Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-04-13
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY

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The second adventists are 10 hold general
| conference in Boston, who anticipate that the
coming of Christ is near at hand, and that the
fuflment of prophesies is being rapidly
worked out in the general upheavng and
overthrow of the nations Of the earth.
The assignees of the estate of Phillips,
| Sampson, & CO.. have declared a new dividend
| upon this estate of twenty-One per cent max
| ing a total of seventy-six per cent.
| MiDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Mrs. Wilkins died suddenly in Lowell, a few
| days ago, and an examination of her omach
| revealed the presence of a large quantity of
arsenic. Her husband had lived unhappily
| with her-another young Toman in the fami.
| ly, &c. No arrests have been made.
John Richardson, employed in the steam
planning mill in Medford, on Wednesday last,
while adjusting a belt to a pulley which was
revolving with great rapidity, was thrown
| upon the steam box of the engine with such
force as to fracture his skull, and break three
of his ibis.
| The large three story house in Belmont
owned by Malcolm Chandler, and used as a
| boarding house when occupied, was on Thurs
day evening destroyed by fire. The loss is,
estimated at $500.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
L. r. Tinker, while going from Pittsfield to
North Adams, on a hand car, last Saturday
evening, came in collision with a hand car GO
ing in the opposite direction, and both cars
were badly smashed, and their occupants
somewhat bruised and smashed.
Elijah, aged 63 years, and brother of Eli
Parsons of South Egremont, cut his throat
with razor on the 9TH inst, and died imme-
diatelY after. He was insane i'll consequence
OF a supposed loss of property.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Three hop growers in Cheshire have seven
teen acres under cultivation. One of them
| cleared $1,000 last year on hops alone, the
| market having been better than a number of
| years before, on account of the failure of the
| crop in the old countries, Where large
amount is used annually.
RHODE ISLAND.
| On Thursday afternoon, as man named
Patrick Murray was passing between the two
mills at Phenix Village. lie was caught by the
| shaft, which was revolving at the rate of some
| two hundred revolutions per minute, and had
both legs taken off at the ankles aud both arms
broken, willie his body was almost crushed to
pieces He was living at last accounts, but
| cannot possibly long suryive.-Post.
>. NlckOry, Mailing from Taunton, went
with two or three other persons to disreputa.
BILE house in Seekonk, Wednesday evening,
and, after drinking quite freely lett for home,
| when he was knocked down and robbed Of his
watch and money, valued at 500 altogether.
| The republicans of Woonsocket held pub
|. lie meeting the other evening to elect post
master. William Lindrey received 12S votes,
and Arson Wheelock II, when the meeting
unanimously declared its preference for the
former.
The Woonsocllet Patriot says that Hon.
Christopher Robin, on has been offered a for
eign appointment by the administrator. since
his congressional defeat. Mr.. Robinson left
Woonsocket for Washington on Monday.
PERSONAL.
Phillip G. Tucker, long prominent lawyer
and leading politician of the democratic
school, and grand master of the Masonic or
der in Vermont, died on Wednesday, at his
residence in Vergennes, aged 81 years.
The Paris Constitutional tells the extraor-
binary story OF Frenchman having become
king of Araucania, in the southern part of
Chile. lie calls himself Orele Antoine l.,
Constitutional King of Araucania.
The ladies of India, headed by Lady Can.
ming, are about erecting monument to their
sisters murdered by Nena Sahib at the fatal
well of Cawnpore.
Charles Goodwin, a merchant of New York,
was found dead in one of the entrances to
Weldron's Hotel, Albany, on Tuesday night
The widow of the late John II. w. Hawkins
the celebrated temperance reformer, died in
Baltimore on Wednesday.
building an exact copy of a three banked Ro-
man galley, adding all the classical ornaments
that belong to it.
Madame Catherine Hayes has just returned,
having completed her professional tour through
the provinces, Ireland and Scotland 1t has
been attended with extraordinary success.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Charleston, S. c., Christian Advocate
advertises for "tlree young men, who are TO
be pious, good preachers, in no haste TO mar
ry, and having but one purpose, to glority
God and save souls"
Norman Mcleod, little boy in New York,
pulled ever large kettle of melted wax from
stove, which poured out upon his head, and
killed him; and the wax cooling Immediately,
an impress OF his features, contOrted by agony,
was left i'll the shell that formed.
The little daughter Of Mr.. Banks, residing
in Montreal, agedtwo and half years, recent
ly had her stomach filed with cockroaches,
which crept in at her mouth, while sleeping.
The poor little girl became suddenly i'll, and
in spite of every remedy used for the DIES rue
ton of the vermin, they continued to live and
gpaw her vitals, and death ended her terrible
sufferngs in a short time.
Admitted TO that equal sky,
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
II is said that poor wanderer, I'M becile in
mind, who strayed from his home in Westmin-
ster, Md. has lately been found in Phiadel-
pllia. He was accompanied by faithful dog,
which defended his master against the persons
who were about TO take him, so vigorously
that they had to shoot the faithful animal for
their own safety