Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-04
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


The city government Of Boston have made
| grand preparations for observing this interest
ing anniversary. The bands give a military
concert on Boston common. Edward Everett
delivers the Grafton, in Music Hall. The city
regatta takes place at noon, on the Charles
River course Two balloon a.censions are to
be made in the afternoon, and the celebration
will close in blaze of Greek fire.
One of the newly appointed messengers in
the Custom House, jesse Duncklee, was found
dead in his room at Jameson Richardson's
dining saloon in Spring Lane, n Monday.
The man is supposed to have died in a fit
Two bands of missionaries sailed from Bos-
ton, for Smyrna, Tuesday afternoon under
the auspices of the American Board of Com
mssioners for Foreign Missions. One party
is destined for the mountain HISTORIANS, the
other for the Armenian mission in Persia. In
terestng religious services were held ON board
the missionary fleet previous to its departure.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Jonas Munroe familarly known as cold mn
Gle JONES'" many years landlord of the old
Munroe tavern in Lexington, committed sui
eide on Monday, by drowning. He was an
inmate OF the Mclean Asylum at Somerville,
but was of harmless disposition, and was
allowed much liberty, of which he took adyan
tage and drowned himself, His age was SO
years.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Some of the survivors of the ministry of
Rev John Pipon in Taunton, who died near
| ly forty years ago, have placed an elegant mu-
raj tablet, of statuary marble in Gothic style,
on the walls OF the Unitarian church in that
| town.
Two physicians in Taunton had fight in
the post office the other day, about the treat
ment of Il fortunate patient "now beyond the
reach of both !" They were separated by
th9ir friends, and the "belt" is held in re-
| serve.
Some of the business men in New Bedford,
interested in the shoe trade, have taken steps
to establish an extensive mandatory, more
especially for coarse work, and to meet the
demands of the whalers sailing from that
port.
About one hundred weavers of the Metacom.
ct Mill, at Fall River, have struck for higher
wages. They demand an ncrese of three
quarters of cent per cut.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
An old chest, of the estate of the late Abel
Potter, was lately sold at auction in Green
field in which the following mysterious in.
scription was found -"Mar his last wife
when 90 years DID, has had 7 wives and As
children. His third wife bore him II child.
rem. In y year his grandchildren 235 His
grandchildren were 344. He had 1928
descendants of his body"
The noble elms of thirty years growth, en-
the common in Greenfield, were badly broken
down last week, by the wind. The barn of
VIM. Keith, on the Shelbune road, was de-
moshed. Erastus Green of Coleraine had
four cows killed by lightning, and the stock of
Horace Holton in Mortified suffered from the
same cause.
The son of Lewis Church. in Ashfield, had
his leg broken the other day, while playing
with his school mates. The little son of Hon.
Henry l.. Dawes was badly cut with an AK,
on his grandtather's premises, in the same
town.
MAINE.
Several months ago, Lewis Leighton OBJ,
tanned $1,000 from the Peoples Bank at Wa
teryille, on a forged note. The officers had
long chase to capture their prisoner, follow
ing him through the Aroostooz country into
New Brunswick, and finally arresting him on
board the steamer Eastern City, bound for |
Portugal Leighton confesses the crime.
Two gentlemen, recently from fishing boat
at Moosehead Lake, report that they caught IN
one morning sixty pounds of speckled trout
with fly rods. They were fishing about four
hours, and the trout averaged pound and |
half each but lady of the party surpassed
that, for she took with fly, in two hours and
half, thirty trout, weighing 239'poundS, with
out assistance.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
son. and the grist and Touring mill of Hollis |
Taylor, at Hinsdae, were destroyed by fire on |
Sunday morning. Loss on paper mill Sl1 900, |
insured for $4,000 in the Ktna office Hartford |
on grist mill $4,000, insured for $1,000 in the
Home Company, New Haven.
CONNECTICUT
Frederick Coleman Of Warren had another
barn destroyed by fire on Thursday morning
Of last week. The repeated burnings of Mr..
{ 70, b, t,a
of an incendiary, who has thus far escaped
punishment The old "Indian DOCTOR" Os.
borne, was acquitted last fall on charge of oc-
casOniug tie previous fires.
The Rockville Republican speaks of two old
bruisers being sent to Holland Jail, and adds
at is said (of the stuff they drink that a drop
will drill hole through a cent in half min
ute, and two drops will eat penny all up"
Thomas Murphy, an Irish lad, was drown
ed in New Haven on Sunday last. Mr. Bah,
cock of the Palladium jumped in to rescue
him, but too late to save his lie.
MISCELLANEOUS.
There is very great excitement in Pictou, |
N. S., about the gold discovered some fifty |
miles distant. Thousands have already gone
to the diggings, and many more are impatient
to start. The steamer Mic Mac goes thither
daily.
In Aberdeenshre, Scotland, there is a cow
O"hSu ny W III hluulSlOIJ III HSI AtIll year,
which has had nineteen calves, the last
dropped in june 1857. The marvellous part
of TIE statement is, that the COW has shown
no falling off of her milk since her last calf in
l057-a case of long lactatioD.
Ellenville, Ulster county, N. Y, is in tu-
mutt over suspected double poisoning case.
1t is supposed that a Mr.. Holden and Mrs.
Sheeley, near neighbors and relatives have
poisoned their respective partners in life, so as
to combine their property into their own
hands. a coroner's inquest is in progress.
Madame Ristori, the great tragic actress,
narrowly escaped death by poison a short time
since. She had ordered some audanun, but
by mistake received and took double the guam
hty intended, the consequences of which were
for some time fearful. She, however, finally
recovered