Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-14
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

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Biddlcs and Mr.. Lingham, who were injured
by the late accident near Palmer. Mr.. Biddle
and his wife are now in Boston, and Mr.. Ling
ham is in New York.
| MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The Marlboro Mirror says that during the
northwest gale of Friday, the large steeple OF
the Catholic Church, in that town, was car
ried by the board, and dashed to splinters. In
its descent one or two small holes were made
in the roof
Two scamps, calling themselves Williams
and Brown, have been swinding the country
people in Mddlesex county by advertising
concerts in the name of the New Orleans
Opera Troupe" getting audiences together
and leaving at the back door. Woburn suffer-
! ed considerably.
The shoemakers of Natick, who are on a
"strike," marched through the streets of that
town, last Saturday evening, six hundred
strong, to the music of the Natick Band, and
carrying banners with notices. The effect
of the strike Expresses the manufacturers, and
it is thought compromise will he made
The Boston Journal says that ON Thursday
night last, the Unitarian church in Belmont
was forcibly entered, and robbed of a silk sur
plice belonging to the pastor, Rev A. Smith,
about sixty yards of cotton CLOTH belonging to
the Belmont Farmers Club, and a pair OF
| glass lamps. Three thieves were arrested, one
of whom turned states evidence, and the other
two were committed for trial.
| BRISTOL COUNTY.
A fire in the shop of C. A. Covill, tin plate
and sheet iron worker, in New Bedford, on
Sunday evening, caused damage to Mr.. Co
Wills stock to the extent of $1,000, which is
covered by insurance. The building is owned
by John r. Thornton.
The roof to the tower of the Merrimac street
school house, in New Bedford, was blown of
Friday afternoon, at the time of the recess
There were several scholars in the yard at the
time, but fortunately none of them were under
the falling roof
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Gazette and Courier says that at one of
the quiet farm houses in Bernardston, on the
evening OF the I'd inst, where two couples
were visiting, one party "stumped' the other
to get married. The reply was, 81 will if you
will, and magistrate was sent for, and the
double ceremony performed some time after
the hour for retiring. 1t was a surprise we'd
ding to everybody, but they wouldn't "back
down."
Rev. Edward Dimock, pastor of the Con-
gregatiOnal Church i'll Orange, has been COM
PEELED by the failure of his health, to suspend
his labors and to ask adismission. The neces.
sites of the case will lead his people to com
| ply with his request.
1t is said that curious cave has been dis
covered in Montague in the south end of Tay-
lor's hill The discovery has been kept private
for long time, but now that it is made known,
| it is presumed it will receive visitors of pro-
fessional character.
| Mrs. Sarah II. Adams late of Conway, in
her will, bequeaths $500 to the American
Board American Home Missionary Society,
$500; American Bible Society, $500; Ameri-
can Education Society, $500; American Sea-
mans Friend Society, $500; American and
Foreign Christian Union, $500; Bangor The
illogical Seminary, $500; Conway Academy
$500.
The house of Eli Carpenter, in Rowe, occu-
pied by his son-in-law, c. E. Frary, was de-
stroyed, with its contents, Wednesday even
ing, 8th, by fire. The family lost all their
clothing, and their case ELECTS the warmest
sympathies of their neighbors.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The candidates for the superinteDdency of
the Springfield Armory are Stephen G. Bemis,
Z. D. Beach, and p. B. Tyler, of Springfield !;
DR.. Loring of Salem; Col Isaac H. Wright
of Boston; Ex-Gov. Anderson of Maine and
James w. Preston, formerly superintendent
clerk, but now in the naval office at Boston,
and many others.
The City Marshal of Springfield, accompa-
MED by three or four policemen, visited the
principal drinking saloons in the city Sat
urday evening, and made sure that they were
promptly closed at twelve o'clock-City Hall
time, Of course. They want doing anything
at any of them, "only cooking oysters"
An explosion occurred in the percussion cap
factory of Bemis 6 Call, on Taylor street,
Springfield Saturday afternoon, caused by the
careless handling of some powder, and although
the windows were badly broken and the build
ing considerably damaged, no one was serious
ly injured.
Two brothers, George and Henry Swan,
aged II and l6, left their homes in Springfield
on the 23d ult., on peddling excursion to
Sufheld, Ct, and have not been heard from
since.
MAINE.
There were 10000 pounds of bacon, 204, 776
pounds of lard, and 49, 100 pounds of butter,
shipped from Portland to Europe the past year.
No beef or pork was exported, the markets in
England ruling so low and those in this coun.
try so high, as to leave no margin for profit.
AT large meeting Of the citizens of Card.
ner, Thursday evening, it was unanimously
voted to petition the Legislature for leave to
loan its credit to the extent of $150,000 in aid
of the Androscoggin Railroad. in event of the
road terminating in that city,
In Thorndike, a few days ago, Mrs. Eunice
Ptilbrick, the widow of Gideon Philbrck
was so badly burned by her clothes taking fire
that she died the same evening Her age was
"a.
l. IL. Norris, for many years superintendent
of the Springfield section of the Vermont anC
Boston telegraph line, died at his residence a
White River Junction, Saturday morning
He had been living upon limited diet sine,
March last, for the benefit of a weakness in hi