Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-12
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
BENJAMIN " French whose uame has been
so long and so prominently associated with
horticultural and agricultural matters, died of
dropsy at his residence in Dorchester, Wednes-
day morning, at the age of SO years. For the
past twenty years he has devoted himself to
the various branches of agricultural science
and his experimental farm at Braintree attain
ed much celebrity in all parts OF the country.
| The question as to what constitutes com
| mon drunkard again decided by Judge
Lord, in the Superior Court, Boston, on We'd
nesday. Evidence was offered showing that
Mary Richardson had been drunk several
times but Judge Lord ordered a verdict of
acquittal, because it was not shown that she
was commonly drunk. This was in accord
ance with a recent decision of the Supreme
Court.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Newburyport Herald says that the
number of places in that city where liquor is
sold, probably does not exceed seventy. AT a
recent temperance meeting in that place, it
was absurdly stated that $50 shops and $50
private houses were engaged in the prohibited
traffic.
The sixtieth meeting of the old Essex coun-
| ty Teachers Association was held in Salem,
on the 9th and 7th instS. Prof Charles Ans.
orge of Dorchester, delivered an address on
the Prussian and American systems OF nstruc-
| ton. VIM. G. Todd of Newburyport, was
chosen president for the coming year.
The small pox has visited the town of West
Amesbury, with peculiar viruence. Early
the present week more than twenty persons in
! that small village were confined by that dis
ease, and one person had died. There is much
| feeling growing out of this, and religious and
| other meetings are suspended.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford Standard states that the
wicking and cotton bat factory Of MI Ansel
White, at Long Plain, was totally destroyed
by fire early Tuesday morning, together with
all the machinery and stock in the same. Loss
about $4,000. The building was insured for
$500 in Dorchester, and the machinery for
$500 in Hartford. The origin of the fire is
not known.
Twenty one boats crews of Westport har.
Dor, on Saturday last shot no less than GA
sea fowl, of which about seyen-eights were
coOts. 1t is thought there were on the coast,
within eight miles, 100000 seafou so that
not one in a hundred was shot, and yet the
number continues rapidly to increase.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The large barn of Major Cyrus Miller, near
the bridge, in HaydenvlIe, was destroyed by
fire early Monday evening, together with
cows and a calf, 10 tons hay, and Is bushels
corn, belonging to Mr.. Miller, and or 8
sleighs, tons hay, and 400 pounds meal, be-
longing to Luther Loomis & Son, who occu-
pied portion of the barn with their livery.
Mr. Miller's loss is about $1,000, and LOOMS
& Sons about $500. No insurance
a son OF ~. w. Parsons OF EaSthampton shot
an otter on Fast day, measuring three feet and
ten inches from tip TO tip, and weighing TWEEN
ty-five pounds He was discovered in the cold
bed Of the Connecticut, in Passommuck.
Oliver S. Vining Dwight Morton, and AL
meron Crafts, speared in Hatfield pond, recent
y, muscalunge feet and inches long, and
weighing 20 pounds, one perch weighing
pounds, and one pickerel weighing 3 pounds.
There was a large and excited meeting of
the Hampshire Agricultural Society at Am
herst on the 9th inst, growing out OF differ
ences as to the policy of investing their funds
and buildings for exhibitions. The purchase
OF lands, already authorized and made, was
confirmed, 103 to 81, and the erection of
building upon them for exhibition and dining
halls, was authorized, 81 to 4S, on condition
that an addition Of $1,000 be secured to the
fluids of the society, and that no debt be incur
ed therefor. The present funds of the society
are $4,000, and the friends of the successful pol
| icy promise to get from l25 to $50 new mem
beers at once
a dividend of Is per cent has been paid on
the debts of the insolvent Northampton Wool.
ell Company, and 4 or per cent. more will
probably squeeze the assets dry.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A report that man in Sandwich, New
Hampshire, named Harvey Weed, confessed on
his death bed that he was the murderer of Mr..
Parker in Manchester, proves to have been
pure invention. Mr.. Weed is still living and
is reported to be above and beyond suspicion
The story is believed to have been invented to
injure his brother William, who is an active
politician, and is prominently mentioned as
one of the delegates TO Chicago from that
state. The author of this daStardy libel
should be made to suffer TO the utmost power
OF the law.
RHODE ISLAND.
We learn by telegraph from Woonsocket,
that fire broke out Wednesday afternoon, in
that town. in barn belonging to DIR. Ariel
Balluu. The barn and corn crib adjoining
were destroyed, with the contents of both.
CONNECTICUT.
a few days since, gentleman picked up on
the shore near the Bridgeport Light, mat
trass and pillow, which show marks of blood.
| They are supposed to have foated ashore from
| the sloop Spray.
A Springfield democrat went to Halifax to
vote at the state election. Just before return
ing home he stopped at a house in East Hart
ford to beg meal of victuals. He was led
into conversation by the woman, and said he
lived in Springfield and voted there, but had
been to Hartford to vote, for which he had
been paid. He would not tell how much lie
sold his vote for. but said he was $50 much
the richer" Will he be "held to answers"
Sunday evening, April 9Th, James f. Lines,
carriage maker of Wallingtord, was robbed of
$3.50 and a watch valued at Sl30. The money
was taken out of his pantaoons pocket and
the watch removed from the head OF his bed
while he slept He found the pautaloons,
empty and rain.soaked, in the yard adjoining
the house, Monday morning. Of the missing
money there were four 500 bills, the balance
of 500 being in small bills, all ON the City
Bank of New Haven.
| PERSONAL.
Miss Augusta J. Evans the authoress of
"Beulah," while in bookstore in Monigom-
cry, Alabama, one day last week, was recon-
mended to buy a copy OF that popular work,
clerk remarking that he though it would please
her.
The officers of the American Congregations
al Union extended an invitation to Sturgeon,
the sensation preacher, to participate in its an.
niversary exercises, in May. He writes, in
reply, that he has worked seven years without
rest, and, after little journey upon the con-
tinent, must return and stick TO it another
seven years.
1t is publicly stated that the Rev. Clement
| Frachon President of I'Assumntion Colepa.