Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-31
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


By the will of the late Charles T. IIovey,
his estate is to be appropriated as follows TO
his wife, 500, 900; to each Of his four children,
$1,000; to VIM. Lloyd Garrison, Henry c.
Wright, Parker Pisbury, and Stephen S. Eos
ter $1,000 each. The balance of the estate,
which is supposed to amount to $4,000 to
Wendell Phillips Francis jackson, VIM Lloyd
Garrison, and others, for the benefit Of the An
ti-Slavery Woman's Rights, and non-resist-
ant societies.
In Boston, Sunday night, there was an al
tercation in a sailors boarding house, No. 4
Moon street, between VIM. Hodge and Mi
chael Caffrey, and Hodge was stabbed so that
he may die. Caffrey was assaulted, and being
much weaker than Hodge, did the stabbing in
selfdefence.
About ten o'clock Saturday evening, two
Irishmen, named Daaiel Mahoney and John
OHearn, had an alteration in house No. Isl
Broad street. and the latter was stabbed four or
five times in oae of his legs. 1t appears that
Mahoney's wife was recently arrested for some
offence, and Mahoney charged O'Hearn with
having been the cause.
ESSEN COUNTY.
About II o'clock on Saturday night, fire was
set to a small house which stood in the rear of
the Catholic church in Lynn. The flames
spread rapidly to the church, and both build
ings were destroyed. The loss is about S12,-
QUO. There was an insurance on the church
OF 5000, divided between the Etna, American
and Manufacturers offices of Boston.
The stables and workshops belonging to
Mr.. George French at North Andover, were
burnt with their contents, consisting of car
riages, harnesses, paints, &c. on Friday night
last. The loss was quite heavy and but par
TALLY insured. The fire was doubtless the
work of an incendiary.
q
ing the house of Mr.. William II. Kinsman, on
Sunday evening, when walking from the door,
stepped into a cellar way and injured himself
so seriously as to occasion his death in a few
hours. He was a worthy man, % years of
age.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The wages OF the operatives at the Dwight
cotton mills at Chicopee have been raised
from ten to twenty five per cent from the
prices paid last winter. Agent Adams is
making an effort to get better set of opera
Iyes into the mills by Offering liberal wages.
Thirty-five girls have recently entered the
mills from northern New York-young and
manageable.
The new Holyoke water power company
give the Hampden Park at Holyoxe to the
town, and repair and clean out the reservoir.
The Lyman Mills of Holyoke purchased
line library Of 600 volumes for the use of
their operatives few months SINCE and the
hampshire mills have recently followed suit
| and procured one of 300 volumes.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Last Thursday night large barn at EPSON
N. H., belonging to William Goss, was con
sumed, together with one fine yoke of oxen
and seven cows, and man named John EN-
cry, who was an Incorporate man, and an in
yeterate smoker, who is thought to have gone
into the barn during the night, and accidental
ly communicated the fire to the hay with his
pipe.
The alumni of Gilmanton Academy are to
have reunion at Gilmanton, on the 4th of
August. Prof E. ID. Sanbon of Dartmouth
College viii deliver an address, and William
| g. Fox of Wolfboro' poem.
CoNNECTiCUT.
Ransom Tomlinson, SO years old, who has
wife and three children, eloped last week
with Mrs. Caroline Belts, wife of the Post
master at Seymour Mrs. Belts is the daugh.
ter of respected family of Woodbury., and
leaves daughter, an only child,
Gov. buckingham has vetoed the bill char
tering the creditors Of the Chicago, Alton and
st. Louis Railroad, so that they might take
and operate the road. He objects to il, that
it does not secure the rights of all the parties
in interest, and opens the way for as great
frauds us the petitoning creditors complain
they are now the victims Of
lad named George Shelton was caught
by shafting making some two hundred reyo-
lutions in minute, at KelloggsviIle on tho
23d, around which he was whired until every
particle Of clothing was torn from his body.
Strange to say, no bones were broken, and his
injuries are not regarded as serious.
On Saturday, May 2lst, James Halleran,