Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-12-15
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


of surprise" of $4,000 from persons who
cherish grateful remembrance of his efficient
services.-Bostoa Journal
Mr.. Henry Dexter, the sculptor, is now en-
gagged upon bust OF Gov. Banks. This head
will complete his collection of the governors
of all the states of the Union, except those of
Oregon and California
The president of one of the Boston city
banks received Friday, through the post of
fee package containing three hundred dol
lars. with this memorandum :-"This $780,
with INTEREST," taken from teller's cash three
years ago"
The manuscript of Mr. Everett's Fourth of
of July Grafton, has been sold for $780, to Mr.
Thomas Garfield, of the firm of Garfield &
Tutte, dealert in glass, Boston.
ESSEN COUNTY.
Miss Susan Trask, OF Salem, was accident
ally knocked dow and seriously injured
while skating on the Salem Mill Pond, We'd
nesday evening. She has remained inscnsibe
since the accident, and it is feared she cannot
recover,
BRISTOL COUNTY
The Photographic counterfeit of $40 bill
of the Commercial Bank, New Bedford, was
passed there, Wednesday evening. The sig
natures were perfect fac SMILES, though the
rest Of the work was not skiltul.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Rev. Calvin Durfee of Williamstown has in
his possession original letters from Washington
and Jefferson, and all the presidents down to
the present time, with the exception of Madi-
son and Monroe.
Elisha Jencks's waste house. at Cheshire
caught fire by spontaneous combustion, on
Wednesday last, and was entirely consumed
A large au,ount of waste had been shipped off
by cars the day previous.
Some OF the citizens of Cheshire recently
petitioned that John c. Wolcott ought to be
removed from the Berkshire bar but the
judge has decided that to be an Illegal method
| OF casting him overheard. Such a petition
must come from members of the bar and not
from the people.
MAINE.
Mrs Curtis, wife of a Mr.. Curtis of Bath,
from whom she has been for sometime fepa-
rated, was forciby seized on Tuesday evening
in Portland, by her husband, aided by his ia.
ther, placed in sleigh and driven off at full
speed The mother of Curtis had hand in
the business, and accompanied him She in
weighed MIS-. G rtis from her residence by a
| message that her child, which was boarding
in Hanover street, was unwell Mrs. Curtis
FASTENED to visit her child, and was seized by
the two men just before she came near the
home of her little one.
The dwelling house, barn. and outbuildings,
belonging to Col John 7. Churchill in Brook
| '.
fire on the 81 inst, with nearly all their CON
tents, including p head of cattle, one horse,
and hay, grain, Sc, sufficient to winter them.
No insurance.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Nicholas Carroll employed in the print
works at Manchester was killed on Thursday
of last week, by a runaway horse. He for.
merly resided in Woonsocket, and his remains
were taken TO Blackstone for burial.
CONNECTICUT.
The Norwich Bulletin and the Norwich
Courier have been finally consolidated, and
will hereafter be issued as one paper bv Man
ming, Platt & Co, publishers and proprietors
the daily under the name OF the Norwich
Bulletin, and the weekly retaining the old and
honored name of the Norwich Weekly Cou
rer.
The Tontine Hotel in New Haven caught
fire in the servants rooms, Wednesday after
noon, burning the dresses OF the chamber
maids, the furniture in their rooms, and the
beds in which they slept. The damage to the
house was inconsiderable.
Charles L Burdick and Sarah L. Bennett,
both OF Brooklyn, and both having families,
have been arrested on the charge of adultery
and placed under bonds for trial.
PERSONAL.
Rev. DIR. Croly, widely known as a poet
novelist, and pulpit orator, died Nov. "A, by Il
stroke Of apopleXy, as he was walking through
one OF the streets in London. Ee was so years
old.
Lola Montcz, who last summer Suffered very
much from paralytic stroke, caused by
smoking cigarettes day and night, is now | v
ing in Seventeenth street, spends her time in
meditation and prayer, and goes by the name
OF Fanny Gbbo s.
Fanny Whites will is to be contested She
lett $1,000 to her brother, $1,000 to her niece,
ten shares + insurance stock to her nephew,
and SO, 900 to her husband, besides her ward.
robe, which magnificent Her family
friends, vino would not know her while living,
are conteSting the will.
MIR. Gaugooy, the Brahmn convert to Uni
tartan christianity is now in England, and an
English paper says lie is about to be married
to an American lady at Bristol.
MISCELLANEOUS,
Mr. George Samuel Thunder chief engineer
of the steamship Hero, stands charged with
having been drunk on the day the Hero start
ed homewards from Portland with his royal
highness the Prince Of Wales. The case is to
be brought before court MARTIAL and it is
said the accused will plead guilty, urging that
as he was SO were others AID that in fact there
was a state Of general jollity which required
one victim as a scapegoat for the rest.
One of the wealthy farmers Of Pennsylvania
| Is about to import number OF tile Brittany
cows" from France. This is a small animal.
barely three feet high, very docile, consumes
but little more than a goat, yet gives from
eight 10 ten quarts of milk per day. This
breed has recently been introduced in England,
and is very popular.
There is about TO be established in Algeria
a monastic institution, under the name of Peres
Deti5chetus. Clearing fathers" is the nearest
approach at rendering this curious appellation
in English. The business of these reverend
fathers will be TO clear uncutivated tracts of
land-in Il word to dig and pray
On Saturday, the oath ut desperate af.
fray occurred in what is called the Strip" in
Newton county, Mo-, in which three men
Rev. j. j. Baxter, Il Mr.. Morris, and a Mr..
ROgers-werc killed. The allray grew out OF
land claim affair. The daughter of Baxter
sold the claim to Rogers, who refused to pay
for it or give il up. Baxter and his friends
visited Rogers house to remove him, when a
fight ensued which resulted in the death OF
Baxter, Rogers and II friend of the latter,
nam d Morris
young man named Philip Dundon, a
German, committed suicide Dec 10 by shoot.
ing himself through the head, near Jones
Tavern, about three miles from POughkcepsie.
On the morning OF the day that lac shot him.
self, he arrived in Poughkeepsie and drank to
ntoxication.
james Kerrigan, member Of congress elect
from one Of the New York city Districts is
organizing military corps for 1.-THE protection
Of the municipal rights OF that metropolis from
further republican ellcroachmenls 1t will
be pro slavery in principle and take prompt
action in case ol secession.
On Tuesday night, Dee 1lih, two men,
named Moses Whaly and Seth Nicholson, OF
Patterson, Putnam county, ~ Y, met at the
house OF the latter, when quarrel ensued in