Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-09-19
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Now FurInpd News SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

New England News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Richard 5. Morley, bar tender at the Cattle
Fair hotel, Brighton, shot himself Tuesday
night; age twenty-four.
About one O'Clock yesterday morning Sarah
O'Neill OF Boston, twenty-five years OF age,
jumped from fourth story window to the back
yard, distance Of nearly fifty feet and bruised
the back OF her head though her escape from
more serious consequences is somewhat remark
able. No cause is assigned for the rash leap.
The old three-mile stone at Boston Highlands
the removal of which is to be investigated, was
put into the ground by Mr.. Paul Dudley, the son
Of Governor Dudley and famous judge, who
died in 1I5l. He put mp mile stones at his own
expense in various parts Of RoNbury. Another
can be seen AT the junction of Center and Wash
ington streets; though rude in construction and
quarried from the neighboring lodges, their use
fulness in those early days was at once acknowl-
edged Upon them he put his initials, "P. D."
the number of miles from Boston and the date;
and for nearly century they were the only
guide to travellers.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford Standard saws that pas
senger who arrived there few days ago was
solicited at the depot to take a hack. He
replied that he was going in the horse cars, and
the hickman told him to 90 to hi. Our friend
retorted, when decide to make the trip will
order your carriage"
A Vineyard justice, few months ago, sent a
prisoner to the house of correction for the term
of nineteen days, despite the usual practice OF
sentencing in round numbers. The key TO this
proceeding was in the fact that Just that time
remained before the culprit expected to go
whaling.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Frank Rood of West Springfield, brakeman on
the Boston and Albany railroad, received fatal
injuries while Stacking cars at Palmer yester-
dew morning.
The fall term of the WESLEYAN academy at
Wilbrahai1 has opened with 275 students.
Newly converted young men in Springfield
always get out Of the horse cars and walk over
the Main street railroad crossing to keep down
the old curses, without which it is impossible TO
ride over.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
One of the noteworthy instances OF woman
rights in practical operation is at the small sta
ton of Richmond, on the Boston and Albany
railroad, where Mrs. Fairbanks is the station
agent, and entirely satisfies all the practical
requirements of the position. During the latter
years of her deceased husbands life, the former
station agent, she did all the business, his vast
ing disease, consumption, rendering him unable
TO work, and on his death the railroad company
continued her in the post, thus enabling her TO
support family of four or five children. She
is good example of the bravery and thrift of
genuine Yankee woman.
A mysterious case is reported as occurring at
LenoX, on Saturday afternoon last, stable boy
employed by Mr.. Woolsey being found naked
in the woods and claiming to have been drugged
and robbed by strange parties, while a horse
which he had been exercising was found near
him with all his trappings, which were quite
valuable, untouched. The boy claims that two
men came along about two o'clock and dragged
him from his horse, stripped him stark naked,
drugged him and left him for dead on a great
rock on the side of the mountain. His clothes
they had taken with them, or at any rate they
could not be found, and he lay unconscious I'M
der the rock until about FIVE O'Clock, when he
was making his way homeward and met the
gentleman hunting. When seen he would start
from tree and 90 with an unsteady gait 10
another which he would grasp as though he
needed support to keep him on his feet, and all
the while lay muttering and moaning insanely.
No wounds or bruises were found upon him to
show that he had been assaulted in any way.
AT last accounts he was in a very critical condi-
ton and cannot probably recover.
MAINE.
A little boy in Saco attempted, Sunday, to
catch beautiful little black kitten that was
gamboling about the she'd The kitten turned
out to be skunk.
Mrs. Eliza H. Field, of Portland, died very
suddenly Monday morning of hemowhage. She
arose at her usual hour, got her husbands
breakfast, and performed her usual morning
domestic duties. Not long after her husbands
the lungs and died almost Immediately. She
had been in feeble health for some time.
A young man named John Murphy, en-
ployed on the Continental mills addition at Lew
lston, fell through scuttle at the mills Friday,
descending forty feet and striking fairly on the
bottom of his shoes on the lower floor. The
ankles were extensively dislocated and frac-
tured and the bones driven through his feet
which were thus mangled in a shocking man
ner. The physician who treated the wounds is
confident OF saving the feet. sssssS
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Gardner Gibson of Nashua found hen in his
well, Sunday, Sth, which had .been missing
since the Tuesday before. When it was got out
Its legs and comb were both perfectly white, but
IN about three hours they came to their natural
color, and the hen took up the business of
scratching as il nothing unusual had happened
to it,
CONNECTICUT.
George Phillips of Aberdeen, Scotland, en-
ployed in quarry near Lyme, was run over by
the Shore Line train, near New London, last
evening, and literally torn to bits
An advertisement in the Hartford Times reads:
Wanted, girl to help on pants" Probably
the advertiser would prefer those accustomed to
the work.
Edwin Deming, Hartford man, will be bene-
htted by the award of the Geneva board of
arbitration, he having lost property valued at
S20OO by the burning of the Tycoon, which
sailed from New York in March, 1864, and
was captured and burned by the Alabama in
April.
The Watertown fair has shrewd managers.
They offer prize of S125 for the best band of
music, on condition that the successful band
play the second day gratis. This ensures a jubi-
lee on very respectable scale on the first day,
and also playing on the second. OF course no
hrst-class band can play two days for SIPS.
George o. Clark, farmer in the eastern part
OF Ellington, was killed last Sunday by the ac-
cldental discharge Of a gun in the hands of his
eldest son, boy fourteen years old. Clark,
with his two sons, had been hunting, and on
their return be went into the house and sat
down at The dinner table; his son came in few
moments later and, while shutting the door,
struck the gun against it, discharging tho entire
charge of buckshot into Clark's groin. He,
however, did not feel it at first, but ate several
mouthtuls and commenced scolding his son for
his carelessness. After a few seconds he fell
from his chair and died almost instantly.
RHODE ISLAND.
An aged gentleman named Levi Bosworth
while reading newspaper at his home in Prov
ldenee at two O'Clock Sunday afternoon. was
seized with sudden fit of apople.ly, and fell
conYulsiyely into the arms of his wife, who was
listening attentively to his reading. A neigh
Dor went Immediately for a doctor, but before
he arrived Mr.. Bosworth was dead. He leaves
no children 49, $50 -