Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-27
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS,.

| S70,037 r. Among thelargest tax payers are
John Currier, Jr., who pays 81, 1907 80; John
N. Cushing, 1859 80; Caleb Cushing, S268 S.;
Mrs. Sarah w. Hale, 81 ,545 so; j. Pettingill,
heirs, 81, 100 40; Micajah Lunt, 1853 80, and
Charles Willis, $40 30. The rate of taxation
is 50 60 on $1,000.
Peter York, the notorious convict, was found
dead in his cell in the Charlestown State
Prison, on Saturday morning York was SEN
fenced in March, 1915, to be hung for murder,
but Gov. Briggs COMMITTED the sentence to
imprisonment for life. His reckless passions
made hlm dangerous companion, and he had
! been kept in close confinement for many
years.
The bingham Journal records the recent
decease of Mr.. Daniel Corthell of that town.
who had for some time past been troubled by
living snake i'll his stomach. Several at.
tempts were made to eject the reptile by differ
ent Methods which proved unavailing, until
at last boiled milk was resorted to, the steam
of which, as it entered the mouth of Mr. c.,
started the snake up into his throat, where it
stuck fast, and before it could be removed MI
e. choked to DEATH 1t is supposed that Mr.
Z. swallowed the snake when it was quite
small, while drinking
St Peters (Catholic) Church in Cambridge,
one of the youngest in the neighborhood of
Boston, paid over, on Sunday, the 10Th inst,
S22oO, towards the purchase of land for new
church in Cambridgeport. The congregation,
IN the abundance of its generosity, also con-
trlbuted Sl72 toward the Pentecost collection
for the eccesiastic students of the diocese
The late Elijah Corey of Brookline be-
queathed, in addition to former liberal gifts,
the sum of $4,000 to Newton Theological Insti-
tuition; also, $1,000 to the Baptist Missionary
Union, S2OO0 to the American Tract Society,
| ana SlOOO to INDECENT Baptist ministers Mr..
Corey was tather-in-aw to the Rev. DR.. Sears
OF Brown University formerly President of the
Institution at Newton.
Aaron Mansur an old and much esteemed
citizen OF Lowell, died of disease of the heart,
on Friday evening last, at the age of 81 years.
lie represented the city in the Legislature of
1886, and had filled many other places Of trust
ana responsibility. He was the father of j.
w: Mansur of Fitchburg.
Mrs. Byrne wife of Rev F. j. Byme, the
missionary to the poor in Boston, connected
with the Episcopal Church, had leg broken
IN consequence of a fall occasioned by her foot
Delng caught in the hoop of her crinolne.
Her husband was absent at the time, attending
the Sabbath School Teachers Convention in
Northampton.
Archery is getting to be the fashionable
sport Tor girls, and the Boston dealers find it
difficult to obtain bows, arrows and targets
last enough to meet the increasing demand.
A sad accident occurred in Salem, Saturday
afternoon. Mr.. Daniel Dodge a carpenter
about forty years of age, not a resident of that
place, fell from the roof of house where he
was engaged, and was Sc seriously injured that
there are no hopes of his recovery.
CONNECTICUT.
The Connecticut Legislature, after an ami
mated session of about two months, adjourned
on Thursday last The bill providing for a
Constitutional Convention was defeated in the
House by a vote of 127 to 35 One o the last
acts OF the Legislature was to vote its mem
bers 1.-TWO mileages," to which the Hartford
Press Indignantly exclaims, ,thev had no
more right than to the deposits in the Hartford
Bank. A bill establishing Board of Insur-
ance Commissioners was rejected, and an
amendment to the military law, abolishing en-
campments, was passed.
| Levi Durham, a farmer of East Hartford
Connecticut while under the influence of
insanity, last Friday morning loaded rusty
gun barrel, and after applying slow match
stretched himself on the floor of his room and
discharged the contents of the barrel into the
brain. He died instantly.
Three fellows were arrested in New London
on Wednesday, .for'stealing coats, pantaloons
prayer books, pipes and tobacco, Sc One of
them had letter "To the benevolent in New
London stating that he was poor and in fee
bic health, soliciting charity, for which his
prayers for their welfare would ascend to
heaven.
The Middlesex County Agricultural S1cie-
ty advertise list of premiums amounting to
500. The exhibition will be given ON the
5th 9th and It'll of October at Middletown.
MISCELLANEOUS.
One of the quiet and reserved citizens of
Philadelphia recently assigned about $4,000
worth of real estate to his step sons, in orderto
keep it from his creditors, who were becoming
troublesome. The step sons had the deeds re-
corded, quietly converted the property into
cash, and stepped out, leaving step father
without funds enough to pursue them. The
ungrateful boys are supposed to be somewhere
| in that untraveled county "out West"
Two Scotch ladies, Misses Stirling. started
on long journey from ST. Paul, Minnesota. on
the 18th inst. They are en- route for Lake
Athrabasca, 100 miles north of 81. Paul
They will proceed to Fort Gerry by stage, and
there take one of the annual trains sent by the
Hudson Bay Company to Lake Athrabasca
They came from Scotland alone One Dan
Cupid is the moving cause of this long and per-
ilous journey.
| Among the fireworks to be '1et OFF, in Buff
falo on the Fourth is one which will represent
broad expanse of crinoline. When first llu-
minated it will be spangled with diamonds
and glorious in fiounces; a little later, the dec
orations will disappear and the skeleton will
appear III Its gigantic proportions.
The New ork police have succeeded in ar
resting three noted and desperate burglars,
named Thomas Kelley, Thomas Hughes, and
Charles +. Gordon. They have all spent one
or more terms in State Prison, and their prob
able return to prison life will be fayorably felt
by the community.
The officers of Sing Sing prison, New York,
have invented another instrument of torture
more barbarous than the shower bath, 1t is a
heavy iron cap, which drives the wearer near
ly mad in few hours. The Sing Sing tortur-
ers had better buy up the old instruments OF
the lnqusiton.
Gloucester county, Virginia, was visited by
an extraordinary tornado last Friday. 1t
swept everything beforeit. Houses were RACED,
fences and trees torn up, and the devastation
was complete. gentlemans house was Ia
ken up and blown distance of three quarters
OF mile The family were uninjured The
clothing they had on torn into rags "A
large number Of broken arms and dislocated
limbs llP'
Crowds Of scientific men, curiosity hunters,
editors and others, who went TO see the me-
teorlc stone which was said to have fallen
somewhere in the vicinity of Oswego, held an
Indignation meeting for the purpose Of punish
ing, by resolutions, the inventor of the vile
swlndle. They should have gone to Oswego,
ana held the poor apology for wit under the
town pump.
The GREEY-EYED MONSTER "SoLD."-A
lady OF OF Milwaukee, returning homo from a
rae, was almost petrified by hearing human
sounds IN the room occupied by herself and
husband. She was feminine and there was u