Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-01

We learn that at least fifty dwellings, valued
at from $4,000 to $4,000, besides the splen-
did Unitarian church, which will be an orna.
ment to the vicinage, will soon be built upon
the area of the back bay that now seems to
stand i'll need OF some such covering. The
erection of these buildings will add at least
81, 100000 to the value of the real estate in this
city.-IranScript.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Some of the democrats in Lowell while out
on a spree, Saturday night destroyed the flag
of the opposing faction, which had been re,
Gently thrown out at the head of Central St.
The flag was stripped from its fastenngs and
torn into shreds. The Citizen, with excessive
propriety, does not say whether the Douglas
or the breckenridge men were the offenders.
VIM. +. Libby, an overseer on the Hamilton
corporation, at Lowell, having lately gone to
farming" has been presented, by the employ
ees under his charge, with a cow
Emery Derby of Woburn was found dead,
Monday morning in the woods near Spot Pond,
in Stoneham. Drunkenness and exposure are
supposed to have caused his death Coroner
NOrcross Of South Reading was called, and an
inquest is to be held.
ESSEX COUNTY.
In one of the towns of Essex county, Lynn
perhaps, a school committee man was lately
examining q class Of primary scholars and
propounded the following question "If had
mincepe and should give twotwelfths to
John, two-tweltths to Isaac, two-twelfths to
Harry, and should keep half of the pie for
myself, what would there be left 2" After
long and profound study, little hopeful fellow
shouted, "The plate p The committee man
retired, and the school adjourned
The pickpockets in attendance on the en-
campment of the Second Battalion in GlOuces
ter last week, succeeded in robbing Geo. w
Floyd OF a wallet containing nearly $500.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Narcissa Coffin, Of Nantucket, minister of
the society of Friends, accompanied by seve.
raj other members of the society, visited the
House of Correction in New Bedford, Sunday
morning, and exhorted with the inmates in an
interesting and impressive manner. The visit
was evidently appreciated on the part of the
inmates, with grateful emotons.-nercmY
Portuguese seaman (coored) who recent
ly arrived at Nantucket attempted to cut his
throat under the belief that he was in danger
Of being kidnapped and sold into slavery He
has been sent to the insane hospital at Taun-
ton.
The census of Taunton IS now completed
and shows population of Is, 400, an increase
of nearly so per cent over the census of 1850
when the total was l0,44l.
There is "crim con" case in high life at
South Lee, affecting young girl named Web
ster, and ID. G. Mitchell, 4 Methodist minister
and a married man, who formerly preached in
that town, but moved to West Stockbridge last
spring. The church is going to try HIM first,
and then the father and friends will probably
pitch in
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A party of students in Wilson's Academy,
East Hampton, put quantity of powder un-
der an clubhouse, and blew it up about five
O'Clock Monday morning with terrible noise,
which startled the town and shattered the win
dows in the academy building.
George Rowland, sou of VIM. A. Rowland
of Conway, and formerly tutor in Amherst
College, has been elected principal of the Chi
cage high school.
VERMONT.
The factory for the manufacture of carpen-
ters squares, the only one in the country, was
destroyed by fire at Salisbury, VT, on Sat
urday last. Loss 700, which is principally
covered by insurance in the Vermont mutual
insurance companies.
RHODE ISLAND.
Lewis Barlow, 4 painter, was arrested, in
Providence, Saturday, for having bona .ide
wife and family in Newport while he was iv-
ing like a Turk in Wickenden street. in Prov.
idence. A third lady in Newport claims that
she should have been his wife months ago.
L. Monroe Cory, native of Providence, Il.
l.. an officer in the Mexican war, and since
the war a tobacco factor at New Orleans, COM
mitted suicide in his store on the Doth, be-
cause of the inexplicable embarrassments of
his business.
CONNECTICUT.
The people at the head of Long Wharf, in
New Haven, have been troubled lately with
ghost in one of the liquor shops Of that local.
ty. Very likely his shadowship finds congo
NAL spirits in that place
George II. Merriam of Webster, Mass pro.
poses to start the "Wintlham County Herald
in Putnam on the 9Th OF August. 1t will do
no harm to hope that he will succeed.
The kidnapping of Stockwell boy in Put
nam, Ct, by man from Webster last week,
was prevented by the spirited mother who, in
stead Of lamenting and tearing her own hair,
event in on her muscle" and tore his hair till
he was glad to give up the job
Nelson Mathews Of Putnam, has been con.
yicted of four sales Of the "Balm of Excel.
lence, and fined $50 and costs, amounting to
SllO, which he is working out at the rate Of
33b cents Il day in the Brooklyn Jail. The
"Balm" aforesaid bore striking resemblance
to Binninger's gin.
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