Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-08-16
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Now EuaInnd News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
A new social club, called the Elysium, and
composed chiefly of German merchants, will bt
opened in Boston the first week in September
A building has been enlarged and fitted for the
purpose without regard to expense, and the
ladies will be received twice a month.
AT Boston, on Sunday the venerable Father
Cleveland, now in his one hundredth year, de-
livered sermon in the Lenox street chapel, to a
large congregation. He took his text from the
story of Ruth and Boaz, and spoke for full
half an hour without notes, and with great
clearness and distinctness. Among the audience
was another venerable old man, MIR. James
Rogers, in his hundred and third year, who, at
the close of the sermon, told the audience he
thanked God he had found Christ years ago.
The papers are poking fun at the Boston Post
for being neatly sold by an innocent paragraph
in the Adams Transcript, originating in the
Springfield Republican, that there is town in
the western part of the state where every male
citizen is an Orangeman, and no man can live
there year without joining the order" The
Post commented on the statement at some
length, and with much indignation at such a
deplorable state of affairs. The point of the
Joke is that the Adams paper referred to the
town of Orange, in Franklin county. And the
Boston Transcript was also soldl
ESSEX COUNTY.
A lad in NeWburyport, named ingalls,, only 10
wears old, has already stolen five horses, and has
evidently entered on fast career. He brought
up Joh aAAOA shSalAhS u hOAoC last
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Wamsutta mills corporation at New Bed
ford is about to erect new and extensive build
ings to meet their increasing business.
Thomas WEIGH, % years old, was drowned
while bathing in the river at Taunton on Sun
day,
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The barn of Albert j, Cowden in Brewst er
was set on fire last Friday by some children who
were playing with matches. Upon the alarm
being given Mrs Cowden went TO the barn and
tried to extnguish the fire, and was badly
burned on the face and arms The barn was
consumed
There is A good story told in connection with
the perpetual injunction recently ordered by the
supreme court restraining the executors and
trustees under the will of John Nickerson, de
ceased late of Proyncetown, from distributing
or conveying any portion of the estate. The
executors, when the injunction was asked for,
had paid out all the legacies and distributiye
shares, except to the two legatees or devsees
who prayed the court to intervene. The effect
of the perpetual injunction, therefore, is only to
debar these plaintiffs from getting their share of
the estate They have locked themselves in.
NANTUCKET COUNTY.
There is a grave rumor of a reunion of the
Coffin family, to take place at Nantucket
A bottle was picked up on Monday, 18th inst,
at the north side of Nantucket, between Eel
Point and Tuckernuck, by c. +. Rogers, which
had evidently been some time in the water, be-
ing entirely covered with sea-grasS. 1t contained
a paper with writing in pencil, in the German
language, of which the following is transa-
ton. 1t will be seen that the paper has neither
name nor date, and may or may not, be genuine;
DEAR PERSONS He who finds this bottle if it
possibly makes its way to the land, will please
send il to the admiralty in an English harbOr. |
have thrown similar ones which contain the It'd |
ings in different languages. They come from
the sinking ship "City of Boston," We got un-
in, ar fhn--fipa nrnhabItrN
from which no one can be extricated
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Harrington of Springfield demurs to rowing
against Butler on the 30th, but will accept a |
challenge for single scull race, for $3.50 a side, |
on Lake Quinsigamond, for September 90.
Hon. Geo Walker of Springfield, for two years |
one of the vice presidents of the Western Union |
telegraph company, has withdrawn from that |
position, and will open foreign and domestic |
banking house in New York and Paris, Sept. /, |
under the style of Walker, Andrews & Co.
Springfield was in a state of excitement last |
week, in consequence of the attempt by two
men to kdnap little girl about eight years old.
The mother learned of the affair and sent a
neighbor to see who her little girl was with,
when the men fed and were not seen again.
AT the meeting of the officers of the ID regi-
ment in Springfield, on the 14th, at the armory
of the Peabody Guard, Major Gilmore was elect
ed lieutenant colonel in place of J. C. Weller of
Pittsheld resigned; Capt. Z. 2. Clark of company
K, Holyoke, was elected major.
A gentlemanly stranger was called upon to ad-
dress the Sunday school children at a church in
Springfield, Sunday night, and thereupon made
some very graceful and earnest remarks on the
practical liberal tendency of Unitarian doc
trines in guiding youthful minds, and his SYM
pathy Herewith. On sitting down he discovered
that his remarks were fully appreciated by the
audience, and from book which he took up,
that he was in 3 close communion Baptist
church,