Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-11
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The iourneyman horse-shoerS of Boston,
following the fashion OF the times, held a meet
ing, Monday evening, to consider the expedl-
ency of Striking tor the ten hour system.
The decision was deferred to another meeting.
The journeymen also objected to the introduce
ton of patent shoes and nails aid other labor
destroying inventions.
The restraints of the Lenten season having
passed, the city registrar is again crowded
with applications for marriage licenses. In
Boston, on the first three days Of the closing
week in March, the number of applications
was only six; on the last three, the number
was twenty -one, and since April lst, 60 have
been granted.
Some ten years ago John Cosgrif went to
sea to get Giving" for himself and his young
wife then living in New York, Returning at
ter several voyages, he got work at the navy
yard at Charlestown, and has remained there
eight years. Going by accident TO the board
ing house at Simon Ahern, in Boston, the 9TH
er day, fancy his disgust at finding in the per-
son of Mrs. Ahern his own talthless wife.
Failing to make settlement, Simon was ar
rested and bound over for adultery.
The Boston Transcript says the amount re-
ceived at the morning offerlory at the Church
of the Advent, on Easter Sunday, was t'oenty'
.tfUe thousand four hundred dollars.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The fourteenth seml-annual meeting of the
Middlesex county teachers association was
held in Lexington last Friday and Saturday.
Resolutions commemorative Of the death of
the venerable Father Pierce, and of his con-
slant, setsacrifcing, and christian virtues,
were passed James L. Russell Of Lowell was
elected president OF the association.
The primary school house No l. in Charles.
town, accommodating sixty scholars, was
destroyed by fire, on Monday night 1t was
fired by an inccndiary.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The young son of Charles W. Grape, in
New Bedford, aged nine years, was tossed
upon the horns OF an enraged COW, last Satur-
day, and wounded in very shocking manner.
One leg was fractured in two places, and he
was otherwise seriously injured.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The mystery Of the murder of Mr.. Parker,
tax collector in Manchester, fifteen years ago,
which has remain unsolyed since that time, is
at length cleared up by the confession OF the
murderer on his dying bed. Harvey Weed
died in the town of Sandwich on the Both of
March, and, just before he breathed his last,
confessed that he, with a confederate, called
Mr.. Parker from his house on the night OF the
crime, and murdered and robbed him.
Weed was never suspected. He has been i'll
&alitornia for many years, but returned home
sick.
Hon Ira Perley of Concord is to deliver
euogy on Rufus Choate before the alumni OF
Dartmouth College at the next commence
ment. Prof S. G. Brown of the same institu-
ton is engaged in preparing lite OF Mr.
Choate. Rev. T. l.. Cuyler OF New York has
consented to address the theological society OF
the college at its anniversary in July. Mr.
Mortimer Thompson has been engaged as the
poet of the literary societies.
The scythe factory, with its machinery and
stock, and four adjacent buildings, in Lilteton,
were destroyed by fire on the morning of the
4th inst 1t is supposed that spark from the
forge shop lodged and set fire to the fine dust
on the beams, and spread till it reached the
wood work, from which it burst. Loss $500
partially insured.
CONNECTICUT.
The dead body of the unknown man, found
floating in the New Haven harbor several
weeks since, has been identified as that of
Mr.. Eldrcd a respectable citizen and manutac-
tuner of Auburn, N. Y The deceased was a
married nan, but was divorced from his wife
some twelve or fifteen years ago, and she is
now residing with her father i'll Saratoga coun.
ty. His only daughter had recently gradua-
ted at the state nolm mai school in Albany, where
she has been waiting for the past two weeks,
daily expecting to hear from her father.
The house OF Henry Beecher, on the noun.
tain at Canaan, was destroyed by fire on Sat.
urday evening, the LIST inst, with nearly all of
the furniture and property within it. The fire
communicated to the house from a SAPPHIRE
which Mr.. Beecher had made a short time be
fore. Loss Sl500.
PERSONAL.
They are burning and hanging Governor
Stewart of Missouri in etligy, at various places
i'll that state with view to SINCE him into
livelier sense of his official duties, and a more
decorous regard for the dignity of the state
The Father Matthew Temperance Benefit
Society, of New York, propose to erect mon
ument in the Central Park, to the memory OF
the great temperance advocate, from whom
they take their name.
M. Jullien's reason returned to him some
hours before his death. His last words related
to hymn which he had not long since COM
posed, and called Napoeonienne, from its be-
ing in honor of the Emperor of the French.
Let it be sent" he said, "to his Majesty. 1t
will, perhaps, procure bread for my poor wife"
M julien has left a wife and two adopted
children, in whose behalf a subscription has
been commenced in England.
THE CONSTITUTION"
Do they burn Negroes The Vicksburg
Sun of Saturday, March 3Ist, says that ne
gro man belonging to Mr.. Voolfolk, on Deer
Creek, was recently burned at the stake for
the murder Of a negro woman. All the ne
groes on that and the adjoining plantations
witnessed the burning. ellis fate was decreed
by council of highly respectable gentlemen"
Prolific and Prohtabe.-A negro woman ON
the plantation of gentleman near this city,
has in the last twenty months given birth to
five fullszed and healthy children, two at one
and three at the other birth; all alive and
kicking and doing well. At this rate no need
of importations from Africa, Columbus Miss
Times.
an EmiSSdry-A woman, whose trunk is
marked Miss p. b. Davis, Syracuse, N. Y,
was arrested at the depot, yesterday, on tele.
graphic information OF having in her posses.
sion incendary publications, for which she
had been run off from Ringgold, Ga. OPEL.
ka, Ala, Bamberg ard Orangeburg, in this
state. She says she has been as lar west as
Mississippi. The mayor will probably send
her north by Saturdays boat-Charieston Mer.
cuV, April 6.
Five or six negroes, armed with guns, are
said to be causing much excitement in Perry
County, Miss. Whites are suspected of COM
plcity with them, and one man has been ar
rested and imprisoned on suspicion.
Harold WHY'S has been tried and convicted
in Greenyille, s. c., for the crime of circulat.
ing Helpers Impending Crisis and Uncle