Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-21
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

Father Finatti Catholic priest in Brook
line, finding his entreaties to his parishioners
to stop selling liquor Intellectual has caused
three of them to be prosecuted. They receiv
ed the usual sentence of fine and twenty
days Imprisonment, from which they appeal
ed. Father Finatti was witness against
them.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
AT Lowell, last week, Thomas and John
Ducy built charcoal fire in the lower part OF
the gate-house near Pawtucket Falls, for the
purpose of drying the rooom, and inhaled the
gas to such an extent that they were found in
apparently an insensible condition soon after
Thomas, who is the father of twenty-eight
children, and seventy years of age soon recov
cred, but John was removed to the Hospital
where he died Friday, agedI50
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Luther Ross, postmaster at South Lee, has
been removed, and Daniel b. Fem, Jr.. Of
Stockbridge appointed in his stead. Ross was
the only administration man i'll South Lee, but
not being competent, or at least not doing
the duties of the office in satisfactory man
ner, he was removed, and man living out o.
town appointed in his stead
man, calling his name John Smith, was
discovered about twelve o'clock Monday night
at work upon the vault of the Housatonc bank
in Stockbridge. He was under the building
directly under the vault, and had nearly effect
ed an entrance. He says he had worked eve
ry night for three weeks, and expected to OBJ
tam the prize that night. He is now in Lenox
jail
HAMPDEN COUNTY
From twelve to fifteen hundred dollars
worth of Southern property passed through
Chicopee last week. en- route for Canada
Thus another of the rivets which it is suppos.
ed have held the Union together for some time,
has been extracted.-Hampshire Gazette.
Capt. r. Ferry of Easthampton has in his
garden a pie-plant, obtained from Kenosha
Wis, single leaf of which measures fourteen
feet and eiglh inches in circumference. The
stalk is of corresponding size.
CONNECTICUT.
Charles N. Andrews. about 40 years old
shot Henry L. Brainerd, agsd %, at Haddam
Neck, on Saturday, with a shot gun, blowing
out both his eyes, and filling his face with shot
and injuring him so severely that his recovery
is doubtful Andrews had had difficulty with
Brainerd, which originated at a political eau
Gus last spring, and the shooting of Brainerd
was committed while Andrews was under the
influence of liquor.
There have been eleven violent deaths,
caused by drunkenness, within New London,
during the past year. Two persons were
drowned, one stabbed, two burnt to death, one
found dead near rum shop, supposed to have
been drunk, and a mother and three children,
supposed to have been drunk from their prev.
ious habits, were burnt to death, in a house
near the mouth of the harbor, and only their
ashes left to tell the tale. There is warning
in these facts.
An ingenious rascal posted himself close by
the railroad track at Moosup station when the
Methodist excursion train was returning from
Providence to Norwich, Conn, on Saturday,
and as the ladies waved their handkerchiefs
from the car windows, he reached up and
caught a whole armful of them at once. He
escaped with his plumber.
RHODE ISLAND.
Richard Crozer, an overseer in Knights
flour mills, Providence, had his skull fractur-
ed, Tuesday, 10Th, by the handle of a wrench
with which he was fixing pulley. The
wrench was caught by belt, and struck him
IN the centre OF the forehead. Large pieces bf
bones were taken out He lies in very pre-
carious condition.