Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-12-19
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY,
The Boston police have arrested man
named Patrick H. Finney, who halls from
Manchester, N. H., and lives by his wits. for
passing counterfeit $40 bills on the Conway
Bank, Mass. He had been operating for sew.
eral day and made paying business" of it
That terrible disease the small pox, is rag.
ing with more or less severity in many of the
cities and towns in the vicinity of Boston
Thanks to the progress in medical know
ledge and skill, but few cases have as yet prov
ed fatal
The house of Stephen Swan of West Cam.
bridge was approached by burglars, on Friday
night, who failing to secure any plumber, set
fire to his barns. Mr.. Swan had been troubled
by mischieyous persons who have poisoned his
COWS, turned his cattle into the highways, and
destoyed his property in various ways. No
arrests.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The citizens of Haverhll and vicinity have
been recently troubled by a gang of young
highwaymen, who have assaulted peaceabe
travellers, and stolen when they had the pow
er. One well-disposed person, named Nimrod
Underhill, was dangerously stabbed Thursday
evening, and two other persons, without prov.
ocation, were stopped on the highway and
badly beaten. Three persons have been ar.
rested on suspicion.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY
AT an excited and inharmonious union meet.
ing in Natick, Friday night, the following reso
luton was adopted: "That we are in fayo,
of the exclusion of slavery from the new ter
ritories, its abolition in the District OF Cobum
bia, the prohibition Of the interstate slave
trade, and to put this government permanently
on the side of freedom"
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The boiler used for heating the mill at Duck
vile, Palmer, exploded on Monday, 18th, max
ing general havoc. Cause-water too low
No person was injured
CONNECTICUT.
Some of the manufacturers in Connecticut
finding their accounts disturbed by variety
of causes, are discussing the economy of a
Union meeting, as method of relief, and an
inducement to "our southern brethren" to lur
ry up their orders
| While party of boys were skating on
Shuttle Meadow Pond, near Norwich. one
evening last week, colored boy named
| Evelyn Lanson, eighteen years of age skated
into an air hole and was drowned His BODY
was recovered the next morning-which he
was intending with some companions to cele
brate as his birthday.
One OF the large boilers used by the Meri
den britannia Company, exploded Saturday
nloot vi the WOTkIllen were NJ ulnncr ut the
time. Large quantities of boiling pitch were
thrown around the room and if the explosion
had occurred during working hours, many
lives would probably have been lost.
Charles Lcmmons, who, with Seldom Yale,
made tlieving tour through Pennington d
few weeks ago, and was arrested in Westield
plead guilty at Springfield on Monday, and
WIS sentenced to four months hard labor in
jail. Yale, who escaped from the sheriff on
his way to Jail, is still at large.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Lola Montez lectured in New York on
Thursday, to an audience of 1900 people, tax.
ing for her subject John Bull at Home, y
John not having treated her as well as have
other monarchs, she spared him not, but called
him quaek, a sharper, and mn ill.brcd indi.
yidnal, fond only OF beef and sherry Her au.
dience listened to her with pleasure.
On Thursday, Dec ., at noon, says the
Charleston Is. O. Mercury, umbrellas were
found necessary to ward off the heated rays OF