Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-05
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

oOilll Oluhdy, leSo66 Ol tUt N1elOuPOD,
who is giving aseries of "parlor operas" there,
is threatened with an injunction on the ground
that when the proprietors of the Boston theater
sold the Melode0n estate it was with the condi-
ton thatn dramatic exhibition" should be al
lowed IN 1t for ten years. The defence is that
the Drayton exhibitions are not dramatic.
Three young ladies of good reputation, re-
siding in respectable localities at the West End
Boston, visited a disreputable dance hall on
Richmond street, Monday night, "out OF mere
curiosity" danced once or twice with the vag-
abonds they met there, had a gold watch
stolen, and started for home. The frail thief
was subsequently arrested and held for trial.
and the three curiosity hunters resolved to
give up the perilouS business, and retire to
private life.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Among the passengers lost on board the ILL.,
fated hungarian, was Mr.. Balmer and his
young bride who have relatives in Northamp.
ton. VIM. H. Rayner of Northampton, has
been to the scene OF the wreck and recovered
trunks and other effects of the deceased.
w. IL. Winter, town liquor agent in Pres
cott during the past year, has furnished the
thirsty part of the inhabitants of that town
with liquors to the value of S16S IS, or an
average OF about tecentyJfUe cents to each inhab
liant.
MAINE.
The house, barn and shed of Asa Warren,
OF Naples, Maine, were destroyed by fire Mon.
day morning, with all the furniture, three
horses, three carriages, COW, calf, hog, hay and
grain and farming utensils. Saddest of all,
Mr., Warren and his son, a lad eight years old,
both persisted in the flames
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Dr. Luther Farley, of Manchester, died on
Monday night, at the age OF Is years He
was brother of the late Hon. Geo. Il. Farley
of Groton, Massachusetts, and was himself a
gentleman Of high reputation and extensive
practice.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church elected their delegates to
the approaching general conference. on Friday
last They are the Reverends Daniel Wise.
Paul Townsend, Sidney Dean, S. C. Brown.
and Geo. M. Carpenter The ballotng stood
as follows: Whole number of votes cast
l02-ot these ID. Wise received 81; S, c.
Brown 90; 5. Dean 81; Geo. NJ. Carpenter
54; 7. Townsend So; Abel Stevens is. &c
The whole delegation are strongly opposed to
all church slave-hoding.
VIM. Coggeshall, cashier of the Union Bank
Fall River, II. l., died suddenly Tuesday.
morning, at the age of 65 years. His horse
being attached to wagon, and becoming res
1--WE, Mr. Coggeshall got out OF the wagon and
requested a man in his employ to take hold of
the wheel to assist him in starting. The man
did so, but the wagon not moving, he looked
up and saw Mr., Coggeshall lying near the
fence several feet distant. He lived but for
few moments.
MISCELLANEOUS.
IT is understood that Sherman NJ. Booth has
instituted suits against Judge Miller, of the
United States District Court of Wisconsin,
and also against Jehu H. Lewis, United States
Marshal, for false Imprisonment, and for the
penalty of 1850 given by statute for arresting
the plaintiff after being once discharged on
habeas corpus. The suit was brought in the
county court, claiming $4,000 damages in
each
One of the performers in the horrid TRACE.
dies of the Robespierre period, has just met a
dismal end at the age Of 81. A vagrant and
a beggar for the last forty years, Lazaretz, bet.
ter known as Tablitz lie Barbu, sought and got
shelter at the fireside Of peasant in the ham.
let of ST. SynIphorien, near Lyons. Left
alone, he was struck with epilepsy, and fell
headong into the brazier. He had been facto.
tum to the miscreant Carrier, in executing the
famous Noyades, at Names, when hundreds Of
Bretons were plunged into the Loire in patches
and handcuffed