Worcester daily spy., 1859-12-14
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

night, Dec. 20. The parquet and stage of the
theater are to be fioored over, and the decOra-
tions are to make those of all previous occa-
sions "hide their diminished heads" Gilmore's
| Band and the Germania Band are to furnish
the music, while J. B. Smith prepares the sup
per. Tickets are SIS. 1t is supposed elegance
in dress will on that occasion, reach its Popo-
catapetl
On Sunday afternoon, Mrs Whall, vener-
able lady about 70 years of age, returned from
church to her residence on Harrison avenue,
Boston, and passed up the high steps TO the
front door, which terminate without platform
step. In the act of ringing the bell, the pull
slipped from her hand and she slipped back
ward down the steps, occasioning double
fracture OF one leg, a fracture of her wrist, and
| other I'M uries which render her recovery
doubtful.-IiuceLer.
The committee of the Association of the
Alumni of Harvard College, appointed to pro-
cure marble statue to the Hon. Josiah Quin-
cey, the venerable ex-president of the univer-
sity, from the chisel of the accomplished artist,
w. W. Story, have authorized Prof Francis
Bowen and John S. Dwight and Geo. Liver
m3re, Esqs, to prepare a circular for distribu-
ton in the community at large, soliciting aid
Tor this work OF respect and love.
Henry McElroy and James Crane were ar
rested in the ward room of Ward Three, Bos-
ton, Monday afternoon, for illegal voting. The
former voted twice, and the latter attempted
to vote in the name of another person. They
were both locked up
DUKES.
The Cape Poge light is said to be lucus a
non tucendo, or rather no light at all. The Ed
gartown Gazette says neU light was placed in
| the lighthouse in August last, which proved
to be a very poor one, requiring as much
care as a sick child" to keep up its vital flame
and recently, another has been substituted
which was extinguished three times before
midnight.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Mr.. Salon of Boston, while stepping from
| one car to another, while the train was in mo-
ton, near Palmer few days ago. slipped and
fell beneath them. With remarkable presence
of mind he rolled himself forward into small
pit and coolly waited for the train to pass over
him. He received no injury. Salon is q man
of many adventures, and had he lived in more
credulous times, might have won the credit of
| bearing charmed life.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
| The shaft being sunk on the west side OF the
| Hoosac Mountain is now forty feet deep, and
its whole depth is to be 275 feet Owing to
the troublesome quicksands, it is contemplated
making an open cut from the present entrance
of the tunnel some distance towards the
mountain.
The book agent lately driven away from
Georgetown, S. c., on account of being an
abolitionist was Morris E. Stearns of Green.
field.
L. E. johnson of Colerane was obliged to
leave Marion, Alabama, the other day, to es-
cape being mobbed, for too free expression of
his opinion of a southern lawyer.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. Carlyle is still busily engaged on his
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three and four will be published about the be-
ginning of the next season.
Thurlow Weed, in late letter to the Pio-
neer Association of Western New York. says
that he went to Rochester, in 1922, with for
tune consisting ola wife and two children, and
a cash capital of 81 25in his pocket.
A local agent of the National Era, in Mary
land, has been thrown into jail on the charge
of circulating incendiary documents, said doc
uments being copies of the Era.
The Portsmouth journal publishes a pass
port given by James Monroe, when Minister
to England, in 1906 to Essex White, a slave
and body servant of John Randolph, of Roam
oke, and negro, in which the said Essex
White is called, "a citizen ofhe United States"
A Philadelphia correspondent of the journal |
of Commerce says that Henry Ward Beecher
was greeted with zone of the most violent
storms Of Kisses ever aimed at man" during
lecture which he delivered in that city last
week, because he took occasion to praise JohE
Brown.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On Saturday morning, Dec. Sd, the court
house yard at st, Louis, was graced by scat
fold bearing effgies Of Francis P. Blair, Joshua
r. Gddings and John Brown. Early in the
day, the efflgies of Blair and Giddings were
cut down. but that of Brown remained hang
ing till near noon. The indecent burlesque
only excited horror and disgust.
Alexander Hersler of Chicago has made
new Photographic discovery which is a rea
cation of Hills dream of a colored dagureo
type. All the hues of life and nature are
given, without the aid of touch or pencil.
The sitter does not sit so long, and the process
can be learned by skiful operator
AS a result Of the judicous advertisement
with which the democratic members of Con-
gress have gratuitously favored the publishers
of Helpers Impending Crisis, it is announced
that new edition Of twenty-five thousand
copies of the Compendium is in press, and
will be ready in a few days.
An anonymous letter. dated at Jersey City,
December Sth, was lately received by the
Secretary of the Treasury enclosing twelve
hundred dollars, of which the writer says that
he once defrauded the United States Govern
ment and which he desires to restore that he
may be happy.
The jewel box of an Egyptian Queen,
which was found in one of the Kings tombs
in Egypt, has been taken to Paris, and has
excited considerable attention. The work
manship is spoken of as most elaborate, and
exquisite in design and execution, and, it is
said, cannot be surpassed by the artists of the
present day. A small gold crown is particul-
arly well made, as also a thick gold chain, six
feet in length. A beautifully chiselled gold
plate contains male portrait, evidently that of
the King.
Three men, suspected of tampering with
slaves, have been arrested in Columbus, Ga.
One of them was agent for the "History of Re-
ligious Denominations" and the Life of
Christ" So in Tuskegee man was detected
| in close conversation with negroes and treat
ing them literally to whisky, has been handed
over to the authorities.
In the case of Catharine N. Forrest against
Edwin Forrest, the referee decides that Mrs
Forrest should be allowed $4,000 a year from
the 10Th day of November, 1850, and that Mr.
Forrest should place the mortgage on the Font
hill property in the United States Trust Com
pany, as secnrity for the payment OF the al
| lowance.
The Hon. Green Adams, Member of Con.
gress from the Richmond, Ken, District, on
Saturday night went to his law office, in Bar
bourvlle, to get some papers which he de-
sired to use, and in groping for his candle and
matches, he stumbled and fell upon one of the
front posts of chair, which had been broken
and was sharp pointed. The point penetrated
his neck, Immediately above the collar bone,
and his life, for a considerable time, was ut
terly despared of.
Nicholas Schemedes made bet with John
w. Coe, prior to the election, that if Havemey-