Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-17
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.

of Northampton, Hadley, Hatfield, Williams
burg, Greenfield, Deerfield and Whately, will
commence within year. About $4,000 will
be distributed among these towns. The fund
now amounts to S705,085.
Stephen Wolcott of Southampton, veter-
an of the war of 1872, visited Boston few
days since for the first time since he was sta
toned there during the last war, and although
nearly 80 years old, he was able to walk from
Boston to Bunker Hill, and thence to the top
OF the monument and down again, and through
the navy yard, without being fatigued.
A portion OF the afternoon passenger and
freight train for Springfield, on Saturday, was
thrown from the track south of the OK bow
bridge, two miles below Northampton, and two
cars loaded with -four were precipitated down
an embankment, slightly damaging the cars
and their contents.
AT Ware, on Sunday week, five young
women foated in boat to the verge of the
upper dam, when a young sailor swan to the
boat and seized it as it was about to be carried
over and took the young ladies to the shore in
safety, amid the shouts of an excited ass en-
bly,.
Northampton is putting on Getty" airs-its
streets are to be lighted with gas.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Eli Ames, of Locks Pond, shot on Wednes-
o"y i.e0 WEN, d ISL HAWK meas uILllg I'VE Ieet
rom up 10 UP, and twenty-one inches from his
Deak 10 tne END OF his tail lie sent 1t to j. 5.
Grehnen, Esq, VINO forwarded 1t to T. L. Flint,
SecIe'aIy Vi Tue board OF Agriculture Ior the
state Museum.
The new chair factory in Conway, has been
purchased by enterprising men from Worcester
County, whose business title is Townsend,
Rich, & Clark. They have good power, sub
s'a al tl pulIuings' ana adequate macnlnery.
"'ioN Ivy 10 pro'ler VI Anomas ana
Tanes' WY me,e aiIesIeu ior Tue recent ROD
NV GU lln Jason Dro"h Oh DerllaTaston,
aoJ J nv years sllice: one hlehl, MI brown
anu aholilef inmate OF the mouse were robbed
VI @ol III e''sh' 1a.rIch was suspected. Boon
a tlt', nloney was sem 10 1relanu 10 pay
iioillas anu 1alnes passage ~ tlls country
ne ne tba4 roooeIles seem 70 eohiirn the sus
piG rl tlla' atrick was q rogue
Medical Society was holden in Greenfield on
Wednesday, 18th inst, DIR. Trow of Sunder-
land in the chair The following officers were
chosen for the year 1859 :-President-C. M
Duncan of Shelburn Vice President-E. Bar
ton of Orange; Secretary; Treasurer, and Lii
brarian-J. Draper of Greenfield
AT the annual parish meeting of the Unitari-
an society in Mortified, Charles Osgood. the
postmaster who left the church on Fast Day
because Rev. Mr. Murray alluded to slavery.
offered resolution to instruct the pastor not TO
preach on politics. The motion was laid on
the table by unanimous vote.
.Instead of kitchen stuff. some crv
gospel preaching ministryn
The citizens of South Deerfield bava sub-
scribed the necessary finds and intend coon
to erect buildino south IF tho old cburcb Of
the corner of tbe CONWAY road IN be occnn;oJ
as n VILLAGE hall
The Greenfield Rank has iust mt info +bo
yault of their BANKING house q new hnrglar and
fre proof IRON door at cost OF about $500.
Inc door cannot be cut through or blown up
by powder or the lock picked.
new n; NJ haynes, formerly pastor at Wal
nngford, VI, has accepted call to become pas
tor OF the Baptist church in North Leverett,
30 says the Greenfield Gazette, from which
all the above items are taken.
M1pD1EsEx COUNTY
The saw plate factory of Henry g. Clamson
with lorga stool Of notto,.,,s ,,oI,,olIo 49,
chinerv &c was DESTROYED hy fro of , o,olooi
Saturday morning Loss about S60O0 ;nsnr-
ed for S25OO Tho hniId;ng an old wooden
one belonged to .Iacob RicbardSon of RoSton
If is rumored that the citv of Cambr;dero
proposes TO fake ont a oatent for its nec,l;or
stvlc of numbering houses and also Jot n
premium for remarkable nerfection in tho art
of NAMING streets
About five o'clock on Sunday afternoon os
party COMPRISING three men and three
women were euioyinp sailing excursion nm
on the river. and when opnosite Mr. Coain's
ship yard the boat was capsized in conse-
ouence of one of the mon attemntino to climb
the mast. and Mrs. Touisa Currv one of tho
marty was drowned The remaining five were
rescued bv boat from the shore The bodv
had not been recovered at 10 o'clock last even
ing .-NeUbmyport Herald.
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na;Io"d 49,; az so 600 Vi 'iie
nc Mothodiat ''t San;o Sr''i' IL sao'Joo.
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It is to he 70 bv 40 feet and located op Frank.
lin street. opposite the residence of Col "
man Dixie.
NoRro1x corSry
The ceremony of LAYING the corner STONE Of
the House of the ANGEL Guardian in Rovhnrv
the first Catholic reformatorv school for boys
established in America was Witnessed on SIM.
dav bv nearly 600 neonle Rev Dr Cnn,-
mings of New York. delivered an address mon
the Catholic education of boys in which he
deprecated the custom of making charity an
emp re of proselytism, and attributed the COM
paratye isolation of the Catholics from the
rest of the religious community to the system
attic and persistent prejudice against which
they were obliged to contend
George L. Baxter, son of William w. Bax-
ter, Esq, of Quincy, has been elected to fill
the vacancy of State Scholarship occurring in
that district This is the second son Mr.. Bax-
ter has had elected to this place.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.