Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-06-04
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RosroS AND VICINITY.

Since the first OF January there have been PA
fires within the city limits of Boston, as follows;
CITY proper 100. Dorchester district 60, South
Boston 81, Highland district 80, East Boston IS.
The millennium has come very near to Boston
bachelors by the formation OF mendinS ana
repairing society, composed OF poor women VINO,
without destroying or stealing garments cntIust-
ed 10 them, win sew on buttons, darn stockings,
ETC., al about half the price charged 10y the laun-
dresses.
for Dedham, on the Boston and Providence rail-
road. was passing near the repair shop in Bos-
ton Monday morning, it ran over and instantly |
killed laborer, who was walking on the track. |
The man was between thirty-iye and forty years /
of age, and had NOT Oeen ldentlned at last &C
A boat race between fat menSand lean men |
will take place on Fresh pond this tuesday ar |
ternoon at O'Clock, by the following crews: |
The Fat Boys-W. II. Knight, 126 lbs; John B. |
Carey, 90 lbs; II. w. Fisher, 1870 lbs; G. z. |
Kingsley, 1856 his; total, S21 lbs. The Lean |
Men-A. F. Richardson, 1856 lbs; J. A. Fynes, |
1872 lbs; G. W. Clark, 120 lbs; j. F. Bolton, |
IL lbs; total. sos lbs; the difference in flesh
being GIG pounds The contest is for 500 side
and suppers for the crews and judges.
The ancient and honorable artillery OF Boston
celebrated its 2S4th anniversary Monday with
unusually full ranks and corresponding spirits,
carving ont the programme of the occasion
Rev Phillips Brooks delivered the annual SER
mon in Hollis street church, after which came
the dinner in Faneuil hall. Governor Wash
burn and Collector Russell were among the
speakers After dinner the officers were in-
stalled on the common with appropriate cere-
monies Capt. Edward Wyman, n prominent
merchant is the new commander.
MIDDLEsEy COUNTY.
A white frost Sunday night covered the low
lands in the towns of TyngSboro, Dracut and
Chelmsford, also in places in Lowell, not doing
much damage, however, as the high lands gen
orally escaped, on which the crops were most
advanced
ESSEN COUNTY.
Rev. Benjamin Z. Allen OF Marblehead died
Sunday, aged 66 years II months.
Geo. Russell jackson, local editor of the Law
renee American, was arIaigued Saturday on
charge of assault and battery on the editor of
the Eagle He pleaded not guilty and asked a
continuance, VIII ch was granted till next Tues
day. morning.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Both Taunton bands burst their bass drum
heads Memorial day.
A woman in Fall River was saved from death
by an overdose OF opium, after she had be
come so stupid that no medicine could be
introduced through the mouth, by the injection
of belladOnna under the skin of the arms.
The Taunton city government has accepted a
design for a soldiers monument. 1t will be of
granite, forty-tve feet high, Surmounted by a
bronze statue of soldier at rest. The design
includes tablets of bronze the city seal the
coats of arms of Massachusetts and the United
States, with condemned mortarS al the corners
of the base. Ii will cost $4,000.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
Can't Edwin Scudder of the firm of Scudder
Crocker, shot himself with a pistol on the
25th ult, at Denver, Colorado He had served
two terms in the territorial legislature, one year
in the city council, and several years as county
commissioner. His rash act was caused by ap-
prehensions in regard TO a note he had Endorsed.
Capt. Scudder was native of Osterylle, Barn
stable county, and was brother of the late Hon.
Zeno Scudder.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
1lxr sIr. oil nj
has been serving term Of three years at the
house of correction in Springfield, for swindling
Smith & Wesson, the pistol manufacturers, was
pardoned to day by Gov. Washburn.
BERKSHIRE, COUNTY.
A mlliner at South Adams lately sent her
fourteen year old boy TO New York alone to buy
millinery goods for her.
The property of the Pittsfeld wooden com
pany was sold at auction, Saturday afternoon,
to George Y Learned, of Pttsield, for $50 900.
The property consists of new brick factory 100
by 80 feet, and four stories high, built in 1861
an old factory so by 40 feet large dye house
and other buildings, good dam and water
privilege, and about dozen dwelling houses
The property is said 10 be worth $15O,OOO or
more, but the dividends of the company have
been so small for the last halEdozen years that
the investment has not paid.
MAINE.
DIR. A. X. Wing, of Auburn, was found dead
in bed at hoIe in Vinalhaven on Wednesday
morning. Heart disease was the cause.
Moses Parsons of Burnham was killed Mon
day, near his house, while on the track of the
Maine Central, loading wood into a wagon.
His wife and two children witnessed his death.
The ten-year-old son of Hugh Golden, OF Fort
Kent, was drowned few days since. He was
playing with his brothers upon some logs near
the river when the upper tier rolled down, car
rying him INTO the water. He at once tried to
swim ashore, but the current carried him down
the river, his little brothers meanwhile running
along the bank calling him to swim ashore. He
Kant lfalo rFo SO
when he became exhausted, and, calling TO his
brothers not to tell his father that he was
drowned, sank and was seen no more.
A short time ago little babe in Portland
died, and, as is sometimes the case, was laid
away in the bureau drawer till the funeral The
day Of the funeral came, and the bereaved
mother was coDvulsed with grief over the little
casket, and sobbing, laid it away in the cold
ground. On her return home she thought she
would go 10 the drawer and gaze once more at
fireplace which would henceiOrth be consccrated,
when what should meet her eyes when the
drawer was opened but the lifeless corpse of the
child that had been entirely forgotten in pre-
pairing for the funeral.
Some time between Saturday night and Mon
day morning the ticket Office of the Portland
and Rochester railroad at Alfred was broken
open, and all the tickets stolen and carried
away, including the case in which they were
kept. TIE freight house was also forcbly en-
tered, some boxes Of ready-made clothing and
shoes broken open, and part of their contents
distracted The Jewelry store OF George N.
PheniX IN the vicinity was also visited and a
quantity Of lewelry taken. One of the houses
OF the Shaker family next received attention,
the rogues stealing $40 from the room of one OF
the men employed on the farm.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
James w. Emery, a well known railroad
manager IN Boston and in Maine, was elected a
representative Monday from Portsmouth 10 fill
vacancy.
The carriage shop of Joseph L. Cove of East
lDeernu dqefr Nv fra
ing, together with several carriages Loss I'M
known; insurance $780,
Ayoung man of Keene named Henry Lam
pard, aged q, employed in the Faulkner colony's
WOODEN mil, committed suicide by hanging on
Saturday morning. He had not been able 10
work for several days, aud was feeling some
what detected because he could not take care of
himself, which is supposed TO have been the
reason Of his committing the act.
VERMONT.
BENJAMIN Barber, resident of Farlee, COM
United suicide by taking strychmne, Sunday
evening. He was aboutthirty years old
coNNEcTICUT.
Trinity college will not send crew to the col
lege regat ia.
Edward Bulkley was run OYER and killed in
the New Haven depot Saturday.
Robert W.sBlrnwell is the class orator at
Trinity, and Alexander NJ. Smith the poet.
The capital Of the odoress rubber company
of Middletown has been increased 10 SIG 900 and
it is doing heavy business.
Of Norwich, fell from third story window
Saturday evening, to the concrete sidewalk be-
low. She was picked up insensible, bnt il was
found that though badly bruised her worst inju-
ry was a broken arm
Thirty years ago farmer near Norwich hired
twelveyear old lad named Sheppard 10 work
on his farm and has employed him ever since,
MS wages Tor the past twelve years having aver
aged 300 per year with board, and previously
less. This spring The hired man bought the
employers farm for s12 900, end paid S11 600
cash, being the amount he had saved during
the time.
Two women Miss Mary Hemenway and Mrs.
John Chapman, have done, year by year, about
al the decorating Of soldiers graves that has
Deem seen IN Suiied, and on Thursday every
one Of the fourteen soldiers graves in the Gene
terry were decorated by their hands Miss Hem
ehWay lost brother in the war, and Mrs. Chap
man husband was so reduced at Andersonvrie
lnat sue was unable TO recognize him when he
returned north-though he IS now we'll The
people in general are very Indifferent to Inc