Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-09
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

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BOSTON AND VICINITY.
One of the phrenoogists in Boston is MAX
ing sensation by examining the heads of
the most notorious inmates of the Charleston
State Prison, and getting some of the news
papers to publish them. The first experiment
was made with Plumer, and those in the lower
grades of crime are following. Very cheap
sensation.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Pittsfeld Eagle estimates the entire
loss by the great hurricane in that vicinity at
$4,000. Hon. Thomas II. Colt lost $500 or
$500; &. j. Peck lost from 5000 to $1,000 in
lumber which was washed away The des-
ructlon extended over large extent of the
country, and the loss will not fall very heavily
upon any.
Mrs. Daniels, a venerable lady of Pittsfield,
now in her S1st year. a few days since walked
four miles, gathered three quarts Of strawber-
berries and returned home, none the worse for
feat which many young ladies of the present
generation would be slow to undertake.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
-Four pesons were drowned on the 4th inst,
in Ossipee Pond, N. H., by the upsetting of a
sail boat A Mr.. Young, his wife and child,
and two children were sailing on the pond, at
short distance from the shore, when q squall
struck them, and Mr. Young and the children
were drowned. Mrs. Young succeeded in
reaching the shore and was saved. The
bodies were all recovered.
Troubles have arisen at Dartmouth College
between the President and four members of
the Senior Glass. The cause of the difficulty
is stated to have been the unauthorized alb
sence of the students of the College. The re-
bellious parties will leave the institution.
CONNECTICUT.
An lrishman named Mckay fell from lib
erty pole, Saturday night, at Norwich, dis
lance of 40 feet, falling on man at the foot,
and bounding thence upon a rock Didn't
hurt him much, after all.
"A frost IN July is the latest novelty. There
was slight frost on Tuesday morning in
Bristol, Painville, Bloomfield, and Hartford,
but it seems to have caused no damage.
Mr.. Frees store in Silver Mine, Norwalk,
was blown up on Monday night, by fire getting
accidentally to key Of powder. Mr.. Free
and boy were injured.
Some twenty boys, from ten to twenty years
OF age, having been arrested in Naugatuck for
carrying on the thieying business in that town.
Various articles have been taken by them at
different times from the stores and factories in
the village. Among the goods recovered were
about $500 worth of knives.
In the town of Greenwich are seven child
Ieh vi EuIIuHu heau, whose aggregate ages
exceed five hundred years. There has not
been death in the family for sixty years, nor
has member of it been confined a single day
by sickness within that time.
individual members of DR.. Bushnell's soci-
ETY. have subscribed $4,000 to be paid in five
annual installments, for his benefit, or that of
his family in case of his decease. He intends
leaving for Minnesota early next week.
RHODE ISLAND.
The building in Warren, r. l., occupied by
the ost Omce, Earie Express ONCE, and the
grocery store off. P. Phinney, wos entered,
wednesday night by burglars, and robbed of
some money, two memorandum checks for
SlOO each, and some articles of trfing value.
Mr. Chas. Riley of Woonsocket, became en-
gagged in drunken fight near the Post Office
last Saturday night during which he was stab
Ded III several places in the abdomen. From
one OF these wounds his bowels protruded.
The persons or person who stabbed Riley, are
not known He is comfortable, with pros
pect OF recovery.
MISCELLANEOUS.
a woman who was on the train at the time
OF the great railroad accident at the west with
her husband and five children, ran wildly
about all night seeking her family, but with
out success, until morning, when she found
them all dead. She then went to a farm house
rev yards OIL, where, after sitting some min
utes, the wretched wife and mother exnired
She died ola broken heart.
During the next fall season. monument
twenty-five feet in height, of pure white mar
pie, VIII be erected in Ashland Square, Balti.
more, IN memory of Wells and McComas, the
two young riifemen who killed General Ross,
the commander of the British forces at the
battle Of North Point but who were immedi-
ately shot themselves, in consequence of that
deed
One of Christy's Minstrels, Earl H. Pierce,
died IN London on the 10th inst On Sunday
morning he said to his attendant about day
preak tnat ne could not remain i'll bed, and he
asked nm TO take him to place of worship,
winch he accordingly did-Highgate being Sc
lected. lie went through all his deyotions
with the utmost feryor, and on getting outside
the building clasped his hands and dropped
down dead Pierce was the original "Hoop-
de-dooden-do"
Inc British government has again evinced
its friendship for Liberia, by replacing the
small naval vessel formerly presented TO the
young republic, with the Quail, IA much larger
and superior sailing vessel in complete order.
The latter went to sea from Plymouth on the
10th OF May for Monrova, where she is very
much required.
AT the commencement of the Antioch Col.
r0Se' Ohio, last week, sixteen young gentle
men and two young ladies graduated. The
college has now over two hundred students,
and is free from debt The commencement of
Marietta College, Ohio, occurred on the Both
UT. Inc graduating class numbered ten
The difficulties between the Imperial Bona
partists and the descendants of Mrs. Patterson
OF Baltimore, the reputed wife of the Duke of
Westphalia, are said to have been partially
composed. The Emperor has offered TO make
her.son Jerome Duke, and her grandson ,Je-
rome, who graduated at West Point, and is
now with the army in Italy, Count with
suitable pecuniary endowments for the rank, if
they will formally renounce all claims to the
name of Bonaparte