Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-24
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

arthur f1aytef, son OI a W. IdyteI VI
Boston, has recently been appointed organist
of st. Paurs, Covent Garden, London. This
old and honorable place was obtained after
competition with fifty candidates, and is prob
ably the first instance in which an American
has received such an appointment.
In removing the old tablets from the passage
in the State House, Tuesday, the workmen
found large leather pocket book with letters
and papers bearing the name of MOODY
Kent, Concord, N. H., $780," and Lowell,
1888" and blank checks on the American and
New England banks. tits suspected the peck
ct book was one of the fruits of large robbery
from Mr.. Kent, committed about the time of
the last date.
The case of George P Burnham, ex-Liquor
Agent, came up for trial, Thursday. A mol
pros. was entered upon the principal indict
ment on account of informalities and clerical
errors. Mr.. Butler moved for the discharge of
Mr.. Burnham on his own recognizance, but
subsequently withdrew it. The case comes
up again this morning for a hearing.
Two ladies narrowly escaped drowning on
the public highway in Somervile, Wednesday
evening, under singular circumstances. A
deep gully in the road, under a railroad bridge
had been filed by the heavy rains to the depth
of eight or ten feet. In the darkness coach
containing two gentlemen and two ladies', was
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their footing, and one of them was Immediately
drowned. 1t was impossible to extricate the
coach, which was filled with water up to the
necks of the inmates, and they were only res
cued after long delay, by means of ladder
let down from the bridge.
ESSEX COUNTY.
In fit of somnambulism, on Sunday night
a young man employed on the Eastern railroad
in Gloucester, went from his sleeping room in
his sleeping apparel, to the engine house at
the station, where he commenced saving
wood. He had been watched and tracked but
was allowed to finish saving before he was
awakened.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The death of Andrew Lanergan, the we'll
knownpyrotechnist and inventor, at Cambridge
Wednesday, was caused by the explosion of a
signal gun for vessels, which he was testing
for a friend. A fragment of the gun struck
him upon the side, and lodged internally, caus-
ing his DEATH He was about 40 years of age.
The boot mandatory of Hunting & Bliss,
in Holliston, was partially destroyed by fire
Thursday morning. Loss $4,000, partly in
sured.
BRISTOL COUNTY
Mrs. E. M. Robinson of New Bedford, a lady
much esteemed in private circles, and a kind
and liberal contributor to the various charities
of the city, died Tuesday evening of apoplexy-
Her husband was absent in New York.
The one story house owned and occupied by
Zachariah Alden, on the New Boston road,
Fall River, was burned down on Sunday af-
ternoon. Loss S800-insured for $500 in the
City office, Hartford.
The first whaler of the season arrived at
New Bedford, Wednesday, from the North Pa
cifc Ocean and the Sandwich Islands, The
announcement of the arrihal caused much ex-
element in the streets and in the business cir
Giles.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Nathaniel Shaw of South Weymouth, a
gentleman for many years extensively en-.
gagged in the manufacture of boots and shoes,
died suddenly at his residence, Wednesday
He was seized with pain about the throat and
upper part of the chest, but could get no re-
lief. He was attending to his business only
an hour before his decease, apparently as well
as usual.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The Boston Journal learns that the shoe
mandatory of Barrows & Cooper, in Cohas
set, was entirely consumed by fire about mid
night on the 10th inst, together with all its
contents. The safe, with its books and pa
pers, were found uninjured. The building
was uninsured, but there was some insurance
on the stock.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
misery old lady in Northampton, who
las lived in great apparent restitution for
many years, mainly supported by char
ity, died recently, and in her trunk was found
long stocking full of five and ten dollar gold
pieces, and a roll of bills of the first issue of
the Northampton Bank. 1t was also found
she had sums of money at interest in different
banks.
4ne NORWICH SG3GHiiNeEiGr 5yg rumors are rite
in the village of Greenville of the temptation.
fall, and sudden disappearance, of a respecta-
BILE citizen. The village gossips have been
busy since the affair became known, and all
sorts OF stories are in circulation about it. The
guilty party said "the devil tempted him."
and left town Tuesday night.
The wine-producers of Connecticut NAV
take courage, from the fact that the two high
est awards made for native wine by the Amer
lean Institute, were borne off by Connecticut
gentleman, Francis A. Rockwell of Ridgefeld
He received gold medal for grape wine, and
silver medal for blackberry.
MISCELLANEOUS.
-Four hundred and sixty English clergymen
have signed petition, presented by Lord Ebu-
ry, asking for commission to revise the Book
of Common Prayer. On the other hand the
clerical declaration against the proposed revis
ion has already received between six and seven
thousand signatures.
Seven years ago, Merritt g. Barnes of Wen
ma town, N. Y, at the age of seventeen married
a child of fourteen. They were welded in
haste and repented at leisure, the wife" Civ
ing way to the attentions of others, and the
Husband taking steps for divorce. The
case was tried last June, but the jury failed to
agree, and it is now on again
1he citizens of Washington County, Pa.
are determined to repudiate their railroad
bonds at all hazards. Last week the collector
attached the library of William Montgomery,
NJ e., resident of that county, for the non.
payment of his tax to meet the interest on the
bonds,a and Mr.. M. will permit the property
to be sold in order that he may carry the mat
ter to legal test.
Eunice Manivee, the last of the royal line in
the Schaghticoke Indians, died on the reserva-
ton of the tribe, in Dutchess County, N Y,
last week, aged 1913 years She was born in
Derby, Conn. The Schaglicokes, who are an
offshoot of the Connecticut Pequods, are now
reduced to nine half-breed families, or fifty
persons in all, and their condition is said to be
squalid in the extreme.