Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-22
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Pages Venus, the picture which has excited
much interest among artists and the lovers of
art, is now on exhibition in Boston, and is
likely to produce as marked sensation among.
the dilletanti there as elsewhere The work
elected in New York nearly equal measure
of friendly and adverse criticism, but was
visited with that avidity which always seeks
out objects that may minister to a morbid and
sensual taste.
Hon. David A. Simmons of Roxburv. n
prominent lawyer and respected citizen died
at his residence in that city, Sunday, at the
advanced age of seventy two years He was
in the legislature of 1925 member of the
Senate of 1913 and 1919, and has served in the
Executive Council and other places of public
trust
ESSEX COUNTY.
The second Methodist church in Lynn was
destroyed by fire Sunday evening. The fire
was discovered in closet filled with kindng
wood and other articles, including barrel
containing about two gallons of burning fluid.
A sabbath school concert was in session in the
church at the time of the alarm, numbering
about four hundred, mostly women and chill
dren, all of whom escaped without injury.
The loss to the society is $4,000. Insured in
the Lynn Mutual for $1,000
In the Superior Court at Salem week or
two since, young man was tried for stealing
horse and buggy from stable keeper in
Lynn, for selling the team and taking the
money for it. He confessed everything for
which he was charged in the Indictment. He
was acquitted on the ground that he was such
an outrageous liar that he wasn't to be be-
lieved even when he spoke against his own in
terest.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The mystery in which the attempted MUIR
der of Mrs Henry Holcomb of Southwick
was shrouded remains unexplained She was
weak affectlonate woman, slightly inclined to
Jealousy, and predisposed to insanity. her
father being insane for 25 years, eight of
which were passed in the Asylum in this city.
Her husband who fed under circumstances
indicating that he was her murderer, was a re-
spectacle citizen, and esteemed religious
man, strictly temperate, and of even DISPOSE
ton. The town has offered reward of 5000
and vigilant efforts are being made to secure
his arrest.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
-Four lrshmen, in order to save the bridge
toll, undertook to cross the Connecticut river
III skltf at Chicopee, on Saturday. There
beng high wind, and the waves running
high, the boat was swamped and three of the
four men were drowned. The fourth remained
above water long enough to be saved by
another boat which was sent out from the
shore as soon as the disaster was discovered
RHODE ISLAND.
The barn owned by Jos G. johnson was
burned to the ground Monday morning. 1t
was occupied by William Blanchard, proprie-
tor OF the South Providence line of omnibuses,
who lost five horses, and quantity of hay,
grain, harnesses, &c. He succeeded in saving
an omnibus and two horses only.
MISCELLANEOUS
by the wreck of the Boston ship Favorite,
between London and Cardiff, during the late
gales, every soul on board persisted. There
were about thirty persons on board at the time
OF the sad disaster. None of the bodies were
recovered and but small part of the wreck.
Soulouque, the exEmperor of Hayti, at ia
malca, is in great trouble. His minister, Des-
salines, has created domestic trouble by his
attentions to Soulouque's sister-in law, and the
ex-EmperOr's temper is further soured by his
defeats at the bllliard-table. When in Hayti
his courtiers always allowed him to gain the
game, but in Jamaica the players are not so
respectful.
Mr. Griswold of Ohio, who acted as counsel
for John Brown, has published a card, stating
that he did take $3.50 from John Brown for his
services, with which he has been reproached,
and does not think it was too much He says
that Mr.. Chiffon, who was associated with
him, is 10 receive $1,000, and that each of the
other attornies received more than himself
Discreditable to all of them.