Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-27
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSION AND VICINITY.
| Alonzo Williams, or williamson drover
| from Vermont, with more money than he
ought to have had, found the acquaintance,
| Tuesday evening, of a tashionably dressed fe.
male in Haymarket Square, Boston, who rob
bed him before he had courage to leave her. of
about $1,000 in cash, and nearly $1,000 in notes
of hand. Fortunately for the verdant youth
the police took the matter in hand, and re-
covered both the thief and her spoils.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The furniture mandatory of Charles Holt
| & Co., at the falls of Parker's river in Byfeld
parish, Newbury, was destroyed by fire early
Wednesday morning with all its contents.
This mill was erected for the manufacture of
cotton, near the close of the last century, and
was the first cotton mill in the United States.
The building was owned by DR.. F. b. Moves
Of Newburyport, and was insured for 81, 500.
| The loss of Holt & Co. is from $4,000 to $4,000.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
| The people of Primary School District No.
"a, in Lowell, are preparing to build school
house for Miss Ellen A. Bridge whom the
School Committee say is not fit to teach
school.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
| The father of six children, having a wife
still living, attempted to eope from Roxbury
Sunday evening, with girl OF nineteen years
tercepted, fell into the hands of the policemen,
induced the meddlesome fellows to intrude
upon their trysting place and arrest them.
! They were locked up, and after night of So
Der reflection were discharged, the man aban-
doning his purpose and the girl returning to
her friends
Mr.. Sanford Ware, a much respected cti-
zen of Franklin, aged about eighty years,
was taken Wednesday morning with severe
pain in his side. He was conveyed to his bed,
where he died in few moments.
BRISTOL COUNTY
In New Bedford Joseph Dow has perpetrat-
ed highway robbery on Thomas Norris, taking
from him watch and chain worth $40. The
watch has been recovered, and Dow is under
arrest.
Early Sunday morning, two dogs got into
the sheep pasture of Mr.. Isaac Hitler of Mat
taposett, and killed his whole flock, consisting
Of nine sheep.
CONNECTICUT.
George w. Richmond of Canterbury, has
within week past lost four Of his children.
On Tuesday of last week, a child aged seven
years, died of a disease which some of the
physicians call malignant sore throat, and 9TH
ers the black tongue. On Friday another,
aged five, died of the same disease. On Sat
urday, another, at the age of fifteen, and on
Monday, fourth child aged four; while still
another is dangerously ill with the same dis
ease.
Stephens, the wounded insurrectionist on
trial with Brown in Virginia, is Aaron Dwight
Stephens, son Of Capt Aaron Stephens of
Norwich Town. He was in nearly every bat
tie of the Mexican war, where he enjoyed the
confidence Of his superior officers. lie was
always bold, and inclined to rove in pursuit of
adventures and having gone to Kanzas with
the first emigration, he Joined John Brown
when there was need of fighting the border
rufans.
In the town of Hebron are about eighty in
dividuals Of the age Of seventy years and up
wards, in population of 1850. OF the eighty,
three are over ninety, and twenty -four over
eighty years of age.
The satinet mills in South Coventry, Ct,
were on Tuesday morning, wholly consumed
by fire. Insured for $4,000 loss on the build
ings, stock, and machinery, about $4,000.
The Hartford Press says that George II.
Wyatt, known throughout New England as
theatrical manager aud a comic actor Of fair
ability, died suddenly in Waterbury on Mon
day evening While on the stage in the sec
ond act Of Uncle Toms Cabin, he was taken
with papitation of the heart, and was carried
to the Scoyie House, where he died in fifteen
minutes