Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-06
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY


BOSTON AND VICINITY.
There was a panic among the Cochituate
water-takers in Boston, Saturday morning, on
account OF break in the pipes near the Brook
line branch OF the milldam. The accident was
caused by the blowing out OF the cap of the
blow pipe, cutting off the supply for short
time. The damage was speedily repaired.
David Williams, an old rogue, was arrested
in Boston, Saturday, having in his pocket a
child's copper tipped shoe, similar to those
stolen week ago at Marlboro. He confessed
to having hand in the robbery, and disclosed
where five hundred and fifty pairs of shoes
were concealed in the Sudbury woods.
On Saturday evening, general melee with
glass bottles took place at the saloon OF Ihos.
Skelley, in Portland street. Boston, III which
Shelley, and John and Vim. Flemming, got
dangerously cut, stabbed, and otherwise in
Jured. VIM. Flemming had six very ugly
cuts on the head, laying bare the skull in near
ly each case.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The large stable belonging to the Barrett
estate in Maiden, was destroyed by an lncen-
diary fire on Saturday last, together with six
valuable horses, two cows, several hogs, and a
large quantity of hay, several carriages, and
other property, valued altogether at upward
of $1,000.
Peter Smith, insane from the effect of a
last, in the cell where he had been confined.
He had previously attempted to take his life,
and had been deprived of everything which
could aid him in that purpose. He finally
hung himself with his overalls.
+. A. Calvert of Lowell sailed for England
last week, taking with him an order from par
ties i'll Lowell to purchase one or more of the
best booded brood mares that can be found in
that country.
Rev. j. c. Bodwell, of birmingham, has
received call from the Congregational church
and society at Dartmouth College, to become
| their pastor.
ESSEX COUNTY.
| The son of Henry G. Rice a lad of nine
years, the custody of whom was given by the
supreme court, last week, to the father
against the claim of Mrs. Thorndike, his late
wife, was kidnapped from the school he was
attending i'll Nahant, on Saturday morning,
| by two men, who drove rapidly out of town.
The town is greatly excited by the develop.
ments of this extraordinary family quarrel
On Wednesday, young lady in Marble.
head, daughter OF John Simonds, went in the
| direction of Dungeon Pasture, in search of
| her blind brother who had strayed away, when
she was brutally assaulted by rutfian who left
her for dead in the marsh On recovering her
| consciousness the inhabitants turned out in a
| body in pursuit of the villain.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
At picnic in New Bedford, last Wednes.
day, a counterfeit $50 bill on the Marine
Bank was passed upon an unsuspecting sailor
who generously complied with a request to
give change for it. The bill was photograph
ic copy, and the first of the kind that has been
detected.
Two colored men, while on sailing excur-
sion in New Bedford harbor, on Friday last
commenced "skylarking," during which both
of them fell overheard, and one of them, John
Peterson, was drowned, before assistance
could reach him.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The descendants of Edmund Hobart, one of
the first settlers of bingham, and father Of its
first minister, propose to hold a grand gather
ing upon the soil where the ashes of their pro-
genitor repose. The meeting is to take place
during the ensuing autumn.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
On Friday last a young woman was found
at place known as "Tommy's Rocks" in
Roxbury. 1t was another case of seduction,
deserton and helplessness. She was removed
to the almshouse, gave birth to a child, and
soon after died
BARNsTARLE COUNTY.
The Westinghouse of Mrs. Laurana Lewis,
at South Yarmouth, was struck by lightning,
Thursday night, which nearly demolished the
chimney, shattered several rafters and win
dows broke down the plastering in many
places, and most ungallantly ruined two bon
nets which were enclosed in band-boxes
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The council OF brethren appointed to inves-
tigate the alleged intimacy OF Rev. Mr.. Mitch
ell of South Lee, with one Of the young ladies
of his flock, were in session all day and all one
night this week without coming to any definite
belief the charges against him.
Reed Mills of South Williamstown lost a
| pocket book containing S28 in money and a
couple of SIS notes while in j. r. Smiths
store, in South Adams, on Monday last and
another Williamstown gentleman lost 500 be-
tween North Adams and Williamstown, on
| Wednesday.
1t is said that the hay crop on the farms Dor
dering on Saco river, will be full two thirds
of what it was last year, and of great deal
better quality.
The Pennington Patriot says the market
at that place is well supplied with new hay
at the present time, the asking price varying
from Sl2 to Sl4 per ton. About half the usual
amount was cut this year.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A gentlemen named Hussey was run over,
Saturday afternoon, near Exeter, n. H. He
was travelling with his wife and three children.
for whom he left the cars to obtain some re.
freshments. On his return his foot slinped
and the cars passed over him.
RHODE ISLAND.
The committee of the Rhode Island Baptist
| ministerial conference annointed tn nronare a
paper on the subject of election bribery snro.
test earnestly against the practice with Which
that rate has been so greatly afflicted, and de.
clare it to be the solemn duty of freemen to
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meetings, and deposit their ballots in accord.