Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-05-11
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


him.
Mr.. Gushing of Watertown has contributed
SlO0 towards the Mann statue. The commit.
tee on the statue have formally invited Gov.
Banks to deliver an address upon the life and
character of Horace Mann
The store of Grant & Co., on Washington
street, Boston, was broken into, Sunday
night, and robbed OF a quantity of the most
costly articles in the store, including one hun.
dred and sixty pieces of silks, all of the estl-
mated value of upwards of five thousand dol
[ lars. The police succeeded in tracing the
stolen goods to Hopkinton, in this state, where
on Wednesday they were recovered.
We regret to learn that the Rev Edward
Everett Hale injured his knee the other day
so badly by fall, that he will not be able to
preach for two or three weeks. His general
health is excellent but his local wound renders
it necessary that he should be kept quiet for
brief time-BoSton Transcript.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
la d. Richardson, a trader from Orange,
Vermont, was run over on Thursday, on the
Boston and Lowell railroad, near Winchester,
and his head vas quite severed from his body.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The officers of the South Bristol Medical
Society for 1860 are-presdent, DIR. Robert
| I. DAVIS of Fall River; vice president, DIR.
William W. Comstock of Mlddieboro; secre-
tary, DR.. j. H. Mackie of New Bedford;
treasurer aud librarian, DR.. +. H. Hooper of
New Bedford orator Tor the annual meeting
IN 1861, DR.. Lyman Bartlett of New Bedford.
William H. Leonard, in the Taunton town
meeting, Tuesday, became so much excited
that he was compelled to "secede" in charge
of a constable, and was subsequently com.
planned of for intoxication. He did not appear
to be drunk, however, but simply "entused."
He was discharged.
MrS Sarah r Arnold n yanarobIo and ,,or,,
benevolent woman, friendly to the sailors and
to all who needed help, died in New Bedford
ON Wednesday last, at the age of 70 years.
She was the founder of the present Mariners
| Home in that city.
Fire broke out Thursday morning, in barn
on the premises OF John Green at Chepachet,
| which communicated to the dwelling house.
giving the inmates barely time to escape.
Both buildings, with their contents, including
two horses, two COWS, hog, carriage, &C.,
were entirely consumed. Supposed to be the
work of an incendiary Mercury.
The corporators of the Atheneum library in
Fall River, have made proposition to give
their library of about $500 to the city as the
nucleus and foundation of free public library.
The City Council has it under consideration.
RHODE ISLAND.
The compass which was used by Roger
Williams in his journey of Punishment is in
the possession of Mrs Harriet Brown of Prov
idence. With this, Williams directed his steps
Though the wilderness and SHOWS of winter in
1857, suffering from the intense cold and con-
slant hunger.
Several Of the graduates of Brown Universe
ty who were students under President Way
land have made arrangements to have a mar
BILE bust of DIR. Wayland executed and placed
in Rhode Island Hall, at an expense Of $1,000.
John A. Read, an employee of the Provi-
dence Worcester railroad, aged about As
years, Thursday morning, shot himself
through the head. He was a strong, robust
man, in excellent health, and domestic troubles
are said to have been the cause of this sad
fate. lie lived but few moments.
CONNECTICUT.
Deputy Sheriff Shumway of Webster, ON
Tuesday last, arrested one James S. Edgerton
OF Providence, tor an attempt robbery of the
Thompson Bank. The criminal with an ac-
complice had watched the bank for several
days, taken impressions of the locks, and were
nearly ready to consummate the robbery when
their plans were detected and frustrated by the
prompt action of the officers. His accom-.
plice was the notorious John w. Rand. who.
during the last fifteen years has been arrested
Tor rObberles to the amount of nearly 100000
James Crane, a young man living in Hart
ford, being summoned to Milford in this coun.
ty, to attend the funeral of his brother took
possession of coat, vest, boots and other eff
tects Of his room mate, and left on his pious
errand. He returned, Wednesday, under the
escort of police officer.
There is living in the woods of Branford an
insatIe man, who is described as being 35 or 40
years old, six feet two inches in height, with
black hair and whiskers, and appears to have
a good education and his arrangement seems
to be connected with spirituasm, upon which
he talks tuently. Nobody knows him, and he
has no friends.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Chinese are taking strong measures
against the coolie trade. At Macao notice was
issued that no passports would be given to
ships carrying coolies to Havana after the end
OF March. AT Annoy the Indignation excited
by the outrages upon the coolies is visited
upon the brokers and agents in the traffic by
cruchxons, beheadings, nlutiations, and the
most barbarous modes Of punishment.
The correspondent Of the Ohio Statesman,
writing OF his journey to Charleston, SAYS -
"For several miles before we reached the CITY.
the scenery changed into beautiful gardens
and fine country seats. Some of our Wiscon
sin friends had travelled part of their journey
on Sno0 shoes! You can imagine their delight
as the rose bushes appeared, livered in red
and white"
The Providence Press has letter stating
that the jealous lady who BETRAYED Kew and
Mrs. Sickles, has published book of political
squibs, and the writer thinks instead of max
ing attacks upon government officials, she had
better cease her scandalous "goings on" with
young Washington clerk.
The census Of the foreign residents at
Shanghai, China, shows a total of 500, of
whom 294 are natives of Great Britain and
125 of the United States. There are of the
number, Al English and u American fe
males.
A woman in New Orleans has married her
elghth husband She has married one every
year since 1852 Husbands seem to be the
only annual plants in that region
The Rubicon is now, by curious conci
dence, the boundary at Rimini between the
King of Sardinia's enlarged Ningdom and the
remnant Of the dominons of the Holy See.
Rev. DIR. Baird has recently visited Father
Chlniquys colony OF converted Catholics in
Illinois, and has published an account of his
visit which exhibits a strong interest in the
colonists. Some 900 families, embracing 600
persons, are under the influence of Father
Chiniquy, and through the connection of these
persons with French Catholics in Canada and
the United States, their change of faith is
producing wide impression. The Presby.
terry of Chicago, during a recent session, went
over to st. Anne and visited the colony. and
were much gratitied with the appearance OF
things. A missionary from the Baptists at
Grand Ligne, Canada, has lately visited the
colony, and attempted to raise discussion on
his point of faith, but without success, the col
onists preferring to rest for the present in their
Presbyterianism.
On Tuesday afternoon, as three girls EN-.
ploy ed in the hoop skirt mandatory of G. w
Thompson & Co, in New York, were leaning
out of one of the third story windows of the
| watching Of a