Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-30
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
1t is said that an association of gentlemen
has been formed and the money all subscrib-
ed, for the purpose of securing tract of land
in the immediate vicinity of Boston, to be
devoted to a trotting park and agricultural
grounds.
The mayor and aldermen of Charlestown
have decided not to allow the horse cars to run
between Boston and Charlestown on the Sab
bath. The board stood three to three, and
Mayor Dana gave his casting vote against the
permission.
The Saturday Evening Gazette says the
performances of the Gersh Banker, at Worces
Ter, has melted some of the boat builders Of
Boston to build something able to compete
with her. One of them promises to have
boat within few weeks that wh make better
time.
Two young girls of the ages of y and II
years, inmates of the institution known as the
''Pentent Females House of Refuge" have
been arrested for setting fire to the buildings.
They confessed and set up the plea that they
wanted liberty.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Rev. Theodore Tebbetts, of Medford, hav
ing resigned the charge Of the first church in
that town, on account of i'll health, the parish
and his personal friends presented to him the
sum Vi ClAtJ dS Il lOhCA VI thNAA AA4putiiJ
and regard
ESSEX COUNTY.
The catholics of the town Of HaveThill held
a lively picnic last Thursday, at Georgetown,
winding up their services in the grove with
three rousing cheers for "the republic of the
United States, where liberty of conscience is
enjoyed by ALL"
There are an old lady and her daughter iv-
ing in Newburgport, the latter fifty years old,
who have not been off their premises for thirty
years, until Saturday last, when they accepted
an invitation to visit Oldtown. The daughter
was never inside a carriage before, and upon
entering it she turned pale, trembed, and
grew faint at the prospect before her, but was
finally prevailed on to trust herself to that con-
veyance instead of her feet. They stopped in
full view of the Eastern railroad and three
trains passed near them this was the first and
all OF their railroad experience. Neither ofthem
before had seen car, or had the least idea
OF steam engine. The appearance of a train
struck them with terror, and the old lady, who
knows the Bible "like a book" though she is
not so well read in modern literature, said she
believed it was an invention of the devil and
had been sem. out to seek whom it might de-
YOUR. She had some fear that it would eat
her up. Both these ladies belong to respecta-
BILE families, and their husbands and sons are
as much given to the modern ways of the
world and as full of new ideas as anybody.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The Rev. Mr.. Powers of South Braintree
has been before an investigating council, re
proved for imprudent, indscreet, and censura-
Bile intimacy with a female member of his
church, and it was recommended that he be
restored to fellowship on making suitable con.
tession to the church.
In Brookline, on Thursday of last week,
a German, by the name of Snider, was
thrown from his wagon and kicked to death by
an unruly horse. The horse was frightened
by the barking of a dog.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford Institution for Savings
was detrauded of 500 last week by woman
who represented herself as the wife of John
Raser, who had the above sum on deposit.
She presented his bank book and drew the
money. The police found her out, however,
and recovered a large portion of the money
The New Bedford Standard states that the
capital stock of 100000 for the manufacture
of copper and yellow metal in that city, has
all been taken, and meeting of the subscrib-
ers Is called for organization 1t is designed
to commence operations Immediately
BARNsrABLE COUNTY.
The dwelling house of Alfred Hall, in East
Sandwich, was struck by lightning and entire
~ consumed by fire, on the 27th-the family.
seven in number, barely having time to escape
IN ost of them in their nghtcothes Loss
on house and furniture about $500.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Martin X. Bridges of Deerield, and six of
his associates in a tin pan serenade OF a newly
married couple, have had to pay fines and
costs OF court, amounting to $37 So
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Palmer Journal says that a young cler.
gyman in an adjoining town, illustrating an
important point i'll his discourse by allusion to
the eclipse, complacently remarked that a
solar eclipse was caused by the moon passing
between us and the sun, and that an eclipse of
the moon was produced Sin the same manner,
By the sun passing bet,ceen The earth and the moon '
The congregation were amazed.
Austin Moore of Monson, a bachelor of some
fifty years, hung himself last week while in a
lit of Glow spirits" He suspended himself by
a small cord attached to his bed post.
There is remarkable hen in Wilbraham
which has distinguished herself by lying an
egg within an egg, both eggs being complete
as to shell, yolk, and other egg essentials.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The honorary degree Of Doctor of Divinity
was conferred at Dartmouth College, last
week, on Rev. Austin Richards and Rev. Con.
stantine Blodgett. The degree of Doctor of
Laws was given to ex-President Pierce, Hon.
George Z. Marsh, who was also chosen orator
OF the alumni for next year, and T. Dwight
Willard. The college has received bequest
Of $4,000 for the benefit of its library
During display of fireworks from the
yacht Znga, at Portsmouth, last week, Miss
Anna Martin was fatally injured by the care
less discharge of cannon. TO those who
crowded around her with questions, where she
was hurt she replied in great agony,-'You
do not know how much am hurt. Take me
home, that | may die with my mother" She
dieu soon after.
The single mill of Col Farmer and son, in
Amoskeag, was consumed by fire on Friday
last. The total loss was about $1,000.
MIR. Farmer lost $4,000 by the burning of his
stable and stock in February last
Rev. DIR. Peabody being about to leave his
{ Unitarian society in Portsmouth, to become
DIR. Huntington's successor at Cambridge. the
members of his parish have made him a part
ing gift of $500.
CONNECTICUT.
VIM Pierce some time ago seduced
young girl named Mary Burns, in Bridgeport.
lie was arrested, consented to marry her, but
on his release, fled. Mary followed him to
Baltimore IN vain, and on her return on the
18th inst, drowned herself and her fatherless
child from the dock in Norwalk.
The wife OF Abraham Miner, in Hartford,
was shockingy burned on Friday night, by
her clothes taking fire She had on a muslin
dress, which was consumed, and her body was
burned and blistered to the neck. She was
not expected to recover.
During thunder storm on the 9th Instant,
a flash of lightning killed t,co pair of cattle be-
longing to Elisha Moore of Bloomfield, two or
three miles from Hartford. The cattle were
in lot and pretty near together when the bolt
hit them, and were worth $500.
MNs Abby, daughter of Isaac Crane of
Whiting, was drowned on the 18th, while bath.