Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-16
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

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The students of Harvard College held n
mass meeting, Friday afternoon, and passed
resolutions condemning the introduction of
an armed police as part of the discipline of
| the institution. They crescent it as an indignity
that they should be subjected to the surveil
lance OF armed men and secret emissaries of
the law, and that the obedience that they are
willing and ready to render should be forced
from them at the muzzle of the revolver
The firm of Phillips & Mosely, dealers in
iron' steel and metals, doing business in Broad
street. Boston, were obliged to suspend pay
| ment Saturday. Their liabilities are said to
De large, They failed several years ago but
afterwards paid ninety cents on the dollar.
Two other failures of smaller character oc.
CURED during the week.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
ne inhabitants of the western portion of
Needham are making active exertions for di-
| vision OF that town. and the matter will be
brought before the present legislature If the
project is successful, the new town will be
named We lesley, in honor of the late Hon
John Welles, who was resident of the west
erly section of the town.
The person who, it is supposed, set fire to
the house of Mr.. ARENAS Wiswall of Oak
| Hill, Newton, which was burned Sunday, 9th
inst, was examined Saturday before Trial Jus.
tice j. L. c. Hyde. Her name is Susan Cole,
and she is only fourteen years old. She plead
| guilty, and was committed to await the action
of the Grand Jury Traveller.
Dea.. John w. Brigham of Marlboro, has a
| COW, which one day last week gave birth to
| five perfect calves. The smallest one weighed
thirty-two pounds, and they would average at
least thlrty.tiye pounds each, making their
united weights about one hundred and seven
| ty-five pounds.
The shoe mandatory of d. H. & C. Stick
ney OF Groveand, was broken into Thursday
night, and women's calf and goat boots stolen
theretrom. The entrance was effected throuoh
a window BY breaking a pane of glass and
removing the spring.
ESSEX COUNTY.
| rive aldermen, three councilmen. and ono
| school committee man, elected to Office in Sa
lem, the other day, have declined to serve. and
| another election is to be held on Tuesday IN
I'LL the vacancies. Such disregard for official
honors was never before exhibited in this
country. Is patriotism becoming extinct?
| NORFOLK COUNTY.
Mr. Ezra Damon of Quincy, being attacked
ny .lle small poX last week, in fit of dcspon-
dency, induced by, the idea that every hody
nad deserted him, hung himself to bed-post
in his room. PO''
:, Inc Bangor Wing states that Jeremiah
fenpo, OF that city, will apply to the Legisla.
lure Tor grant of exclusive privilege. for a
term OF years, for the use of steam engines as
motive power, for freight and passengers on
the common roads of Maine
RHODE ISLAND.
Reuben A. Morony of Providence, who had
peen i,ndisposed for several days, was reused
iast thursday BY some exciting cause, when
~ MS agitation he stumbled and fell to the
uo , ol ine stars receiving injuries that re.
who was run over by load of wood ON tie
9TH ut, died in Providence on Thursday last.
CONNECTICUT.
halph hnowton, young man of twenty
four years, was instantly Killed in Ashford,
", last week. He was hunting rabbits, and
having shot one, was in the act Of picking it
up, when his gun was discharged, lodging the
contents in his neck, and killing him instantly.