Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-06
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY


GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The deaf mutes of Boston and vicinity held
an interesting meeting Thursday evening for
the purpose of memorializing the State Legis-
lature to establish an institution for the educa-
ten of the deaf and dumb within this State.
Sign speeches were made by several gentle
men, and much enthusiasm was manifested, the
meeting continuing to a late hour.
Abby Goddard has been held for trial at
Dedham.in September next. She has follow
ed the example of her superiors in writing a
| letter, in which she asks suspension of public
| opinion, and says she is like the man who went
| down from Jerusalem to Jerico and fell among
| thieves. She hopes to find good Samaritan
| yet
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
James Cassidy, a professional loafer, got in
to an atfray Thursday afternoon, in French's
cellar, Lowell, assaiing two customers, and
stabbng the bartender He was arrested, and
released on bail
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
| Among the donations received at the dinner
table on Tuesday, in aid of the erection OF
the national monument to the forefathers,
at Plymouth, was one of one hundred dollars
from S. 2. Chase, Governor of Ohio.
NANTUCKET.
| They don't have clambakes in Nantucket
They have "squantums" instead. The Nan
tucket Inquirer of Aug 5, says :-"Another
| squantum came off at Quidnet yesterday.
About two hundred people participated in the
| festivities of the occasion, and demolished
about forty bushels of CLAIMS The Brass Band
were in attendance upon a chariot drawn by
four black horses"
BERKSHIRE COUNTY,
| Quite sensation was created in Pittsfeld
| on Monday, Aug |, by the passage Of a num-
Der Of carriages and saddle horses bearing the
| greater portion Of the Field family, of Stock
bridge, bound for Williams Commencement.
Among the party were noticed the Rev. DR..
Field, David Dudley Field of New York, Rev.
Henry NJ. Field, &c.
The match game Of base ball between the
Pittstield High School boys and the pupils of
the Taghconic Institute, came off few days
since, on the grounds of the latter institution,
and was closely contested, Pittsfeld making
! 60 to Taghconic 81.
RHODE ISLAND.
Carr Harrington, Esq, of East Greenwich
one of the oldest citizens, fell from load of
hay on Thursday, and broke his neck. He
survived only a few moments after the fall
| He was So years Of age.
Patrick Murray, of Cranston in the employ
Of Isaac n Beach, Providence was killed. on
Thursday, while coupling cars loaded with
coal
CONNECTICUT.
The Hartford Courant says that the opera
ton Of scraping off one of the bars in the river
below that city, has " disclosed the fact that
an old scow loaded with Portland stone was
at some bygone period, sunk in the best of the
water across the channel, apparently with a
| viz 10 ofF Nv. A., q
sloop navigation There are rumnrs about a
midnight transaction of this kind, in the days
of the Airline Railroad controversy. AT a
| cost of several hundred dollars it has been
dug OUT
The committee of the North Church, in
Hartford, to recommend candidate for pastor,
to take Dr. BUSHNELL place. have unanimously
agreed in favor of the Rev. Mr.. Weber OF
ST. Johnsbury, VT Mr.. w. has preached in
that church, recently, to the general satisfac-
ton of those who heard him.
Personal.
! The people of Toledo have become much
| excited by the case of Mr.. Angler, landlord OF
| the Island House, who has been convicted OF
selling liquor without license, and committed
to prison. limitations were thrown out that
i not released by the authorities, he would be
| liberated by force public meeting was
prosecuting attorney, stating that they had no
authority to interfere, and the Governor alone
could release Mr. Angler.
Bristol Bill, the noted burglar, counterfeiter,
ison-breaker, and for a long time the terror
of honest folks wherever he moved, is said to
be approaching his end in the Vermont State
Prison He has the appearance of feeble,
emaciated, grey-haired old man, and his ex-
preston is one Of hopeless misery. Visitors
and strangers cannot move him to give them a
single glance of his cold grey eve
1t is reported that P. T. Herbert of Califor-
mia, Of waiter-killing fame, is abcut to assume
the control of a Democratic administration pa
per in Arizona Herbert has been in the
country some weeks, having been iourneying
| through Sonora in company with Ned Meow
an who figured conspicuousy in San Fran
cisco at the time of the ascendancy of the
Vigilance Committee.
AT the commencement at Burlington, Vt,
Thursday, the honorary degree of Doctor of
Divinity was conferred on Prof S. S. Cutting
of Rochester University, and Rev. Joseph Ira
cy of Beverly, Mass The degree of Doctor
of Laws was given to Governor Hall of Yer
mont, and Prof. E. D. Sanborn of Dartmouth
College.
A most curious wager has Just come off in
high life in Paris. The old Viscount de l.
has just won 5000 francs by playing at bill
lizards for thirty-six hours without rest The
Viscount is u years of age.
John Anderson, the celebrated tobacconist,
Appleton, the ook-publisher, and Houghwout,
the china ware ornamentor are among the di-
rectors of new bank shortly to be started in
Broadway, New York between the st. Nicho-
las and Metropolitan hotels.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The national horse show for this year takes
place at Dayton, Ohio, on the 9th, It'll, 8th,
and 9th of September. The ladies equestrian
! display is to be under the marshalship of Col.
Harris of the Ohio Cultvator. The premiums
offered are on a very liberal scale, $500 being
offered for the fastest trotting gelding or FLY,
to harness, Sl75 for the fastest stallion to har.
ness, and others in proportion. Six premi-
ums, of the aggregate value of S515, are of.
fered to lady equestrians. Preparations are
made for 10000 people.
The journeymen and master shoemakers of
New York held meeting Wednesday, to or
ganize opposition to the encroachments of
prison labor. 1t is stated that two prisons
alone sent 10000 pairs of shoes into the city
monthly, not to say anything of constant
supply of upwards of 300 to 500 pairs day
from other places of mprisonment-giying on
an average 100000 pairs a month, at the low
price of three or four cents pair for making
| them.
AT party in Syracuse, the other evening,
two young ladies and two gentlemen under
went the mock marriage ceremony. At the
close of the evening, the gentlemen claimed
that what was done in fun was legal, and in
sisted upon carrying out the programme for
life. But the ladies "backed," and the two
males were compelled to repair to their bach
elor homes declaring that they should certain
ly call their brides
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