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

bOo1ON AMI N1CINiI1.
The Boston papers are agitating the subject
of visit from the Japanese ambassadors. The
Boston Advertiser thinks that coming directly
from New York they will be astonished at the
favorable contrast which our city presents, and
we can send them away with new ideas of
how city should be endowed and governed"
Two five hundred dollar bills on the Atlantic
Bank, stolen from Adams Express some
weeks since, have been received by that bank,
in their regular course of redemption. They
were received by the metropolitan Bank of
New York, which redeemed them for one of
their corresponding banks in Burlington, la.
The building on the corner of Washington
and Water streets, owned by the Elliot heirs,
is reported unsafe and in danger of falling.
The foundation is insecure, and there is likely
to be a crash there.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
A SON of Mr.. Matthew Woodward, who
lives in the "Blake neighborhood," near the
Dighton line, was drowned at the Weir last
Thursday. He was seven years of age, and
lost his life in trying to recover a book which
he dropped overheard while playing on light.
er near the store of Messrs. j. Dean & Co.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Salem Gazette says 1.-The drouth is
very unusual for the season. Manufacturers
inform us that they have never known the
summers as they are at the present time, and
farmers are mourning over anticipated short
crops of grass"
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A salute was fired in Pittsfeld, OH Saturday
evening, on the reception Of the news by the
steamer Vanderbilt of Heenan's contest with
Savers Many were astonished by the stimuli
taneous ringing of one of the church bells. 1t
ought to be said that somebody in Pittsfied
was heartily ashamed of this demonstration,
but we do not hear anything of the kind. But
they were "astOnished," and that is some
thing.
Juan Don Pedro, a selfstyled master of
twenty-five different languages, and Il lecturer
on Cuban annexation, left North Adams with
out paying his hotel and other bills few days
since.
Francis Sherman and William Circuit, who
were arrested for abducting and ravishing
Mary L. Sprague of South Adams, have been
committed to Jail in default of $500 each, to
await trial at the July term Of the criminal
court. very low pecuniary estimate for
such internal scoundrelism.
The Williamstown Congregational society
| have raised $1,000 by subscription for the re-
pairing and remodelng of their church edi-
fee The ladies' benevolent society have rails
ed $3.50 for the object, and they intend to in
crease the amount to $500. The Williams
college students will give $500 in considera-
ton of holding their commencement exercises
in the building.
Leonard Arms, the deputy United States
marshal who was shot dead while attempting
to arrest mail robber in Kansas a short time
since, was a native and shoe dealer of North
Adams He leaves a family.
A. W. Richardson, A. w. Preston, and Lam
sing Allen of North Adams have been appoint
ed justices of the peace and VIM. p. Porter
has been appointed notary public. Is there
anybody else there there that wants to be a
justice
A loon, (which measured A feet from tip to
tip of his wings. and weighed 81 pounds, was
shot by Harrison Simmonds Of North Adams,
on pond in Savoy, few days since. 1t is to
preserved and placed in the cabinet of natural
history in Williams college.
MAINE.
The state of Maine is not likely to lose