Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-03-02
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


Carl Julius Kruhze, Russian, has been ar.
rested in Boston for robbiDg the office of John
Pickering, broker, during the absence of the
latter, of notes and drafts to the value of $1,000
or S3OOO. Kruhze wrote anonymous letters to
Pickering, promising to return the papers for
$3.50, which led to his arrest.
The Boston Herald says 1--WE understand
that Mr. Kimball has leased the Boston Muse
UNI to Capt. Dexter Toilet of this city and Mr..
Frank f Reach of Philadelphia, who will as.
sumo the management at the close of the pres
ent season. The rent of the establishment,
including the express offices, lawyers offices,
etc. on Court square, is twenty thousand dol
lars per annum."
ESSEX COUNTY.
Buckley, the pedestrian, better known as the
Lynn Buck" was arrested at Haverhill
Wednesday, and taken to Lynn by officers
from that city, He is charged with being the
party wh) stabbed man in Lynn OH the first
day Of the shoemakers' strike.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
1t was thought Wednesday morning that
Ephraim Wright, Esq, one of the gentleman
in Westford, vacinated about the same time
with Mr.. Fletcher, recently deceased, could
not live more than one hour or two. The
Lowell Courier says the lives OF four or five
others are nearly despaired of. The cause is
as yet incOmprehensible and as may be sup
posed a great deal of excitement exists.
The Boston Journal says there are two
breach of promise cases on the taps in Natick
one, the eldest daughter of the Methodist cIer.
gyman, has sued flour and grain dealer in Bos.
ton for $4,000, and the other, a gentleman from
New Hampshire, steps in and claims the affec-
tons Of one of our citizens wives to the tune
of $4,000.
The Boston Traveller learns that the large
harm attached tO the rpSidanna Of Fl I. Ct0na
in Granville, with the outbuildings, was cor.
sumed by fire early Wednesday morning
The loss was about $1,000. No insurance.
NANTUCKET.
Miss Phebe Newbegin, who died in this
town on Thursday last, at the advanced age of
80 years, s months, leaves a sister nearly 80
years of age, with whom she has slept every
night for oo years, with the exception of three
weeks during childhood, when Mary the sur
viving sister, went to Newburyport with her
mother. The deceased never left the island.
There is but one person living here older than
Miss Newbegin Mrs. Deborah Lamb, aged
"a y earS and some months.--NantucketI Inquirer
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Springfield Republican reports an UNI
lucky case of free love which recently came
to Il head in the town of Wilbraham. George
Nichols and woman named Bishop, deserted
their respective families about year ago, and
went together, as supposed, to live in New
Hampshire. But free-love like true love does
not always run smooth; and a few weeks ago,
both returned to their families not in the same
kindly state of mind towards each other, and
soon Mrs. Bishop had Nichols arraigned be-
fore magistrate under the bastardy act He
paid $3.50 to compromise the matter and then
left alone for parts unknown, while Mrs Bish-
op staid to bless her husband with her money
and her baby.
The Kennebec Journal says that on Friday
last, in Scion, the wife of Mr. Sumner Whip
pie gave birth to two daughters and one son,
and the children and mother Ysre all smart
and doing well at last accounts. The three
children weighed over twenty pounds.
The "citizens' watch" at Eastport, is a
source of great annoyance to the people of
that place. The editor of the Sentinel was
aroused from his slumbers by loud rap at the
door, and repairing thither, received the very
crafty Ing intelligence that "his cat wanted to
be let in"
CONNECTICUT.
George Lyon, of Pomfret, cripple, fell
from scaffold in his barn on Sunday last and
was killed. He had one limb amputated twice
about year ago, and was just able to get
about upon crutches. One of them was mis-
placed as he walked upon the scaffold, precip.
itating him to the floor below
Mrs. John Joslin, of Thompson, aged eighty
years, fell down her cellar stairs a few days
ago, breaking her hip. 1t is the fifth case of
the same character, all the patients being up
wards of eighty years of age, now under the
treatment Of DR.. McGregor of Thompson.
A fire at Meriden, on Wednesday, destroyed
eight buildings, comprising shops and dwelling
houses. They were occupied by Theodore
Bxbee, N d. Burr & Co., John H. Plumb,
George r. Wimot, Patrick Donnelly, j. A.
Schmidt, and John Lynch. Loss $4,000,
on which there is insurance amounting to $ll,-
500.