Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-03-21

in the hands of his people. The duties of his
pastorate are to terminate, according to this
arrangement in June next
The annual session of the Providence con-
ference of the Methodist Episcopal church will
commence at the Pleasant street church, in
New Bedford, on Wednesday, March 18th, and
continue for one week.
The Tisdale Nail Works, in East Wareham,
are in operation, employing nearly one hun
| bred men, and making about 1900 casks of cut
nails per week. Connected with these works
are several horseshoe nail machines in opera
ton, and quite number more in process of
building.
Alewives have made their appearance in the
Agawam river, and consequently the people
care in for high living for the next three
months" There were about $780, 900 alewives
caught in that river last year.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
| Dennis Dickinson of Whately has sent to
the cabinet of Amherst College, piece of ma
tive copper weighing two pounds and half,
found on the farm of his brother Rufus Dick
inson of WhateIy, two hundred rods west
of the meeting house. Several years ago a
piece weighing seventeen ounces was found on
the same land and presented to the college
cabinet.
MAINE.
| The steamer Eastern Queen, intended for
the summer trips between Boston and Bath,
was burned to the waters edge, Tuesday NOR
ming. She was valued at $4,000, and was
owned chiefly in Boston.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
| Mr.. James johnson, highly esteemed and
wealthy citizen of Pitsfeld, N. H., was in
stantly killed on Saturday, while unloading
| logs at a saw mill in that town. He stepped in
between the cart pole and pile of logs. The
oxen suddenly swung round, catching him be-
tween the pole and logs, breaking his back
bone, and driving several of his ribs through
his heart
On Saturday afternoon, a man by the name
of Samuel Mason was found dead near Dover,
on the road leading to Darlington. He bore
marks of foul play-his face being scratched
and his clothes torn; but, from his known in
temperate habits, no strong suspicion of vio-
lence is entertained. Mason was % years old,
and shoemaker by trade
The quiet village of New Hampton was dis
turbed few nights ago, by gang of rowdies
who went through the street, breaking doors
and windows, and making night hideous.
They entered dwelling house whore num-
Der of school girls were boarding, and drove
the frightened girls into the street, from
whence they fled to the house of the principal
of the academy for safety. The scamps man
aged to escape from the village without detec-
ton.
RHODE ISLAND.
One Robert Sheffield was lately before the
police court at Newport and was Intercepted
as to his religious belief, and the estimation in
which he held the oath. He stated that he
had never heard of God, of heaven, nor of
hell !; and on being asked what people meant
whom he had heard use profane language, he
promptly said that he didn't know which was
undoubtedly true.
CONNECTICUT.
Some of the identical lot of tea which was
thrown overheard in Boston harbor in 1770
is in possession of Mr.. Charles Hosmer of
Hartford, CT. This specimen was gathered
up on the beach at Dorchester the succeeding
day.
MISCELLANEOUS.
They were taking "Old Jakey," negro
seventy years old, to his grave, at Cleveland,
Ohio, last week, when the horse took fright
and the hearse was overturned and the coffin
smashed. An unexpected effect was that the
old fellow stood on his feet and bawled after
the mourners, who ran for dear life He was
taken home and is apparently good for ten
years more his apparent death having been
only fit.
John f. Bacon, Esq, died at Nassau, New
Providence, recently, aged II. Mr.. Bacon
was a native of Massachusetts, and began life
as a practitioner Of law in Albany. He held
the post of clerk of the New York senate for
% years. During the war of 1872 he was in
tier. lie was United States consul at Nassau
for ten years, which he resigned four years
since.
AT the funeral of child in Acapulco, Mex.
leo, the body was dressed magnificently,
crowned with roses, and the table upon which
it was laid covered with flowers. The table
was carried through the streets with the child
on it; three or four men and boys walked in
front firing rockets, and the military band fol-
lowed, playing the gayest music.
In one OF the villages in Ohio, the other day,
a house Of ill fame was broken up and the in
mates were taken before a magistrate. Among
the inmates the magistrate recognized his own
daughter. Several years before, while attend
| ing female seminary in an eastern state, she
had eloped with worthless fellow and her
father had never heard of her or seen her until
that terrible morning. Deserted by her hus-
band, she found her way to the west. The
father, unknown to her. moved also to the
west, and settled in the village where the ar
| rest was made.
Mrs. Brennan, whose disappearance from
Staten Island caused so much excitement some
fifteen months ago, and who was supposed to
have been murdered, is now in Italy, and was
recently for short time in Florence. BY
whom she was accompanied we are not in
formed, but she is thought not to have been
alone. She was seen and recognized there by
seem to set entirely at rest the story of her
murder, which has for some time past been
supposed to be without foundation in fact.
John johnson, of Lock Haven, Pa, lately
had the middle finger of the right hand am
putated close to the lower joint joining the
hand. The wound soon healed over, and al
most Immediately new finger commenced
growing from the stump Of the old one, and
six months from the time the finger was am
putatcd, Mr.. johnson had a new and full grown
one in its place, with the exception of the nail,
which is just commencing to shoot out.
Guido Rents madonna" has been restored |
to the church from which it was stolen in 1885. |
The pope has promised twelve thousand
crowns for its recovery. The painting was
found in London, where it was offered for sale
to Messrs. Merighi and Bassi by a stranger
1t was sent back to Bologna, but not until after
the pope had lost that city, so that the 1900
crowns ought to be paid by M. Farini.
George Wood, veteran and eminent men,
Der of the New York bar, died on the 18th in
stant at the age of seventy-one years. In the
discussion Of abstruse and intricate questions,
and complicated cases in equity, he was with
out superior He was conservative in his
politics, and always declined political prefer
ment. He was president of the famous Castle
Garden meeting ten years ago