Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-25
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


A correspondent of Dwight's Journal OF
Music has visited the organ factory OF Herr
Wacker in Ludwigsberg, small town three
leagues from Stuttgart, where the great organ
for the Boston Music Hall is being built. In
two large rooms were stored the finished por
tons of the organ. The first room was liter
ally filled with pipes of various lengths, from
the gigantic 81 feet pipe down to that OF the
diameter of quill and perhaps some four or
six inches in length. A certain proportion OF
these pipes are made of wood others Of pure
tin or the ordinary pipe metal, and after
careful examination of specimens from the
different registers, he was entirely satisfied
that this important portion of the work was
carefully and thoroughly made, and fully able
to stand the test of the severest criticism. In
the adjoining rooms were stored other por-
lions of the organ, such as the bellows, wind
chests and wind trunks, and here, again, he
| found the workmanship, even in its mlnutest
detail, properly and faithfully performed tie
believes the organ will prove itself to be grand
and effective, and in the fullest sense of the
| term magnificent instrument, worthy of the
great fame of its builder.
A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the
| Museum of Comparative Zoology was held in
the Council Chamber, at the State House, on
Saturday morning There was full attend
ance of the members of the board, and various
/ preliminary matters were discussed, but no
business of public interest was done.
The total value of imports at the port of
Boston during the past week was 81 ,059, 1893;
amount during the corresponding week last
year, 81, l41 ,223; January to May 20, 1859,
Sic, 334 ,3l9; average amount per week, $685.
| 715.
On Monday a man named J. p. Rich was
| arrested in Southac street, yesterday, for rob-
| hing suudry hen-ronsts in SOn,orvilln tha
| house in Southac street were found several
chickens, while he himself was discovered un
| der the bed of a colored woman, who was ap-
parently very sick.
A meeting of the colored citizens of Boston,
was held OH Monday evening" in the vestry of
the Twelfth Baptist Church, (Reverend Mr.
Grimes, in Southac street, for the purpose of
| sympathizing with the persons implicated in
the Oberln Rescue Trials, and devising ways
and means to assist them and their families.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
| The police of Cambridge have recently dis
covered the existence OF club of young men,
sons of respectable citizens, banded together
for the purpose of committing burgaries and
other crimes The club has been in existence
some six weeks, during which time the men,
bers have carried on a thriving business, steal
ing six or eight horses and vehicles, and
making about fifteen burglarious attempts in
the city and other places. Several of the par
ties have been arrested and held to await the
action of the grand jury.
The carpenters shop of E. B. Loringsin
| South Maiden, was entered Friday night and
robbed of large quantity of tools, branded
| with the owners name
The First Universalist Church in Lowell
have voted to extend a call to the Rev. Mr.
TwiSs of New Bedford to become their pastor
ESSEX COUNTY
In the Newburyport Police Court May 21st
William A. Smell, of Haverhill, one of the abb
sconding proprietors of the bogus Art Union
lottery swindle, who was arrested in Haver-
hill, was ordered to give bail in the sum of
| $1,000 for his appearance.
Wednesday night, about twelve o'clock, an
| attempt was made to shoot Mr.. Abraham Pray,
the toll gatherer at the Essex Merrimac Bridge
| The shots were fired into the north window of
the dollhouse and passed out of the south
window, directly over e cot bed on which Mr..
Pray was sleeping, and he escaped unframed.
This attempt on Mr.. Pray's life was undoubt-
eddy the work of four foreigners, who came to
| Newburyport from Amesbury, on Wednesday,
and were seen returning, in an intoxicated
condition, through Salisbury Point, in less
than half hour after Mr.. Pray reports the
| pistol shots.-Nerbmypor Herald.
Isaiah Breed, one of the most esteemed cit.
liens of Lynn, died at an early hour Tuesday
morning. Mr.. Breed has led long and useful
life, and was much beloved by his fellow
townsmen. He was President of the Lynn
! Mechanics Bank
| On S,,s.a.sy rN-r SradC uKeS.
bury was returning home from the Rev Mr.
Byram's church, and when within sight of his
house, he fell and Immediately expired He
was about 66 years of age. A brother and
sister OF Deacon T. had formerly died in a
similar manner.
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
The will of Daniel Gore of Monroe who