Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-11
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
DOSTON AKIN VICINTTY.

in the Court of Common Pleas in the several
counties, has given its opinion everything
the exceptions, and remandng the parties back
to the lower court for sentence.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Two barns on Water-hill West Lynn, be-
longing to the estate of the late Hon. George
Hood and occupied by Messrs. Isaiah and
Abner HILL were totally destroyed by fire early
Thursday morning, with about eighty tons of
hay. There is an insurance on the property
at the Lynn Mutual, to the amount of Sll50.
| The fire was incendiary.
AT an earlier hour of the night fire was
discovered at the Grist Mill of Lamper & Bro,
Long wharf, by Mr.. f. d. Alley, and was ex
tinguished by him. The fire had been set on
the outside of the building, and few minutes
later would have been too late to have saved
the valuable property.
NuDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The citizens of Winchester, at their town
meeting, on the Sth inst, took measure to pre-
vent marauders from Boston or elsewhere
from taking pickerel from their ponds during
the approaching winter. Their cutting holes
in the ice has become a nuisance, and makes
the ponds dangerous for skaters.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The $50 train from Boston for Plymouth.
on the Old Colony Railroad, ran off the track
at Kingston, Thursday morning, badly damag-
ing the engine, and destroying the trucks of
the cars No person was injured, although the
cars were filled with steam. The accident
was caused by the springing of the rails.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Crystal Palace, disreputable house
in Taunton, was attacked Wednesday morning
by party of revolutionists who demolished
the windows and window sashes, and put the
propretress and her six female auxiliaries to a
sudden flight for Plymouth after having been
severely beaten. The neighbors threaten to
destroy the house.
The servant of highly respectable family
in Taunton, while on her way home from the
"Weir, one evening recently was encountered
by small but powerful animal, and in the
modest circumlocution employed by the Taun-
ton editor, "the consequences which usually
attend such meetings took place on this occa-
sion," and she went home in sad plight. The
poor girl was not admitted into the house until
she had made a suitable change of apparel,
and buried the infected garments Glow i the
ground"
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
On Friday night the keys of the safe and
store of r. M. Cole & Brother, of Cheshire,
were stolen from the pocket of Mr.. Cole while
he was asleep. The store was afterward en-
tered, and $3.50 in money taken from the safe
that belonged to Mason & Cole, tanners.
On Saturday last, the dwelling house of Mr..
Dwight Thomas, in Williamstown, was total
ly destroyed by fire. His loss is $780, on
which there is no insurance. On Sunday
night a barn and small store house. belonging
to E. w. S0lomons, was destroyed by fire.
Loss $500; no insurance.
RHODE ISLAND.
The boys of Bristol, r. l., still keep up the
practice of having bontires on the evening of
NpVpnbpr eth TN In +I,o Iicnpyortr
of the famous gunpowder plot. On Saturday
night, however, not content with the usual fire
on the common, some of them repaired to the
premises of an honest son of Erin, near the
Catholic church, and applied the match to his
stacks, which were consumed, together with
one or two outbuildings, and his house narrow
ly escaped the same fate. -
Thomas Mulgan was walking with a friend
on Martin street, Providence, Sunday evening,
when he was met by a company of disorderly
fellows, and the result was a street fight, in
which Mulligan was fatally wounded He
died Wednesday night. Rum caused his
death.
We learn by the Norwall1 Gazette of Nov.
s, that a large wild cat was shot in the town
of Pond Ridge in Westminster County-just
over the Connecticut line in New York State
on Wednesday last by Benjamin Gilbert of
Ridgefeld
Two barns belonging to Enos Dickerman of
Hampden, have been destroyed by fire, with
about twenty five tons of hay, some grain, and
a valuable horse Loss about $3.50.
The committee have settled up all the ex-
penses of the Norwich bi-centennia celebra-
ton, and report the sum of S164 "a in the
hands of the treasurer. On motion of Gov
Buckingham, this sum was ordered to be plac-
ed in the Savings Bank to the credit of a
committee appointed to erect monument to
John Mason and the thirty-fye first settlers Of
the town.
The injunction against the New Haven
County Bank has been dissolved, and it is now
at liberty to increase its capital as authorized
by the last legislature
CONNECTICUT.
The osier harvests of Hartford have COM
menced. Heretofore osiers have been import.
ed from Germany and manufactured excu-
sively in New York The Connecticut osiers
are already in great demand, one order having
been received from Ellenville, n. Y, for eighty
tons of them for demJohn sheaths. Col. Colt,
however, who has the control of the business
of manufacturing them into willow ware, will
employ from eighty to one hundred men,
MISCELLANEOUS.
A golden eagle was killed last week on the
Lower st. Lawrence, and brought to Quebec,
which was shot while endeavoring to carry off
a child about three years of age. This is the
only bird in America that will attack the hu-
man species. They breed in the north fol-
lowing at this season the birds and animals
that seek milder climate.
In the "Toombs" IN. " Police Court, a
few days since, skinner" lawyer was impu-
dent to the clerk, who gave him a severe
mauling. The judge looked on approvingly,
and, when the fight was over, complimented
the clerks science.
The Prairie du Chen wisconsin, Leader
states that two young ladies', Miss Haskill and
Miss Pool, when walking IN the vicinity of
Fancy Creek, Richand county, were pursued
by two bears, one of which struck Miss Pool
with his paw, tearing her breast to the bone,
and causing her death in few hours. Miss
Haskill escaped with a few scratches. The
bears were shot soon after.
The Richmond Dispatch has letter an
nouncing the arrest of negro in Campbell
County for some trivial offence, at whose
house ga gang of negroes were in the habit of
assembling, and where books and papers of
society were found, which was organized in
1854 The books showed that they now have
$3.50 in their treasury. 1t purported to be
benevolent institution. A thorough investiga.
ton of the affair is to be made"
The editor of the Colonization Herald has
received from President Benson several sam
Piles of cloth from cotton raised, spun, and
wove in Liberia, and exhibited in December
last at the National Fair held at Monrova
The cloth and staple compare well with the
American cloth
The DEATH OF BLUM.--Simultaneous
with the centenary celebration of Schier's
birthday, a number of Socialists held n meet
ing on Wednesday, at the Social Reform Hail.
| in Grand street, to commemorate the death of