Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-10
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

cOlpOIdllDu WIS u6lu III DOolOii, VA NA'hool
and Messrs. Geo. NJ Browne, Samuel Hooper
and Franklin Haven of Boston, Micajah Lunt
of Newburyport, Nathan d. Chase of Lynn,
VIM. L. Dwight of Portsmouth and Henry l..
Williams of Salem, were elected directors. The
directors were authorized to issue bonds not
exceeding $3.50, 900, and to dispose OF them for
the benefit of the corporation.
The Merchants Exchange company also held
their annual meeting. Postmaster Capen gave
notice of his intention to remove the post
Office on the first of October next, upon which
it was voted to authorize the directors to offer
to the government the free use of the present
Office for six months from that time, with the
expectation that the next session Of congress
will fix the office permanently on State street.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The examination OF H. l.. Chase, school
| teacher in Maiden, on complaint Of Samuel X.
Head, for abuse of his son, took place Monday,
but the justice reserved his decision till Fri
day. The evidence showed the boy inclined
to be vicious and indolent.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Boston Traveller states that Lizzie
Ames daughter of Isaac Ames of Bradford,
committed suicide at her fathers house, Mon
day morning. She took half grain OF strycll-
nine and powerful dose of laudanum. Mis-
| placed affection was the cause.
Forty years ago man in Newburyport
placed one hundred dollars in an old stocking
where it remaued till last week, when it was
disposed of at an advance of or 5 per cent
for old silver. If the same money had been
placed in the savings bank it would have in
creased to a thousand dolars.-Ne1CbWypor
Herald.
The curiosity -fancers have in Salem the
preserved remains of a double dog-having
one head, two bodies, and eight legs, perfectly
formed. The tuSuS nature was picked up on
the beach at Valparaiso, and brought home,
preserved in spirits
The fremen of Essex county propose 10
hold grand muster in Lynntield on the 18th
inst Several silver trumpets and lots of
money are TO be awarded i'll prizes to meritori.
GUS companies
NORFOLK COUNTY.
A series of destructive incendary fires oc-
Cured in Milton and Dorchester Saturday
night, eleven buildings in all being destroyed.
The wheelwright and carriage shop of Thomas
Strangman was destroyed-loss $500. The
dwelling house and stable of Edmund j.
Baker, were burned-loss $1,000. Jabez Sum-
ner lost about $4,000 by the destruction of a
sheep tannery, and stock, The house of
Samuel Everett the Oldest in that section was
also consumed.
NANTUCKET.
Two prisoners confined in the Nantucket
Jail, left the rooms assigned them on the eve
ming of the Fourth and after good look at
the fireworks, returned of their own accord
Their absence had been discovered, and guards
stationed at the wharves and other places
where they would be likely to take boat and
escape to the continent
MAINE.
The old Orthodox church in Saco Me-,
built in 1900, at cost of $4,000, was burnt
last Sunday morning. Cause unknown. No
insurance.
RHODE ISLAND.
The dead body of an unknown man was
found, Saturday morning, in the water at Lyon
Shore, Providence. In one hand he held
pistol, and there were wounds upon his head,
indicating that he had destroyed his own life.
The verdict of the coroner was to that effect.
CONNECTICUT.
The Hartford Courant says that on Friday
morning last, Rev. j. Erskine Halves of Ply
mouth, son of the Rev. DIR. Halves of Hart
ford, went to visit one of his parishioners, and
was about mounting his horse to return, when
the animal kicked with both feet, the blow
taking effect in the bowels, and throwing Mr.
Halves ten or twelve feet. On Sunday he was
in critical condition, and was not expected
to survive.
DIR. DeForrest, father of the young man
who strangely disappeared, has received salts
factory assurances that his son is alive and
well in Australia; that he lett under an aber-
ration of mind, snd afterwards failed to ap.
prise his father, "irom a mistaken delicacy
that will be satisfactorily explained hereafter"
George X. Wesson has made another match
to trot his horse, Unknown" against Andrew
palton's "Broker" of Springfeld-fve miles in
harness, for $500 The trot is to come off at
New Haven on the 9Th of September
Mrs. Patterson of Baltimore, the American
wife of the late Prince Jerome, is said to be
worth million of dollars. The first Napoleon
allowed her a pension of 10000 francs, but the
Bourbons stopped 1t very quick.
Rev. DIR. Cheever preached his farewell SER
mon, last Sunday, previous to his departure
for Europe by the Adriatic, which sails on
Saturday. He preached TO a very large and
friendly audience, from the text, "for the wea-
pons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty,
through God, to the pulling down of strong
holds" His sermon was a review of his own
position and that of the Church of the Puri-
tans.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The wife of man named Blanchard, in
Elmira, New York, deserted her husband and
children two or three weeks ago. Her hus-
band traced her to Syracuse, where he found
her the inmate of brothel. He returned to
Elmra heart broken maniac, attempted to
commit suicide, and was placed under friendly
restraint.
When old John Brown was executed, the
timber used for his gal ows was purchased and
made into. canes for the chivalry of the Old
Dominion. The Examiner says adJutant gen.
eral Richardson of Richmond, has "a stout
heart pine supporter from the cross piece of
the gallows on which the old reprobate was
suspended"
George Armstrong, free colored man, born
in Jefferson county, N, Y, was kidnapped and
taken to Washington some three weeks since
as a fugitive slave, When the facts were
made known to Gov. Morgan, he prepared the
necessary proofs and credentials, and dis
patched an agent to redeem George from his
captivity.
On the 26th May, while bathing in the Red
River, near DeKalb, Bowie county, Texas,
Charles S. Bell, eldest son and only remaining
child Of Commodore Charles H. Bell, United
States Navy, in the 34th year OF his age. Mr.
Bell at the time of his death, was engaged as
Civil Engineer on the Memphis and Ell Paso
railroad, Texas.
From the New York Evening Post June It'll
The Republican Triumph in Oregon.
1t used to be fashionable to discourage at
A.WNN .aN 80. al.