Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-19
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The colored citizens of Boston held an in
dignation meeting on Monday evening in
Bethel Church, in relation to Gov Banks We
to OF the act to strike out the word "white" in
the Military Bill Henry Weeden presided.
and speeches were madeby VIM. Wells Brown,
Dr. Rock, Rev. Mr.. Smith, DIR. Knox, VIM.
Z. Nell and Rev. j. S. Martin. A resolution
was passed censuring the act of Gov. Banks,
ana IL was agreed to present memorial to the
present Legislature on the subject, and DR..
John s. Rock, Rev. j. S. Martin Robert Nor
us, VIM. Wells Brown and VIM. c. Nell were
appointed committee to appear before a COM
mlttee OF the Northumberland
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Hocomb OF Southwick, who beat his wife
SO cruelty some months since, still occupies
ms position in the Methodist church aud choir
Ill that town. Mrs. Holcomb is reported bet
ter, and the husband thinks her recovery prob
able.
Mrs, Macready, the dramatic reader, when
about two thirds through an entertainment at
Westheld, on Monday evening, lost her con.
sclousness, and fell insensible. She was car
RED from the hall to the hotel, and remained
III an unconscious state for two hours. She
LETT her dressing room before the attack, to re-
cite the Bridge Of Signs, but being partly un-
conscious when she reached the stage, COM
menced reciting Burns Tam O'Shanter, and
proceeded through three stanzas of it, when
she turned and left, and fell in swoon. The
attack is called by her physicians congestion
OF the heart, occasioned by the weak condition
Of the system since her great fright, few
days ago, at the hotel in Waterbury, Conn,
when a man endeavored to break into her bed
room at neutrality-suspicious.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
A Republican convention is to meet at
northampton on Monday, to nominate a can
dldate Tor county commissioner, to fill the va
cancy caused by the resignation of Mr.. Dick
lnson OF Hadley. Among the candidates for
the office is Enoch II. Lyman of Westhamp-
ton.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence Journal says the Ashland
Manufacturing Company, whose mills are in
South Scituate, r. l., have erected beautiful
little church for tie use of the operatives.
The editice is 20 feet front by 43 deep, with
spire rs feet high. 1t was dedicated on the
18th inst.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The premature explosion OF blasting fuse
at the Bergen Tunnel Jersey City, on Tues.
day, Frustrated and mutilated workman
named John Levitt, who was so badly injured
that he died in a short time. Three weeks
ago two men were instantly killed at the same
place by similar accident.
The Canton Miss Citizen says: On Sat
urday morning last, between the hours Of three
and nine o'clock, the people of this section
were treated to a snow storm of more than or
binary severity-the snow falling to the depth
Of five inches. The weather was so intensely
cold for five days afterwards that the snow re-
manned unthawed upon the house tops
The High and Mighty state of Virginia is
about to receive a commissioner from the
Higher and Mightier state of South Carolina,
Mr.. Memminger by name. This is turn about,
as in 1888, when notification was up, Virginia
sent Mr.. Benjamin Watkins Leigh, "a renowned
Wing, as envoy to South Carolina. Mr.. Leigh
did nothing, end we think Mr.. Memminger
will do as much as that
In tie south of France the weather has been
so severe that a sentinel was found dead OF
cold in his sentry box at Lyons. Several per.
ished in the mountains of Danphine, where
they imprudently ventured in pursuit Of game.
Two boys, of eight and ten years of age, died
from cold whil9 returning from school,