Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-25
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BosroN ANp Y1c1NIrY.

women of Boston. The subscriptions of this
class were rs follows Miss Mary Ann Wales,
| SlOO; Mrs. Abby l.. Wales, 500; Mrs. Robert
G. Shaw, $780, Miss Ann Wigglesworth, $500;
Mrs. G. II. Shaw, $500; Miss Abby NJ. Lor-
ing, $500; Miss Mary Wiggesworth, $500;
Miss Sarah Greene, $780, Mrs. Elijah Loring,
$500; Mrs. II. +. Sayles, $1,000; Miss Sarah
Pratt, $1,000; Mrs. Brimmer, $1,000 Miss
Mary Pratt, $1,000; Mrs. Abbot Lawrence
$1,000 Total from Boston women, $780,
The planning mill of A. Il. Stearns Dorches-
| ter, with all its valuable machinery was to-
tally destroyed by fire early Wednesday morn
| ing. The total loss is estimated at $4,000,
which was partially insured. The fire depart
ment of Dorchester was disbanded in May last,
the only company remaining organized being
an independent one
ESSEX COUNTY.
On Friday, 18th, as Capt. Isaac Blunt was
engaged in loading hay in the field, being up
on the hinder part, the horse attached to the
wagon suddenly started, and threw him off
backwards. He fell directly upon his head,
and the force of the fall was so great that the
cords of the neck, and the spine were so much
injured as to produce partial paralysis. He
was Immediately carried to his home, and lin
gered until Saturday evening, when he was
released by death from his sufferings. Capt.
Blunt has been widely known as proprietor
and driver, in former years, of the Chill coach"
ARdo0er Adu.
While MIR. Prescott, an aged gentleman from
Manchestef, was returning home from camp
meeting on Tuesday in a covered wagon, with
his family, the wagon was thrown violently
over an embankment, seriously inJuring three
of its inmates. Mrs Prescott had a shout
der dislocated, her daughter had hip broken,
and another aged lady received serious inter-
nal injuries.
BRISTOL COUNTY
Mr.. Allen b. Burt, residing not far from
Shepard's Factory, while excavating an old
well near his premises came upon a den of
serpents, from which he took fifty black
snakes, measuring in aggregate length more
than two hundred feet, also eight house snakes,
and others of different varieties
Gazette.
- BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The neighbors of Cornelius Fisher, in Sand
witch, were attracted to his residence on Thurs
day evening, 18th, by succession of piercing
screams uttered by daughter of Mr. Fisher,
who was enveloped in flames. Those who
were nearest Immediately embodied her in a
blanket, and thus smothered the fire. She was
very severely injured, but is in a fair way to
recover The accident was occasioned by the
ignition Of a newspaper by lamp which was
held by the young lady, from which the flames
communicated to her dress.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Father Sullivan, the Catholic priest in
Northampton, administered, last Saturday, a
severe caStigaton TO those of his flock who i'm
prove the Sundays by getting drunk. He al
luded to the fact that eleven of his lay men,
bers were arrested on a recent Sunday, and
threatened hereafter to proclaim in open meet
ing the names of those who should be found
drunk and disturbing the public peace.
Walter Kennedy, an elderly man, recently
settled in Hoo of
ence, of quiet and unassuming manners, and
possessing an extended circle of friends, drown
ed himself on Thursday, 18th inst, while in a
fit OF temporary insanity.
A son of George Dickinson, liquor agent of
Hatfield, accidentally set fire to a barrel of al
cohol on Monday, 10TH which exploded and
communicated its flame to cart of combusti-
erum The town was called out to suppress
the conflagration, and young Dickinson was
considerably injured as Others have been be-
fore by the same kind of burning fluid.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
a young woman, brought up in the family
of Mr.. Baldwin of the well known tavern
stand in North Wilbraham, from the age of
six years, gave birth to a child last Sunday
evening, greatly to the surprise of the whole
family, herself excepted. She put the pater-
nifty on student at the Academy who boarded
| III the family last winter, who was quite atten-
tive to the girl, used to hold prayer meetings
in this famous old house. He denied the
charge at first but finally owned up.
CONNECTICUT.
Eunlce Bennett lady aged SO years, re-
siding III Wilton, CT, was killed upon the track
Of the Danbury and Norwalk railroad on Sat
urday, 10th. She was standing at the side of
| the track, as she thought, far enough to be out
of danger.
The foundry men of New Britain are on
Of 10.
established by their employers. A procession
OF TWO hundred workmen paraded the streets
on Monday, demanding the abolition of one of
the rules by which employers agreed not to
hire hands who deserted rival establishments.
Personal.
1t is reported that Mr.. Tom Taylor, author
Of "Our American Cousin" and the poet
Tennyson, contemplate a tour in the United
States the coming autumn.
MISCELLANEOUS.
| George A. Mietzke, professor of music in
the Castleton Seminary, Castleton, VT, and
composer OF several pieces Of popular music,
committed suicide by hanging, at his hotel in
Sudbury, on Saturday evening last. He was
about twenty-five years of age, and had devot-
ed his life to the study and instruction of mu.
| sic
One Of the Sisters of Charity, called Sister
Cyprian, connected with Mount Hope Hos
on Saturday, 10th, striking her head with such
force upon rock as to cause instant death.
The first Baptist Church at Syracuse, N. Y.
line editce valued at $4,000, with only
S3OOO insurance, was destroyed by fire on
tuesday morning, together with the dwelling
Of w. l.. Palmer, and some other buildings
An Irish boy named John Agnew, aged about
thirteen years, fell Tuesday evening from the
elevator In No. card room to the lower spin
ming room in the Cocheco Works at Dover,
N. H., distance of forty feet His skull, arm,
and leg were broken. He died half an hour
after.
An American lady is living in Jerusalem
under the impression that she is one of the two
witnesses spoken Of in Revelations, who is to
suffer death in the streets Of Jerusalem. This
is her fourth visit to the "IIoly City," which
she styles "Sodom in Egypt"
a young man named w. j. Taylor while
engaged in painting the front OF the St. Charles
Hotel, at New Orleans, the 18th inst, fell
from the top of the portico to the stone floor
OF the balcony, dashing his brains out and be-
scattering them with his blood, all over the
place. lie stepped upon one Of the boards, an
inch pine plank, when it snapped in two, and
he fell from the height Of ffty-seven feet.
len persons Of ages from fifteen to thirty
live years, were on Sunday (2lst) afternoon
arrested in Brooklyn for bathing contrary to
law. On Monday they were fined ten dollars
| each.
A little paper called the Spy, at Cleveland
ONO, is edited by young lady, who, in the
personal column, sped so closely into the at.
fairs OF young gentleman of that city, that
he declared war, went to her sanctum and de-
molished her fixtures and printing press in toto
throwing the latter out of the window.
| On Thursday last, Mr. Henry Clay Erwin
| grandson of the late Henry CLAW was found