Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-08
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


Two English bruisers named Jack Tr-.,
ana Andrew Gidlow, aged about y years hal
prize night on one Of the islands in Ros,"n
barDor Monday. The parties who are ,1y'l
ignorant and very brutal were arrested ~
committed for trial in default of $4,000 Lail qua
1t was the last request before deotb %
gentlemen of Boston, recently decreased 81 81
ms remains should be examined daily for ,'a
Rod OF ten days, in order to make sure of ~.
tact mat life had really departed, he having -
fear OF being buried alive.-TrareHer.
MrDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The Marlboro Mirror speaks of vo,,,-
Frenchman, eighteen years of ace wh3 V na
ged 1900 pairs of boys kip brocans in ~
month OF July last, being fifty pairs for ear6
day. They averaged $50 pegs per pair nr
lS,OOO pegs per day. This would make 4fo
900 pegs for the month.
The barn of Hosea Weston, in the tow, oc
Lincoln, was destroyed by an incendiarv fra
Monday night, together with five cows
horse and twenty-five tons OF hay Much ev'
element prevails in the neighborhood, where
frequent and destructive fires have occurred
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
On Monday afternoon, Mr. Thomas Harden
aged 10, OF South Arlington, went out upon Is.
land TO burn some bushes, when it is suppos,p
he became exhausted and dropped senseicss to
the earth. When found he was dead his
clothes were burned of of him, and his fingers
were burned to a crisp.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The house OF Alpheus Rugg, in Montague
was struck a few days since by lightning. the
lightning running from the roof into several of
the rooms below, tearing door off the hinges
and throwing it on the bed where two children
were lying, breaking the dishes in the butterv.
and killing a cat in the shed. The house was
protected by lightning rods.
MAINE.
The first sawmill in Machias was built in
l763. The mill has been rebuilt since. but the
old foundation still remains lust as if was
placed there a century ago. Five other mills
were built there previous to 1900.
RHODE ISLAND.
The large mill at Waterford, known as Far
NUNS No. 3, was nearly destroyed by fire
tuesday morning. This mill, says the Prov
ldence Press, and most of the machinery.
were owned by Earl p Mason, ESQ, of that
city, and Messrs. j. c. Howe & CO., OF Boston.
and occupied by Messrs. Bradford. Taft, &, Co.
OF Providence. The property was insured Tor
Joseph Barker, Richmond town pauper,
hung himself to a tree in the woods on Sunday
last lie was cunning pauper, and accumu.
lated considerable money while he was the
town charge.
CONNECTICUT.
The rake and dipper factory of Smith,
Cowles, & Co., in Northford, Conn, was set on
fire Friday evening, and totally DESTROYED.
Loss $4,000; insured $4,000. A fellow named
John Wood has been arrested on suspicion of
being the incendiary
Robert White, Il Scotchman some forty.four
years old, went into the Connecticut river at
Hartford, Saturday evening, for the purrose of
bathing while in a state of intoxication. and
was drowned When SOBER he was most
powerful swimmer.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Rev. DR.. Spring, whose fiftieth ami
yersary as pastor of large church in New
York, was celebrated last Sunday. has an
honored New England ancestry. His father.
the Rev Samuel Spring, d. D., was chaplain
In the American army in the early part of the
revolutionary war, and was afterwards pastor
of the North Church, in Newburyport. His
mother was daughter of the famous Rev.
DR.. Samuel Hopkins of Hadey, and grand
daughter OF Rev. DIR. Hopkins of West SPRING
field. The New York divine, in the length
OF his Passionate, follows in the footsteps of his
family. His fathers ministry to one people
extended through Al years; his grandfathers
reached 81 years, and his great grandfather
died III the 36th year of his age