MARRIED:
In Milford, Dec. 10, Patrick Wall to Miss Mary Dean, both of M.
Gelispin Wood to Mrs. Sarah E. Bartlett, both of Upton.
In Malden, Nov. 17, Arthur R. Summer of Milford, to Mary F. Joy of Malden.
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DIED:
In this city, Dec. 25, Martha S., wife of Harry Richardson, 25 years 11 mos.
Funeral Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, at Thomas street Chapel.
In this city, Dec 23, John Allen, 74 years.
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In this city, Dec. 23, Beriah Curtis, aged 65 years. Funeral from his late residence No 7 Maple st., at 10 o'clock on Wednesday.
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ARREST for ARSON in MILFORD
The Milford Journal states that Samuel Cheney was put in under arrest on Wednesday, on the charge of firing, early in July last, the shop in which he worked as a boot and shoemaker. Immediately after the fire, he collected the insurance he had on his own materials in the shop, and then absconded. He was required by the police court to give bonds in the sum of $10,000 for his appearance on the 30th instant, the case being postponed till that time.
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Capt. John B. Fairbanks, lately of the 36th regiment, was thrown from a wagon at Oakham recently, and quite seriously injured. Capt. Fairbanks has just received his promotion as major.
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David B. Kingsbury Esq., one of the most influential citizens of Dudley, was severely injured Dec. 16, by falling from the high beams to the floor of his barn.
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McGrath, who was run over by a runaway horse near City Square, on Saturday evening, and had three ribs broken, is improving, and will probably recover.
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POLICE COURT
Tuesday, Dec. 26 - Joseph Daniels of Sutton, for larceny of articles of dry goods from various stores in this city, on thirteen different complaints, was bound over to the Superior Court in $1500. Goods to the amount of $175 were stolen from Barnard, Sumner & Co.
Ezra P. Warburton, for larceny of an album from Groot & Bigelow's sore, was fined $5 and costs.
Thomas McCrady, Thomas McLaughlin, Thomas Kane, John Powers, Patrick Rileyt, Michael Fleming, Cornelius Lynch, Garre, Laughlin, Patrick Haggerty, Ross McCann, John Wilcox, Charles Allen, James A. Williamson, John Burns, and Edward Cassidy for being drunk, were each fined $1 and costs.
Charles Allen, for carrying steel knuckles, was fined $10 and costs.
Peter O'Donnell, for larceny of a pair of pants and a lady's dress from the store of Eliza McCann, was sentenced to the House of Correction for two months.
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Miscellaneous News
NEW YORK Dec. 26 -- The condition of Wm. B. Russ the would be murderer and suicide, who shot Miss Fanny Dayton in Brooklyn on Saturday night, is quite favorable to recovery. Miss Dayton's condition is very low, she will hardly recover.
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FIRE
SHAFFER, Dec. 25 -- At quarter past one P.M. today, a fire broke out in the Ocean House. The entire west end of the town from Donnelly & Co.'s oil office to the Post office, was consumed within two hours. The Rawson Hotel was also among the ruins. All the shops and stables adjoining the back of this hotel were also consumed. Sonnelly's office and all below Centre street were saved. The wind was favorable for the safety of the platforms and no oil was burned. During the excitement Mr. Park was shot dead while quarrelling with his murderer. Ten stores and four hotels were consumed. The bulk of the buildings were destroyed.
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SUFFOCATION
CHICAGO, Dec. 25 -- A terrible case of suffocation from gas occured at the Bremen Hotel, 137 Lake street, Saturday night, resulting in the death of five men, and perhaps six. The victims all slept in the same room, and it is supposed that after retiring, the cap of the gas pipe, which was merely stuck on with wax, fell off, allowing the gas under full pressure to enter the room. Five of the men were found dead yesterday morning. Another was still alive last night, but was insensible.
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FIRE
MONTREAL, Dec. 25 -- The Merchants Exchange a large four story stone building opposite the Montreal telegraph companies office, took fire last night about 10 o'clock and in spite of several streams of water, burnt fiercely until 2 o'clock this morning. The building was completely gutted. The telegraph office was in danger at one time, there was fortuneately not much wind. The chirf of the fire brigade was lost and two firemen stunned by falling stones.
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FORTRESS MONROE - Dec. 26 -- The main portion of hte old frigate Merrimac with her propeller weighing ten tons, and thirty tons of composition has been raised and taken to the Portsmouth navy yard.
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The Body of the Late Burglar -- An undertaker in New York of the name of Winterbottom, wrote a few days ago for the corpse of Amos Lee alias Amos Thomas, the burglar who recently fell in this place while in the act of explosive robbery. He stated in his letter that the wife of Lee, being now in the city, had authorized him to send for the remains, and that she herself purposed to come to Milford after the holidays, and settle all unsettled bills. The body was forwarded on Thursday morning. MIlford Journal.
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A girl was sent to Reform School at Lansing, Michigan, dressed in boy's clothes and bearing the name of Joseph Horward. Her sex was discovered immediately, and she was sent back to jail. She says she is 19 years old, that her parents reside in Cleveland, Ohio, and are respectable and pious people. She says she has worn boy's clothes about seven years, and her sex has never been before dicovered. Her appearance is so boyish that she remained in jail several weeks, was brought to court and sentenced, and taken to Lansing by the officers, without being suspected.
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