Worcester daily spy., 1860-05-23
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

the investigations into the late robberes con-
tinue, and startling facts are constantly being
brought to light.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The Quincy Patriot says that new bell
weighing three thousand and twelve pounds,
from the mandatory of II. N. Hooper & Son.
has been placed in the belfry of the Unitarian
Church in that town. The bell is the largest
in the state, and its full, deep musical tones
are distinctly heard in Randolph, seven miles
distant, With Henry Giles for preacher, and
such bell as this to summon the people to-
gether, we should say that "Mount Wollaston"
was highly favored place.
The coroner's jury of inquest to investigate
the circumstances in regard to the death of
Betsey Frances Tirrell at North Weymouth,
have returned a verdict of death caused by a
poison called strychnine, administered by some
person or persons unknown. The examina-
ton of George c. Hersey on the charge of
murder has been postponed one week.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Middleboro Gazette states that about
two hundred dollars has been raised in that
town, for an Agricultural Library, and an as
sociation is organized with a constitution and
the usual safeguards of similar institutions.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
An anomaly rarely if ever witnessed in this
'ASiiiitJ OS'OiSJ hdS SSCli III uiOSSOihluS VI
4 night-blooming Cereus belonging to b. K.
Bliss at mid day yesterday. Tie dark, rainy
day was the cause.-Sprinqtied Republican,
Nay 81
The Springfield Wide Awakes organized
yesterday, and already have several hundred
names enrolled. The uniform, glaze cap,
cape and torch, are to be provided at a cost of
about two dollars each set
VERMONT
The inhabitants of the town of Rutland, VT,
are in state of great excitement. Five
months ago the wife of DIR. Allen, now ply
sican of Rutland, formerly Baptist minister,
died, as was then supposed of tumor in the
stomach. DR.. A. had been suspected of an in
timacy with Mrs. Weeden, which> became
more evident after his wite's death. Last Tues
day Mr.. Weeden died-Dr. ALE attending
him. The prominent citizens of the village
became aroused, and Saturday both the bodies
were disinterred. The same night DR.. Allen
and Mrs. Weeden were arrested and lodged in
Jail. The stomachs of the deceased have been
sent to New York Tor chemical Investigation.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
very sad case Of elopement recently took
place from Lisbon, N. Ii. Silas Rowland,
Esq, Of Sugar Hill, eloped with Mrs. Isaac
Howland, of the same place. The eloping
Mrs. Ii. has till now borne good character.
She has left home provided with every COM
tort, and an affectonate family. Mr. H. has
left about half of his property for his family,
taking the balance with him in money.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Mrs. Griffiths whose death under pc
culiar circumstances was recorded yesterday,
is supposed to have died from drinking poison.
She was Incorporate and had frequent quar-
rels with her husband and he is thought to
have put the bed-bug poison in the bottle from
which his wife usually drank another kind.
CONNECTICUT.
The Hartford Press, i'll noticing a new di-
rectory OF that city, estimates its present pop.
ulation at 1000.
The solid men and corporations of Hartford,
that is, such as are worth over 0C00, en-
brace list numbering eighty.three. OF these
twenty-one are taxed for more than 100000.
The Colt Arms Company, which heads the
list, is put down at S430,000, and Sam. Colt
himself Is taxed for more than S250,000.
Sidney Merrils, well known citizen of
Hartford, about sixty-seven years old, COM
mitted suicide by drowning on Sunday last.
The New Haven Palladium, in auding to
the old Roger Sherman house, opposite the
college, now being torn down, says it was
originally built by Mr.. Jabez Mix, and decided
to Mr.. Sherman Dec. 26, 1850, one hundred
years ago, i'll the reign Of George II. 1t is
not, however, the house used by Gen. Wash
ington, when he was entertained by Mr. Sher.
man.
Early this morning, some villain. in human
shape, we suppose we must believe, entered
the office of the Morning Post and deliberately
battered one Of the forms of this mornings
paper, so that nearly one-haf of it could not
be read, and ''pied" large quantity of matter
standing on galleys, strewing the type about
the office. The printers retired about u
O'Clock, and the pressman came not far from 8
O'Clock, SO that between those hours the work
must have been done Several gas burners
were also opened, undoubtedly with the ex-
pectation that the room would fill with gas and
an explosion follow as soon as match was
hghted, but luckily two or three of the win
dows were partially down, and some of it es
capped. MIR. Scoheld offers a reward of 500
Tor the detection and conviction OF the mis-
creant,-Hayod Press, May 81.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The N. 7. Post thinks that the Mrs Rich
ardson VINO has arrived in New York to per-
senate the Mrs. r. who was identified as the
last woman found dead, fastened to the barrel
Oft the Jersey City docks, is an impostcr and
raised up to screen the "young man of good
family who is implicated in the real Mrs. R.
1t is very mysterious affair.
Sixty years ago the population of Cincinnati
was but 75O persons in 1880, 24,000. Now
she estimates her. population at 100000. She
has eighty churches, three colleges, four medi
cal schools, a law school, six classical schools
The number of manufacturing and industrial
is estimated at four thousand
and the annual value of such products over
forty eight million of dollars.
The Schuylerville American learns that the
corner stone of the Saratoga monument is to
be laid at that place on the 17,h of October,
the anniversary of Burgoyne's surrender. Ex-
Governor Seym and Hon. Edward Everett
have been invited to deliver orations on the
occasion.
The new State House at Columbus Ohio,
will be completed by the first of October next,
at a cost of about $l,350,000. The building
is about 304 feet long, and 1874 feet wide.
a cart horse backed over precipice at OF.
tawa, Illinois, last week, falling about one hun
dred and fifty feet perpendicular The har.
ness and cart were used up, but the horse was
unhurt.
Fifty thousand dollars have been collected
chiefly from men of letters and their friends
in aid OF the memorial church of George Her
bert, the poet at Bemerton. This sum in
cludes donations from Lord Stanhope Lord
Macaulay, Deans Milman and Trench, Sir
Bulwer Lytton, Mr.. Alfred Tennyson, Mr..
Longfelow, and many other literary celebri.
ties.
The Milwaukee Free Democrat says a ma.
tional salute of "a guns was fired in Milwau.
kee in honor of Lincoln and Hamlin, from
splendid little piece just cast at the old Wis.
consin Iron Works of A. j. Langworthy, and
called the John +. Potter. The piece is manu-.
tactured in the style of a howitzer, and is rated
at about three-pounder 1t has the "true
ring of the metal" in it, and is a speaking tri-
umph Of its namesake over southern bullies.
1t has for its motto-"Let 1t demsnstrate."
Few of us know what we would do in a
pinch, but we rather think if we were called
upon just at present to define the national de.