Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-16
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY


Richard F. Andrews, son of Gustavus An.
drews, Of Lynn, formerly Of Boston, and
keeper of Sufiol< JAIL was brought from
Waterville, Me-, on the charge of having set
fire to the Grammar school-house in Ward 3.
Lynn, last January
Sylvester a. Forbush, assessor and deputy
collector of taxes in Lawrence, was attacked
with an axe, Monday afternoon by the keeper
OF a groggery where he had gone to collect a
tax. Mr.. f. received deep and dangerous
wound on the top of his head, and escaping
into the street, fell insensible. Sullivan the
assailant fled.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The will of MIR. Allen Mason, formerly a
broker in New Bedford, who recently died be-
queathing his property, some $4,000 to his
brothers daughter, it is reported that will be
contested by his dissatisfied relatives, and that
legal proceedings will be instituted in the pre-.
sent term of the Superior Judicial Court to
test its validity.
The loss by the fire which DESTROYED the
store, stock, dwelling house and barn of Saml.
Wilde & Son in Fairhaven, Sunday morning
was not far from $4,000. The dwelling house
was insured for $3.50 in tie Merchants and
Farmers office Worcester, and the stock of
goods for $1,000 at the same office
The house of Edward W. Seabury in New
night, who administed chlorotorm to his son
who was aleep in his chamber, and took from
the room clothing, money, and gold watch /;
but while ransacking other parts OF the house
were frightened and escaped without their
boo.y.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Bald Mountain i'll Mount Washington in
southern Berkshire, was one mass of fire last
week Four square miles were burned over
and much valuable timber destroyed.
CONNECTICUT.
Mr.. Alfred Hart, artist, of Hartford, who left
that city on the 9th of October, intending to
exhibit his panorama Of the Pilgrims Progress
in the southern cities, has not since been heard
from by his family, and much anxiety is felt
by his friends.
Gen. Tom Thumb will be % years old in
January next. He resides in Bridgeport,
Conn, where he owns a fine house on the main
street, valued at over $4,000. He drives a
pony which he says will travel mile i'll three
minutes.
MISCELLANEOUS.
One of the heaviest sufferers by the raids of
Missourians in Kansas is now said now to be
engaged in taking slaves from Missouri and
sending them to Canada. He passed through
Detroit last week with twenty-five fugitives,
and reported that panic had seized the slave
AoluSlS Va -hlsoOulI, AHu llldI tlley are ldkIUP
the slaves South by hundreds.
The Cleveland Herald states that fugitive
slave, who arrived in that city, and wanted to
go to Canada, was betrayed by white man
named George Hartmann and taken back to
Kentucky, on the 10th inst. Hartmann con-
trived to get the confidence of the ''under-
ground men, and then used his knowledge to
betray the poor negro.
MF. Sennott, one of the counsel for the
Harper's Ferry prisoners, has been notified,
with others, that his personal safety would be
best preserved by his leaving Charlestown at
his earliest convenience Mr.. Sennott declined
leaving until he had concluded his business.
Solouque, i'll his retreat at Kingston, Jamai-
ca, on hearing of the assassination of the
daughter of President Getfrard, of Hayti,
ordered high mass of thanksgiving, but the
priest he applied to refused to officiate The
fact has aroused an additional ill feeling to-
wards Solouque on the part of the Haytiens.
The Mrs. Spring, who went to Charlestown
to offer her services as nurse to John Brown,
was Mrs. Marcus Spring of Eagleswood N.
j., formerly of New York She is the daugh-
ter of the well-known Quaker abolitionist,
Arnold Buffum.
Mr.. Hyde, the ST. Louis reporter, who took
the famous balloon ride across the country
with La Mountain, had difficulty with Il DO
Gceman, last week, and was on the point of be-
ing shot through the head by the officer, when
friends intertered and prevented the distribu-
ton OF the various items therein contained