Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-27
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
ESSEX COUNTY.


1t is stated that clergyman of Lynn has
been detected in taking books from bookstore
in Boston without paying for them or asking
to be trusted. During his last visit to the store
watch was set, and the result was a book was
appropriated ; he was charged with the crime,
owned up, and has since sent to the firm
package of books to the value of SIS or more
previously stolen.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Forgeries on the Maiden Bunk Genuine
notes, with forged signatures, on the Maiden
Bank, are in circulation. Some four weeks
since, the house of the President of the bank
was entered by burglars, who carried away
several articles of silver plate, and two hundred
sheets of unsigned bills, amounting to six hun
dred dollars, of the denomination of ones and
twos, which had been taken home by the Presi-
dent for the purpose of adding his signature.
These bills had been locked up by the Presi-
dent in what was considered very secure
place, the locks of which were forced by the
burglars.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Carrying Goals to Observation-Disclosures II.
Rowland and other enterprising men in
New Bedford have established in that city
kerosene oil mandatory, to the great dissatis-
faction of whale fishermen, and whale oil mer-
chants. The ostensible object is to test the
comparative merits and economy of the two
oils.
Sales of Olive learn that lot of 800
bbls. of whale oil has been sold in this market
Bjthip. fe% davs at ,t44 gallon 200
There is rumor in the street of a sale of go
bbs sperm upon private terms.-Ne,o Bedford
Standard.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Williams, who have
been 'bobbing around" Europe for year or
so past, and who arrived home by the Persia,
have, it is said, Melted about $4,000 during
their tour.
One of the favorite sutanas of Abdal Med
jid has lately arrived at Geneva accompanied
by musician with whom she eloped Her
name is Sarsafras, go Phoebus, &c,'') she is
a Circassian, sings beautifully, and was a great
favorite with the Sultan. She took music les
sons in Constantinople, and was so taken with
her professor that she departed with him. His
name is Guatelli.
The Dayton tOhio) Empire says that Mr.
H. Woman of that city, on Thursday last
received a letter from his father, who resides
in Damme, Germany, and who has reached
the great age of one hundred and fourteen years.
The centennarian writes neat, legble, steady
hand, and is able to wait upon himself and
perform light labor.
MISCELLANEOUS.
wealthy farmer, named Joseph Smith, re-
siding in Kent county, Canada West, having
been much annoyed by depredations upon his
grapes and other fruit, loaded gun and kept
it in readiness for the return of the thieves.
On Monday evening, 10th inst, on leaving his
house after supper, he directed his servant
girl to take the gun and shoot the first person
who approached the grapes. On his return,
forgetting the injunctions he had given he
went to the grape vines, when the girl, not re-
cognizing him in the dusk, fired, the charge of
shot taking effect in the thigh, and terminal
lug his life in few minutes.
VIM. III. Little, youth of about eighteen
years, and a clerk in the banking house of
Winslow, Lanier & Co., Wall street, New
York, has been arrested on charge of having
appropriated some $4,000 of his EMPLOYERS
money to bis own use. The suspected youth
has of late led a gay life, spending money
with great lavishness for wine and other lux
uries. On searching the prisoner after his ar
rest, $50 was found concealed in one of his
boots, and the officers, as is alleged, have
traced $l700 of the missing money to his pos
session.
Miss Elizabeth Gray, aged 81, eldest daugh-
ter of Sir Charles Gray, late Supreme Judge
Of Calcutta, who has been insane for several
years, took advantage of the absence of her
attendant to obtain night light, over the
fame of which she stood until her dress was
destroyed; she died, after great agony, in two
hours.
A young lady of considerable intelligent &c
and prepossessing appearance, in Ottowa coun-
ty, Ohio, has been sent to the lunatic asylum,
having become insane from viewing the recent
remarkable displays of the aurora boreas, be.
tokening, as she thought the approaching end
of the world.