Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-06
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


pletlon OF the wall, large amount of available
wharf property will be made
Paul Morphy has received great attention in
Boston. All the notabilities were present at
the dinner but, if any one will pay strict at
tention to this dinner and its speeches, he will
see that 1t was only regular meeting of the
Metropolitan Mutual Admiration Society,"
Hartford Cowant, June 2.
We are afraid that Boston will eat itself up.
Every day the papers give us long accounts Of
public dinners, and very good dinners they
are, too, in the way both of eating and talk
ing. The last recorded was the work of the
Homeopathic Institute, which, it is needless to
say, did not cut the meats into infinitesimal
doses, nor put the wines through course OF
dilutions.-Prouidence Journal
The remarkable frozen well at Brandon, VT,
has excited the attention of the Boston Society
of Natural History, and committee consist
ing of Prof. VIM. B. Rogers, DIR. Chas. T.
jackson, and 7. T. Bouve, Esq, have been
appointed to examine the well and make a
report thereon. The committee intend to ex-
anime other wells presenting similar phenom-
ena Uriah A Boyden, Esq., has generously
placed $500 at the disposal of the committee,
for the purpose of carrying out these investi-
cations.
The Boston Post Office, moved to Summer
street on the 9th of March last, was moved
back again to State street Saturday afternoon.
The State street office, which before was dark
as the catacombs has been thoroughly perfor-
ated and improved in various ways. The con-
veniences for the public have been greatly en-
larged, and the proprietors have wholly reno
waited and civilized the cavern where Boston
used to go for its letters. Summer street ex-
poets to secure its return by order of the next
Congress.
NANTUCKET.
Shoe Business at Nantucket.-A building has
been fitted up in Nantucket with the requisite
machinery for the manufacture of boots and
shoes, and the business will be commenced on
Monday, June 9th. Much interest appears to
be felt for the success of the enterprise, and
we hope all the anticipations of the islanders
will be realized.
CONNECTICUT.
Hiram Mansfield of Wallingford, who dis
appeared mysteriously the other day, in pur-
suit of a thief has been found He was seen
last Thursday in North Haven, passing his
brothers house, but recognized no one, refus-
ed to stop, and resisted every effort to induce
him to enter the house. AS he was evidently
deranged, his brother secured him, and took
him to his home in Wallingford. He did not
recognize any Of his family, and treated them
all as strangers Mr. Mansfield, at the time of
his disappearance, had a considerable sum of
money with him, which he did not have when
found by his brother, and but small part of it
can be accounted for.
In Norwalk, last week, man was found
lying in one of the public streets with tomb.
stones at his head and feet. On examination
it was discovered that he was not dead, but
dead drunk, and some wag had erected these
monuments in memory of departed manliness
In Warren, Litchfeld County, two weeks
ago, the house of Frederick b. Coleman was
destroyed by an incendiary, and now his vau.
able saw mill is entirely DESTROYED by incendi-
aries. The Litchfield Enquirer supposes that
the deed was instigated by the same she vii
lain who caused the destruction of the house.
A pretended "Indian doctor" named Ebenezer
Osborn, and his daughter, have been arrested
on suspicion.
The Norwich Courier gives an account of
man who tried to drown little dog by tying
stone to his neck and throwing him into the
river, but big dog, said to be relative,
plunged into the water and pulled little dog
out The experiment was repeated the third
time and given up.
Eighty-tive shares of Naugatuck Railroad
stock were sold by the sheriff at Bridgeport on
Saturday, at $50 per share.
Last Friday morning, during a thunder
shower, the lightning struck the barn of NJ.
L. ollAlilSJ VI Nl1uulelOU, anu Ill a very lew
minutes the building was in full blaze. 1t was
burnt down. There was lightning rod upon
the barn.
RHODE ISLAND.
On Tuesday of last week very serious ac-
cident occurred at the quarry of Sheffield
Smith in North Providence. A son of Mr.
Smith and man named McCarty, who were
blasting rocks, were blown into the air by the
premature explosion of large quantity of
rNnt1 dor 10Th, L. -.
is hoped not fatally, injured.
In Graniteville, near Burrillville, last Satur-
day morning, a Mrs. Bennett was knocked
down, and was unable to speak for some time,
and after an hour revived, and will doubtless
recover. No part of the house escaped injury.
Ratters were broken, studs splintered, Win
dows broken out, lathing, castings and ceilings
torn off. One of Mrs. Benefits shoes was
torn to pieces and burnt Her little boy was
in bed uninjured, though the bedstead was
broken and splintered. In the parlor, aplaster
image was nicely decapitated, without being
thrown from the table or otherwise broken.
In the same room the frame of a mirror was
shattered without breaking the glass, and the
fluid passed through a table making hole not
more than a sixth of an inch in diameter, and
as smooth as could be bored with a gimlet
So says correspondent of the Providence
Press.
A man named John Gibbs was arrested in
Providence for highway robbery. 1t is charg
ed that he robbed Gen. Tompkins, in Fall Riv-
er, week ago last Saturday, and divided the
spoils with fellow named Samuel Borden,
who has also been arrested.
PERSONAL.
Mrs. W. M. Fleming, formerly Miss Emily
Chippendale, died at Savannah on Thursday
the ID inst. The lady was well known
to the theatre. goers in Massachusetts, Her
husband was for three years manager of the
National Theatre in Boston. Mrs. Fleming
possessed many accomplishments, was supe-
rior French scholar and thorough musician.
For the past year she had been a resident OF
Savannah, of the theatre in which city her
husband is manager.
The French Emperor goes to the war pro-
vided with as many luxuries as art could in
vent. His tent, which is masterpiece of con-
struction, is the same which was to have serv-
ed for the campaign in the Crimea, when it
was contemplated that the Emperor should
proceed thither. His majesty will have under
the same canvass his bedroom, his sitting
room, his cabinet,-in fact complete suite OF
rooms. The Emperor's work table is the one
which was used by Napoleon 1. in his immor-
tai campaigns.
The New York Evening Post, in a droll no.
tice of little Piccolomini, informs her admirers
that Lumley summoned her back to London,
and the profits of the eight months perform.
ances in this country amount to $4,000. Pic
was to have visited Boston ere leaving for Eu-
rope, but a clause in her engagement with
Lumey forbade any performance after May
81, without his written consent. He did moi
give that consent, though asked to do so, and
Pic, hoping to get $4,000 which he owes her
would not risk its forfeiture
Col. j. c. Fremont has brought his suit
against Sheriff Crippen for the sum of $25,
900 damages, sustained through the failure Of
the Sheriff to put him in possession of the
Josephine VEIN" 1t is alleged that the writ
in question was properly served and the par
ties placed in peaceable possession, Col Ere
mont aYnwinr his satisfa clinn with thn snrvicn