Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-07

thoroughly cOnveTsant with the common law
of England, the civil law of Rome, and vari-
Gus modern systems of jurisprudence. His
classical scholarship was varied and profound,
and he spoke with facility most of the modern
languages of Europe. He had also venturcd
with much success into medical and theologi-
cal Studies
Rev. David T. Kimball, senior pastor of the
first church in Ipswich, and the oldest mem.
Der of the Essex North Association, died on
Friday the Sd inst, after brief illness of lung
fever, in the 18th year of his age and the 54th
of his ministry. He graduated at Harvard
College in 1903, and was settled at 1906. He
was man greatly loved i'm his pastoral rela-
tons, and esteemed for his devotion to every
good cause.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1t is stated that when the twelve hundred
clerks employed in the Bank of England leave
the building in the evening, detachment of
troops march in to guard it during the right,
| although burglars could not penetrate the
solid vaults in six weeks.
They are having a small Morgan affair at
Sandusky, Ohio. One Curtis exposed the Sc.
crets of the Sons of Malta, and has since mys-
terlously disappeared There is some excite
ment about it, but on the whole it is not be-
HeYed that he has been made martyr.
Delmonlco, the celebrated restaurant keeper
IN New I ork, though making a fortune yearly
IN his legitimate business has become insol.
vent through the failure of a great Kerosene
oil company, of which he was a director. and
the only heavy man.
Josephine Herskel, known on the stage at
the "V0lkS Garten," New York, as Louisette.
tight rope dancer, was burned to death last
Saturday night her clothes having caught fire
from the foot-lights while she was performing
IN presence nj q crowded tbaator bn h,J
been pupil of DeLave, the rope-walker, and
had just commemorative profession
The colleges, Yale, Brown, Harvard, and
Amherst, have established quarterly periodi-
cal, to be edited by number of editors ap-
pointed by each college. 1t is designed to be
n receptacle ofthe compositions of students, in
prose and verse, and is to be of the size of the
North American, and printed at New Haven.
Inc project is an admirable one and deserves
commentator and encouragement. The ne.
rlodical is to be named the Graduate, and is
to appear the present month.
Mr.. John Forster, the biographer of Gold
smith, and the Statesman of the Common.
wealth, is about to publish work of the ar
rest OF five members of the House of Commons
by Charles l., a cardinal event in the contro.
versy'between the King and the Parliament.
ltl reported that a large number of students
OF Antioch College left the institution on We'd
nesday last, In consequence of some offence
taken at remarks made by Mr.. Giddings, in
his recent lecture at Yellow Springs. We
trust that the report is exaggerated
On Tuesday afternoon, the wife of DR.. A,
G. Castle, while giving some directions to her
dressmaker, had her clothes burned from the
CRATE. With great presence Of mind, she
threw herself upon the bed and wrapped her
self up i'll the quilt but the crinoline gave
vent and space for the fire to burn furiously
beneath. She was fearlully burned, and after
several hours of intense suffering, died.