Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-15
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
states that the cholera infantum is unusually
severe the present season. Many cases were
reported in Boston last week, in which the
suddenness of attack and the rapidity of the
course of the disease was very remarkable.
The disease is very prevalent and very fatal in
Providence. The absurd custom of dressing
little girls in hoops, no doubt renders many
children liable to the danger of cholera infant
UNI, by exposing the lower extremities. Twen-
ty-one children died in Boston week before
last of this disease.
The assessors of Boston have completed
their valuation of the city, for the year 1859,
and the result is as follows Real Estate,
Sl57, 092, 800; Personal Estate, Sl04, 92l 700;
number of Polls, 80, 323. In 1858 the valua-
ton was as follows Real Estate, SI53, $685.
300 Personal Estate, Sl0l Dos, 500; number
OF Polls, 1881.
Lale Friday night, a large clearinghouse
in the village of Auburndale, Newton, belong
ing to the estate of Lawrence, Stone & Co.,
Which had been unoccupied for some time
past, was discovered to be on fire, and was to-
tally destroyed. Undoubtedly the work of an
incendary. The building is valued at $4,000,
which is partially insured
The famous Cornhill Coffee House, estab-
lished in 1924 by VIM Fenno, and since 1916
Young's," closed its doors Saturday evening.
The building is to be destroyed and a first
class hotel put up in its place. As one of the
associations of the place, it is mentioned that
here Shadrach, the rescued, was arrested as
fugitive slave, while pursuing his duties as a
waiter.
MARTHA's VINEYARD.
YelloW FeUer.-We learn from passengers
from the Vineyard to day, that Capt. John
Staples died at the Camp Meeting Landing
this morning of yellow fever. He arrived at
New York few days since from Havana
New Bedford Standard, Aug. 12M.
DARNsTABLE COUNTY.
On Friday last, the son of Ezra Goodspeed,
of South Welfeet, aged four years, was left
i'll boat on the beach, while the uncle went
on board of vessel. Fifteen minutes after
wards, the uncle saw the boy on the flats with
his life extinct. There were three inches of
water where he was drowned.
ESSEX COUNTY.
On the night of the 9Th inst, the store of
Deacon Albert Abbott in Andover was enter.
ed by burglars, and GEOGRAPHICALLY broad
cloths-to the amount of five or six hundred
dollars stolen. Clean work was made upon
the shelves containing broadcloths, doeskins
and cassimeres, not piece being left. Two
young men who were traced to Reading, are
fva~ CONNECTICUT.
NJ Blondin will accept the proposition of
the New London County Agricultural Society,
and will, during the fair this fall, cross the
Thames River, at Norwich from Laurel Hill
to the west side, upon rope.
The Winsted Herald learns that boy about
ten years old, named Dunn, was bitten on the
foot by a rattlesnake while whorteberrying on
Canaan mountain last week. He was taken
to Dr. Welch's in Norfolk for medical treat
ment, but was not likely to live.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Col. Fremonts family and household, says
the Marlposa Gazette, are encamped on the
top of Mount Bullion, 1000 feet above Bear
| Valley, and about 4 500 feet above tide water,
! The atmosphere at this point is very comfort
able during the hottest season. The spring at
which they are encamped is the resort of
grizzlies, and dispute regarding the water
privilege is likely to arise between these
beasts, and the present squatters, during the
summer.
| John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation,
| is a candidate for reelection, and so far, al
though there exists strong party against him,
there is no opposition candidate. The Ar
kansaian gives the illustrious John anything
but a good character. 1t charges him with
immense speculations upon the public prop
erty and funds, and with having, by means
| of the lighthouse enactments, surrounded him
| self with band of cutthroats ready to do his
| bidding.
During late debate in the House of Com
mons, Mr.. Bright incidentally mentioned the
fact that some time since he and Mr.. Golden
had each legacy of e., 500 left by a person
they had never seen, as some compensation
for their efforts to oppose the Russian war
A notorious ruffian, known in Southwestern
Arlyp To- a.. l.. Il
| by a woman whose husband he had shot The
widow challenged him to fight duel and as
the rutfian declined she attacked him with a
revolver and lodged three balls in his body,
one OF which passed through his heart
In the Supreme Court, New York, last
week, VIM. b. Coan obtained divorce for
his wife, Ada L. Coan, on the ground of
adultery, no answer or REPUTATION being put in
by the woman, who is well known as trance
speaking and ballot-test medium Of eminence
in the spiritual world.
AT Niagara Falls, Friday night, Bartlett
Byron was beating his wife, when German
named Hammer interfered to protect her
Byron Immediately knocked him down. and
commenced beating him severely, saying he
would kill him. Hammer, seeing that he
could not relieve himself drew pistol and
shot him dead
DIR. Thomas t. Ellis, formerly of Boston and
of other places, an accomplished roue and
swindler, has been arrested in New York, and
lodged in JAIL on various charges of false pre-.
fences. His circle of victims appears to be a
very large one, with whom his memory is not
at all fragrant.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A letter from the Sandwich Islands alludes
to the Rev. A. Thurston, the veteran mission
airy at Kailua, who has labored faithfully at the
same station for thirty-nine years, without
having left the Islands once during that period.
He is over seventy years old, but hale, ro-
bust man, with flowing white hair, and vener-
able beard untouched by the razor
A hackman of Chicago, who has recently
been sent to the penitentiary for five years for
an aggravated crime, has just been informed
that he is heir to $4,000, left him by "a brother
who died in California. The money is in the
hands Of Mr.. Fargo, of the Express Company
DEATH FROM THE BITE OF TURTLE
We find in the Middleboro Gazette the follow.
ing statement.