Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-08
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


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rection in Ipswich under conviction for Ii
quor selling, is to be welcomed back at New
buryport ON Wednesday. The Amesbury
brass band has been engaged for the occasion,
and coach to be drawn by six horses will con
tain Perley and the committee of arrange
ments to be followed by large number of sin
gle and double teams and cavalcade ofhorses.
In the evening grand supper will be given at
the Ocean House.
The county expenses for keepers OF Jails and
houses of correction, including house rent,
lights, and fuel for those keepers, is as follows
AT Lawrence, S2,693; at Ipswich, So, 2l0; Sa-
lem Jail, 81 sos; Newburyport Jail, $500. This
includes the whole amount paid for assistants
but does not include the board Of six officers at
Lawrence, nine at Ipswich and three at Sa-
lem which is to be paid by the county.
Severe Accident-AIonday forenoon, Mary
Waters, the daughter of a widow on Merri-
mac street, about u years old, was severely
injured in the Bartlett Mills. Her dress
caught the back shaft of a mule in the spin
ming room, and wound round and round,
drawing so tight that all tile upper part of her
body turned purple, and she was taken out of
the machinery for dead DIR. Tilton was call
ed, but did not find any bones broken, and in
the afternoon she recognized persons and was
able to speak. 1t is hoped that she may re.
cover.-Newbouypor Herald.
The largest and oldest apple tree in Essex
County was lately blown down in gale of
wind. 1t stood on the land of Moses Packard,
in Rowley. 1t measured over sixteen feet
around its trunk some three feet from the
ground, and was sixty feet from one extreme
of its branches to the other. 1t was supposed
to be from two to three hundred years old
On Sunday afternoon last, fire broke out
in the woods at Boxford, which burned over
large tract of woodland, and destroyed prop
erty to a considerable amount. Mr. Nathaniel
Conant had ten cords of wood cut and piled,
which was entirely burned Mr.. Moody An
drews had large number of hemlock trees
on the premises, most of which were damaged
by the fire.
On Monday, June 6, Benjamin Sanderson of
West Newbury was arraigned on charge of
false pretences, for borrowing five dollars of
Mr.. Calvin Rogers, pretending that he was
sent to Mr.. Rogers by Mr.. Hayden Brown to
get the same. He was adjudged guilty, and
ordered to pay fine of So and costs, amount
ing to $40 81.
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
The citizens of Springfield are making great
exertions to establish free public library on
broad and permanent basis. A committee of
influential citizens have the subject in charge,
and have the expectation of procuring the sum
of fifteen thousand dollars payable at intervals
during the next two or three years. Such an
enterprise is worthy of emulation. There
should be free public library in every city in
the land.
The Greenfield Democrat says that Haupt
Il Co. have contracted with a company of
whom Sidney Dillon of that town is member,
to sink a shaft i'll the west slope of the Hoosac
mountain $50 feet in depth, and excavate 2200
feet of the tunnel on the Troy and Greenfield
Railroad, thereby prosecuting the work at
four faces, instead of two, as at the present
time.
CONNECTICUT.
There were sharp and killing frosts in
Bloomfield, Sutfied Simsbury, and other pla-
ces in Connecticut last Sunday night. Corn
felt the shock severely, and garden products
were "nipped" to considerable extent. Fruits
in Connecticut had been previously injured by
late May frosts and cold storms, and some
kinds are ruined
The city elections took place in Connecticut,
Monday, resulting i'll Norwich, Hartford and
New Haven in favor of the Republicans.
Ephraim p. Miner an old and respected
citizen of Norwich, was seized Sunday even
ing with paralysis while walking to church.
He was taken home speeches.. Mr.. Miner
had a paralytic stoke about eighteen months
since, which overlook him almost on the same
spot. Ten years ago the late Joshua Shepard
was stricken down by similar shock near the
same place.
Rudolph Binder says he is Catholic Priest,
and ofiiciates over Church in Bridgeport,
Connecticut. On Saturday he arrived in
New York, on his way to Philadelphia when
the evil one tempted him to enter Il vile den in
Greenwich street Here the girls among other
pranks, got him drunk, robbed him, and sent
him pennyless into the street. He stated that
seven years ago, as he was passing through
the City, he was swindled in precisely the
same way.
Four children of Mr.. Bill, German archi-
tect living in Hartford, died last week of scar
let fever Two Of the children were taken on
Monday, died Tuesday night, and were buried
in one grave on Wednesday. The other two
were taken subsequ emily, one dying Friday
night and the other Saturday afternoon.
Personal.
A report is afoat that Proudhon, whose i'll
ness was announced some time ago, has had
relapse of the brain fever, and is in confine-
ment at one of the modern asylums of Belgi-
UNI. lie was writing at the time a pamphlet,
to be called Pour ct Contre, the question of war,
from which his friends had expected a great
addition to his fame. Whether under the cir
cumstanceS it will ever be completed is now
doubtful
The celebrated Chinese mandarin, Yeh died
at Calcutta ON the evening of the 9th of April
sudden relapse, from which he rallied for time
but subsequently succumbed. The only re-
greet that he expressed was ON account Of his
having been unable to destroy all the Chinese
rebels and all their kindred.
General David e. Twggs was, at last ac-
counts, april 26) lying dangerously ill at San
Antonio, Texas. His physicians had given
up all hope of his recovery, and the General
had made his will and given directions as to
| his funeral.
The Washington correspondent of the Pha-
delphia Press writes :-"The ice having now
been broken, we shall, of course, have
Northern Presidential tour. Your city will be
the first to be honored then New York, Bos-
ton, and other cities No one has, heretofore
been more averse to these displays than Mr.
Buchanan himself, but circumstances alter
cases.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A man named Atkinson and wife were re-
Gently killed by lightning, near Hickory
Grove, Iowa. They were sitting at the break
fast table, with laborer in company, when
struck with lightning Both remained sitting
on the chair, dead. The laborer was not Sc
riously hurt, and the bones but little injured.
AS one of the effects of the terrible water
spout which burst lately, in the midst of
tornado, in Iowa City, writer states that of
the 300 chickens on one farm not one could be
found after the tornado, and that some ducks
swimming on pond, 'oere picked as clean as u
about to be sent to market.
A colored woman named Flora Hawkins
died in the African church at Cincinnati last
Sunday She became exceedingly happy dur
ing the service, and, while in the act Of shout
ing, fell dead in her seat. A sudden hemorr
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