Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-12-29
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The new Masonic officers of the Grand
Lodge OF Massachusetts, were installed Tues
day evening, and the new apartments which
have been lately opened at the corner of Ire
mont and Boylston streets, Boston, were dedi-
Gated with solemn and impressive ceremonies
After the dedication, about four hundred Ma
sons from all parts of the state, sat down to a
supper served in the banqueting hall.
The case of Isaac +. Shepard, late Treasu
rer of the Hanover street Savings Bank, under
Indictment for forgery, came up in the Supe-
rlor Criminal Court on Tuesday, when, on
motion of the defendants counsel, the trial
was postponed until the next term-the pris-
oner remaining under the same bonds as here
totore, $4,000. The grand jury are investi-
eating the charge of embezzlement, sent up
from the police court.
BRISTOL COUNTY
1t is reported that the late residence of Capt.
George b. GardEer, deceased, on Pleasant st.,
in Fall River, has become haunted house.
Strange noises in the night are heard, and all
sorts of hobgoblin things imagined
Several citizens of Seekonk have petitioned
for an injunction on the operations of the Rum
ford Manufacturing Company, in Seekonk
The petition alleges that the factories are dam
gerous nuisance, by reason of the manufacture
OF chemical substances, creating poisonous va
pors and impregnating the air
The family Of Mr.. Joseph Davis of South
Dartmouth, consisting of eight sons and three
daughters, with their companions, two ex-
cepted, assembled around his table on the 26th
inst, to partake of a Christmas dinner with
their aged parents, the oldest son, fifty-eight
years old, coming distance of thousand
miles. Illisis the first time this numerous
family have ever been assembled together, the
elder mpmbp bnyipu 1alt l,oe 81,
younger children were born.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Miss Kent, a patient at the Northampton In
sane Hospital, threw herself over the balus-
trade IN the rotunda, one day last week, and
fell distance of thirty feet, and although she
sustained severe injuries, no bones were bro
ken, and there is reasonable prospect of her
recovery.
The county expenses for the ensuing wear,
according to an estimate presented to the COM
mlssioners at their session, on Tuesday, will
be $4,000, which is $1,000 less than the est
mate made year ago.
The saw mill in the west part of Hatfield,
known as ''Wilkies mill, /" and owned by Fitch
& Curtis, was destroyed by fire last Wednes-
day night. 1t had recently been refitted and
put in firstrate order. Loss about $1,000
NANTUCKET.
The citizens of Nantucket are looking for
ward with interest to the centennial anniver-
sary of their town settlement, which occurs in
the month Of October next. The Inquirer
urges the appropriate public observance of the
day, and says the announcement of such an
event would be hailed with joy by every son
and daughter abroad.
CONNECTICUT.
The Murder an Putndm-James Collins, who
was shot and robbed in Putnam, Saturday
morning, died in great agony on the evening
of Sunday. The whole transaction is still in.
volved in profound mystery. A man named
Larned, OF Oxford, Mass, was arrested on sus-
picion, but on examination was discharged
The deceased was married last THANKSGIVING,
was of very amiabe disposition, and not
known to have had an enemy. Suspicion rests
upon another person in Putnam as the proba-
BILE homicide, but no other arrests have been
made.
RHODE ISLAND.
Early Sunday evening party of Irishmen
who had been drinking freely attacked three
other men on the highway near Providence.
Alonzo Fenner, worthy young man, and
overseer In one of the rooms of Gov Jack.
sons factories, was knocked down with a
slung shot and seriously injured. But one
OF the assailing party has been arrested,
giving the somewhat apocryphal name of
John Smith
One night last week, three young scamps
broke into the dwelling house of Widow Saw
yer at Little Compton, during her absence
from the village. They kindled fire, and
commenced cooking their supper, with what.
ever they could find, till the neighbors, alarm
ed by the unusual appearance entered the
house and caused the young scamps to beat a
speedy retreat.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Charleston Mercury SAYS that Hon.
Fernando Wood of New York has written TO
a gentleman of Charleston, desiring that ac-
commodations may be secured for himself and
friends for the work of the Democratic Nation
al Convention. He writes that his party will
number about one hundred.
Mrs. Daniel Webster is leading a quiet and
dgnified life in New York city, surrounded
by relatives and friends. She devotes her
time to self.culture, and to the performance of
the duties she owes to her friends, her country
and the church.
On Sunday last the Methodist Episcopal
Sunday School in Frederick, Md, by unani-
nous vote, discontinued the Sunday School
Advocate" little paper which has a very ex-
tensive circulation, but which is now pretty
generally rejected by the schools in the South
ern States, owing to its sentiments on the
slavery question.
John Winans, formerly popular low come
dian, at the Bowery and other theatres, died
miserable death at an YUM in Philadelphia,
last week. He had been confined for some
strange insanity, but disappeared several days
ago, and was supposed to have escaped. His
dead body was afterwards found, hid among
the arches in the cellar He was the husband
OF Mrs. Denim, mother OF the well-known
Misses Susan and Kate Denim.