Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-18
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


of that which he lad Just Inherited, J presented
TO each OF the servants, as a token of regard
and a remembrancer of their master and mis-
tress, the enormous sum of one dollar! The
gardener and coachman had be- in the fam
lily service during more than generation OF
time.
/. Can't George Coffin of jamaica Plains has
been appointed master of the practice schooner
to be connected with the state nautical school,
The first officers of the ship Massachusetts ap-
pointed by the trustees, are Capt. William h
Skinner of Nantucket and Lieut. William A
Abbott
Before dismissing the congregation at the
Park street church, Boston, on Sunday last
three individuals were publicly excommuui
Gated, one charged with non-attendance upon
divine service and disbelief in the atonement
another, absenting himself from meeting and
the communion, and believing in Spiritual
ISM and the third with unkind treatment Of
his wife.
The journeymen tailors of Boston held a
meeting, Monday evening. for the purpose Of
adopting measures of selt-protectlon. They
appropriated $50 to the strikers of Lynn and
Natick. The horse. shoers held another meet
ing, expressed the opinion that the ten hour
system should be adhered TO, and adjourned
for one week.
The assignees of Phillips Sampson, & Co.. s
estate made return to the insolvency court,
Tuesday, of a balance of $4,000 for divi-
dend, sufficient to pay 90 per cent. The court
ordered a dividend of SO per cent. to be paid,
reserving the balance of cash, and the other
assets, amounting to large sum, which will
be sufficient to pay an equal dividend to all
contingent claims not yet allowed
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Stephen H. Bennett of Brighton has pre-
sented to the town a lot of land for a new
school house, to be built at an expense of
$1,000. The town meeting voted to receive
the gift with ''three times three" Tor the givcr,
and to call the school the Bennett Grammar
| School"
Rev Charles T. Brooks, of Newport, has
accepted an invitation to deliver the annual
sermon before the graduating class of the
Cambridge Divinity School, on Saturday
evening, July Is.
The commissioners on the cattle disease
visited, Monday, the celebrated herd Of w.
w. Cheney, in Belmont accompanied by sew
eral veterinary and other surgeons. 1t was
decided to kill three Of the cattle. In the in
fected herd was a bull valued by the owner at
SoOOO, which was pronounced free from dis
ease. The doomed cattle showed slight signs
of disease.
ESSEX COUNTY.
one dollar bill of the "Cocheco Bank"
Dover, so ingenously altered to a ten as to
defy any but the most sharp-sighted and eX
perienced to detect the fraud, was sent to one
of the Salem banks, Monday, in deposit, by a
person who had been deceived i'll taking it.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Isaac S. Foster, aged IS years, while attend.
ing a town meeting in Midway, Monday, fell
apparently in faintng fit, and Immediately
expired. In the afternoon of the same day
Warren Foster of Hopkinton, his son, having
heard of the death of his father, was preparing
to leave for Midway, when he was seized with
a taintng fit and died in a few moments.
1t is said that the deaths by consumption
have decreased some fifty per cent per annum
among the stone cutters Of Quincy, Milton,
Rockport, and the marble works of Vermont,
since they have ceased shaving and given ma
ture her sway in matters she may be supposed
to understand
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The body of Thomas Remington, a carpen-
ter, aged about fitty.fve years, was found
floating in the dock in New Bedford, Monday
morning. He had been seen alive the day
previous, and could not have been in the wa
ter long time. Verdict-accdental drown
ing.
The citizens and the religious societies of
Seekonk and the seven towns of which the
ancient Rehoboth has been the nursing mother,
propose to unite i'll holding religious and pat
riotic celebration in Seekonk on the 4th of
July. The programme for the celebration eX
cludes powder and other emblems Of war.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The pastor OF the church in West Spring
field, of which Edwin w. Reed, the adulerer,
was member, made his case, last Sunday,
the theme OF the afternoon discourse, Reed
was publicly accommodated at its close.
One OF the officers OF the church, who had Wis
tied him in prison. said that when his convic.
ton became certain, the prisoner with torrents
Of tears running down his face, begged him
to ask the prayers Of the church.
Two young and impatient travellers, A. B.
Stockwell and Kate Z. Rooney, arrived IN
Springfield few days ago, at IL So went to a
hotel, were married, got dinner, and went
whirling on their journey by the 1918 train
south. These enterprising people are suppos-
ed to have made the best time on record
Messrs. Isaac Rich OF Boston, and Lee Olaf
lin OF Hopkinton, having subscribed $4,000
for the support of Wilbraham Academy, the
executive council have passed a warrant for
the payment of the contingent state appropria.
ton Of 81, 900. The 100000 subscription is
to be devoted to the erection OF a boarding
house for the pupils.
MAINE.
In the town of Grand Falls, Maine, on
Thursday night, man named Murphy, at
tempted to enter the house Of a French wom-
an, where one Millet was spending the night
While Murphy was raising the window, the
woman loaded the gun and Millet shot him.
The ball passed near the heart. He was found
dead. The following morning the woman gave
herself up to the magistrate, saying she shot
him in selfdetence. This is one OF the sad re-
suits Of intemperance.
CONNECTICUT.
The will of Stiles Park has been for some
time before the superior court at Norwich. 1t
| disposed of property to the amount of S34 ,000
and contained a provision that none Of the
money should be ever applied to any religious
teacher or body whatsoever, on condition of
reverting the property to the retreat for the in.
sane in Norwich. The will was sustained
| Edward White of Groton, was severely in.
| jured last week. while digging under large
rock, in consequence Of the earth under the
stone caving and letting it roll over upon him.
| He was held under it for two hours before he
! could be eXtrCated, the rock to be moved from
him being five or six tons.
The residents of the Naugatuck Valley are
moving for new county to embrace the east.
| ern towns of Litchfeld county, and Wolcott
| Waterbury, Naugatuck and Mddlebury, of
! New Haven county, with, perhaps, Hartand,
Burlington and Bristol of Hartford county,
in all about fourteen or fifteen towns, near the
Naugatuck Railroad.
Tim dead body of the man found on West
Rock, New Haven, on the 13th has been iden.
tilted as that of Deering Munson, who has
been missing from his home in Hamden since
| October last.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The bleached remains OF the emigrant party
massacred at the Mountain Meadow in Utah,
have been collected into single grave sur
mounted by cross of red cedar, twelve feet
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