Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-20
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND vIcIN1rY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Rev Michael Kaldani, Grand Vicar of the
Rt. Rev. Maronite Bishop of Aleppo, Syria,
publishes a card of thanks to the Catholics of
Boston and its vicinity for their charitable
sympathy and liberal contributions.
On Friday, about midnight, the bakery at
70 Cambridge street, Boston, was DESTROYED
by fire. The premises were occupied by j.
ii. Roberts, and the loss will amount to $4,000
or more.
John w. Harris, commonly known as Jack
Harris for many years one of the most noted
of thieves who have infested Boston, and was
repeatedly in the hands OF the police for differ
ent crimes, was recently shot at indianapolis
by an officer, and killed.
During the thunder shower in Boston.
Saturday evening, those in the operating room
OF the American telegraph office, saw bright
flash OF electricity pass the lightning arrester
on one of the wires TO the earth Upon re.
moving the paper between the metallic plates
OF the arrester, perfect impression of chld's
leg and foot was found burned through it,
The paper is common letter paper-Saturoay
Erentng Gazette.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The valuation of the town of Marlboro for
1860 is a tri1e over S2,000,000. The higher
tax payers are Francis Brigham. who paws
S250,5O; Mark Fay, $388,81; Stephen II.
Phelps, s2l7,S6; Boyd, Corey, & Co., $2O6, 49,
and Stephen Pope, S196,58.
DIR. George w. Gale of Lowell, was brought
before the police court of that city last week
and held to answer nine distinct charges of
theft The doctor is an old, grey headed man,
and has never before been suspected of dis.
honesty.
The Natick Observer says 1.-Two or three
months since we announced the departure of
several workmen to the south, to work on
shoes. We learn that nearly all of them have
returned, rot liking the climate and society
quite SO well as thai afforded in Natick."
On Monday, 18th inst, as some boys were
playing in the sand bank near the chemical
works IN Waltham, portion of the bank gave
way, burying one, u son of Mr.. John Dolan
about five years old, to the depth OF about four
feet, killing him instantly.
Rev. MIR. Babcock, Universalist clergyman
in South Natiek, and prominent in the late
shoemaker's strike, has sued his society for
arrearages OF his salary, and has attached the
church organ as security for the debt
The black anaconda, some twelve or thir-
teen feet long, belonging to the museum of
natural history in Cambridge escaped few
weeks ago, and. is now running at large in
Somervlle, TO the great alarm of little children
and anxious parents.
Lambert STatton, an insane pauper in MARI
poro VINO iaO0rs under the delusion that he
is very wealthy, and owns all the "adjacen-
ing" farms, disappeared fortnight ago, and
has not since been heard from.
ESSEX COUNTY
Two young men Of Lynn, one of them a
married man, were arrested and fined one
day last week, for indecent conduct while
bathing. They were very gross in the exhi-
bltlon of their vulgarity, and one of the young
ladies' OF the party was nearly drowned through
fright.
Twos, on Warren Bank South Danvers,
are IN circulation. Vignette, spread eagle on
shield in upper right hand corner portrait of
Washington in square frame under name of
bank, figure on lower right and each left
hand corner the whole face of bill covered
with red dnting, unlike genuine