Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-04
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
wEsTERN MASSACHUSETTS,.

since young man of seventeen committed
suicide by shooting himself through the heart.
He was strongly attached to his mother, and
had seldom been separated from her during
life. During her illness, which terminated in
death on the 18th ult., he was her constant at
tendant. So violent was his grief at her loss,
that it oyercame his reason, and while his ia
ther was engaged with some nelghbors below,
he went to the attic, placed gun against his
breast, and, touching it off with stick, re-
ceived the ball in his heart, and expired al
most instantly. Mother and son were buried
in one grave.-EGgte.
The Pittsfeld Eagle says the report that
Mrs. LittIefield, the mother of Charles R. Lit
tlefield, has been made insane by the evil be-
havior of her son, is probably untrue, as letters
have been received at Adams from her within
a day or two.
The body of an infant, apparently about
three months old, was found on Monday eve
ming last, by some lads who were bathing in a
small stream near Lenox Furnace. The head
was missing, and the body had on dress and
pair of stockings, and was wrapped in sheet.
In the Criminal Court at Springfield, on
Thursday, DIR. William c. Brown was found
guilty of attempting to procure an abortion
upen an Irish girl, Bridget Coleman in De-
cember last, from which the girl died soon af-
ter. The penalty for the offence is imprison-
ment from one to seven years, and fine not
exceeding $1,000.
EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
John McElroy, contractor for the removal
of buildings, was killed at the Ruggles street
crossing of the Providence Railroad, in Boston,
Thursday, by beirg run over by train of
cars.
About noon, Friday, an Italian named Chas.
Prevot went into Bigelow, Brothers 6 Ken
nard's jewelry store, in Boston, and was ex-
aiming some diamonds, which he put to his
mouth for the purpose, apparently, of testing
them. He performed this operation with a
valuable one, and pretending to replace it in
the case, retained the jewel and deposited a
paste article, which he previously had in his
mouth. The trick was detected and the fellow
caught.
Mr.. Adams Shaw in attempting to drive his
horse and wagon across the railroad track in
North Bridgewater on Saturday, was struck
by the train, which threw him some forty feet
into the air, the fall breaking two of his ribs,
while the horses were killed and the carriage
demolished. A COW was killed in the same
place the previous day.
Mr.. Robert Nuttall, an operative in the mills
at Amesbury, complained on Wednesday eve
ming after he had left work, of feeling unwel
He left his house to visit a physician, and in a
few moments fell dead i'll the street. He was
an Englishman, about 43 years of age, and
leaves a wife and family.
The Commissioners who were sent by the
Administration to Salem, to investigate the
alleged forgery of nearly six hundred names
to petition for the appointment Of DIR. Loring
to the Office of Collector of that port, have re-
ported that the forgery was fully proved Mr.
Pike, the present Collector, has been sum
moned to Washington. Rich developments
are anticipated.
At the meeting of the Legislative Commit.
tee on the revision of the statutes, Thursday,
Isaac F. Shepard of Somerville, and Hugh
B. Miller of Coleraine, were chosen to fill the
the vacancies occasioned by the designations Of
Messrs Cushing and Wells.
j. G. Holland of Springfield has accepted an
invitation to deliver an address before the lit
erary societies of Middlebury College, on the
occasion of their anniversary in August.
Carl Shurz of Milwaukee is a prominent
candidate for the Republican nomination for
Attorney General of Wisconsin.
The following gentlemen have been elected
officers of the literary societies in Yale College
for the first of the coming year:
Brothers. President-J l.. Daniels of East
Midway, Massachusetts; Vice President-R.
~ l(dNloJ PCNtCtdl y--1IdC
Peck, Bristol Vice Secretary-E. B. Coe,
New York. Linonidn. Presidential. H. Davis,
jackson, Miss. Vice Prcsident-J. S. Seely,
Beverly, Ohio; Secretary-C. t. Stanton
Stonington Vice Secretary-D H. Chamber
lin, Worcester, Mass.
Rosa, the beloved daughter of Charles
Mackay, died at Naples on the 26th day of
February. 1t is said that she was one of the
loveliest and most accomplished girls in Eng
land, thoroughly educated, a fine lingulst, an
exquisite musician, and Of the rarest personal
beauty. A few months ago she left.home, ac-
companied by her mother, to realize the dream
of her life-a Winter in Italy. Reaching
Naples she died of gastric fever, after a few
days illness, at the age of 10.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Milwaukee papers say that never since
the State was settled has there been such ag-
ricultural activity. There is hardly an acre
fit for the pillow that has not been put under
cultivation in some way, and tremendous
crop is expected.
The McKinly (Texas) Messenger states
that the skeleton remains of mastodon have
been found imbedded in the earth, on branch
of Hickory Creek, about fifteen miles north
of that place. A tusk nine feet in length and
ten inches at the base has been dug up, also
part Of the jaw bone, weighing twenty pounds.
In the yacht race in New York. Thursday,
the schooner Madgie, of Philadelphia, won the
first prize, $780, The other four prizes, of
$175 plate each, were won respectively by the
sloop Deer of New York, schooner Dawn of
Philadelphia, sloop Haswell of Pawtucket r.
l., and sloop Flying Cloud of Philadelphia.
Joseph Charles, one of the Oldest and most
respected citizens Of st. Louis, was shot and
MORALLY wounded on the street, Friday MORN
ing, by j. w. Thornton, formerly teller of the
Boatmen's Savings Institution. Thornton was
tried and acquitted about year ago, on a
charge of having stolen $4,000 from the
bank, and Charles happened to be one of the
principal witnesses against him.
The Peterboro' Transcript reports that there
has been a remarkable exemption from law
suits in the farming town Of Hancock, N. II.
For period of twenty successive years,
ending about the year 1850, not single case
was entered on the records of the Hillsborough
County Court, the parties in which belonged
to that town.
Zebedee II. Wilson, a resident of Tilbury
East, Ct, ate of hemlock root, and the result
was that he died in less than an hour and a
half from the effects of the poison. A sad
warning to persons against eating herbs whose
qualities they are unacquainted with.
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