Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-22
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY



Sonue, Philbrick. ESQ, of Brookine, died
on Monday last, at the age of nearly u years.
He commenced business life in Boston, became
a leather merchant, and during the wsr OF lolz
amassed comfortable fortune, upon whlcn ne
retired He had been director in the East
ern Railroad and also in the Atlantic bank, |
and held other honorable positions III the pusl'
ness community. He early became attacheG
| to the anti-slavery cause, and ever renamed
ono of its truest friends He was gentleman
of ouiet manners and strict integrity boston
| Transcript. c,,
One of the traders from Greenfieldwas pass
ing through Washington street, Boston, re"
DAVIS ago, and, as his attention was directed TO-
ward shop window, was impressed win the
conviction that his pocket was being plckea'
and discovered that lady in passing hau at
| tempted to secure his pocket book by cutting
three large Sits in the coat, which fortunately
did not reach the pocket
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Mr.. Huntoon of Lowell, the young man VINO
was injured some time since, on the railroad
above Northampton, while returning from
Keene, N. H., with the Holyoke excursion
party, died at Holyoke, where he mas since
been confined to his room, on Saturday night
from the effects of the accident, and ms re-
mains were taken to SALISBURY, N h'' oii Nioit
day. for interment.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
: In 1857. the inhabitants of school district
No. 8. in. Seekonk, levied a tax OF SOU 10 re-
, pair their school-house. Some OF the oplectors
: afterwards held that the meeting was Illegal
| and sued the collector for damages L ne cast
n reached the Supreme Court, where tins view
! of the case sustained, after ABOUT 9too h''u
heon extended in defending the suit by per-
y son claiming to act as agent for the district
e A new tax was levied to raise money to repay
~ This agent, and the collector being about tt
= take property of those who refused 10 pay lll'
!, tax an Injunction was prayed for to restrain
Il; him, and granted A hearing is yet to be ha,
al The Hatch B BOY Of the G Injunction perpe'u"
ON South Lee,) who was supposed to be murder
at ed, and whose body was looked after by
nil large number of persons, they finding a loo
or of his hair,) has turned up down in Hawley
N. vile, Ct lie chose to run away rather tina
nd to remain in a home made miserable by ruI
and vice.
ge Il. Rogers, of North Adams, has shoe thG
ill was worn So years ago, by woman at he
es- wedding in Northampton the heel is made
me wood three inches high, running to triangl
ng lar point one-half inch broad, and tipped wit
ow leather.
ey- FRANKLIN COUNTY
in We stated yesterday that Lorenzo Tasting
yo was arrested in the cars at Greenfield for a
at tempting to pick the pocket of Mr.. Patric
,at- us the following additional particulars :--''M
the z. O'Keefe is the well known railroad co
ldi- tractor of this city, and is engaged on Il
red Troy and Greenfield railroad Last FridG
cry was his payday, and he had large sum
in money in his pocket 1t appears that Loren
/ at Hastings sat on the seat with him, and mu
res have known OF his having this money in h
it'll possession, and in order to get it cut NJ
rate O'K.'s pocket with a pair of scissors, wi
ars- feeling somebody at his pocket immediate
, to turned and caught Hastings almost in the n,
sea The fellow instantly threw the scissors und
,uld the seat where they were found. lie W
uis- handed over to an officer on the arrival of I
yes train at Greenfield.
s in CONNECTICUT.
her A blacksmith shop and engine house belor
User ing to Shelton, Tuttle, & Co.. carriage mar
tor. facturers, in Plymouth was destroyed by
ers. Sunday morning, 18th inst Loss from $50
n Of TO $4,000, insured for $500 in Hartford a
,eri. Springfield. There was a considerable amoI
, an Of stock and machinery destroyed, besides
eral steam engine of twelve or fifteen horse pow
ten Press.
ople Hartford, with a population Of thirty tn
,per sand, has no single library numbering m
i in than about ten thousand volumes. The |
ople David Wilkinson, however, left the sum
n. 100000 TO remedy the deficiency and sup
D. the city with good library.