were discovered
Friday.
The vault of the National insurance company
at Bangor was opened yesterday afternoon, anC
the records and papers found to have been un
injured by the fire. There will be no nterrup
ton Of business of the company.
Wateryille became junction for the Maine
Central and kennebunk railroads, yesterday
The regular passenger train going west passed
over the new piece Of road for the first time. A
large gang of men were at work all day making
the connection on the bridge. The old track
between there and Kendall'S Mills will be taken
up immediately and used at other points of the
road.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The executive committee of the Grant and
Wilson club OF Peterboro purchased the title and
good will Of the Greeley and Brown party in
their new flag for a merely nominal price. 1t
will float to the breeze this week inscribed with
the victorious names of Grant and Wilson.
Deacon Isaac Elwell, widely known as an ex.
tensive furniture manufacturer of Concord, died
at his residence yesterday morning IN the sixty
eighth year of his age. He was native o
Gloucester, Mass. and lived in various places il
that state until about twenty years ago, wheI
he removed to New Hampshire. He leaves
widow but no children.
A street fight took place Friday in front o
Colony's block, Keene, in which six roughs from
the boot and shoe mandatory attacked
peaceable stone cutter from South Keeue, whit
knocked down five of them "seriatim" in les
time than it takes to write this. The sixth
rough took TO his heels, but was arrested by tn
police and lodged in jail
Mrs. Mercy Reynolds, woman go years o
age, wife of Isaac Reynolds, committed Sucd
at Dartmouth, on Sunday, by drowning hcrsel
in pond. She had been out of health for sew
eral months, while her husband had been sicl
for several years, requiring her special care, tn,
disease rendering him fretful and i-tempered
Under the double affection she became depressed
and discouraged, and hence the sad act
VERMONT.
The university Of Vermont has seven femal
students
A farmer at East Albany dug potatoes all one
day last week, and secured eight bushels o.
sound ones, the rest being rotten.
John Cummings, member of the Shaker so.
ciety, was robbed of about $500 in currency and
500 in checks, at the house of L. F. Brooks, in
West Hartford, recently.
Frank McGinty, IA years old, son of Richard
McGInty of StAlbans, while engaged in squir
rel hunt on Saturday, was killed by the acct
dental discharge of his gun, which he used care
lessiy III descending steep ACTIVITY.
CONNECTICUT.
Prof. Marsh, ofthe Yale scientific school, has
gust started on another professional tour of ex.
poraiion through the west, accompanied by a
number of students
A young man who resides in Hartford recent
~ drank, on a wager, twenty tumbers of cider
al U
with the juice OF peck and quarter of ap-
pies, which is five quarts of cider. He is still
alive.
A somewhat costly mishap occurred on
Thursday al Wallinglord, when the treasurer of
the Hall, Elton & &c. works attempted TO
throw package OF money containing several
thousand dollars rom a passing train into the
door OF the office. Unfortunately the package
burst open and the money was scattered 10 the
four winds, but at last accounts most of it had
been recovered
Early Sunday morning. Mr.. Patrick Reilly, of
New Haven, aged about forty-two years, starred
away from his house with two of his four chill.
dren, for walk in the woods, the boys expect
ing that they might pick up a few chestnuts.
They took their way along the track of the Air
line railroad, and in passing across the Spite
bridge, which is over the Quinnipiack river, Mr..
Reilly lost his footing and fell through the tim
Ders into the water There was full tide, and
though every effort was made to recover the
body, il was not found.
John Murphy Of Occum, man about thirty
years Of a-e, found himself on Saturday eve
ming on the railroad bridge over the Yantic
when the Norwich and Worcester steamboat
train came around the curve. He could not
swim, and fearing to jump into the river, leaped
for the cowcatcher of the engine as it ap-
preached, and singularly enough reached it in
safety. He was not discovered, and being una
bic TO change his position, lay there until the
train reached Perch rock, where he fell off, and
the train passed over enc of his legs, the loss of
which he sustans.
RHODE ISLAND.
The assessors Of Providence have rated the
wealth Of that city at .110,0s 100, an increase
over last year of S5,501 300 The valuation of
real estate is 500 926 400 an increase of 81 $780,
6Og. The increase of personal property is
$4,000 The rate Of taxation is S1s so per
$1,000
The wife Of Elisha K Crandall of Richmond
committed suicide Sunday by shooting herself
through the head. She placed the muzzle in
her mouth and discharged the piece with her
foot. She had made two previous attempts TO
end her life, once by taking poison and again by
drowning. She has manifested symptoms Of
insanity for some time.
A BoY-KILLING MADMAS.-The Springfield
Republican relates the following:
Henry J. Piper, a lad Of fifteen, living at the
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