Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-23
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The talented double bass player, Herr Her
zog, well esteemed among musical artists, and
member of the opera company now in Bos-
ton, died on Wednesday, 10th inst, of infam-
nation of the windppe.
In the criminal session of the superior court
an arrangement has been made by which the
indictments pending against Mr.. Isaac F.
Shepard, charging him with forgery or en-
bezzement, have been continued until the next
September term of the court for trial
Company a, of Boston, Of the second battal-
ion, started on Wednesday on an excursion to
Newport, in the midst of a drenching rain
| They numbered forty-eight guns, and were ac-
companied by Gmore's full band of thirty
pieces.
The jury in the case of Lassell, the expo
lice officer, indicted and tried tor shOp-break-
ing and larceny, have returned a verdict Of
acquittal, and he was accordingly discharged
Two forged checks of $500 each were paid
Thursday, by the Safety Fund and Exchange
Banks in Boston. The checks purported to
be drawn by two prominent State street bro,
kers, and were exact limitations, done with the
pen, of the printed checks Of the parties whose
names were forged.
The four-story brick building at the head of
Harvard Place, Boston, was damaged by fire
Thursday night to the amount of S. 900. The
building was occupied by artizaus of various
kinds
The steamer ar. b. Forbes" will sail from
Boston this Saturday. smornng, having on
board the Rev. Messrs. Bronson, Van Meter
and Ward, with their wives missionaries Of
the A. B. NJ. Union, for the missions in Assam
and Burmah.
Charles S. Doyen, the lad who disappeared
some three months ago with 81 600 of his en-
ployer's money under very mysterious cir
cumstances, has discovered himself, and re-
stored $500 OF the money. The restitution
was made through the pastor OF the church of
which he was a member.
At the Beacon regatta which takes place
this afternoon, on Charles river, the picked
crews of Brown and Of Harvard colleges, are
contestants ior one of the prizes.
M1DDLEsEX COUNTY.
One of the brakemen on the Nashua freight
train, named }. b. Eaton had his foot caught
in frog" near Lowell, Wednesday evening,
and shockingly crushed by the engine which
came upon him before it could be eXtricated.
The annual prizes in the Cambridge Law
School were awarded Friday. On the subject
"of the estate Of mortgager and that Of the
mortgage in mortgaged real property" the
first prize Of $50 was awarded to c. f. Walcott
Of Salem, and the second prize Of $50 to Thos.
Kinnicutt of Worcester
The barn and outbuildings attached to the
residence of Rev. John Morrison on Milton
Hill, Were destroyed by fire on Thursday
night-the work of an ncendiary. Loss
$1,000.
ESSEX COUNTY.
On Tuesday, 10Th inst, a little boy, six
| years old, son of George johnson Of Hayerhill,
now absent as delegate to the democratic CON
ventiOn, broke his collar bone and had mar.
row escape from death while firing an old gun.
He was excited about the convention.
We understand that several ladies in this
| city are arranging pedestrian party for the
| White Hills this summer. We presume such
an experiment is what is meant by the phrase,
| putting themselves on their muscles. "-Neto-
| JuypoH Herdd.
Mr.. John Hasty, while quietly walking
through Park street, Gloucester, to his board.
ing place, on Saturday night last, was attacked
! by three men, who, surrounding him, searched
! his pockets, severely maltreated him, and in
! the melee broke his leg.
On Saturday 10th inst, while the stone cut
! tiers were Mt work on the quarry OF Eames,
! Stimson, 4 Co., at Rockport, and while hoist.
| ing ont of the ledge some heavy stone, the
large derrick gave way and fell below on the
men who were hammerng outside Of the
! ledge, killing a man named Timothy Shehan
instantly. Another, named Murphy, was so
badly injured that his life is in danger. Sew
eral were slightly bruised and had Il narrow
escape from being killed.
The son Of James TAR of Reckport while
riding from Gloucester to Annsquam, on Fri.
day afternoon, was thrown from his carriage
near 'Squam bridge, through the 5idc-ght,
mangling his scalp nearly soyering one ear,
and very much brusing and cutting his face.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Daniel w. Hall, a New Bedford boy, re.
turned home June 10Th, after four years OF SO.
we're and romantic adventure, portion OF
which was in the northern regions of the Va.
clfic ducing an arctic winter While ON the
shores Of the Ochotsk sea in 1868, he ran away
with another boy, and the ship left them in
| that inhospitabc country till another captain
! hearing Of their adventure many months later,
brought them away.
| Six whale ships and barques arrived at New
Bedford one day this week with an aggregate