Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-02
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.

Amherst and Williams Colleges met at Pitts
field for trials of skill. The match game OF
ball was to come off yesterday, to be followed
by concert in the evening by the Williams
College Mendelssohn Society and to-day the
match game of chess Will be played at the
Pittsield club room.
The Pittsfield Eagle says, young man who
gave his name as Edward Ii. Bddle, and
claimed relationship to Lieut. Biddle, of the
United States Navy, recently made lis APP
pearance at Williams College, and made known
his intention of entering the junior class His
examinations were not entirely satisfactory,
but he succeeded in gaining confidence, and at
length absconded, upon pretence of going for
his trunks to Troy, with gold watch belong
ing to one of his new friends. Since his de-
parture, it has TRANSFERRED that while in Will
Jamestown he drew hundred dollars on a
forged check from the Adams Bank, and sue
ceeded in selling two other checks for the same
amount, to merchants in Williamstown
On Wednesday last, the lightning struck the
house of Mr.. Clark, in Hinsdale, SCATTERING
it badly, and stunning Mr.. Clark, who at first
was supposed to be killed: A house in Hins-
dale, owned by Mr.. Emmons, was also struck,
but the occupants were absent. A tree near
the house of Joseph Cleveland, in Dalton, was
struck.
HtIS hilS q NlOlSlIb Hall SlOIlIl dJ lIeUOA, on
the 21st of June, which did much damage to
crops and. window glass.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Manchester Mirror reports the failure
of John Gass, the noted hotel keeper at Con-
cord, N. II. His liabilities are S35 900. On
Tuesday, ninety writs were served on him.
CONNECTICUT.
The New London Star says that at the pres
ent time there is not single whaler fitting in
that port, and it is said that the business is
rapidly declining.
RHODE ISLAND.
Benoni King, the rascal who, a week or two
since, had his head raped on railroad bridge
while endeayoring to get to New York with a
horse he had hired at Providence livery sta
bic, returned to Providence on Wednesday.
and, with consummate impudence, operated on
another livery stable in that city. He went to
Palmer's stable, on Arnold street, and hired a
horse and carriage to go to Lonsdale for two
or three hours. OF course he failed to come
back at the time appointed, and up to this time
man and team have not come back
John Hague's bear, in Providence, which
got himself in the newspapers, a few weeks
since, for biting boy, filled up the measure of
his misconduct by attacking his keeper, CYRUS
Randall, infiicting a serious wound on his right
leg. The man it is thought will recover, but
the bear was shot last Wednesday night
The Fountain Street-hlethedist Episeepal
Church and Society, Providence, viii make an
excursion to Worcester, over the Providence
and Worcester Railroad, ON Saturday, July
9th
MISCELLANEOUS.
1t is now proposed in Philadelphia to tax
the insurance companies some 10000 for the
water used in extnguishing fires. The reason
for this is that the city pays $4,000 annually
to fire companies, while all the property be-
longing to the city is insured, thus making the
insurance companies gamers by this expendi-
lures
A gang of burglars has recently been broken
up in New York. and it has been discovered
that several Of their heaviest robberies have
been executed through the help of servant
girls, whose lovers The robbers pretended to be-
The next Electoral College, chosen in No
vember, 1860, to meet in February, 1861,
Wilt Kansas should be admitted at the APP
preaching session of Congress-consist of BOG
votes, 154 Of which will be necessary for a
choice for President The non-slaveholding
States will have 1856 electors, and the slave.
holding States 100.
The Grand Jury of Alabama have found five
bills of indictment against Mahoney, the for
mer agent of Adams Express, who is charged
with the embezzlement of $4,000 belonging to
that concern. Mahoney failed to appear.
The Rev. Mr.. -, an eccentric preacher in
Michigan, was holding forth not long since in
Detroit A young man arose TO go out, when
the preacher said young man, if you'd
rather go to hell than hear me preach, you
may goP The sinner stopped and reflected
a moment, and saying, respectfully, "Well,
believe would" went on.