Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-17
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

nominated Joseph NJ. Wightman for mayor.
/ j. Putnam Bradlee was the opposing candi-
| date i'll the caucus.
! In the United States circuit court in Bos.
/ ton, on Monday, before Justice Clifford, Geo
| S. Boutwell, was admitted TO practice i'll the
| courts of the United States.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
One of the leading oil manufacturers in New
| Bedford received an order on Tuesday last, tor
| oil, from South Carolina. The answer was
! that in the present unsettled state of affairs it
would not be sent unless the money came
| first. Our manufacturers think that they can
! get along a good deal better without orders
| from ,.isunionists than they can without our
| products.
A young daughter of Mr.. John Brennan
died in Atteburo' on Sunday last, from inju-
ries received by the upsettng OF a pot of boil.
ing coffee at the breakfast table.
| 1t is said by those who know that the on'y
vote cast election day for John Bell and Ed
ward Everett, was deposited by Mr. Joseph
| Nichols man 81 years OF aye, who first vo-
| ted for Washington when he was chosen the
second time, and has voted regularly at every
| presidential election since taunton Gdeette
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The steam eOe mandatory of Justus
Tower, in Lanesboro', was destroyed by fire
on Sunday last. Loss about $4,000; insurance
$1,000 This is the second time within cou-
pie OF years that this mandatory has been
burned.
MAINE.
The Bethel Courier saws that the rain on
Saturday night raised Wild River, in Gilead,
to an unusual height. The dam erected the
present season by HobSon & Co, of Saco, at
an expense of nearly $1,000, was nearly swept
away.
The people of Bath will hold meeting next
IN tai pti r,.fa
to the establishment Of daily line of steamers
to run between that city and Boston.
The trial OF Ezekiel Bowley, charged with
the murder of Elbridge Cunningham, resulted
i'll the acquittal OF the accused
James Ketch was fatally stabbed by James
! Walton, at Eaton Grant, AroostoOk county,
| last Monday evening.
The Maine Farmer states that Mr.. Daniel
T. Pike has retired from the editorial charge
Of the Augusta Age.
VERMONT.
The Montpelier Patriot has been sold to L
NJ. Brown, Formerly OF the Woodstock Age,
tor 81 500. The Bradford Telegraph, dem.
ocratic paper, is to be republican hencetorth.
Two OF Col. FremontS partners in his gold
mine, which is said to be yielding great
profit, are Fred Billings, formerly OF Wood
stock, and I. w. Park, OF Bennington.
Seth Crawford OF North Bennington has
been arrested, and committed Tor trial, Tor an
assault and attempted outrage on daughter
Of Norman Rice, -nly IL years old
Moses Fairbanks Of Manchester committed
suicide with a razor, while laboring under
fit of insanity, produced by religious excite
ment.
The census of Vermont for 1860, will show
gain in population of about $500 over that of
1850
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Eleven students have been suspended from
Dartmouth college, for their participation in
the late outrages on young Fowler and the
insults offered his father. Some twenty have
submitted confession TO the faculty of COM
plicity in the affair." part OF whom have been
sent off and the rest allowed to remain on
probation. The faculty are still prosecuting
their investigations.
Eight cars belonging to a freight train on
the Sullivan railroad %ere thrown down an
embankment eighty feet high, near South
Charestown, n. H., on Saturday last, in con-
sequence of the breaking OF truck wheel,
The cars, which were loaded with flour and
grain, were, with their contents, rendered a
complete wreck, and Howard Bell, the con.
ductor, was instantly killed.
CONNECTICUT.
On Sunday evening, a Mrs. Nor an of East
Brdgewater died very suddenly. She was
singing, and suddenly stopped and said =
How my heart beats !" She arose from heI
chair to 90 across the room, and, falling upon
the floor, Immediately expired.
James Bawen of Windsor Locks, one of the
visiting wide awakes to Hartford, Wednesday
evening, fell off a steamboat at Windsor
while returning home, Thu sday morning
and was drowned. He was ii machiniSt, 81
years old, and leaves a wife and several grown
up children.
Edward Ditymas, a colored man employed
in Peck, White & Peck's store, in New Haven
tor seven years past, has been detected i'll {
series of ingenious thetIs, anu been committed
to Jail for trial He stole in small quantities
but quite often.
The Rev. N. w. Taylor Root, formerly Of
New Haven, and graduate OF the Berkely Di
vinity School, has accepted IA call 10 the rec
torship of Christ Church, LoGsdale, r. l., and
entered upon his duties last sabbath.
John Howard, sailor and wharf hand, was
instantly killed. Wednesday, VIII lie engaged ii
dischargng the cargo OF vessel lying at Long
Wharf, New Haven, by the falling OF pile o
plank. He leaves family.
Mr.. Nathan Get OF Hebron, while split
ting wood at his door, Tuesday, 9th inst, Gu
Il trightful cash with the whoe'bit OF the AK
from near the inside Of the nstep to the sole
: OF the foot.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The steam boiler Of Sheldon s. Co., at tn,
, Sing Sing Prison exploded on Monday last
The boiler was carried sixty rods, and til,
! fragments much farther. Two convicts wer,
hurt, but not dangerously a large humble
, OF windows in the prison were broken. Los.
S5000
A young girl of Pittsburg, Pa, subject t.
T. sOmnambuliBm got up the other night, dress
ed, went into the yard, took off all her clothes
! and hung them on the line when she awoke
she found herself tying the end of the clothes
t line 10 her ANGLE
The result OF the recent presidential election
> was known throughout the United States III
> day after ii took place. Those who framed til,
y constitution never dreamed Of Morse and tn,
telegraph, or they would not have put tn
time Of the election and that of the inaugura
# ton so far apart
# Mr.. Yeadon moved the other day, in tin
! South Carolina legislature, that the word
u "black republican" be stricken out of Il re
), solve, as it was not dignihed to use politca
-, nicknames about Il successful party.
A letter from New York, in the Philadc
If phia papers, mentions the failure of the hard
ware house Of Brutf Brothers & Seaver, 70
S750000, with assets to cover one. half thi
IL amount Also that of Parker Penfold
ii Mower, one Of the largest drug houses in til
I. city, Tor an amount not yet definitely asceI
> tanned
= splendid meteor was observed in Phila
Is delphia on Wednesday evening. 1t passe
/. from northeast to southwest, at an angle G
p forty-five degrees, in the northwestern quartz
Of the heavens 1t moved with with cou
u paratively slow motion, and left a briau
e train of light in its wake.
!. The curious in antiquities will be glad t
learn that the sword OF Tiberius is for sale a
Mayence, among the collection Of Josep
Gold, recently deceased. 1t was discovere