Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-05-14
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Chase in the alpha, won the race IN seven
teen minutes, forty seconds.
1t is a curious fact says the Cambridge
Chronicle, that notwithstanding the exceeding
dIOuth, and the immense consumption of wa
ter by the customers of the water company,
the water in Fresh Pond has risen during the
past fortnight between one and two inches.
Bristol Bill-the noted burglars supposed
to be in the vicinity of Boston, and the owners
of property, as well as the police are warned
to be on the watch that he may not succeed in
some of his new pundering enterprises.
The citizens Of Charestown have accepted
the liberal offer of the Boston authorities to
supply them with Cochituate water, and the
hydrants on the line of the pipe leading to
East Boston have been tapped to fill exhausted
cisterns and wells, the hose companies being
put to the work. The Cochituate lake is in
good condition, and no fears are entertained OF
its capability to supply all demands upon it.
The Twelfth Congregational Society of Bos-
ton 1.-THE Rev. Dr. Barrett's) have invited Mr..
j f. Lowering, graduate from the Theologi
cal School at Cambridge, to become their
minister, with a salary of $1,000.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Rev. James Cruickshanks, of Chelsea, has
received and accepted a call from the Second
Presbyterian Church in Newburyport, to be.
come their pastor, and will be installed in
June.
BARNSTABLE COUNTY.
The chief sufferers by the great fire which
has been raging in the woods at Hyannis, are
Major 5. B. Phinney of the Barnstable Patri-
OF, Loring Crocker Asa Young, Nathaniel
Gorham, David Bursley, and Frederick w.
Croker.
Mr.. Ensign Eldridge of Chatham who was
reported some four or FIVE weeks since as hav-
ing lived nineteen days without food, "still
lives and it is said he has as yet taken no
nourishment except cold water.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Mr.. Rice caught with hook and line at the
foot of tho dam, Turner's Falls, on Tuesday,
muscalonge, which weighed seventeen pounds,
and measured over three feet in length. He
was an hour in getting it to land after it was
caught with the book.
Elias Rice Of Charlemont, while attempting
to cross the Connecticut River Railroad
bridge, at Cheapside, on Wednesday, in an in
toxicated condition, fell from the south end into
the road below, distance of about forty five
feet. He was not seriously injured.
VERMONT.
The boat clubs in Brattleboro are organic.
ing for the summer. The Green Mountain
Club have just purchased six cared lapstreak
boat, 43 feet long, for which they paid S23S,
and have named it the "Buckner Brothers"
Another club has the "Wantasiquet," boat
of similar make and size. The Surprise"
six oars, and the Eureka" four oars, are
owned by other clubs, and they propose the
election of Commodore"
The Bratteboro Phoenix reports the burn
ing of hundreds Of acres of woods on Wantas-
tiquet mountain, the log house on the summit
falling before the flames. This house was
built in 1S47 and was known as "Pender's
Fort" 1t was landmark that will be missed
by visitors to the place.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The New Hampshire State Fair is to be held
at Manchester, on the Bird 4th and 9th DAYS of
October.
A census of the city of Manchester Just COM
pleted, shows population of 1908. The
Manchester American thinks the June census
will show the figures to be 10000.
RHODE ISLAND.
The body of the late gifted and lamented
Thomas A Tetft, who died at Florence, Dec.
18th, has arrived in Providence, and will be
committed to its final resting place, with ap-
propriate religious services, to day Mon
day..
The Rhode Island state convention of Uni
versalists meets at Pawtucket next Wednes.
day and Thursday.
CONNECTICUT.
The Hartford navy consists of the following
named boats, viz :--Undine, 10 oars Naiad, 1
do; Wah-ta. Wah, 6 do; ATLANTA, do; Ali.
otus, g do; Una, do; Osceola, 2 pair SOULS
Sylph, 2 do and Triton, do
There are now 179 prisoners in the Connec-
hcut state prison, "A less than at the same
time last year.
The Second Congregational Church of Nor
wlch will celebrate the one hundredth anniver.
sary OF its organization on the 24th of July.
Rev. Dr. Bond, who has been pastor of the
church tor twenty five years, has been invited
to deliver the historical address
There are in New London 238 individuals,
firms, and companies, who pay a tax of $4,000
and upwards. There are but eleven who 90
above $4,000.
Senator James of Rhode Island intends pur.
chasing the New London Foundry aud Ma.
chine Works, to manufacture rife cannon, of
which he is the patentee.
PERSONAL.
Miss Amy Sedgwick is to make her first ap-
pearance in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester.
on Monday evening, when she will give some
of those readings which have added TO her
dramatic laurels in the metropolis.
Mile. Titiens has been singing at the opera
house in Barcelona, where, on her closing
night, the subscribers presented her with a
laurel crown in silver, with berries in gold.
1t is stated that Mr.. Gambert is the pur-
chaser Of Mr.. Holman Hunts Grinding of
Christ in the Temple" and on the painters
terms-85,OOO, exclusive of copyright.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. Whitney, of Wamea, Sandwich Islands
arrived i'll Boston recently. She left this
country more than forty years ago, and had
not previously left the islands in all this long
period. Her husband, a missionary, died in
lo45. They sailed from Boston in the brig
Ihaddeus, which took out the pioneer com
many of American o, tI,o sc
October, 1919, and arrived off Hawaii, March
Both, 1920. Remarkable changes in the land
OF her birth, after an absence of forty years
must have taken place. Her son has been
Postmaster General of the Islands He is now
the editor and proprietor of the Honolulu Com
mercial Advertiser.
gentleman of Tennessee purchased in
Cincinnati, on Tuesday last, a piece of horse
flesh for which he paid the considerable sum
of thirteen hundred and fifty dollars
Mr.. Sala says that if "a man has strong
lungs, and keeps bawing day after day that
he is genius, the public will at last believe
him."
Rev Mr. Bulge, the Baptist clergyman
who has been undergoing strict examination
Tor several days past on the charge of murder.
ing his wife by poison at Utica, was discharged
from custody on the 9th inst, there not being
any direct testimony against him, although
the circumstancial evidence seemed rather
strong
The total number of members of Parliament
unseated for bribery and treating from the
Parliament beginning l847-4S to the Parlia-
ment beginning 1857 was 81, Of whom IL were
unseated for treating, Il for bribery, and 25
for bribery and treating combined. These
cases of bribery and treating all occurred in
boroughs No members for counties were
unseated for the above offence during the
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