Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-02
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY,
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The new republican ward and county com
mittee OF Boston is to be elected and qualified
on the 18th inst, instead of waiting until the
usual period in September. The time is an.
ticipated in order that the committee may act
in harmony with the party during the whole
campaign.
There is to be "a Douglas demonstration"
in Boston next Wednesday evening. Isaac
Davis of Worcester is to preside, and an effort
will be made to adopt resolutions instructing
the Massachusetts delegates to the national
democratic convention to vote for Douglas.
Mr.. Isaac w. Frye, one of the writers CON
nected with the Boston Courier during the
time ofthe coalition between the free soil and
democratic parties in this state, was dismissed
from the custom house on Thursday
Two vessels arrived at the port of Boston,
Thursday, from Liverpool, with six hundred
emigrants on board, principally Irish, the
larger portion of whom will Immediately pro-
coed to the west. Many of them bring sums
OF money, in the aggregate amounting to quite
a large sum.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
On Sunday last, a young Irish girl whose
"lovyer" had left her on their appointed we'd
ding day was found wandering about the
wharves in New Bedford threatening to drown
herself. The police chased the heartless swain
and compelled him to relent and marry the
girl, which was much pleasanter than deser-
ton and suicide.
The project of establishing an extensive
tannery in Fall River is meeting with very
general favor. About $4,000 have been sub
scribed and the works ars to be located near
BnttonwOod brook, on Kempton street
A wild fowl, said to be of species of the
New Caledonia night heron, was shot near
Bonneville, on Monday.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The examination of George c. Jersey, of
bingham, for the poisoning of Betsey f. Tir-
rell of Weymouth, is progressing with consid.
cradle interest, and many persons in Wey-
mouth and surrounding towns have abandoned
their business to listen to it. The trial is like
y to occupy several days, and the coroner's
inquest in the cese of Mary Tirrell the sister,
who also died from poison, has been adjourned
in consequence.
BARNsTABEE COUNTY.
Ensign Eldredge, the man in Chatham who
tried to live without eating, and had Dearly
succeeded, died Thursday of starvation, on the
18th day of the experiment.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Gold has been found in EPSON, N. H., on
the farm of Franklin Goss. Two young men
profess to have found $50 in gold on that farm.
Two returned Californians have visited the
spot, and report that they found gold, but whe-
ther 1t exists i'll quantities which will repay
digging, remains to be seen.
On Wednesday afternoon, during shower
the house of Mr.. Burpee, in Pembroke N.
H., was struck by lightning, set on fire, and
that and all the outbuildings were consumed
Mrs Burpee was stunned by the shock, and
had not recovered at lasts accounts
RHODE ISLAND.
The Rhode Island Supreme Court, at their
last session, granted forty nine petitions for d
yorce. In thirty-eight of the cases, the wife
brought the suit
Hon. Joseph Sphinx of Wexford had 81 old
sheep killed by his neighbors' dogs Monday
afternoon, upon his own farm and two are
missing, which must have been run into the
water and drowned Many of them had
lambs. There were sixty in the flock, and
about all that remain are more or less wound.
ed.
CONNECTICUT.
Charles G. Day of Hartford has got up n
wide awake medal with the figure of an off
Ger in uniform, with lantern and staff. and the
inscription, Hartford Wide Awakes' on one
side, and the figure of private with cap
cape, torch, and the inscription, Organized
March 3, 1860" on the reverse.
John Lang has been arrested in Thompson
for passing counterfeit notes ON the Woonsocl-
ct Fails Bank. Lang is an old rogue, and had
two associates who escaped with a large guam
tity of bad money on their persons
The Hartford Times gives the particulars
OF the mysterious death of Martha Work in
East CRANKY, who was engaged to be married
last week, but whose sudden death occurred
two or three days previous. She was a girl
OF unblemlshed character and apparently hap
Ply in anticipation of the approaching mar
rlage, for which she was actively preparing
Still bV ctr H. Ill
often predicted her death, and requested that
she might be buried in her wedding garments.
The post mortem examination revealed the
fact that she had taken prussic acid, and thus
terminated her fe-by suicide. The cause
OF the act is involved in the most painful nlys-
terry.
DIR. Bennett, of the notorious New Haven
divorce case, has issued a circular attacking
Mr. Edison Sanford who was somehow mixed
up in the matter. Mr. S. has accordingly at.
tackek DR.. b., who complains of being struck
in the "stomick" and feeling unwell in conse-
quence. Sanford is arrested.
Two infant children, twins, aged eight
months, named Emeline Il, and Emma Il.
Barton were found dead in he'd in wretched
howell in North Goshen, May 22d. A coroners
| jury was summoned and verdict rendered OF
''suifocation induced by want of proper care
on the part of the parents"
While Manassah Miner was working near a
bank at Mystic Bridge, Wednesday May Both,
the bank caved in upon him, breaking his leg
and almost completely burying him. lie was
extricated by his neighbors and taken home.
His injuries are not dangerous.
PERSONAL.
John b. Cough, who has been lecturing for
three years in England, is to return to this
country in July.
Mr. Cogswell, superintendent of the Astor