Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-06
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
M1ppLEsEx COUNTY.


The stockholders of the Lowell Bank held
large and excited meeting Monday. There
were two tickets for directors, the "opposi-
ton " prevailing over the Conservative
(old) ticket by vote of 200 to 10. Much
feeling existed among the friends of ex-Presi-
dent James G. Carney, who is succeeded in
that Office by DIR. j. o. Green.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mr.. Peckham of Fall River has Just picked
ripe Strawberries of the second crop, grown in
his garden. They are of fair size, aud seem
to have all the fragrance and lusciousness of
earlier fruit of the same kind. There are 9TH
ers on the same vines in green state, besides
| a number Of blossoms.
Mr.. Gangooly, the converted Brahmin,
preached twice in the Unitarian Church at
Taunton, Mass, on Sunday last. He was al
so present in the Sunday School, and attended
the regular evening meeting for conference and
prayer. AT the latter place there was an unu-
sually large gathering.
CONNECTICUT.
The people of Woodstock held their first
town fair on Thursday, Sept. 20, and were as
tonished at their great success 1t was held
in Arnoldtown, a village in the south parish,
and the display of fancy work and miscellane-
GUS articles, bread, butter cheese, and fruit,
was generous enough for county exhibition.
ing. There were on the ground over one hun
dred yoke of oxen, more than $50 head of cat
tie, and horses and colts in proportion. One
three years old steer, exhibited by Sumner G.
Lyon, weighed 3400 pounds. The horse show
was an attractive feature, and Dwight Smith of
West Parish obtained the premium for the best
family and carriage horses he also received a
premium on his oxen 1t estimated that the
fair brought together 5000 people.
LITERARY ITEMS.
A new volume by the late Margaret Fuller
D'Ossoli, entitled "Life Without and Life
Within" will soon be issued by Brown, Tag
gard, & Chase of Boston. 1t is prepared by
her brother, Rev. Arthur B. Fuller, from her
unpublished manuscripts.
Mrs. H. b. Stoves ministers Wooing,"
which has been published during the past year
in the Atlantic Monthly, will be issued jointly
in few days by Messrs. Derby & jackson of
New York. and Brown, Taggard & Chase of
Boston.
MISCELLANEOUS.
One of the polar bears in the Geological
Garden, at Brussels, was lately found dead in
the basin of their enclosure, it is said,
having been Rugged to death by his more pow
erful companion, in revenge for his having
ventured to swallow a cake which the other
considered his property.
The Hon. Sherrard Clemens, of Virginia, is
now considered, by his physician, in very
critical situation. He was lately on visit,
with his bride, in the county of Westmoreland,
but owing to the unfavorable condition of his
wounded limb he was under the necessity of
returning to his home in Wheeling
Rev. Ralph Emerson, d. d., formerly Pro
fessor in the Andoyer Theological School, and
for some years resident in Newburyport has
removed to Rockford, Illinois. lie goes west
to spend the remainder OF his days in the neigh
borhood where several of his children are To-
Gated.
John f. jackson, an opuIent gentleman at
Buena Vista, Tenn, finding that his daughter
had been seduced by DR.. Il. M Bunce, and
that the doctor would neither marry her nor
leave the country, shot the fellow down in his
Office, last week, and yielded himself up to the
law.
| The will of Joseph Miner, deceased, leaving
property Of some $4,000 to three sons and
cutting of four other children with from So to
SlOO apiece, has been set aside in the Fayette
Circuit Court, Indiana, and thus one more at-
tempt to carry malice beyond the grave was
| defeated
One hundred and sixty-eight miles of the
Pacific Railroad in Missouri have been com
pleted, at an aggregate outlay Of nearly sl2,-
| 00O,O0O There are yet one hundred and
fourteen miles to build in order TO complete
the road TO Kansas city. This is to cost ST..
! 100000 more.