Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-12-30
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


1t has been confidently asserted, by parties
whose opportunities for knowing the facts are
good that Arthur w. Austin collector of the
port of Boston and Charlestown, has received
an order from Washington to restore the in
spectors and other subordinate officers, whom
he recently removed because they voted for
delegates to the Democratic Convention to be
held at Charleston, S. c., next May, contrary
to his wishes.
James Daley, living in East Boston, went
home, Tuesday, and found his wife closeted
with one James Carroll. He commenced
beating the intruder, from the effects of which
Carroll died soon after Daley was arrested
and arraigned on the charge of murder.
A barn OH Meeting House Hill Dorchester, to-
gether with its contents-six tons of hay, hog,
and Sleigh owned by VIM. Davenport-was
destroyed by fire on Tuesday night Mr.
EbeneZer 2. Robinson, who owned the build.
ing and stock burned was insured for $1,000
The annual meeting of the bondholders of
the Norfolk County Railroad, was beld in
Boston on Thursday. Hon. Isaac Davis of
Worcester, presided, and read the third annual
report. The earnings Of the road for the year
ending Nov. 80, 1859, was S60,256 08; ex-
penses S37, 579 60.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Judge Russell, G. w. P. of tne Grand Divi-
sets, has appointed Mr.. Charles A. Kimball,
Deputy G. W. P. for Lowell. The citizen
says Mr. Kimball is one of Lowell's worthiest
sons, and is glad to see that true worth is
sometimes appreciated by those in power
Early Thursday morning, valuable barn in
Marlboro, on the estate of Samuel Boyd,
of the firm of Boyd, Carry & Co., in Boston,
was destroyed by fire. The fire originated
from the bursting of gas pipe, and the loss
is estimated at $4,000 Or $1,000.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The SUPERIOR Court now in session at New
Bedford, Judge Russell presiding, is sending
liquor dealers to Jail by battalions. Convictions
have followed in nearly every case which has
been arraigned.
George T. Forbes, charged with forging a
note for S120, bearing the name of r. A.
Leonard OF Taunton, was brought from New
York on Wednesday. Forbes was arrested in
Boston for the same charge, taken to Taunton,
and held to bail in $780, which he forfeited.
He was found in the Tombs, awaiting trial for
forgery in New York.
James A. George, who was recently convict
ed in New Bedford of forgery, and sentenced
to the State Prison for six years, addressed,
several letters to his Hon. Judge Russell, with
a view to enlist his sympathies in favor of his
acquittal, and proposing to make his Honor the
Judge declined the fiattering proposal.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The Newburyport Herald says that Good
hue, who murdered his former mistress in Bos-
ton on Tuesday morning last, was formerly a
clerk in the dry goods store Of Mr.. Peter
Strain in that city, where he had some diff
Guilty, and was liberated through the assistance
of the woman who has now fallen victim to
his hand.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The Traveller learns that on Wednesday fore
noon about ten O'Clock, Mrs. Olive Nash of
South Abingdon, aged II, was standing near
stove, when her clothes took fire, and before
the fire could be extinguished, the flesh drop
ped from her body. She fingered till hafpast
five, and then died in great agony.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
They are to have grand" Union meeting
at Banstable this friday evening Hon
VIM. Sturgis of Boston is expected to preside,
and addresses are announced from that pre-
cious crowd of unappreciated patriots, Henry
]. Gardner, Ben. L. HalIett, Isaac II. Wright,
and others.
RHODE ISLAND.
On Sunday, an Irishman some 80 years of
age, who worked for Mr. Robert Smith of
harrington, was frozen to death near Barring
ton Westinghouse. A jug Of liquor found by
his side explains the circumstance. He was
so generally known by the appellation of Foxy
Jimmy, owing to the color of his hair that his
real name is unknown to us.-P1oU. Press
Fire broke out on Tuesday afternoon, in the
Seventh-day Baptist Westinghouse in IVES
terly, while the funeral exercises of Mrs Amos
StilIman were proceeding. The house was
damaged from $500 to $1,000, which is covered
nv insurance