Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-07-29
COUNTY NEWS.

The corner stone of the new Congregational
church at Leominster is to be laid on Thursday
The total valuation of Sterling this year is
S1,15O517; the rate of taxation is 81 per
$1,000. The number of polls is 482.
A plan is proposed to furnish the town of
Leominster with water by means of the new
Fitchburg water works.
son of John Fitzgerald of Winchrndon,
aged seven years, was drowned in a well on the
10Th inst.
The Fitchburg gas company have purchased
fifteen new retorts and propose to manufacture
an increased amount of gas to meet the de-
mand.
The valuation of Gardner this year is
81, S64850 an increase of SCI, 101 from last year;
the rate of taxation is S19S6 per $1,000 The
number of polls is 1854; increase 76.
The Baptist church in Sterling has just set
tied Rev. S. B. Macomber of Maine as its pas
tor. Rev. L. D. Mears, of the Congregational
church, has gone to Wisconsin on a four weeks
vacation.
Rev. r S. Howard, ID, late president of Nor
witch university, VT, has accepted call to the
Episcopal Church of the Reconciliation, Web
ster, Mass.
The Gardner News says: Mr.. II. W. Dyer Iof
Otter river, has purchased of Mr.. S. G. Gates of
the South village about ten acres of moving
and swamp land for 5000. We understand that
the land will be occup led by parties from Wor-
cestcr who propose to manufacture extensively
faced and pressed bricks. This will be an inn
portant addition to the business interests of the
South village.
SEQUEL TO THE BANK ROBBERY The Bos-
ton Journal of Saturday evening gives the fol-
lowing account of the recovery of portion of
the property stolen at the bank robbery in Tx
bridge on the morning of the 18th inst.
The story is not without a cOloring Of
romance and goes to show that the Jack
Shepards of the present day are not wholly des
titute of some of the better qualities ascrbed in
fiction to their illustrious and infamous prede-
cessOrs
AT about eleven o'clock this forenoon Mr.
Eben b. Hayward and Mr.. Jacob Taft, gentle
men interested in the UXbrdgc bank robbery
rushed into the office of the chief of police in
city hall, with communication bearing no sig
nature, mailed in New York on the 25th of
July. The purport of this communication was
that some articles which had been stolen from
the UXbridge bank would be found buried on
the Back Bay lands in this city. AT first the
case had something of a dreamy aspect, but on
comparing the envelope with another that the
same gentleman had previously received, con-
tanning papers that had been stolen from the
bank ON the night of the robbery, it was decided
to explore the locality designated in the letter,
and Officers Wood and Ham, of the city police,
accompanied by the gentlemen above named
Immediately set out to prospect Guided by tine
diagram they proceeded to the grounds, Dor.
rowed some tools of some workmen in the
neighborhood and began operations.
After somewhat protracted search they at
last unearthed copy Of one of the Boston
dailies which proved to contain one gold watch,
one diamond ring, two plain gold rings, one
gold thimble, pair of hair bracelets two gold
pencils, two pairs of gold-bowed spectacleS, and
various other articles, which were all keepsakes
belonging to little Mabel Taft, left by her de
ceased mother, which had been placed in the
vault Of the bank for safe keeping by her grand
father, the cashier of the bank Mr. Hayward
expresses great satisfaction at the recovery of
the property, and thinks there is truly some
honor among some thieves, believing, as he does
that the communication Yves sent by the gentle
manly burglars in response to his advertisement
in the papers that those articles belonged to an
orphan child. AS soon as the property was Sc
cured the gentleman hurried away to another
quarter to investigate another com municaton
of similar nature.