Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-29
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


Mr. Lanergan, the pyrotechnist, is still alive.
Yesterday forenoon he partook OF nourlsh-
ment with considerable relish. His physician
thought that if he survived through the day,
his chance for ultimate recovery would be bet
ter than it has been at any time since the Sc
rious accident which befel him.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
On Sunday morning fire broke out in an I'M
occupied dwelling house owned by G. H. Col
Inns and j. w. Sullings on the corner of Sum-
ner and Middle streets, New Bedford 1t was
wholly destroyed. Insured for 81 600.
A barn in North Atteborough, owned by
Virgil Draper, was destroyed by fire on Fri
day evening last. The Union House was at
one time in imminent danger, but was saved
through the exertions of the people in the
neighborhood.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Stephen Smith, of Nottingham, has been
convicted of burning the barn of Job Thomp-
son. in Lee, in January last. The barn was
one hundred feet long, and contained large
quantity of hay, fourteen yoke of cattle a
number of horses, sheep, &C., which were all
consumed Smith was sentenced to fifteen
years at hard labor in the state prison.
RHODE ISLAND.
Mrs. Hannah B. Barton, mother of Hon.
Benz. Barton, of Warren, R. l., was severely
burned on the 26th inst, in consequence of her
dress taking fire from wide and open fire.
place. She was 88 years of age, and survived
the accident only forty hours.
Monday evening, the shop of George f.
Brooks, ivory worker, corner of Friendship
and Eddy sts., Providence, was set on fire, and
before it was extinguished, the stock was dam
aged to the amount of 1000 to 81 200. In
sured for $400 at the Slater Mutual Sup
posed to have been caused by an incendiary
Mr.. Abijah Hall of Wrentham, was instant
ly killed by the falling of tree, while at woIk
in the woods in that town, on Friday last.
CONNECTICUT.
One of the trains on the Naugatuck railroad.
Saturday, ran over and killed an Irish woman
near Ansonia. Both legs were severed from
her body, and one of them was found fifty feet
from where the body lay. Who she was, or
whence she came, is not known. An Irish
nan was also run over Sunday evening and
instantly killed.
Mrs Abigail E. Williams, relict of Ezekiel
Williams, Esq, and daughter of the late Chief
Justice Ellsworth, died at Hartford on the 26th
nst., aged eightysix years.
Judge Waldo, of the Superior Court, has
given a verdict against the city of New Lon
Ion, in the matter of its repudiated bonds, and
ordered judgment to be rendered for $40, the
claim of the Hartford Society for Savings, the
plaintiff in the present suit.
Mrs Cynthia p. Clapp, of Hartford, has
brought suit against Mr.. j. L. Prosser for
breach of the marriage contract Mrs. Clapp
assesses her damages at S25,000 1t is said
that Mr.. Prosser is worth about $1000 900, and
able to pay the claim if jury think it worth
the money. Mr.. Prosser recently married
and the suit was lately put into the works.
One of the Yale College buildings, known
as the "Middle College," was discovered to be
on fire on Friday afternoon, but the flames
were quickly extingushed with few buckets
Of water. This is the second time this build
ing has been on fire within the past few weeks.
THE CONSTITUTION"
The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail says the vigi-
lance committee at that place is engaged in
burning dangerous books, and that two volumes
OF Surgeons sermons have been contributed
to their bon-fres, and that they will be burnt.
The Mail calls Tor more.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The will of Burton, the great comedian, is
by his first wife and her son, whom
he deserted in London in 1882 The will re-
cognizes as heirs only his American wife and
her children; but the British wife was never
divorced and will probably get the property.
MIR. Burton's library, of some $4,000 volumes,
is to be sold early next month.
A conductor on one of the city railroad cars,
says Cincinnati exchange paper, has been
fined .$25, for compelling man to give his seat
to lady. The court held that no lady could
claim a seat as right