Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-04-06
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

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upon the traverse jury in the supreme conrt
Boston, wednesday. He is a hair dresser by
trade, and is the first of his race who has been
placed in tie jury box in Boston.
Gen. Nathaniel Austin of Charlestown d;ed
at his residence in that city, Wednesday after.
noon, i'll his ninetieth year. He held many
public offices, among which were major general
sheriff of Middesex county, representative
senator, and councillor, and was n man ~
marked ability and probity.
On Wednesday, Immediately after Mr.
Speaker Goodwin closed his address in behalf
OF the Museum Of Comparative Zoology, one
OF the members from Boston presented an
order, in favor of Professor Agassiz, for his
years salary as member Of the general court.
The gilt is the more generous, since the donor
has probably madea greater pecuniary sacrifice
in accepting his office than any other member
of the house.-JoundL
ESSEX COUNTY.
Cen Solomon Low, for twenty years from
1920 TO lS40) general of the Second Brigade,
second division, died at West Newbnry on
Wednesday last, at the age of eighty.one
years.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Rev Allan Cobb, senior pastor of the Trim.
tartan Congregational church in Taunton, died
on the "a INST, at the age OF 70 years. He
graduated at Brown University in 1918, and
was settled over his parish nearly half CEN
tury ago.
John Wilson, a young man hailing from
Norwich, CT, arrived at New Bedford from
sea, last week, laving $500 in money. He
had fits until Saturday, when he strangely dis
appeared. 1t is probable that lie wandered
away and was drowned.
The "still small voice" cf the crer of tie
courts in Bristol county, when making public
proclamation of the propagation of the probate
court from Pawtucket to Fall River, at the
court house in Taunton, is said to have been
heard in Pawtucket-a distance of seventeen
miles No doubt of it. The Gazette says so.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Rev. Heman Humphrey, D. D., ex
president of Amherst College, died in Pittsfield
on Wednesday afternoon at the age of 81
years The deceased has long occupied a
prominent place among the divines of New
England. He was president of Amherst Col
lege from 1928 to 1916, and was universally
esteemed by the graduates Several volumes
from his pen have enjoyed wide circulation
namely: Letters to Son in the Ministry
domestic Education" and "a Tour in
France, Great Britain, and Belgium"
VERMONT
Two workmen, while removing float wood
from Mississippi river, i'll Swanton, Tuesday
evening, discovered the body of stranger at
the bottom, with his skull and ribs broken, and
one leg torn off at the knee. Nobody knew
him.
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wv -oa, uPseI ootte VI coNouloh III his sa-
W., az o. 1A'"aIs' WHICH lshi'ed ana set the
e"iool. On hre' inc women ana children got
out OIL tile windows.
CONNECTICUT.
Rev. Roswell Whittemore died at lis resi-.
dence in Danielsonvlle on Tuesday. Mr..
Whittemore entered the ministry in 1912, and
vas settled over the Congregational church in
Danielsonville for 30 years.
The son of George Brinley of Hartford met
with an accident, day or two since, while
exercising in the high school gymnasium,
breaking the right arm badly at the wrist and
spraining the other wrist.
Miss Sallie Haney OF New Haven was,fear.
fully burned last week, from her clothing
catching fire Willie she was at breakfast. She
died soon after
The cars on the Hartford, Providence. and
Fishkill railroad ran over stranger. near
South Windham, Thursday, causing his death.
lie was either insane or a suicide.
M1srp1I,Nrors
Ziarlacbini. n mvsterions nnrsonaoa who hoe
lone heen nrisoner in ItoIy beoa,,so bo would
NOT he liberated until Lo was fairl,, tr;od ;s ~,
his way to the Unitrd STATES with tventv
thousand francs piyon him bv HE friend Count
Cayour His incarceration was owing IN his
having been an invader nj tho nanaI ststeS
The French empress having taken = dislike
to the Hotel d'Aibe in the CHAINS Elvsees in
90,
the city of Paris for large piece OF ground on
the Quai Billy. where she will erect splendid
palace Her majesty pay the city heavily for
equality of exchange.
A sad accident has cast a gloom over the
town Of La Rochelle, France. Two young
gentlemen, Nj. NJ. Louis and Marcel d Orbigny,
aged respectively sixteen and twelve nephews
of the celebrated naturalists Alcide and Chas.
dOrbigny, were looking for shells on the
beach, when a part of the overhanging cliff
fell and crushed them to DEATH
The Chicago bankers, on Thursday. COM
menced throwing out the bills of forty.two
banks of Wisconsin. The circulation of these
banks is secured by Missouri, Tennessee, and
Virginia skies. There are about eighty banks
in the entire state
On the LIST of April an assignee in New York
put up at auction the entire stock of dry
goods house, which had STONED. 1t was sold
in one lump for $3.50 600. and paid for on the
spot The purchasers were Bliss. Wheelock
r. u owen, OF massachusetts origin, and
Tor some years prominent merchant IN
Ohicago' committed suicide lew days ago,