Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-07-16

DANIEL Iinnendn OF boston, employed
in the city paving department, was arr
rested for numbering his wife with a
club.
The gang of burglars who are operat-
ing in Middlesex and Worcester counties,
made bold descent, a few nights since,
on the house of Judge f. lockwood
Hoar, at Concord.
The proprietor of very small estab-
lishment on Boston bridge. has an ex-
cellent hit at the nomenclature of some
of the Boston hotels, having placed on
his house an elaborately-painted sign, on
which appears the title, 'Hotel New
Hampshire"
The statue of Samuel Adams, ''the IA
ther of the Revolution has been placed
in position in New Washington street
square, Boston, and is an exact counter
part of the one at Washington, cast in
bronze, seven and half feet high, and
cost $500, bequeethed the city by JON
athan Phillips, of which Miss Anne
Whitney, the artist, received about
$4,000.
Councillor Rodney Wallace and alder
man George +. Fay of Fitchburg, each
presented the city with a check for $500,
to pay for two iron fountains IN place of
the wooden ones now in use.
Lewis, Richards was found dead under
suspicious circumstances, recently, near
the railroad bridge crossing at Oakdale.
His face and head were badly mashed.
He was seen Monday evening drinking
and carousing about Worcester with
some companions.
Since the death of Stephen Chapman,
of ProvincetoWn, circumstances have
come'to light which tend to prove that
it may not have been case of suicide.
1t is known that Chapman and his wife
lived unpleasantly.
Madame Hallet, a trapeze performer in
a circus, while engaged at Cambridge,
recently, in the performance of one of
her acts, suffered a compound rupture.
The fishing schooner Ida r. Freeman,
of Wellfleet, arrived home recently, and
the crew went to their homes, except
three Swedes, who remained on board.
The Swedes got the vessel under way,
and left for parts unknown. 1t is sup
posed they intend going to Europe.
Fall River refuses the use u +Ee
streets to a new horse railroad, because
the road will not place them in proper
condition after tearing them up.
Thomas Moriarty of New Bedford was
found dead in bed, recently, from the eff
fects of intemperance.
Four Springfield deacons had boat
race recently, at Southwick Pond.
The Ames Co., of Chicopee, are trying
to get their younger employees to learn
the regular machinists' trade, as used to
be done under the old apprentice sys-
TEN.
A large number of Clyde and Percher-
on stations will arrive soon from Europe.
These heavy horses have hitherto been
sent to New York, but Boston's harbor
facilities have gained the trade.
Of nearly $50 applicants, 2O5 have
been admitted to Harvard College.
The boring for an artesian well on
Church street, near the Providence de-
pot, Boston is 1898 feet deep, and will
be continued, if necessary, to 1900 feet.
Mrs. Kate Leach, an operative at the
Durfee mill at Fall River. while attempt
ing to hurry a fire by pouring kerosene
upon it, recently, was shocKingly burn
ed about the body, face and arms.
Nearly $lOO, 900 has been subscribed in
Boston, toward establishing children's
hospital.
The estate of the late Joseph Nicker-
son of Boston, has been appraised as fol-
lows: Personal estate, S4, 343, 6548l
real estate, 1926, 465; total, 1859, 1881,
Lee e. Murdock's shoddy mill at East
Doug las was totally destroyed by fire,
recently. The cause was a hot. box on
the shaft,
Ira Sly, who died the other day neal
North Adams, at the age of 70 years, had
always lived on the same farm, which
he, inherited from his father.