Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-16
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The Boston journal announces the failure of
the firm of Elder, Sylvester & Vose, dealers
in boots and shoes at % Pearl street. The
amount of their liabilities is not stated, but it
is well known that they have been doing
large business for long time.
Fire broke out Tuesday evening, in the
building Nos. ITO and liz Commercial street.
Boston, occupied by Henry Richardson & Co.,
dealers in flour and hops. The damage by
fire and water will probably reach $500.
MIDDLESEx COUNTY.
In the village of Stoneham, Monday eve
ming, an unoccupied building, formerly used
for slaughter house, was destroyed by an in
cendiary fire. The building was owned by
David H. Burnham, and was worth $1,000.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Mr.. John Chamberlin was blown from the
top of a pile of boards in Nathaniel Whites
lumber yard at Quincy, by the high wind on
Friday last, and sustained severe injuries. He
remained insensible a long while after receiv-
ing the fall.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford Standard says Mr.. Lewis
S. Pope, of Acushnet village, has seventeen
pullets and five old hens, which have laid SO
dozen eggs during the past two months. The
expense Of keeping the fowls has been Sc, and
the eggs have been sold for SIG so, giving
$40 so profit. Who can beat this
The New Bedford Mercury says an attempt
was made Tuesday evening to burn dwelling
house owned by E. NJ. Robinson and occupied
by William G. Russell Mr.. Russell occupies
the south half of the building, and during the
evening the other half was broken into, and
fire set in two places. The fire was discovered
in season to prevent serious damage.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A patriotic young lady from Northampton,
at tin wedding in New York, few evenings
since, appeared in fancy dress composed en-
tirely of newspapers, and conspicuous among
them was a copy of the Hampshire Gazette,
extending from shoulder to shoulder.
A Prussian, named Schultz, while engaged
in starting stationary engine, in West Cum
mington, on Saturday fell upon the main belt
and was drawn between it and the drum and
killed almost instantly. He belonged in New
York, where he has wife and one child now
living.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The ladies and gentlemen of Springfield in
augurated brilliant fair on Tuesday evening,
in behalf OF the City Library. The prepare.
tons and incidents were very captivating, and
the receipts of the first evening were from
$1,000 to $1,000.
Giacomo Corossimo and Pedro Picroni the
two Italian plaster peddlers arrested for stab
bling Joseph McGoff on the evening of the
Doth ult., were tried Tuesday last Corossi-
mo was found guilty of infcting the wound,
and in default of $500 bail, was committed to
Jail.
RHODE ISLAND.
The two lodges of the Sons of Malta in
Providence have subsidized, and the order is
fast fading out elsewhere. 1t was a very silly
affair from the beginning,
Susan e. White promising girl of sixteen
years, of Bristol fell upon the ice while skat-
ing, four weeks since, receiving injuries upon
the head, from which she became delirous and
died on Sunday last in circulating pain
Capt Isaac Manchester died at Bristol, on
Monday, at the age of 90 years. He was in
early life shipmaster and merchant, but re.
tired in 1927, when he was elected town SER
geant, and annually reelected for q years
He was claimant of large sum from the
government, under the French Spoliation bill.
One day last week, a young woman, en-
ployed in factory at Kingstown, left her
work and said she was going to have a tooth
extracted. She did not return, and just as her
friends began to be concerned about her, they
ceived paper announcing her marriage with
young man in East Greenwich. This is a
new cure for toothache.
1t is said that the Eagle Screw Company
and the New England Screw Company, both
in Providence, have united in one establish
ment, under the name of the American Screw
Company. Great speculatons are made in the
transfer of stocks.
CONNECTICUT.
An antique chair has lately been placed in
the chancel of st. Marks Church, New
Britain, by C. G. Brge, which was brought
from Amsterdam, Holland, to New Haven, in
1867, by William Cursted by him it was Civ
en- to VIM. Ward, who gave it to his daughter,
Mariella Birge, and by her it was given to her
son, who disposed of it as above.
In Norwich, few evenings since, a gentle
man was invited to leap year party by
lady. She called upon him at the usual hour,
but he was not dressed" yet, and she bad the
satisfaction of waiting for him two hours in
the parlor. The joke was pleasantly taken, as
good retort upon the hardness of the fair
sex.
Joel T. Green of Rocky Hill, who has been
OH trial at Hartford for the murder of Miss
Thrall, by abortion resident of his family,
and by him seduced, was acquitted on Mon
day. There was sufficient evidence to estab-
lsh the fact of an abortion, but not enough to
fasten the guilt upon Mr.. Green
PERSONAL.
Mr.. II. 4. Brownson, translator of Balmes
Fundamental Philosophy, son of DR.. o. A
| Br0wnsOn, LETT Tor Anger, france, on the ZlSl
ut., to enter the novitiate of the Jesuits a
that place. Mr.. Oaksmth, son of Mr.. Oak
smith, publisher, left at the same time for the
same destination. Both gentlemen intend t.
enter the Society of Jesus.
Frank Ottarson some days since suddenly
left his position as one of the editors of thu
New York Tribune. The reason assigned fo
his separation from that journal is that he in
sisted, against the judgment of the leading
editor, in putting a young woman who wal
performing at one of the the theatres in tina
city.
The Hon. Henry A. Edmundson, of Vir
ginia, who made the assault upon Hon. Mr.
Hickman, at Washington, few days since, il
q large, gross man, coarse in manners and per
son. 1t is said that in April, 1885, he was Sc
disgracefully intoxicated on the floor of the
House OF Representatives that he had to b(
carried out by his friends.
The American Minister resident to Guate
mala and Honduras, Hon. Beverly j.. Clark
OF kentucky, has entered into the bosom o
the Roman Catholic Church, the ceremonies q
aOJuration OF the old and confession of the nov
ialtn having been performed In the cathedro
OF the city of Guatemala with the most i'm
posing solemnity. ''''
MISCELLANEOUS
One Of the citizens OF West Finley Town