Worcester daily spy., 1860-03-23
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


One of the Boston commission houses lately
received, from one Of their southern CORES
pondents, their own price list, returned with
the following learLed endorsement =" We
can trade with niger worshippers !! Wheth-
er the correspondent contounded the enghten.
ed Boston firm with those deluded beings who
make deity of the Nile, or whether the un-
happy syncope is the fruit of some obliquity,
native and nearer home, is yet undetermined
Elisha Goodnow, who died in Boston about
five years since, bequeathed an estate to the
city, on the corner Of Ann and Cross streets,
worth from $4,000 to $4,000. The fact has
but just come to light.
1t is supposed that various well-organzed
leagues Of vice and crime exist in the vicinity
Of Boston, for the prosecution of theft and
arson. Six incendiary fires were seen in blaze
from TUFTS college, Saturday night The
gangs embrace many thoughtless and dissolute
yonths whose friends have little suspicion of
their ways.
The trial of Isaac f. Shepard, the forger
commenced, Thursday, before Chief Justice
Allen. The Indictment on which he is tried
charges in three counts, the forgery of the
name of James F. Blake upon promissory
note made to Henry Taylor & Company, to
their own order and endorsed by Allen Shep-
ard 1t is understood that the grand Jury
have returned two new indictments against the
defendant.
Early Thursday morning, as the Back Bav
gravel train was going out, it came in collision
with the freight train on the Worcester rail
road, near Cambridge Crossing. Several
freight cars were smashed up, and the engine
Of the gravel train was damaged to the amount
of $500.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Prof Joel Parker, in recent lecture before
the Dane law school, had occasion to illustrate
a point by the mission of Mr.. Hoar to South
Carolina. The southern students applauded.
The northern students, regarding the applause
as in approval of the conduct of South Caro-
lima, hissed. Prot Parker manifested much
feeling at this singular occurrence, but had the
discretion to say that the action of South Car
olina at that time was, more than any other
act, the cause Of the unpleasant differences
which have sprung up between the two Sec
tions.
The town of Hopkinton completed its town
business, last Monday, by electing l.. H. Bow
ker, and Josiah w. Peet, school committee,
and making the usual appropriations The
whole tax voted is S14 900; for schools, S31OO :;
for highways, $500; for contingencies, $4,000
to reduce town debt $1,000.
Parker, wicked Shaker in Concord, has
been detected in robbing clothes lines, busi.
time greatly to his profit.
Two of John Browns daughters are at
present residing in Concord, attending the
schuo of +. b. Sanborn.
Mrs. Horace Mann has purchased the beauti-
tul estate of IL. Price in Concord which she
is to occupy some time in April.
ESSEX COUNTY.
| Capt. Stephen Woodbury. and George Mea-
com of Beverly, were accidentally shot, on
lAtnrc cfnxr h,rn
Benjamin Raymond. The charge passed
through partition into the street Just as they
happened TO be passing
The Jewelry store of j. j. Rider in Salem,
was ingeniOusly robbed on Thursday last by
! two strangers, one of whom had a ring which
he wished mended Immediately as he was to
leave by railroad. The only person in the
store took the ring to mend it, and while alb
sent he heard the door closed, and when he
returned found the men missing and also a
bunch Of gold chains.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
| There is tree in the town of Charlemont
which bears apples, alternate quarters (which
are sweet and sour, and each section is plainly
marked, one being of yellowish cast and the
other OF dark green. The editor of the
Hartford Press intimates that he has picked
and eat 'em, which accounts for his sweet.sour
temper.
RHODE ISLAND.
James Holley, superintendent on General
Barnes's farm, Smithfeld, was instantly killed
on Wednesday morning near the Quaker
meeting house in that town, by being run over
by Haskelrs lime wagon, which passed over
his head. He had been unwell some time.
Some think 1t was case of suicide. So saws
the Providence Post
Reynolds Dawley, of North Providence
was arraigned, Wednesday, before Justice
Wilson, charged with having committed an
assault on Mary Dawley, his former wife. and
required to give bonds of 500 to keen the
peace six months, failing to do which he was
committed to Jail.
The trustees of the State Agricultural Col.
lege of Michigan have elected George Thur.
Der, Esq, recently of Providence to the pro.
iessorship Of botany and vegetable physiology
in that institution.
Edward Waterhouse, an employee in tbe
mill Of Davis and Waterhouse at Centreyille
has been arrested and lodged in Jail for the
murder Of Burrll Arnold. The suspicion was
directed against him bv the efforts of the com.
sci for Shea now on trial on the same charge
to identify Waterhouse as the person who was
seen in front Of Arnold's store before the shot
was fired. The supposed motive being revenge