Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-24
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY


EDSneZeT I1alpl1, WHICH was recently ll1eu De-
fore Ex-Governor Washburn as arbitrator at
Greenfield, has been decided in favor of the
| town. Rev. Mr.. Halpin preached at the first
church at Greenfield from 1925 to 1928; but
| as he was not settled minister over that
| church, it was decided that he did not gain
residence in that town.
Thomas Doyle, who is serving out a SEN
| tence of three years in the State Prison for
store breaking in Holyoke, received at Green
! field last week, an additional sentence of three
| years to the State Prison for robbing II. E.
Keuran's store in that town; James Doyle,
brother of Thomas, plead guilty to receiving
stolen goods, and was sentenced to the House
| of Correction for six months.
Rev. Joseph Field of Cha-lemont, aged 81
! years, reaped an acre of rye by hand in one
day on his farm recently. He is as vigorous
in mind as in body and is one of the most
cheerful and agreeable old gentleman about
| Gazette g. Courier.
Sylvester Bracket of Green River, Vt,
while on his way with his daughter from that
| place to Greenfield, expired in his wagon of
disease of the heart. He was 81 years of age
Nearly 500 gallons of gin, belonging to
Henry Clark of Mortified, was seized by
Sheriff Stratton, on the 18th, on warrant al
leging that it was kept for sale illegally.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
1t is reported that sister of the boy, KEEL
ley, (who set on fire the island at Deer Island,
had previously conveyed to him clandestinely
newspaper containing an account of the
State Reform School at Westboro and that
this circumstance influenced the boys towards
following the example of young Credon, the
Westboro incendiary.
The expenses of the Boston city govern
ment for the year ending May l, were four
millions and half dollars including the fol-
lowing items :-S34 766 for schools, 100000
for one new school house. Sl05,6 for fire de-
| partment Sl02,605 for the county Of Suffolk,
1892 l64 for streets, $217, 1879 for police, S15,-
1873 for 4th of July celebration, S84 ,045 for in
terest, and $55,54S for health and quarantine
departments. The city has debt of nearly
| eight millions.
As the evening train was leaving the East
ern Railroad Depot in Boston, Monday after
noon, Mr. Andrew Gilmer, the Depot Baggage
| Master, fell beneath the cars and the platform.
| The space between the platform and the cars
is very SMALL SO that Mr.. Gilmer was turned
round several times by the moving train, but
strange to say he escaped with few slight
scratches.
The assembled wisdom of the Common
wealth will air their rhetoric next month under
new cupola, which has just been completed
in style BETTING the club of the universe"
| The size has been increased about two and
ton, and is secured to the dome with iron
bolts. The columns support handsome med
alon cornice, and the whole is covered with
gided dome, surmounted with a pine apple
Net0bnyport Herald.
| MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
| A pickerel, more than foot in length, seized
a boy named E. r. Seaver by the ear while he
was bathing in Crystal Lake, at South Read
ing, few days since. The fish struck so hard
against the boys head that it was completely
| stunned, and was captured and taken home
alive, where it is enjoying abridged liberty in
| a water bucket
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Counterfeit fves on the Abingdon Bank of
Massachusetts, executed on light colorcd pa
| per OF heavy tissue, are in circulation.
| They may be detected by their new appear
ance, the engravings being very heavy and
dark; also by large five which is stamped
across the right end of the bill.
The schooner Austin, laden with COAL which
arrived on Monday last, brought in one of the
largest sword fish ever seen in Plymouth Its
entire length was thirteen feet, and that of the
sword nearly four feet. 1t weighed four hun
dred and fifty pounds, and was retailed about
town, so that goodly number of our people
had an opportunity to taste his swordship, 1t
was caught some twelve miles from Province
town.-OH Colony Memorial
RHODE ISLAND.
Re Union at NeUpot.-The reunion of the
sons and daughters of Rhode Island, for which
preparations have long been in active prngresS
took place on Tuesday, 23d inst. MANY thou
sand people returned to participate in the
pleasant festivities. The streets were filled
with gorgeous decorations, and the literary ex-
erclses were OF peculiar brilancy and interest
The city of Newport appropriated $4,000 to-
wards the expenses of the reunion.
CONNECTICUT
w. Z. Carter, who confessed to stealing
Hartford County Bank bills, while engaged in
the State Treasurer's Department. has been
heard from as the compiler and publisher of
the Code of Procedure i'll the courts OF Wis
consin.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The annual convention of the Delta Kappa
Epsilon fraternity will be holden with the
Lambda chapter of Kenyon College, at Column
bus, Ohio, on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept
and 8. The Grafton will be delivered by
Prof. Albert T. Bledsoe of the Eta chapter,
University of Virginia, and the poem by Geo.
Pratt Of the Phi chapter, Yale College.
A man in Brooklyn, N Y, killed himself a
few days since, and left letter, charging his
wife with running his business by standing in
front Of his store and informing his customers
that he did not allow her money enough to
support herself, also with threatening to make
her own living by adopting an abandoned
course of life, and with various other practices
which rendered his life burden
The most extraordinary instance of the vo-
racity Of the tiger" is given in a New York
paper, which relates that Minnesota railroad
agent who visited New York to raise funds lost
large sum of money, and several railway
bonds valued at $4,000, at a faro bank ON
broadway, whittier he was decoyed by
SHINING roper'-one of the class that infcst
the great hotels. He consulted some Wall
street brokers, negotiations were commenced,
and he finally recovered the bonds, the affair
costing MN Ill all about ninety thousand dol
lars.
On Sunday morning Noble G. Minor of New
| ork procured razor, and sitting deliberately
| down before looking glass, and in the pres
ence OF his daughter, cut his throat. She
screamed and ran for assistance, but on her re-
turn her father was dying, and soon became
corpse. He was insane.
The Petersburg (Va.) Express says that a
Snowman pitched his tent in that town, Thurs
day, and absorbed some ten. cent pieces in
showing zebra, which proved to be a mule
painted. Under threats of lynch law, the &C.
bra man left, protesting, however, that he had
been deceived in the purchase
| Sturgeon, the London preacher, recently re-
ceiyed notice from lawyer, that a lady I'M
known to him, had left him large property
| by will Going TO the residence of his I'M
known friend, he recognize her, as she lay in
her coffin, as one who many years before had
been constant annoyance to him, in the Park
street chapel, where she had pew directly
opposite to him. She never spoke to him, but
continually watching him, look wherever he
would, he was at last under the necessity of
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