Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-03-05
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
MIDpLEsEx COUNTY.

p Leonard in WATERFOWL, was destroyed by
an incendiary fire on Sunday morning Loss
$1,000. The attempt was also made 20 IRE the
Spring Hotel on the same night, which was
near being successful.
ESSEX COUNTY,
The sale of shoes in Haverhill is said to be
IL sweeping one. Dealers from the south and
west are buying freely. Two large establish.
ments in Charleston have agents there buying
heavily but at low rates. Manufacturers say
the demand was never more active, or prices
lower
During the last three weeks three chill
dren, aged respectively two, four, and six
years. have been buried out OF the family of
! Thomas Taper of Saugus. The two eldest
were accidently scalded so tearfuly as to
cause their death The youngest died of dip
iberia.
The Lynn Reporter states that great anxiety
is manifested, in view of the southern CON
federacy" tariff by southern shoe buyers, who
have recently purchased, to have their orders
filled before the 10Th, and if the goods can not
be shipped before that time, to have the bills
| forwarded instead. This will save them duty
of about "a per cent
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The ides of March are proving fatal to
host of editorial Caesars who adhered to the
decaying fortunes Of the democratic party,
The last obituary is hat of the New Bedford
Times, which announces its disconlinuance.
On Thursday last the sou of Zephaniah
| Hodges of Taunton, narrowly escaped drown
| ing while skating i'll the rear of his fathers
mill, near Westve The Gazette says having
broken through the ice where the water was
about eight feet deep, his aunt, Miss Louisa
ISobinson, at the imminent ri k OF her own
| life rushed into the water, seized the boy,
whose head she kept above the water with
one hand, while she broke the ice with the
other, in her attempts to gain a more shallow
part of the pond. The screams of both soon
brought Mr. Bullock and other neighbors to
the place, and with the help of rails and other
contrivances both were at length brought 10
the shore in an exhausted and benumbed con-
dition.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
! Solomon Willard, L O., a highly esteemed
| citizen OF Quincy, died on Wednesday last
aged II years. He was one of the earliest
projectors of the Bunker Hill monument, and
contributed largely toward its erection. The
original models of the monument are still in
his office. In 1926, with the advice and aid
of the late Thomas H. Perkins and others, he
designed and surveyed with his own hands
the Quincy Granite railway, the first ever
built in the United States.-BoSton Journal
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The several churches of Springfield held
Union prayer meeting Monday noon, to be
seech the divine guidance anu blessing for the
new president and his administration. The
city guards and their friends, in the evening"
celebrated the Inauguration i'll a more lively
way, and with equal patriotism.
Rev; Jeremiah O'Callaghan, formerly pas
tor of the Holyoke Catholic church. and one
OF the oldest Catholic priests in the country,
| died in Holyoke, after a brief illness, on the
23d ult., a. the age of 81 years
| p. III. Streeter, well known and respected
citizen OF Chicopee, died suddenly, Thursday,
in consequence of internal injuries previously
received by being thrown from sleigh His
| life was insured for $500.
Arthur, son of VIM. Keefe of Springfield,
was accidentally shot on Friday last His
right arm was amputated, and the wound
properly dressed but secondary hemorrhage
ensued, and the boy bled to death.
CONNECTICUT.
On Thursday aft .rnoom, 18th ut a Mrs.
Hopkins, of hopkins Mills, Il. L., stopped at
the Alta @agan House in Danielsonvile. Near
midnight, young man named Andrew G.
Walker came and enqured for her. They
/ were getting ready TO leave, when tile wo
mans husband arrived and the elopement
was nipped in the bud. Mrs. Hopkins had
taken advantage of her husbands absence to
clear out, but he returned in season to dis
cover her flight and follow her There was
a row, a rumpus, a riot and wrange, which
! euueu Ill the EcCOuClldtiOtl vi WIZ
The woma:. was greyheaded, while Walker is
! 20 years of age.
MISCELLANEOUS.
One day last week policeman on duty il
! Toronto discovered a stranger standing UNI
conscious upon the sidewalk, with every sense
and faculty suspended Raising his arm, it
remained rigidly outstretched; bending his
body, it continued in the position in which it
was placed The unfortunate man remained
| in, tIo aof Till bo
to his home and medical aid was summoned
The latest ghosty visitation is reported at
| Crown Point, ind, where two sad specimens
| of the "sheeted dead persist in haunting the
| house where they once lived. One is an old
| lady who is seen at the most unreasonable
| hour of the night clad in her grave clothes,
emerging from dark, dismal forest, approach.
ing the fated house, singing a do,etul tune.
At the same time mysterious voices, mex
picable footsteps, and strange rafting of
| kitchen tnselry is heard throughout the
house, to the great confusion OF the tenants.
While lady customer was making some
daily purchases at store in New York, on
| Friday last, she unco-sciousy trod upon
match, which ignited, and the flames commun-
icated to her under garments. The lady did
not perceive that her clothing was in fire, sup
posing that the warmth proceeded from the
register, until some persons in the rear of the
ance, and extinguished the flames. She was
sadly frightened, falling into Mysteries, which
were more nearly fatal than fire.
| Some of the inmates of the reform school at
| Chicago, in the absence of the superintendent,
a few days ago. raised a rebellion, which was
| put down only after smart fight, during
which several of the smaller boys escaped
| from the institution. Three of the rebellious
boys vino were the ringleaders were fined 500
each and sent TO the Bridewell 10 work it out,
and the rest submitted to salutary Coercion"
On board the Inflated steamer Charmer,
which was recently burned on the Mississippi
below Daniesonyille, La, were DR.. G. HI.
Middleton, and his wife, the daughter of
| VIM S. Parrot, late consul general OF the
United States to Mexico. They were just
married and starting on their bridal tour,
which came titus early to sad and fatal end.
From the Detroit Advertiser.