Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-05-15
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new England News summary.


BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Catherine Comfy, aged 81 years, died suddenl
at So Athens street, Boston, Monday Afternoon
The body of dead infant was found Monda
morning floating in the water at the Gran
Junction dock, East Boston.
Mrs. Mary White, sixty-fve years of age, wa
found dead in her room at a house on lnstitui
avenue, Boston, Monday evening. Heart di'
ease.
Michael OBrien of East Boston, who is par
TALLY deranged, was missing, and bis irlehuii
advertised Cor him. 1t appears that he s ma, -
some street lamps in Newton ana WIS Sou -
East Cambridge Jail. 50,
John Nevins, OF Pgtnam, Conn, W. " -,
Tuesday, by falling while attemphhS - I" ~ !
aboard a train starting from tnS ~ - ~, 'N
Boston. Hartford and Erie raIoau, III Dosao ii,
Daniel Webster Appleton, VINO was 50 teIrioN
iie 4r " ibf in the Dorchester station
loalnS vas alive Tuesday evening, but with
sI;ght homes of recovery. He is grandson OF
DsnieI Webster and otherwise highly con-
nected. -. e-so ooo =, s,,-,,, nor
nt ~ ne Boston and Albanyl railroad com
nany were opened Tuesday. They are taken
Nv number of savings banks, and invested at
from fraction above four per cent TO seven
per cent. premium.
a cable dispatch received at Boston, Tuesday,
states that the ship Leucothea of Boston, which
sailed from Sourabaya Java December %, for
Holland, was spoken March 16, in distress, with
seven feet of water in the hold, and with loss OF
boats having experienced severe hurricane,
during which her master, Captain Francis d.
CroWell, was lost overheard and drowned. Capt.
Crowell belonged TO Marion, Mass. and was
favorably known as shipmaster of superior
ability and character. The ship is owned by
Messrs. NiekersOn g. Co. of Boston.
Boston paper tells of fremont street con-
gregaton who sat some time Sunday morning
awaiting the appearance of the pastor, and at
length good deacon quietly stepped out and
found the pastor absorbed in religious paper,
unconscious of his eXpeatent fock's impatience.
The shell Of the monster drum, twelve feet in
diameter and FIVE wide, which has been con-
structed at Pennington. Me, for the use of the
orchestra of the Peace Jubilee, arrived Tuesday
morning by steamer from Portland, and passed
up fremont street on ts~way to the house of
hook and ladder company No. 3, in Harrison
avenue where it will be fitted with heads and
finished.
A Boston tea house some time ago employed
a stranger, who was a young man of good adj
dress, TO drum up custom in Pennsylvania, Civ
ing him samples and $50 as an outfit. Some
time after they learned that he owed bill at
the Revere house, and resigned themselves TO the
fact that they had been swindled. Last week
however, they had letter from the salesman
enclosing check for $50 and an apology for the
apparent fraud. They feel better now
committee composed of the members Of the
Boston press, having the matter in charge, are
making extensive preparations TO accommodate
their newspaper brethren throughout the country
who aceeptinvitatons to attend the information
al peace jubilee. A room in the coliseum win
be specially fitted up and assigned for their ex-
elusive use, which will be under the general SUI
perintendence of Mr.. S. R. Niles, whose atten-
tion to visiting members of the press at the pre-
vious jubilee will be pleasantly remembered
A banquet is also in contemplation for the press
on the opening day of the jubilee.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
wagon containing two men and two bows
was stove in pieces by passenger train on the
Stony RrDOk railroad
Both Invertebrates Hanson and Lewis c. Hobbs
were seriously injured. The boys escaped.
ESSEX COUNTY.
For seven years previous to 1872 there was no
burial in the Friends cemetery in South Var
mouth. This year seven persons have died in
that village, and every one has been buried in
the Friends cemetery
BRISTOL COUNTY.
On Sunday, says the Fall River News, Dr. |
Isaac Smith, Jr., removed needle from lady's |
chest, where it had been Tor four years. There |
seems 10 be nothing wonderful about that, A |
case recently occurred in this city where lady
took > whole paper of needles from her chest af-
Ter they had lain there ten years.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY
The Pr0vincetown bankers" are now ranldly
getting under way, and, after their hardships of
last year, certainly deserve good season. If
the sea should prove unkind to them this wear
many would suffer severely Provincetown now
musteIs about two hundred sail, and the fisher
enced on the coast The community is endeay-
oring TO make some effort to get manufacturing
established in its midst in the same manner as
gloucester essayed. The completion of the line
OF rall from Welideet will make Proyincetown
one oil the most prosperous towns in the state
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
On the Dist inst. Springfield will vote on the
acceptance OF the act for a water supply and
also ION the question of taking stock in the
Athol and Enfield railroad.
In tho r
Daniel Gleason, the North Adams wife murder
er, unexpectedly pleaded guilty TO murder in
the first degree. he was remanded TO iail 10
await sentence in September.
Matte Donovan, the Springfield fasting girl,
sui hYes, and retains her plumpness of appear
ance, although, if reports be true fifteen months
nave passed since She has retained ANYTHING in
her stomach long enough to receive from il any
nourlshment whatever. Six weeks ago the city
physician gave her teaSpoonful of beef tea
and for the fifteen minutes before it was thrown
up her sunenngs were fearful. Since then M
similar attempt has been made TO force nourisb.
Inent upon her, and she has taken during those
SIX weeks only a small quantity of water
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
George G. Merrill of Shelburne Falls hac,ed
ms horse, wagon and self over bank forty feet
high, few days since, without serious iniury
10 any OF them.
Greenfield sent 4572 pounds of butter to The
Boston market on the 9th decrease of IA
pounds from the previous week The nr;ces
also fell of slightly from the previous week
VI Z56 different lots, ranging in price from 90
70 Az ce1tS II sold for less than 25; Is between
20 and ~; 50 between 80 and IS; So between 35
and 40; 70 between 40 and 40.
The following ballot was deposited at tbe mills
ID Greenfield Tuesday: AS to the Question Of
Beer vote No. Also are of the opinion thar
al persons Should be compelled 10 drink Ievdnn
Gien water as beverage, and nothing els and
That the State Constable be called unon IN COO
mat TINS law be strictly eniorsed"
BERKSHIRE COUNTY
a tenement house owned by Mr. Valley and
near the lower dam on Green river Williams.
town, was burnt Friday noon. Loss, 5000; in.
sured. S' an
Inc shop OF John Frey, in Bangor was en-
tered Sunday, and several trunks of pood
broken open and partly rifed. Kerosene WA
poured over them and then set on fire. Forum
ately the flames did not spread.
As John z. Smith of Rockland was sain
into port with load OF Holsters, on Friday. hi
boat struck a rock and sank, and in irving I,
swim TO the shore, which was about two hun
dred yards away, he was drowned His young
mast and was saved
NEW HAMPSHIRE
JOSIAH Heath, aged eighty-two years and ly.
ing IN the family Of David French, of Chester.
committed suicide on Sunday night by hanging
himself to star-pOst. The body was discoy,
cred yesterday forenoon
John ruler, a young man recently married.
while at work in the sash and blind factory nj
Contoocookyille, N. H., Saturday afternoon
was seriously if not fatally injured by piece OF
wood Tying back and striking him in the pit Of
Aunt Betty Jackson, of Rochester. eighty.
hVe years old, walked three miles to the village
the other day, did some shopping, made one or
two calls, and then walked home again. She
prefers walking to riding
as Arthur J.. Choate, a son of Charles Cboate
Oh Derry, was driving an OK team in a field Mon.
uay! inc cart got ON q stone and was tipped
against wall strkingthe son and killing him
instantly. The deceased was twenty-one wears
Vi age ana man Of excellent character,
Az place called Narrows-a small mart of
LAKE Mlnniplseogee which makes INFO the land
IA ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS quantities of dead fish
hiaNe peen washed ashore since the ice has
Inn oaVe e. up. y IS an unusual occurrence and
calls Tor solution WV anu
ME- 6palafd Tor many years deacon of the
nm Tnesdos1 saponal church, died in Concord
I I nueSuay IN inst. aged seventy years having
80 'Ii ~ Win paralysis the Saturday nre,,''
Goncord so M descendant of one Of The first
oocoru settlers, and has held many oa,oan ~ ~
rusl ana honor His wife died few davs 49,, vi
oN sailors, employed on board tho s.o...
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