Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-19
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY

intent 10 ueifauu TWO his urdnCe OlltCes vi 9oOoo'
He was bound over in the sum OF SlOOO Tor
trial at the May term.
Two more convictions under the iqnor law
have been obtained from Suffolk county jures.
In the superior court, Wednesday, jeremiah
Mclaughlin and William Hennessey were
convicted of keeping common nuisances, and
received the penalty usual i'll such cases.
Several of the shopkeepers on Washington
street, have suffered during the last few days
by the circulation of counterfeit So bills on the
Union Bank of Haverhill. They are SAID to
be well executed, and calculated to deceive.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The long pending and much talked-of case
between the St. Anne's church, and the Merrl-
mac Company, in Lowell, has been decided by
the Supreme Court against the church so that
the Merrimac Company will keep tile parson-
age and also the money which they received
for the church. The St. Anne's people, how
ever, retain the church, together with the
chime of bells, the ringing of which renders
the parsonage well nigh untenantable.
The case of Mary Z. Cloyes VS.. the Boston
and Worcester railroad, is on trial before the
supreme cour: in Lowell. Miss &. was pu-
pill in the normal school in birmingham, IN
1856, and in attempting one morning to get
upon the train, fell under the wheels and lost
a leg and an arm. The case has been tried
twice before, when the juries disagreed.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The orthodox church and school house on
Boston street, in Lynn, were set on fire Tues
day mornng-the church on the front steps,
and the school house by means OF combusuble
rubbish stuffed inside the blinds. Both were
eXtinguished without serious damage. Thirty
or forty acres of the Saugus woods were burn
ed over, Tuesday night burning all night
H., II
tlemen met in the city clerks office-an eX-
mayor, present alderman, the city clerk, and
a physician who looks exactly like the city
clerk-whose combined weight was halt ton.
The heaviest weighed 27l pounds, and the
lightest 200
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
John Within of the well established firm Of
P. Within & Sons OF Whitinsville, has pur-
chased of the Holyoke Water Power company
their great machine shop and IFS tools, and the
dwellings, other buildings and lands belonging
to that department of the Holyoke property.
The price paid is S150,000, which, though
probably less than one-third the original cost
of the property, is still nearly half what the
present Hoyoke company gave for their whole
purchase at Holyoke. Mr. Within intends to
devote the shop to the manufacture Of machin-
cry on a large scale.
wv pSiSOiSg giving llC lldulSS VI Siltil lSo
White of Brooklyn ard VIM. Smith of New
Haven, were arrested at North Amherst,
Monday, for passing the counterfeit notes on
the Franklin County Bank at various places
in the Connecticut valley. They had large
sums of money, good and bad, in their posses
sion. They appeared to be accomplished
sharpers, and were bound over in the sum of
$1,000 each for trial.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The venerable Sylvester Judd of Northamp-
ton, a former editor of the Gazette was attack
ed with the paralysis last week, and is now
lying in an extremely critical condition. He
has for year or more been failing in bodily
vigQr and unable, except at short intervals, to
pursue his labors upon the. history Of Hadley
which he has had in press for some time, and
which is but twothirds printed,
AT a late auction sale in Southampton, a
man and his wife bid against each other, each
standing in separate room, while the auc.
tioneer stood in the hall between; but the
woman had the last word, as usual, and bid
off the property. The husband was beaten
yet has to pay the bill.
RHODE ISLAND.
The descendants of Roger Williams have
been invited to meet at Westminster Hall, in
Providence, on the 26th inst, to consider what
disposition to make of the remains of the
great apostle of freedom which have been re
Gently exhumed. The purpose of Mr. Ran
dali, by whose pious care the remains have
been brought to light, is to have worthy
monument erected to his memory.
The cold wooden mill' in the southern part
of Newport, belonging TO Samuel Rodman &
Son, was destroyed by fire Tuesday night
The mill was filled with machinery, and was
in active operation. The entire loss is esti-
mated at 10000, on which there was insur-
ance for $4,000 in several Providence offices.
The fire throws a large number OF operatives
out OF employment, and causes a prevalent
feeling Of dependency.
CONNECTICUT.
While DR.. Joseph Turner was administer
ing the ordinance OF baptism to several candi-
dates, in Hartford, Sunday, "Bully Marion"
notorious rowdy, together with a crowd of
the same character disturbed the ceremony
by profanity and laughter. After a struggle
he was arrested, but on his way to the watch
house escaped. He was re arrested and locked
up.
The dead body of the man found floating
in the water at New Haven, last week, has
been identified as that of John w. Whaley, a
seafarng man. belonging to the schooner Jo-
seph Colyer. He WIS % years old, had been
missing about six weeks, and lived in the east
ern part of the state.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rev, Horace Hall Reid formerly rector of
the Episcopal Church at Milburn, n. Y, was
found on the 18th ult. lying lifeless and cold
Oh the stone floor of a hotel in Geneva, Swift
zerland, at which he was stopping. He is sup
posed to have risen during the night fallen
over the bannisters from the second story upon
the hall floor, and been killed Immediately.
Mr.. Reid was ripe scholar, AMI a Jealous
clergyman.
The sheriff of Lafayette, Indiana, recently
took young fellow to the luna ic asylum,
from that place, who is remarkably handsome,
and whose insanity III believed to have been
produced by a morbid development of his self.
conceit
A party of northern oystermen got into a
shooting affray on Wednesday, at Carriers
Creek, Va. Three men belonging to the
schooner Charlotte of Boston, were shot dead,
viz two brothers Harwood o New York, and
a man named Jordan, Of Elizabethtown. The
Charlotte put to sea Immediately after the af
fray.
The female body found gagged and anchor
ed at Jersey City, is believed to be that of a
Miss Kirby, who arrived in New York three
or four weeks ago from Boston, in search of a
situation. She stated at an intelligence office
that her mother keeps boarders in Boston, and
has been missing for some days.
Mrs. Bartram. residing in SAMSON street,
Philadelphia, was dreadfuly injured few
days since, by the explosion OF a cotfee-pot. a
proper escape for the steam had not been al
lowed, and on Mrs. B9rtrams taking hold of
the pot, it exploded with tremendous force,
destroying perhaps forever, her eyeSight, and
injuring her body seriously.
The first church in Bangor, of which DIR.
Pomroy was Tor many years Il member have
communicated to him the assurance OF their
cordial and entire forgiveness, aud affection
ately commend him TO the sympathy, con-
tideIlce, and fellowship Of the churches of
Christ throughout the world. The investiga-
ton has been carried through period Of four
months.