Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-04
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

LOT some days confined TO MS mouse by an al
lection of the hip. In undertaking to open
desk drawer, in the afternoon, it suddenly
came out, throwing him down upon the floor
and breaking his thigh. His physician was in
the room at the time, and Immediately pre-
scribed for his injuries, which are not supposed
| to be of dangerous character.-Irdcelter.
| Prosecutions have been commenced against
some of the fruit dealers in Boston for selling
berries by wine instead of dry measure, and
by measures which have not been sealed. Or
ders have been issued for the prosecution of
all violations of the law in this respect. The
| penalty is fine not exceeding STU.
Four worxmen were badly injured Tuesday
afternoon near the head of Lake Cochituate, by
the falling of stone weighing several tons
which they were engaged in raising by means
of derrick The platform on which they
stood was shattered in pieces, and the stone
with the gearing and the boom attached sunk
in the lake to the depth of twenty feet.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The valuation of real and personal property
In Marblehead is 81, 1864, 800. Ratio on 500 is
81 II. The town appropriation and county
tax is $3.50 over 1858.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Sunday clam bakes, near Fall River do notap-
pear to be virtuous institutions. AT one of them
held last Sunday, James Chace, fiddler, got
drunk and was robbed and the clam-bake
party robbed a man on the public highway.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Cricket Club of Springfield, has accept
ed a challenge from the Shelburne Falls club,
and the match is to come off at Hampden Park
today, August T. The Shelburne Falls club
intend to drive down, leaving home early in
the morning.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
John Franzen, the third victim of the explo-
sion at Wells & Co.'s machine works in Flor
ence, died last Tuesday afternoon. He was
German, 81 years old, and unmarried.
Rev. Mr. Alden of Northampton has the
credit of hooking ten pound brook trout in
the Androscoggin, few days ago. On the
same spot, William Henry, a Jealous fisher
man, aged 70 years, took out, soon after,
trout weighing eight pounds, breaking his rod
in pieces in securing the prize.
The occasion of the celebration of the ami
versary of the emancipation Of the West In
dies gathered together large number Of peo-
pie at Florence, on Monday, from the sur
rounding region, who listened to speeches
from c. G. Burleigh and several citizens of the
village.
VERMONT.
The State agricultural society which holds
its annual fair at Burlington on the 18th 18th,
10th, and 10th of September, will distribute on
that occasion 1924 in premiums, varying
from ST to S25 each
CONNECTICUT.
The New Haven Palladium says :-"The
splendid victory of Yale seems to have given
remarkable impulse to the aquatic Juror in
this city and we hear that quite a number of
boats have recently been ordered from the
builders. From present appearances, we may
expect to see at least four new race-boats in
our harbor during the fall"
A l.
missing since Thursday, the Dist ult. He is
"a years old, 5 feet II inches in hight, and
weighs 10 pounds, has very black hair and
eyes, one crooked leg, from its having been
b. oxen, and his left thumb shorter than the
other. If any one sees such man, address
Phineas Rosebrook, Courier office, Norwich
1t is suspected that foul crime was perpe-
trated at a vile tavern near Norwalk, last Sat
urday night. There are indications of the
murder of woman, and traces of her having
been dragged to the dock, when dead, and
thrown in
Mr.. G. Madison of Hartford fell from scat
folding, Tuesday afternoon, in such manner
as to fracture his skull, and his spine between
his shoulders, completely paralyzing his body
below the arms. He was not expected to sur
yive long. He was a man Of family and much
respected
The store of c.. H. Northam & Co., whole
sale grocers, at Hartford, was entered on Mon
day night and the safe blown open by gun
powder, and robbed of a $50 watch and few
dollars in change. The money drawer in the
Office of J. H. Brainard & Spencer was robbed
of $40 on Tuesday
AT the Farmers Club at West Cornwall,
Conn, one of the members observed that no
talking should be allowed while milking was
going on. Another said he had discharged
man because he would talk and interrupt the
milking in his dairy, and that in three days the
increase of milk was equal to the mans wages
RHODE ISLAND.
The Norwich Bulletin trihes with public
confidence by relating that at Sunday school
clam bake, near Providence, Monday, gold
hunting watch was accidentally dropped into
the PIT with the CLAIMS, and that after baking
for forty minutes, in its unaccustomed com.
Panionship, it was shoveled out with the clans,
still running as if nothing had happened
"Perley," writing from Newport to the Bos-
ton journal, says,-"The worthy constables
who guard the beach and see that good people
battle decently and in order, were sadly troub-
bled few days since by the appearance of a
gentleman during ladies' hours) who had di-
vested himself of all apparel and whose ad-
vent caused a general scatteration After
vainly entreating this classical dsturber Of the
peace to come ashore and be taken, the star
bedecked Dogberrys had to swim off and cap.
ture him. They found it was an invalid.
whose mind had been somewhat disturbed. and
they persuaded him to be clothed, but in a few
minutes he went and did it again, and was ne
cessarily arrested. This vigilance is only ex-
ercised at certain times, when a flag denotes
the presence of ladies-at other times of day,
gentlemen have the beach,"
Personal.
A Newport letter of August l. in the Prov
i1aOOa Dnct
an extraordinary huttering among the fashion
ables upon learning that the beautiful and
gifted Cora de Wilhorst had been compelled
to apply for the Intervention of the police to
terminate certain kickings, beatings, and other
outrageous maltreatment to which she had
been subjected by her brutal husband-the So
called Count. A warrant was issued for the
arrest of the wife-whipper, but the matter was
finally settled by the high contracting par
ties who are now said to be again on terms
of amity."
Rev James w. Alexander, D. D., pastor
of the Brick Presbyterian Church in Fifth
avenue, in New York, and one of the most
eloquent preachers of the city, as well as one
of its most accomplished scholars, died at
Virginia Springs on Saturday last. DIR. Alex
ander was the son of the late Archibald Alex
ander of Princeton, N. j., and the grandson,
by the mothers side, of james Waddell, the
original of Wirt's famous sketch of the Blind
Preacher.
John r. Thompson ESQ., editor of the
Southern Literary Magazine, has determined
upon giving course Of lectures at the North
during the approaching lecture season. Mr..
Thompson, says the New York Commercial
Advertiser, is well known as one of the most
elegant and pleasing writers of the South, is
hne and captivating speaker.
The virtual Telegraph announces that