Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-30
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
RoSroN AND VICINITY.

| BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Judge Ames of the Suffolk Probate Court
gave decision, Monday morning on the will
of the late Augustus Thorndike, admitting it
to Probate The will was contested by Lieut..
Marin and his wife, daughter of the devisor,
disinherited by the will, on the ground that
MIR. Thorndike was not a resident of Boston at
the time it was made The contestants will
carry the matter to the Supreme Court on the
question of the condition of Mr.. Thorndikes
mind when the will was made.
The School Association of ST. Mary's
Church, Endicott street, (Father Wiget's,)
have just purchased a site for a Free Catholic
School for Boys The lot contains 800 feet
6O by 85-and is the next lot to the church,
upon which they intend to build a new school
house, They have also hired the National
building, and have fitted it up for a temporary
school, and have accommodation for about four
hundred boys, for whom competent teachers
have been secured.-Pilot.
Between ten and eleven o'clock Sunday, a
dwelling house near the Barracks, " Brighton,
owned by Messrs. Hill & Rice, end occupied
by two Irish families, was totally destroyed.
One of the occupants in the part where the fire
originated, lost all her furniture and 500 in
money. The house was partially insured.
ESSEX COUNTY.
John Whipple and Thomas Hyfield, arrest
ed for selling liquor on the Asbury Grove
camp meeting ground, have been found guilty
OF making seven sales, and were punished with
the severe sentence of six months imprison-
ment in the House of Correction and to pay
tne OF $50 and costs of prosecution If the
line and costs are not paid, then three months
additional Imprisonment is to be imposed
Mr.. Samuel Stickney, the oldest man save
ore in Beverly, while walking to the Standley
Grove picnic grounds, on Tuesday afternoon,
became exhausted in walking up the hill, and
died Immediately He was native of Box
ford, aged 81 years, 9 months, and II days.
His mental faculties remained unimpared to
the last.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Mr.. Huntoon, who was injured several
weeks since by the railroad accident above
| northampton, while returning with the Hol
yoke Sunday school excursion party from
Keene, N. H., is still alive. The leg from
which the flesh was torn is healing finely, but
the running sore on the other leg, it is thought
will destroy his life.
RHODE ISLAND.
Edward Barnes, the black man whose name
became notorious from his murderous attack
upon John r. Balch. Esq, was arraigned be-
fore the magistrates, on Saturday afternoon,
charged with committing a furious assault
with club upon Frank Dixon one of his ten
ants, while drawing water with child in his
| arms. Dixon received so severe wound upon
the head that surgical assistance was necessary.
The accused was fined $40 and costs and re-
quired to enter into surety to keep the peace
Providence Press.
| CONNECTICUT.
Phebe d. Campbell, the wife of John Camp
bell, trunk-maker, in Hartford, left her
boarding place Saturday evening, under sus
| plclous circumstances, and on Sunday morn
ing, the skirt of a black silk dress, plaid
buster, vail, pair of gloves, and bonnet,
recognized as belonging to her, were found
upon the bank of a river near the city. The
| river was searched, but she had not been
found at-the last accounts. She had had some
trouble with her husband, and from some let
tiers partially destroyed and scattered upon
the ground, it was learned that she had been
subject to the reproaches of some of her
friends. She was the mother of three chill
dren, and was near the period of her fourth
confinement.
Personal.
r. Barnwell Rhett Of South Carolina, the
leader of the nullifiers, was born in Massachu-
sets and changed his name from Smith to
please his rich fatherir-law Horace Nav.
nard of Tennessee, the mcompromisng hater
of the North, was born of poor parents at
Westboro', graduated az Amherst, and went
South to teach SCHOOL, Slidell of Louisiana
..
born of New England parents
Stephen H. Branch, the alligator " of New
York, announces thatthe has accepted the
magnanimous offer of aman worth half a mil
lion, who is willing to exhaust one-fifth of his
fortune in enabling himto erect daily paper
in New York on an enduring basis He saws
81 have accepted his magnanimous proposi
tlon, and shall issue the first number on the
first of September
"When feathers will fly
10 the pretty sky"
The celebrated magician, who travelled the
country over as the Fakiro Ava, is now mast
tor of one of the congregations of Noun
Pleasant, Iowa, and is known as the Rev. DR..
Haskill.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr. van Doren, editor of the Somerset
Wing, an interior New Jersey paper and
man of high position in church and society
has eloped with the younger sister Of his wifi.
girl whose matches beauty has been the
ruin OF both. He was shout 80 years old, had
been doing a successful business, and was the
head of little family in which he always
seemed to take the utmost pride and pleasure.
The elopement is believed to have been a sud
den affair, as there are noantecedent crcum-
stances which can be pointed to as indicating
any improper relation b,tween the parties
They have gone to California.
De Marbais, who recently shot his wife and
himself in the streets of Cincinnati, has gone
raving bad and has beer sent to the Licking
Lunatc Asylum His wife is improving, and
likely to recover from herwound
At a grand salt water Notification of the
farmers and farm laborers of New Jersey, in
commenloration of the harvest, which came off
at Perth Alnboy on the 10Th inst, a match
was made between a man and woman to swim
some distance from shore. Both started at the
same time, but the woman soon took the lead
and kept it for the whole distance beating the
man very badly She was loudly cheered by
the spectators and the man was of course
laughed at by the crowd
The Saratogian has the painful rumor that
Mr.. John r. Houghton formerly merchant
Of Saratoga, and brother of DIR. N. NJ and
lilly lIoughton, of Corith, persisted from
starvation on the plains, while returning from
Pixies Peak, few months since.
albion" one of the finest stations in the
world, the property of Col. George Elliott,
near Gallatin, Tenn. died on the 18th inst,
only few days after his owner had refused
SoOOO for him. He was twenty-five years old.
SENSATION OF DEATH-As life approaches
extinction insensibility stpcrvenes-a numb
ness and disposition to repose, which do not
admit of the idea of suffering. Even in those
cases where the activity Of the mind remains
to the last, and where nervous sensblity
would seem TO continue, it is surprising how
often there has been observed a state of happy
feeling on the approach Of death. "lf had
strength enough to hold pen, / would write
how easy and delightful iii to die" were the
last words of the celebrated William Hunter,