Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-05-09
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

GENEhAE NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
MIR. Burlingame has named a son of Benja.
| MN Heath, detective police officer of Boston,
for scholarship in the naval school at Anapo
| lis
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
| Somebody at Woburn has sent glowworm
| to Agassiz-the first of the season. He says
1t is true glowworm but not of common
sort and he suggests to the discoverer that il
he finds any more he had better "try to raise
one." superior breed, we take it, and it is
economy to "get the best" even of the insect
| varieties.
| ESSEX COUNTY.
1t is intended to have a republican ratiica-
ton meeting in Newburyport as soon after the
nomination as will be convenient, to be ad-
dressed by E. F. Stone, a. A. Sargent, and
| others. A meeting is to be held i'll Salem I'M
mediately after the convention, to be addressed
| by Hon. Z. +. Stone, Hon. L. Davis, and
| others.
| BRISTOL COUNTY.
One hundred of the nailers and helpers en-
| ployed in the Fall River Nail Works struck
on Saturday, for the purpose of compelling the
| company to furnish them with waste or other
suitable material for cleaning the machinery
on Saturdays. The workmen have heretofore
been required to supply themselves
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
| The Boston Journal has n special dispatch
announcing the death of Hon. Phineas Allen,
senior editor of the Pittsfeld Sun, which he
founded in the year 1900, at the venerable age
of 81 years. He was the oldest editor in the
Union.
RHODE ISLAND.
An incendiary fire occurred Monday night
on Westminster street, Providence, near the
First Universalist meeting house, destroying
property to the amount of several thousand
dollars. The meeting house was damaged to
the amount of $500, but was insured. The
other buildings destroyed belonged to Henry
p. Franklin.
Three whales were seen on Saturday last,
between Fort Adams and the Dumplings, out
er harbor of Newport. Two others were seen
i'll the West Bay on Friday afternoon. Sever
al whales appeared off Southampton, L. L.
few days ago, creating great commotion
among the whalemen of that region, who gave
chase, but the whales were too shy to be taken.
Hon. Benjamin Crowel, prominent citizen
of Providence, died on Sunday, at the age of
rs years. He was clerk of the United States
Circuit Court for many years, and subsequent
ly Chief Justice of the Court of Common
Pleas for Providence county. He was subse
quenty appointed collector of the port Of Prov.
idence.
CONNECTICUT.
The village of Poquonnock, in Windsor,
was startled by brutal and bloody murder,
Sunday afternoon, committed by one Michael
Daley, a man of sixty years. The victim was
James O'Neil, laborer in Windsor They
had been drinking, the night before, at Daley's
house, and both went to bed very drunk Da-
ley atterw ards got up, and with an axe crushed
O'NeiPs head, horribly scattering his brains
over the floor. Daley was arrested, but could
give no cause for the act except that "O'Neil
came to his house Saturday night, took his
wife from her bed, and compelled her to go
down stairs and sleep with him." Mrs. Daley
says, however, that nobody insulted her. All
the parties were miserably Incorporate, and
of cruel and malignant dispositions.
In the complicated Cook divorce case at
Nol witch, the superior court refused to divorce
Mr.. Cook from Mrs. Cook, but did divorce
Mrs Cook from Mr.. Cook, giving her the
household furniture, 500 alimony, and her
daughter; and giving Mr.. e. his son and the
privilege of paying fifty cents week for the
daughters support.
Considerable excitement has been OCCASION
ed in Redding by the finding, on the Goth ult,
of a human skeleton, about eight inches under
the surface of the earth, by boy and dog
hunting for woodchucks. The skeleton was
that Of a good sized man.
Ounuay afternoon, SIX or seven hundred
acres of land, some lightly wooded with birch
or pine, some heavily timbered, were burned
over, subjecting the owners to immense loss.
Some miscreants set it on fire in several places
and the light wind caused it to spread with
great rapdity.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Thomas Richardson, an old and wealthy
farmer, was beaten to death on Monday last,
near Easton Pa, by two of his Iaborers Two
sons coming to his assistance were threatened,
when one of them went to a house and pro-
curing double barrelled gun, returned and
shot both the murderers dead.
Two single ladies in Piltsburg, the other
day, attempted to befriend young lad, who
had been pierced by the fangs of the law, but
an ungallant judge positively refused to accept
their proffered bail, although they were proved
to be wortA $4,000 each, on the ground that
they were females.
The foundry of Messrs. Curtis & Erwin, at
Painted Post, Stuben county, was burnt Oh
Monday, together with several adjoining build
ings The loss of Curtis & Erwin amounts to
$4,000; of the others $4,000. Insurance,
$4,000.
Miss Macready, the eldest daughter of the
great actor by his first wife, will, it is said,
shortly make her appearance on the stage as
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