Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-03-14
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Boston, on Monday communication was re-
celved from James Lawrence, Esq, enclosing
check for $4,000, the amount of the legacy
with interest, bequeathed by the late Hon
Abbott Lawrence for the use of the public
library.
Mr.. Lanergan, the pyrotechnist, whose de-
cease has been announced, was prominent
free mason, and also devoted follower Of the
church OF Rome. Before receiving the sacra-
ment, however, in his last moments, he re-
nounced the oaths which bound him to the
Masonic order, as under no other circum-
stances would the priest receive his confess
sion.
A fund of $4,000 was subscribed some
years ago among the friends of Daniel Web
ster, the interest of which was to go to him
during life, and at his decease to his wife, and
on her death the principal was to revert to the
subscribers or their heirs. "a $1,000 share in
this fund was sold at auction in Boston, on
Saturday, for $3.50.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Essex Banner announces that second
hat factory is about to be started in Hayerhill
They have one that employs about a hundred
hands, and the second is to be of the same ca
pacity. The making of felt hats has proved
to be very profitable business in the last half
dozen years.
Quite large business is carried on at Sails
bury Point in the manufacture of small fishing
boats, and from five shops there have been
| 1000 turned out during the winter, valued at
$4,000. Nearly all the fishing towns from
Bucksport, Me, to Cape Cod are supplied with
boats from Salisbury Point
On Monday evening, the Mechanics steam
planning mill was destroyed by fire. 1t was
the oldest building of the kind in the state,
and gave employment to nine hundred operat-
| ives The total loss is estimated at $4,000,
which is partially insured. The mill was used
to some extent for the manufacture of shoe
boxes, and is supposed to have been fired by
an incendiary.
| BRISTOL COUNTY.
| Timothy Sullivan, while oiling the machine
! ry in the Wamsutta mills, New Bedford, on
| Saturday, was seized with fantng fit, fell
back and died. His skull was broken by the
fall.
Nathaniel Snow, an aged pauper at the
almshouse in New Bedford, rose early, Satur-
day morning, and went to the oakum shop,
where he was seized with apoplexy, and in.
stanty persisted.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
VIM. H. Forbes, the student who assaulted
policeman Hilton, Waterman in the Chapel of
Harvard College, came up in the Superior
Court, at Cambridge Monday afternoon, be-
fore Judge Lord. After a short hearing, Mr..
Forbes was fined $50 Thus ends the quar-
rel
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Some person carelesSly fred a pistol in
Main street, Northampton, aiming towards the
| ''block" near Geo. f. Wright & Co.'s store.
| The ball passed through the window, near the
| head of Mrs Kavanaugh, who was sewing at
table, struck the door-atch, and rebounded
into her work-basket. No damage, but some
fright.
CONNECTICUT
Sarah Holdridge, a maiden lady, died in
Ledyard, on the 9Th inst, at the age of &c
| years She was the recipient Of many CHAIR.
table gifts and favors from those who took
compassion upon her apparently needy circum-
stances. A few days before she died she ex-
pressed fears that she might go the poor house.
| She had lived alone, and after her death, Sl100
in coin was found hidden away about her
house, most of it in a secret vault she had made
| i'll the cellar.
The scarlet fever is raging fearfully and ia
tally in Falls village and vicinity.
The republicans of Hartford are erecting a
"eamp tent" 100 by TO- ten feet wider than
the Fremont camp of So and capable of seat.
| ing $500 persons, with standing room for
about 1000 more. There will be two galleries
exclusively for the ladies, sufficiently commo-
dious to seat about 400-hoops and ALL
The republicans of the Norwich district
have nominated S. T. Holbrook of Norwich as
their candidate forjudge of probate
Patrick CAROLS barn and shed, in New Ha-
ven, were destroyed by an incendiAry fire on
Monday morning, together with a valuable
COW and about ton of hay.
Dr. BushnePs health has much improved by
his winter in Minnesota, and he is coming
back to spend the summer at Hartford
| Personal.
The antiquaries in Boston are searching the
| "dusky places of memory" for the youthful
graduates of Harvard. The last bulletin of
the Boston Transcript is that the Rev. Joseph
Stevens Buckm'nster and Hon. Stephen C.
| Phillips graduated at Cambridge university at
the age of seyenteen-the late John Lowell
and Alexander Fl. Everett at sixteen, and Cot
ton Mather at fifteen.
Hon. Arson Burlingame has received intel
ligence of the death Of his mother. She died
six weeks since, in Salem, Linn county, Ore
gon, where her husband has resided for many
years. In consequence of this bereavement,
Mr.. Burlingame will be absent from his public
duties for few days
MISCELLANEOUS.
AT an eliminate soiree" given recently in
the empresssprivate apartments in the fuller
les, the princess Clothilde and Eugene quar-
relied. The empress has pretty feet and an
kieg, and is not averse to showing them. At
ter a jolly supper she was so prodigal in the
display of her Combinations" notwithstand.
ing the presence of many gentlemen, that Miss
Clothildes modeSty was shocked, and she left
the room in a huff Consequence-new and
serious political complications.
The old proyerb, "when rogues fall out hon.
est men get their Dues" bids fair, or foul, to
find an exception in the case of the Bank OF
Central New York, from the presidency OF
which o. B. Matteson, late member of con.
gress, was recently removed. There appears
from his statement, to have been mercenary
quarrel among the directors, as to who should
make the most out of the concern.
Mrs. WIN. Arms, of Napoli, in central New
York, died about the LIST inst. The day before
her death, she fell into trance, and had a
vision of her own death, funeral, and burial o.
which she gave minute description on awak
ing. She died soon after, and all the event:
which she had described were fulfilled The
same mourners attended the funeral, the same
minister preached from the same text, the
same sexton prepared her last resting place
just as she had indicated, and without any
knowledge of her dream.
The will of the late John G. Boxer devise.
his whole estate to his widow, and, after hel
death, to his four children. A codici how
ever, cuts off his son Walter, and his daugh
ter MARY Ann" the wife OF John Dean, the
eoachman, from receiving any portion Of thC
estate.