Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-25

n correspondent OF lile IIdNGiiti; Wiling
from South Natick, says; Our village
church was nearly full Sunday evening last,
to enjoy the pulpit services of Mrs. Caroline
II. Dali, of Boston. She conducted all the
exercises of the Desk with an ability and per-
suasiveness and acceptance which her we'll
known gifts impart to her" Mrs. Dali, who
is not unknown to the public, is the wife OF
Unitarian clergyman.
The box set up by Postmaster Young of
Chelsea, in his office two months ago, tor the
reception of contributions to the Washington
Monument, on being opened few days since
was found to contain the enormous sum OF five
cents
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Mr.. Ebenezer o. Fifeld, who lived at No.
! 20 fremont Corporation, Lowell, dropped
down and died Immediately, at his residence
on Saturday afternoon last. His complaint is
supposed to have been heart disease. MIR. +.
graduated at Dartmouth College in 1904,
classmate of the late Hon. Ezekiel Webster
BRISTOL COUNTY.
On Saturday the fish privileges belonging
to the town of Taunton, were sold as follows:
First to Blaney 0. Godfrey of Taunton, for
1925; second, to Allen B. Thomas of Rayn-
ham, for S2l5; third, to Benz. Luther of Berk-
ley, for S3l5.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Ira Ames, ESQ., whose recent death was re-
corded at Shelburne Falls, devised his large
estate to various benevolent enterprises. 10
sustain an academy in his native town, per-
manent fund of $4,000 to the village library,
$4,000: to the Congregational society, 5000;
to the American Board, $4,000; to the Home
Missionary Society, $1,000; and less requests
to a large number of other public charities
Mr.. Luman Pease, a well known merchant
of Deerfeld, recently deceased, also left
large property chiefly to benevolent enterpris
| es. Among the recipients are the American
Bible Society, the American Board, the Amer
lean Tract Society, and many Others.
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
The woods on Chesterfield mountain, in
New Hampshire, opposite Bratteboro', were
all on fire last week, making a most brilliant
illumination at night The fire was in full
blast on Saturday, and had been burning
several days.
RHODE ISLAND.
Saturday morning, on the Providence and
Stonington railroad near Carolina Mills, a
brakeman named Thomas Coffee, eighteen
years old was killed by putting his head
against bridge under which the train passed.
He belonged in Stonington.
The wife of Mr., Howell West, of Pawtuxet,
retired to bed on Friday night with her hus-
band, in her usual health, and on Saturday
morning about three O'Clock, he awoke, and
found that she was dead. Both parties were
of Incorporate habits.
CONNECTICUT.
The Winsted Herald, says that apples in
thatsectlon are by no means SO short crop
as we had supposed. But the farmers get high
prices, and sell down to the last apple in con
sequence, reserying fewer for their own con
sumption than when the price was low.
A new passenger depot is to be built on the
Norwich and Worcester Railroad, at Daniel
sonville, two stories high, 80 by "A feet to be
completed by the first OF January.
Personal.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Post, under date Of the 9th, writes g Senator
Sumner leaves for England, on his way to the
! United States, tomorrow or next day. lie is
much better than when | met him last Spring
at Naples, and even better than he here
i'll the Summer, though | cannot but think
that the chances for an entire establishment of
his health would be improved by another
years absence from the cares and eXcitements
which will haunt him in the United States.
George S. Hillard is here for few days.
Next week, l believe, he turns his face home
ward"
Rev. John Murray Forbes, d. D., who some
teStant Episcopal Church, and entered the
Church OF Rome, has publicly abjured his
new faith, on the ground that by it, not only
the natural rights of man and all individual
liberty must be sacrificed but the private con
science often violated and be forced, by ST
lence at least, to acquiesce in what is opposed
to moral truth and justice. Dr. Forbes was
pastor of St. Anne's Church, N. Y.
Lieut.. Washington A. Bartlett, who acted
the part OF tather-in-aw in the late melodrama
Of the Diamond Wedding" Senior Oviedo
and his bride being the leading characters, has
commenced a suit for libel against Edmund C.
Stedman, the author of a satirical poem on the
affair, published in the Tribune a few DAYS
ago. The correspondence commenced as if it
were to be very bloody one, but the Lieut.
showed the white feather, and appealed to the
law to relieve him.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
The Ogdensburg Literary Institute, N. Y,
was burned Friday night, together with all the
scientific apparatus and a portion of the valua-
Bile library.
The Baltimore Patriot says that Yankee
manufacturer near that place, produces the best
sad irons flat iron in household dialect) in
the market, but there is foolish prejudice
against them in Baltimore and he sends them
| north Tor sale. In consequence the Baltimore
dealers go to New York and buy them and car
ry them back
The mother of G. M. Selden, Esq, while
visiting Pittsfeld seventy mine years ago,
pucked willow twig for a riding whip, which
she carried to Troy and stuck in the ground.
From this twig has grown a tree which meas
ures two and half feet through the butt and
which is now standing i'll the garden of Gen.
Wool
The Albany Evening Journal says that when
Old Browns sons were murdered by Missouri
border ruffians, and his daughter who wit
messed the murder, became maniac, the adj
ministration Journals were ridicullng the
''shreks from Kansas"
Eli S. Parker, Chief of the Six Nations, is
an engineer in the employ of the Federal gov
eminent at Galena, ILL., The Dubuque Herald
of the 18th inst, says "Capt. Parker started
this morning for New York. He goes on to
Buffalo to pay his annual visit to the Six Ma
tions. He goes every year, divests himself of
the habiliments of civilization, puts on the garb
Of the red man, and as their chief, listens to
their complaints, adjusts their grievances, and
harmOnizes their diverse opinions"
Mr., Stone his wife and two children, to.
gether with Nathaniel Butterfield and Lorng
Loveng, were drowned in Lake Mnnetonka
thirty miles west of st. Paul. Mimi, recently.
Mr. Stone had determined to move his family
further down the lake, and had employed But.
terrified and Lovelling for that purpose About
dusk the boat capsized under the pressure of a
sudden gale, when the whole party was
drowned
| HE ESTATE OF THE LATE HORACE MANN
We understand that Horace Mann left pro-
perry in this State valued at Sl7, 1000 besides
| property in Ohio, of which the value is not
yet known. On Monday morning Samuel NJ
Quincy, Esq, Of this city was appointed adj
mlnlstrator of that part of Mr.. Manns estate
which is in Massachusetts. An administrator
| has also been appointed for the portion of the