Worcester daily spy., 1859-06-25
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

the hremen, will march through the pripcipaI
streets IN torch-light procession. On the line
OF march, fireworks will be displayed and
buildings illuminated.
AS Mr. Alexis w. Moore was engaged
Thursday afternoon, in removing slate stone
from his quarry in the northern part of Quin-
cy, large slab became suddenly disengaged
from an impending cliff and in its fall crushed
hlm' down, causing his instantaneous DEATH
The sad event has cast a gloom over the
neighborhood by who he was esteemed. and
his loss will be deeply felt
The @ronauts King and Allen made an as
cension at Charlestown, Thursday, but on ac-
count of the dense fog did not protract their
aerial voyage. About dusk they landed an ,oa-
ter knee deep, near the boundary line of Bel
mont and West Cambridge.
The old building on Hanover street. Boston.
known i'll the revolutionary period and sub
sequently as the "Blue Anchor Tavern" and
the headquarters ofmany an exciting struggle
IN the early days of the republic, is about to
be demolished. .
The Lowell Manufacturing Company has
declared semi-annual dividend of forty dol
lars per share, payable July l. This is the
largest dividend by this company since 1916.
and will in some measure compensate the
shareholders for the several omissions within
that period This large dividend has been
made by the oppression of the operatives,
who have been working for almost starvation
prices.
NANTUCKET.
Leander Caswell, a dishonest sailor, dis
charged from his own vessel for stealing, was
arrested Thursday in Mattapoisett, for attempt
ing to run away with sail-boat which he had
borrowed in Nantucket for the laudable pur-
pose of bluefishing. He took no fish, but was
caught in the act of hooking the boat.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
John c. Wolcott, Esq, of Cheshire the Or
ator elect of the Pittsfied Fourth of July cele-
bration, had both of the bones of his forearm
broken, on Saturday, by a stone thrown by
one Thomas B. Brown, whom he was taking
to task for crossing his fields and leaving the
bars down.
William, son of Joseph Brodie, residing in
the west part of Pittsfeld, was scalded to death
on Monday afternoon, by sitting down in tub
OF hot water which had been left few mo-
ments by his sister, who had been washing.
He was q years old.
An lrishman, named John DAILY, employed
IN the Berkshire Woolen Company's mills,
caught his finger between belt and drum on
Monday and had it torn completely out, to-
gether with the cords as far up as his elbow
Ten deaths have occurred in Peru since De-
cember last, and the persons deceased were of
the respective ages of 90, 81, o. Sc, "a, 76, IA,
u, %, 40 A pretty good indication of the
longevity OF that healthful and temperate 10.
cahty, says the Berkshire Eagle.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
There are eighty thousand acres of rough
forest land in the northern part of New Hamp-
shire that belong to the State and it is pro-
posed to give titles to all that has been actually
occupied for SIX months, to reserve five thou
sand acres for homesteads for settlers who will
live upon the land year and make certain
improvements, and to sell the balance
CONNECTICUT.
Wesleyan University, at its Commence
ment, Wednesday, conferred the following
honorary degrees Master of Arts, James b.
Dixon, Principal of Colburn Academy, Cana
da, Rev. Abel Gardner, of Providence, and
Alfred 5. Purdy, NJ d., New York City.
Doctor OF Divinity, upon the Rev. Francis A.
West of the British Conference, Rev. John
5. Porter, Newark, II. j., and the Rev. Daniel
Wise, New York City. Doctor of Laws, upon
ID. Z. Van Norman, New York City.
A lad OF six years, son of Ira Skinner of
Mlddletown, Conn.,, was drowned in the Con.
necticut, Thursday morning, while fishing
from the dock. The first intimation of his
sad fate was the discovery of his broken fish
pole floating on the stream. Captain Skinner
has already buried his wife and three children
within three years. This lad being the last
or rirv ss'HIfry, was Il constant companion OF his
father during the boating season on the river.
PERSONAL.
The Hon. Millard Fillmore, who has been
staying in Cincinnati recently, has been nom
mated for the Presidency. AT meeting of
gentlemen of all parties" held in Clifton,
Ohio, town of 300 inhabitants, Mr. F. was
unanimously nominated for President of the
United States" 1t was agreed he should be
run in 1860 as "the Peoples candidate"
FdtstaBin an Loce.-It is a current on dit that
Hackett, the great Falstaffian comedian, who
is not far from ''three score" recently married
young lady of New York, not yet out of her
teens, and will soon retire with her to Europe,
having been more successful in this adventure
than the hero of Gad's Hill, with whom his
name is SO closely identified
Manton NJ Marble of Millbury, and former
ly connected with the Boston Traveller, has
joined Col. Mobiles Frazer River and Pacific
Expedition, as correspondent of the New York
Evening Post and Harper's Weekly.
Orators for the Fourth of july, 1S59.-At Bos-
ton-George Sumner; Providence-Professor
J. b. Angel; Lawrence-Henry Wilson;
Franklin-Charles A. Phelps Yarmouth
Charles f. Swift Stoneham-Ex-Gov. Bout
well; New Bedford-Rev. Mark Trafton.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A colored man, claiming to be one hundred
and t,co years old, voted in the First Ward.
Providence, on Wednesday. Two voters in
the Fifth Ward, aged ninety four and ninety.
two years respectively, deposited ballots for
the candidates of their choice.
One hundred men in disguise broke into the
Jail of Keokuk county Iowa, on the 4th inst,
and liberated large gang of prisoners-actu-
ated, it is said, by the singular motive of saw
ing the county the expense of the prisoners
board, amounting to $50 and $75 per month.
1t is limited that the New York police have
obtained knowledge of the existence in that
city OF an organized band of Thugs, who en-
trap the unwary into certain street dens, and
there murder them for the booty on their per-
sons, and afterwards endeavor to conceal their
crimes by putting the bodies into the river.
The alarming prevalence of dead bodies in the
North and East rivers is attributed to the do
ings of these villains
The Ginseng excitement exists in Wisconsin
as well as in Minnesota. 1t is estimated that
SlO0,0O0 will be paid to the inhabitants of Bad
AK and Richiand counties, Wisconsin, this
season, for the root that will be gathered.
An English coroner's jury have recently re-
turned verdict-of manslaughter against an
owner of pleasure boats, for letting one of them
out in an unsafe condition, by reason of which
one OF the party hiring it was drowned.
On the evening Of June l6 large number
of the citizens of Oberlin, Ohio, met and per-
fected an organization called the Sons of Lber-
ty, and declared to be "the immediate object
of the organization to raise funds for the pres
ent contest and to extend and direct the action
of Anti-Slayery principles here and else
where"
An extraordinary poetical feat is in progress
at Paris The proprietors OF the Lebraiiie
NoureHe announce that they will publish every
Saturday sixteen quarto pages of poetry" by
M. Merry, descriptive of La grande epopee mill
taire alM SO prennre en- HnLie Tho nrasnontra