Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-11
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


on Wednesday and Thursday last. This Ii /
brary contained many rare and valuable !
works. especially in French Literature, as Mr. |
Rantoul had for many years been collecting |
material for writing history of that country. |
A history Of France, by Michaud ct PouTjOu-
lat, in thirty-two volumes, brought $40 SO;
Hansard's Parliamentary of England, $50 90 ;
fifty volumes of the North American Review, |
S35; Niles Register, complete from its COM
mencement in 1872, sixty volumes, SIS;
American State Papers, from 1889 to 1873, Il |
volumes S63 American Archives, from IVA |
to 1776, 7 volumes, S34. The rarest work |
sold, however, was "ReCeml Des HiStoriens
DIES Gaules ct de La France, twenty volumes,
folio, full Russia calf gilt, with arms on sides,
Paris, 1888" This copy was purchased at
public sale in Europe, for 500, after he had
searched all the European catalogues, and
waited for a number Of years to procure a
copy. 1t is believed there is only one other
copy in the United States. The present copy
brought 500.
Two of the four full blooded Ayrshire bulls
imported by the Massachusetts, society for the
promotion Of agriculture, were sold at auction
on Thursday for mere song-IrOOn, three
years old to Charles Francis Adams, for
So So not near the cost of his freight from
England and Tam Sampson, two years old,
for III 80 to Capt. Cook of Brookline. Both
were sold with the condition that they should
not be taken from the State.
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
AT Springfield, on Thursday, Judge Morris,
who is about to leave the bench under the new
arrangements of the Courts, received warm
and unanimous testimonial of respect from the
bar The speeches and resolutions award
ed him the highest praise Among his OBJ
seryations in reply was the following 1.-The
only merit | claim, is that of good behavior,
which, by the constitution of Massachusetts,
used to be regarded as the proper limit to the
tenure of judicial office"
The Hampden County Temperance Society
at Westfield, last Wednesday, among other
resolutions adopted the following &C esolv
ed; that no confidence whatever can be placed
in legal action for the entire suppression Of in
temperance"
NANTUCKET.
The New Bedford Standard says = "The
June term of the Common Pleas Court was
held at Nantucket on Tusday, by Mr.. Justice
Aiken. The session lasted about five hours,
during which time only one civil case, that of
Thomas Coffin VS.. L. l.. Barney for false i'm
prisonment, was tried, with a verdict for the
defendant. The new District Attorney, Mr..
B. Sanford, was in attendance, and appeared
for the government in the case of David Town
send, indicted for shop-breaking."
CONNECTICUT.
The great race for the champion flag of the
Yale College boat clubs took place on Wcdnes-
day, June Sth. TWAS won by the Varna, the
boat of the junior class of go. The 'navy" is
now said to be in most flourishing condition,
and has commenced practice for the annual re-
gatta, which occurs in June. Yale boatmen
are preparing for the great college regatta,
which comes oft at Springfield on the Friday
sIn L coi'n V L. ne fotite-ie
s!c poaV Ill "IliT ne, Neor Se human iost ms
me laSt year-"l'l NC useu again. WIN plcheu
ail u, Ird'heo crew o.,
iie wa?ol supp u WI NorIlilh Nlaoey, AZ
w t,iliiaI.lc;"as toIaly uesuoyeq ny hle eaIy
III s'ie liloIils VI outle Gun morse, Faueu
at 9loo' ana some c'5rriaEGS IN tle shop ior re-
paiIS were COIiSu.leu' Inc loss Is estimated
a a, @zVoV' Inc IRE Is supposed 10 nave peeh
tiie W wv, OF an lhceliaiary' MT M9lohey Is
sheriff ana n ilaS Iecellty peeh engaged IN put
'lliS Tue Nla.'G III" IIlto force III MS Vlclhity,
anu any some Oh inc sufferers are supposed 10 Oe
"oIe 70 suesS now me , Ile was communicates
81, Nol"lcll' l"st thursday, WINE the ar
Illery company were were pfaGtclhg win thelr
Gun ,, On Lau azure I'LL I'M, BOY named FRANK
'ui'ills 'ooH AMY " ii'SllCGt tl'e lisue ar
tanstileI' Vi Iilg c[4Iace. me gun was JUST
I,ieii ilreu' anu V'ie pifIih9 ulscharge burned
, me i''ce t,l1 SiilSeu 'hG lalI ol lhe BOY. haG
ne peGh nan second quicker death would
i'a1 I'VE peeh Ihe result
me IiuillDer Vi scholars Ill attendance al the
n l,tG wv Ioo W. i'ist year was @0'' ne"
+n,r,i - A., lVo IN one eAceptloli' every
oI ~ inc or''e mas oeell represented In the
'o1 W",. 1 TaJd l.s o 'si l
frn', i1?io foteu o.i oaturu''y 'St 70 rent
Nn,, S,, il ~ ',,,,, , 'ty 10 tne new haven
t(a,,t 49,, t 5000 'ol uo"u lor
Ioro o a.. e"i' WIN 'le li aon
n 7,oor ~ -0- ''e'''' 'e"'S ii'ole "' @0oo
The Post Oficn at No,,,,,a.t ,,o, ,o,1.ol -,
Thursday nir6t , 49, PG.u wa? Ioppeu On
al tho + tliiel plohg ~ anu Stole
and oil ~ ,,, -, az st,i 'iie
NOT baon d;anI'c,,I I'ou' 'fo' ne rascal iiad
A Iottor ~ 80 p,.;1.
Na,ynort ~, TIursdo,, ~ e. u"'eu at
nigbt tho ,,raot Vel. o-lilo'IoW
onens Of 10 " '''e iieIiuS
boro, st.alt Ill tII:m oh Hlail-
in the Frionds, NJ. fI l.oeil'es ole 'nelIs
nue This yearly nooaii,,s iri,, W. IL 1i" "a
ers from otber vGorIy ,9+;,'
of the Atant;c or,d in 50 ". Dotn Sl.'cS
EngIisb rroanIors 'i"G W. Ho'eu
In prpvidonoa o', iiGs'r5 "'iI'I i:..,
forrtoa,, n,tI,s ia y" su"y htIie GIL
Ronna ttu uausHtel ol Shaties NC
diod tho,aS,t Ia. ""' iiieo 80 'lias sue
of ~, 49,, ~ - nc iilo'uel etePPeu out
w. f ~ eoliie from
""Eo II. iior VI Ine mouse, leaving the enid
s;Jn az d pu'I"u drawer ana WINE out
tbn io' 'ooae 'liGG minutes she tillnks-
,rora Wv ny ~ lioiI VI tliIee ha'cheS mat
sat five 70 hor ootl; ~ means oi Wilich sHe
,l'I " anu before t3e names
sto,,,ool S.'N,'uJ d sle was burned on the
In pnn,t l,Ion ,'i'I q.i Hliiis
soholio El ,. ~ I'm REM Gernah and
CiiH, iliS NllC, WHO occupied the mouse