Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-20
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

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WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
The stone dam connected with Evans &
Rewey's paper mill at Glendale, Steekbridge,
was undermined by the water and carried
away few nights since, which will stop the
mill for some time.
Prot. Aaron Warner of Amherst and wife,
were thrown from a carriage on Tuesday,
while riding in that town, and severely injured.
Prof Warner was thrown upon his head and
his right shoulder dislocatcd.
ESSEN COUNTY.
Mr.. George w. Chase of Haverhill, who is
preparing history of that town, has in his
possession the identical gun with vi ich Thos.
( Dustin defended his seven children on the
memorable 18th of March, 1897. 1t is to be pre-
scented to the Dustin Monument Association.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
A few days since, at a meeting of the cred
itors of Wm Mason, in Taunton the assign
ees declared slividend of twenty five per cent.
| payable on the 18th OF July. This is the sec
| ond dividend of twenty-five per cent. The
whole amount proved against the estate is
about four hundred and eighty thousand dol
lars.
The Taunton Gazette reports that a clerical
/ gentlemen in that town, who, with others, en-.
| gagged in heated sidewalk discussion of the
! ology and spiritualism, the other day, offered
to settle the qdestion by betting five hundred
dollars that he was right This novel argu-
ment must have convinced his auditors of
Sometijag.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The ProvmcetOwn Banner says one hun
dred boats are engaged there in the catching of
Holsters, and most of them have been very
successful. The Holsters are sold for about
three cents each to the smacks from New Lon
DON and are mostly taken to the New York
market.
Within two weeks quite a number of good
fares have come into the different ports in this
district. Among the arrivals in our list, to-
day, are three at Dennis. The three vessels
took, IN some two or three weeks, an aggre-
gate oftwo.hundred and fifty barrels of mack
erel.-BarnstabLe Patriot.
The Pacific Factories at Falmouth, which
have been lying idle about two years, have
been repaired the past spring, and commenced
work under the superintendent of Mr.. Gar
rott Corgin of Worcester. Loum Snow, of
New Bedford, and Alexander Clark of Fal-
mouth, are the principal owners.
VERMONT
No little excitement has been created in Yer
mont by the elopement of young miss of
Brandon from the Seminary with tin pedlar
who hailed from Rutland
The mountains in Addison county were
white with snow on Sunday morning June II,
and the people up there have the consolation
OF knowing that the corn and potatoes that
were killed won't have to be hoed.
CONNECTICUT.
The longest whaling voyage on record was
made by the schooner Exile, which arrived at
New London on the 18th. She sailed August
18th, 1882; consequently she was absent six
years, nine months and twenty five days. The
only approach to this heightened voyage made
nv anV Thin o,,r ,ro- +Io+
made by the schooner Alfred, which arrived in
New Bedford after being absent six years and
| eight months.
| Mr.. Roderick King, of South Windsor,
aged about seventy, fell and broke his hip late
Friday evening. Being unable to raise him
self up, he crawled through drenching rain
to the nearest house, about one hundred rods
off, aud succeeded in arousing the inmates,
and was by them taken to his own home.
RHODE ISLAND.
In Providence, a few days since Benoni
King, giving his name as James Brown, called
at the stable of Mr.. Leonard n Austin, hired
a horse and open buggy to go (professedtyTto
4 Morth seitnaEA and has not since been heard
The Pe1duJ1sn says the place of business Of
Geo P. Ti.5ilas, i'll Wexford, was entered
last week whits the proprietor was at tea, and
the cash drawer rifed of SIS rs
| Last Thursday afternoon, Or. Briggs, resid-
/ ing near Union Bank Block in Woonsocket
boughta fish of markdt.man named Charles
Sibley. The fish was partaken of for break
fast on Friday. Immediately the doctor was
taken very sick-the symptoms became vio-
lent-and at nine o'clock he died in great physical
agony. His wife and son, young man Of six.
teen years, were taken i'll Also and at the last
accounts both were in a very precarous CON
dition.
Personal.
The Germans of Wisconsin are preparing to
celebrate the approaching centennial birth day
Of Frederick Won Schiller, one of Germany's
greatest and most honored sons. 10 the Ger
mans of the Northwest, the event will prove
as interesting as the Centenary of Burns was
to us and to all who speak the English tongue.
Mr. George Terry, of Leeds, England, who,
in 1899, became grand master of the Odd
Fellows and Treasurer for fifty lodges in the
Leeds District, and Chairman and Treasurer
| OF the Widows and Orphans, has absconded
lately, having become defaulter to the extent
of from twenty to twenty five thousand dol
| lars.
On the night of the first inst, on his way to
Pixies Peak, Horace Greeley was thrown
from his coach and received several Commissions,
but no permanent injuries. No other pasen-
gers were bruised.
Jenny Lind recently gave a charity concert
ly the aristocracy We're admitted by special in
vitation. The receipts were $4,000. She was
In full health, and sang with all her old power.
Isaac N Cardoga, an ex-member If the
California Legislature, was arrested in New
York, Friday, for forgery of bank checks and
letters of credit. Among the private papers in
his trunk was a letter addressed to President
Buchanan, bearing the names of several prom
inent Democratic politicians in San Francisco,
mel l.
mercial Agent at St Thomas.
! Rembrandt Peale and Thomas Sully, the
eminent Philadelphia artists are engaged in
painting each others portrait Mr. Joseph
! Harrison, wealthy and liberal gentleman of
Philadelphia, originated this enterprise, and
has commissioned each of the venerable ar
fists to do this service for the other. Mr.. Peale
has recently entered upon his eighty-second
year. and next June Mr.. Sully viii be seventy
six.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On Tuesday last a lad at Pittston, N. Y,
was directed to lead COW to a certain place,
and in doing so he tied one end Of the rope to
his body. The COW becoming frightened, ran,
the boy fell, and was dragged until his brains
were dashed out
Rev. Henry A. Wise, Jr., son of the distin-
guished Virginia Governor, preached in Phila-
delpha on Sunday, and the North American
pronounces him zone of the most eloquent
pulpit orators have ever listened to"
Thnee men, named Ransom Fleming Jacob
hlfrop- apd Andrew Hanson, three worthy citi-
zeEs Of Mount AJerris, Wisconsin, were killed
by lightning, 4 few days since. They had
taken refuge from the storm in an unoecupied,
house, and while there the house was struck
and they were instantly killed.
Two young ladies spending the summer at
Rayenswood N Y, while bathing in East
River on Wednesday afternoon, wandered
beyond their depth, and were dragged by the
strong current from the shore. They were
seen by three bows. who plnnged into the