Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-28
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS,.


Lowell George B. Abbott of Boston and Gov.
Boutwell, as commissioners to settle the ques-
tiuns between the city of Boston and the COM
monwealth on the Back Bay lands.
AT about midnight, Tuesday night, large
unoccupied house in West Needham, formerly
the residence of Rev. Mr.. Noyes, but now
owned by Rev. w. T. G. Morgan, was set on
fire and totally destroyed.
Friday evening, Spencer, Villa & Co., ex-
change brokers in Boston, received from their
correspondent at New Orleans eleven counter
felt one hundred dollar bills on the Brighton
Market Bank. 1t is supposed that the coun-
terfeiters disposed of thousands of dollars
worth of these notes up the Mssippi.
At the dinner TO be given Paul Morphy in
Boston, Tuesday evening next, the Autocrat
of the Breakfast Table will preside, and L.
Starr King, Quincy, Burlingame, Longfellow,
Shaw, Walker, Pierce, Whipple, Lowell,
Fields and others, have consented to be pres
| ent.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Peleg Bassett of Marion, who has been at
| the West for some time, and more recently at
| Pixies Peak, has been shot by man with whom
| he was in some way connected in business,
and had some difficulty in respect to the open
| ing of private letters. Mr.. Bassett had order
ed the postmaster not to deliver letters directed
to himself alone, to his partner, as he suspect
ed him of dishonesty. He was widower, and
leaves daughter about sixteen years of age at
Marion.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Saturday evening, ay q, the body of
Mr.. Pierce was found in mill pond in Che
shire. 1t was not identified until after burial
and disinterment. Pierce had left home for
North Adams ten days before, and the body
appears to have been in the pond during most
of that time.
About forty applicants have been made for
the cashiership of the Adams Bank at North
Adams, made vacant by the elopement of Lit
tlefield. A majority Of the applications are
from individuals living outside of that town.
Rev. A. p. Victs, of Hancock, has been in
vited to the pastorate of the Baptist church in
Lawrence, Kansas; an interesting and impor-
tant field but it is not probable that Mr.
Vicis will be induced to leave Hancock to fill
it.
Rev. NJ. NJ Longley, late pastor of the Con-
gregatonal church at Peru, has been engaged
to preach at Washington for one year, preach
ing in the Congregational and Methodist
churches there on alternate Sabbaths.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The citizens of Concord purpose to celebrate
election day-Thursday, June Pin the old
fashioned style. The Amoskeag Veterans are
to perform escort duty to Gov Goodwin, and
there will be a large cavalcade in connection
with the procession The fire companies,
with several bands of music will also turn out
in full force.
The annual meeting of the stockholders OF
the Manchester and Lawrence Railroad was
held in Smytll's Hall, Manchester, Friday.
The old Board of Directors, consisting of N.
G.. Upham, E. j. NJ Hale, John Flint, Asa
Fowler, n G. White, and Charles Conner,
were unanimously reelected as Directors for
the ensuing year
While fifty or sixty persons were putting up
the frame of building to be used for military
purposes, in Kttery, n H., Wednesday after
noon, one half of them were precipitated from
a staging twenty-five feet from the ground
No lives were lost, but several of the gentle
men were severely injured.
a woodshed, belonging to the Concord
Manchester, ard Lawrence Railroad, situated
at Bow Crossing, was destroyed by fire or
Thursday night. From four to six hundred
cords Of wood were burned. Insured.
CONNECTICUT.
The State Convention of the Common
School Teachers of Connecticut will be held al
West Killingly on the 10th and 18th of June
There are III persons, firms, and corpora
tons in New London that are taxed for up
wards of $4,000. The Wilson Manufacturing
Company is taxed for 100000, Thomas W
Williams $104,68 and Asa Otis S110,S0O.
Mr. Bailey of the National Era has started
for Europe, He says that che goes from ne
cessity, not choice in quest Of health seek
ing restoration to those activities and ener
man should die" 'e''oi ma
The Nashville Union charges that the Hon
Jere. Clems was at one time something of
fre-eater Jere. did a few years ago show
somewhat ofan appetite for that unwholesomt
diet, but he left it off before the coat of his DO
, htical stomach was essentially injured.
The sun shone brilliantly into the room
where Humboldt died. and it is reported tina
his last words, addressed to his niece were :
"Wie herrlich desc Strablpn: sic schenen die
Erde zum Himmel zu rufen !" How grand
these rays: they seem to beckon Earth tc
Heaven
Hon. Owen Lovejoy, in reply to inquiries
submitted to nearly all the public men in the
West, takes occasion to denounce the princ
pie involved in the Two Years Amendment
as well as all legislation which establishes dis
tinctions among different classes of citizens
The English papers report the death of Mrs
Young, lady of high social position, who
died under the excitement produced by receiv-
ing the joyful intelligence of the election Of
her nephew to the House of Commons.
MISCELLANEOUS
Seven men in scow got loose from the tug
: which was towing them up Niagara river, and
fioated down. They had no power to stop
save by making an anchor with rope and
some stones which they had for ballast. The
anchor fell, and they were taken from the
very brink of the precipice by daring men in
skiffs.
On Sunday, young lady attempted to
cross stream just above the Hackney Falls
in GAINESVILLE, N. Y. When midway of the
temporary narrow bridge thrown across the
stream, few rods above the falls, she became
dizzy, and with a scream, fell into the water
and was borne on over the falls into the whirl-
pool beneath it.
e. p Cochran, bookkeeper, in New York,
went one evening recently to Wallacks Thea
tire with friend, left him and went out, prom
ising to return shortly. He was not seen I'M.
til late at night, when he returned covered
with bruises from a severe beating. He re-
fused all explanation, went to bed, and in the
morning was found dead-supposed to be the
result of violence at the hands of rowdies.
The Richmond Wing says one of the Dem
ocrats in that city resorted to a noyel and nge-
NOUS way of saving his bacon. Fearing lest
many Democrats would vote scratched tick
ct, he set his wits to work to devise plan bv
which the wishers of such tickets might be de-
teated. That is, he prepared lot of creased
tickets or tickets chemically fixed UP in such a
manner as to prevent the erasure of one. name
and the substitution of another.
George ii. Lamb, hotel keeper in Mendo-
ia, Ill, has been sentenced to be hung in st.
Louis, for the murder of his wife. A year or
TWO since, this Lamb took his wife from st.
Louis, put her in a boat, rowed down the riy.
err, and drowned her. He went South. and
wrote back to her father that she was dead,
fra H..