Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-11
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
A mulatto woman, named Mary ii. L.
Blight, was arrested in Cambridge, on Friday
night, on a charge of poisoning her little
step-daughter, three years old, and attempting
to poison her husband and another child of his
by former wife. She had been married six
weeks. The womau's object is supposed TO
have been to murder her husband and his chill
dren to get possession of her husbands prop
erty.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Newburyport Herald says the farmers
in that section are now busy in the hay fields
the potatoes look well, apple trees are fruitful,
and Notwithstanding the GOODNESS of the sea-
son the corn is coming forward rapidly few
warm nights would give the stalks good size.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Fall River News says that it is just nine
teen months since the services of the fire de-
partment have been required at any fire within
the limits of that city Fall River is a good
place for insurance companies.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Rev. Otis Thompson died in North Abng-
ton on the 18th ult., at the age of eighty-three
years. He was for many years pastor of the
Congregational Church in Rehoboth, and his
controversies with his people were long and
violent, and were finally settled in the Su-
preme Court of Massachusetts. Mr.. Webster
appeared as counsel. His theological views
were ultra opkinsian, which he indicated
with great ability in the "Hopkinsan Maya
zine" periodical which he edited for many
years.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Three men were engaged on Wednesday
last in raising gilt ball to the top of the stee
pie on the new church in Ludlow, when the
heavy thunder storm and wind of that after
noon came upon them. They had hardly fas.
tened the ropes suspending the ball, when the
staging under them was swept away, and they
were left clinging to the staging poles, down
which they made perilous descent to the
ground.
Stephen S. Dixon is now in jail in SPRING
field, awaiting trial for abducting girl named
James Armstrong, from her home in Long
meadow. Caroline l.. Dodge, his first wife,
whom he married in 1857, has suddenly dis
appeared, and there are suspicious that she
has been murdered.
CONNECTICUT.
The New London Star says the Hartford
Savings Bank have sued the city of New Lon
don for the amount of interest due July LIST on
the bonds held by that bank. The case comes
before the Superior Court to be held in Hart
ford on the Sd Tuesday Of July, 1859.
Fourteen cars went from Providence to Nor
NlCli, VII thursday VI last WGchJ uueu WIN
Sabbath School excursionists, who were re-
ceived by the two Baptist Sabbath Schools of
Norwich, and had picnic in Laurel Hill
| Grove.
| The New York Tribune reports that there
was strong desire in the Maine Republican
| Convention to present Mr.. William Pitt Fes-
| sender as candidate for the Presidency, but
| its expression was prevented by Mr. Fessen-
den's decided opposition to such use Of his
name.
Rufus H. Bacon, formerly Unitarian cler-
| gyman, and latterly correspondent of the
Boston Post and New York papers, clerk in
the Chicago post office, and an attache of the
| Chicago Times, was drowned in Lake Michi-
| gan on the 4th of July.
When Rev. Baron Stowe, d. D., of Bos-
ton who is now in Europe, was at Munich,
the capital of Bavaria, he was announced as
der Herr Baron aus Amerika-My Lord the
Baron, from America
The retirement of Charles Kean from the
stage is to be celebrated in London by grand
banquet and testimonial on the 10Th inst, at
which the Earl of Carlisle will preside, and
many ilustrious men will be present.
MUSICAL ITEMS.
Mile. Emmy Lagrua, a young singer who
has been engaged to replace Bosio at the I'm
perial Theatre of ST. Petersburg, is described
as person of extraordinary merits. Though
Sicilian, she speaks and sings Italian with
Tuscan purity, and French and German like a
native Of each country. She is, moreover, a
beautiful woman, has superb voice, is au ac-
tress of genius, and finished singer
A young Swedish singer, Mile, Andree, is
making great sensation at Stockholm, and
promises, it would seem, to be another Jenny
Lind Att concert given the other day al
the ROYAL Theater. and attended by all the
received with the utmost enthusiasm She is
about to make her appearance on the opera
stage.
Little Piccolomini reappeared in London on
the night OF the 10th ult., as Violetta in ola
lravlata The Star says she twas received
with perfect storm of applause, which lasted
several minutes, and compelled the orchestra
to stop"
Julius Rietz, the music director of Weimar
has just produced new opera. entitled
"George Neumark," at the Court Theater He
Is known by several symphonies and other or.
chestral works of art.
Amusjc publisher in Paris is said to have
proposed to purchase from Rossini the manu-
script Of his last production, Joanna Area. y
The payment offered was one franc for every
note In the score-a rate of remuneration
which in the aggregate would have amounted
to an enormously high sum. The composer
however, declined the offer.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Samuel j. May visited an Armenian con.
vent in Syria, where all the printing of that
ancient sect OF Christians is done, and he found
that the only American works translated and
printed there were Uncle Toms Cabin and a
small collection of Bryants poem.
Some time since, it was stated that diabol-
zeal attempt was made in Cleveland to blow n
mans head off by leaving upon his office table
some filberts charged with decorating powder.
The fellow who placed these internal machines
upon the table has been discovered, tried. CON
victed, and sentenced to five years imprison
| ment.
The Wisconsin Methodist Conference has
expelled Rev. j. w. Wood, for what thew call
Scrip.ural adultery which consists in marrv-
ing second wife while the first was living
from whom he was legally divorced. but not
for the reason for which the Bible allows di-
yorce.
A San Francisco letter saws Col. Fremont
has Just got his great quartz drill in operation
ON the Mariposa claim, and it is fully believed
that the Colonel and his associates will reon a
rich reward for their persevering enterprise
The little town named Burlingame. in Kan
sas, met with a sad disaster on the night of the
18th inst, by which several houses were blown
down. Judge Schuyler's two story stone
house was nearly demolished, and the new
College Building on College Hill, which was
partially finished was leveed with the ground
and lies one mass Of ruins.
In the early history of Harvard University
corporal punishment was one of the most com
mon means of correction-the tutors chastisng