Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-03
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


The will of the late Theodore Parker be-
queaths to the commonwealth of Massachu
sets "the two firearms formerly the property
of his honored grandfather, Capt. John Par
ker, late of Lexington, to wit the large mus.
ket, or kings arm, which was by him captur-
ed from the British OIL the morning Of the 10Th
of April, 1775, in the battle of Lexington and
which is the first fircarm taken from the enc
my in the war for independence and also the
smaller musket which was used by him in
that battle, while fighting in the sacred cause
of God and his country : with the desire that
these sacred relics of the revolution may be
placed in the senate chamber Of the common
wealth. and there sqcredly kept in perpetuom
rel men,Ori1m.
The process of partially repairing the ven.
cradle elm upon the common was carried on,
Sunday, under the eye Of large crowd of
spectators. 1t is expected that the means that
have been taken will ensure the continuance
of this old mementO for another half a century,
unless it should be Frustrated by severe gale
in the meantime.
The Union Boat Club of Boston received a
handsome four Dared shell boat last week. 1t
is built of Spanish cedar, is AZ feet inches
long and 22B inches wide Robert Jewett,
of Newcastle on. Tyne, England, was the
builder.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Complaint has been made by Samuel X.
Head of South Maiden against Henry L..
Chase. a teacher in the grammar school in that
town, Tor IN alleged brutal assault upon his
son, Ernest Head, IA years OF age The boy
shows marks of severe punishment upon yari-
GUS parts of his body.
There will be regatta on Charles river, on
the morning of the fourth, under the auspices
OF the workmen in the American Watch Fac
tory, in Waltham. There will be two races
one for wherres and one for double small
boats. The prize in the wherry race will be Il
silver watch and purse of money for the
second race,
Officer Gale, while in the discharge of his
dusics in Cambrdgeport, Saturday night, was
threatened by rullian named johnny Green,
who had been detected III improper intimacy
with another mans wife. The quick appllca-
ton of the officers billy acted as sufficient
emollient to Green's disposition, and he was ut
once arrested
The General Taylor engine house in South
Maiden was destroyed by fire carly Sunday
morning. The company lose about 500 i'll
fixtures, and the town something like SOU
more.
Burrage Yale, Esq, of South Reading, has
presented to each member OF the Yale Engine
Company an elegant copy of the Bible, lomo,
superbly bound. A new flag presented to the
company is to be raised on the Fourth.
ESSEN COUNTY.
Napoleon Wood, one Of the ringleaders of
the Lynn "strike," has commenced a suit
against officer James Stone OF that city for
false imprisonment, fixing his damages at
$1,000 MIR. Stone was the officer who was
Immediately concerned in the arrest OF Wood
on the famous Oath of February, and took
charge of him and the other prisoners on their
way to Salem Jail, The suit has reference to
that arrest.
The valuation of Newburyport is put at
So ,745, 500 a decrease since July, 1859, of
nearly 100000 The largest individual tax
payer is Mrs. Sarah W. Hale, whose bill is
$i,6l2 20. John Curricr, Jr, comes next, at