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

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1t is rumored that further manufactured pc
ttions and testimonials from Salem, have been
discovered in the departments at Washington,
duplicating the present postmaster, MIR. Per
kins. Mr.. j. HOlbrook, one of the secret
agents of the Post Office Department has been
endeayoring to fathom the rascality during the
last few days.
The reception of the Newburyport liquor
dealer, Benton NJ. Perley, on the occasion of
his release from four months imprisonment,
was unique, but not very enthusiastic. He
was received at the jail i'll Ipswich by
committee of his friends, and as they left the
ground, cheers were given, and one or two
flags were displayed. He was escorted back
to Newburyport by the Amesbury Band, and
in the evening received a complimentary sup
per at the Ocean House. The design of the
demonstration was to make him appear to the
community as a much-injured man. Unhap-
PLY for him, it excited more ridicule than
pity.
Since last Friday, we have heard of occa-
sional attempts to pass bad bills at several of
the stores in this village. 1t is thought that
there were quite number of counterteits put
in circulation here by some person connected
with the circus company, who carried Oft cur
rent funds in exchange for his rascally bogus
trash-IdWton Gdeette.
The Bank of Mutual Redemption, recently
lost $500 in bank bills. Investigation was
made, but the loss was inexplicable and ac-
cordingly, some half dozen of the clerks have
been discharged. AS large number of them
are employed in counting foreign money, the
dedication, like that which occurred in the
Suffolk Bank several years since, defies detec-
ton.
The legal voters of school districts No. II
and Is, in Fairhaven, have decided, after a
long and exciting controversy, to raise $4,000
for a lot and school house for the use aud ben
eft of the districts. The prudential committee
were empowered to receive the deed of the lot
for the district. This is regarded as triumph
of the opponents of the law of 1859, abolishing
the district system, and requiring the districts
to give up to their respective towns all prop
erty used for school purposes at fair ap-
praisal.
CoNNECTICUT.
Mr.. Samuel Browning of North Stonington
dropped dead in his door yard on Monday af-
ternoon. He was seventy-four years of age,
and was supposed to be in good health at the
time of his decease. His death is attributed to
heart disease.
The loss of Mr.. Grifing by the burning of
his large barn in Middletown, was nearly
$1,000, on which he was insured for S1700 at
the Middlesex Mutual. A large number of
horses and cattle were in the stables attached
to the barn, but were saved-two Of the horses
considerably injured. The barn was struck
by lightning on Friday last.
Harvey Smith, Superintendent of the Dan
bury and Norwalk Railroad, was attacked by
paralysis on Friday.
The Legislature has passed an act incorpor-
ating the bondhoders of the New London,
Willimantic, and Palmer Railroad.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. Frank Moore of New York has recently
come in possession of important facts relating
to the unfortunate Major Andre, by which it
is proved that many of the occasional pieces,
bo,h in prose and verse, which appeared in
the tory periodicals published during the Rev
dictionary war, were written by him. These
are to be collected and probably published.
Miss Clark, the Queens milliner who late
ly died i'll London, left fortune of S225,00
to be divided between three nieces. A vase
wrought by Benvenuto Cellini she left to the
British Museum; and the cold Beggar,"
painting by the Belgian artist Dyckman, which
formerly belonged to Lionel Redpath, to the
National Gallery.
DR.. Bernays, who has been editor of the St.
Louis Anzieger des WestenS for two years, is
going to Europe to act as correspondent from
the seat of war for that journal. He will make
a short stay in Paris and then go to Italy If
the war shonld extend to the Bosphorus, as he
anticipates, he will visit Constantinople.
Mr.. Daily, School Commissioner for Che
mung County, N. Y, has been found guilty of
assault and battery upon a young lady who
was in his office for examination as teacher.
There was more serious charge in the indict-
ment, but upon that he was acquitted.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The circus and menagerie managers of the
country, who regard themselves as 'responsi-
BILE, propose to hold a national convention
this year. either in New York or Cincinnati,
to devise means for the suppression of ire
sponsible and "disreputable" shows. The code
Of regulations is to contemplate bitter and
unrelenting warfare upon the adventures and
swindlers by whom the public is annually
Yictimized.
Two little school girls, aged years, while
out for recess in Allegheny City, on Thurs
day, qqarreIed when one, Jenny Filkin,
struck the other, Elizabeth, on the head, and
pushed her against the wall "Lizzy" soon
commenced vomiting and sinking, and she
died before O'Clock the same day.
On the I'd inst, at PottsyilIe, Pa, a vivid
flash of lightning and deafening peal of thun-
der so alarmed the wife of Mr. George w.
Potts, a coal operator, that it induced a fatal
attack of the heart disease. She fell back and
died in a few moments. She was niece of
Hon. Geo. NJ. Dallas, and daughter of the
late Trevanion B. Dallas, Esq, of Pittsburg
The largest mirror ever imported into this
country has just been received at New York,
from Paris, for the Fifth Avenue Hotel, now
in process of completion. Its dimensions are
&c by lSS inches, aud its cost, exclusive of the
frame, about $500. No ship was large enough
to admit it between deck, and so it was brought
as part of deck load.
Two students in the University of Virginia
had shooting affray on the 9Th inst. The
quarrel grew out of the award of a medal by
one Of the literary societies for which one Of
the prrties to the fight was contendng
Pistols were drawn and one of the students
was seriously if not fatally shot
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