Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-15
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY



him.
Monday afternoon, Dr. George Parks, resid-
ing at No. 10 South street, fell through the
main hatch of the ship Maid of the Sea, and
ives seriously if not fatally injured. The an
cident was owing to the carelessness OF the
mate, who spread tarpaulin over the hatch-
way without putting on the matches. Inc
owners Immediately discharged HIM tor ms
unseamanlike conduct DR.. Parks had his
ribs broken over the heart, and is in critical
situation.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY
Late Saturday afternoon, a woman, who
was looking for strawberries, found the body
of a man lying by the side of the Stony Brook
Railway, between North and West Chelms-
ford. The man proved to be Barnard Flood,
fireman at the Eagle Mills, Scythe Factory
Village He had that day received his wages,
and it is supposed he was killed for the sake
of robbery.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Simeon Halves of Acushnet village, while
engaged in blasting rock on Monday after
noon at Belleville, very narrowly escaped Sc
we're injury, if not instantaneous death. After
lighting the fuse it became eXtinguished before
reaching the powder, when Mr.. HaweS rehght-
ed it, thereby producing an immediate eXplo-
sion, and SCATTERING the rock upon which he
was standing at the instant. Several of his
upper and lower teeth were dislocated by the
shock.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
Mr. Samuel Farris of South Yarmouth,
bought COW last week, and placed her in his
field, in which was a windmill An hour or
two afterwards she was found dead, i'll conse-
quence of injuries received from the arms OF
the mill.
NANTUCKET.
The Nantucket Inquirer says The sound
of the shoemakers hammer, and the parcels
of ''Iasts" and "uppers" in transportation from
the factory to the various workshops, remind
us that the shoe business is fairly under way.
We trust that these will last until Nantucket
ranks with the upper manufacturing towns OF
Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Mr.. Charles G.. Carpenter of Bernardston, of
the Canada Foreign Missionary Society, sailed
on the Schooner Life Boat, from Newburyport,
on the I'd, for the coast of Labrador, to prepare
the way for permanent mission on the part
of it bordering on Belle Isle.
Two girls, belonging to respectable families
in Greenfield, one 10 and the other 10 years
of age, were brought before W. T. Davis, Esq,
on Friday, on charge of stealing goods from
W. IL. Sanborn's and Potter Richardson's
stores. The goods consisted Of hoped skirts,
one of which was found on the oldest girl, and
Il great variety OI fluleS IdllCy BuONS'
The will of Daniel Gore Of Monroe, which
has been contested because of its unequal be-
quests, was sustained at special probate
court at Rowe last week. The case has excit-
ed considerable interest in the vicinity where
Mr.. Gore lived, and large number of people
were in attendance at the trial, which was held
in the church
CONNECTICUT.
The annual commencement exercises of
Wesleyan University Middletown, takes
place next week. The Baccaaureate sermon
will be given by Rev. DR.. Cummings, Presi-
dent of the University; Rev. Alfred Goodman
addresses the Missionary Lyceum Mr.. e. F.
Whipple and Mr.. Z. b. Adrich give the ora
ton and the poem before the literary sOcie-
ties. The exercises of the graduating class
occur on Wednesday, 22d. The class num-
beers SO.
For the past three years Mr. and Mrs. Silas
HOskins, of Winsted, believed their two sons,
Truman and Thomas, to have been killed by
the Indians on the Plains. The Borrowing
mother has worn mourning for them during
that time, and the father was only prevented
| from erecting a monument to their memory by
a vague hope, that they might possibly be still
alive. a few days since the parents received
! q letter from New Orleans. from a third son.
| truman IN that city, and that Thomas was
| awe III Texas. Truman is soon expected
home. The long silence and the sudden reap
pearance constitute strange history.
~ novel case is before the Superior Court at
New Haven. One Ferguson, lessee of the
basement of the Chapel Street Congregational
Church, to turn an honest penny turned the
basement into pistol gallery. The continu-
uous discharge of small arms being a serious
interruption to the quiet enjoyment of the
weekly conference and prayer-meetings, the
society have taken legal steps to get rid Of
their noisy tenant, while he Objects and stands
upon his dignity and rights as specified in the
lease.
RHODE ISLAND.
Il Prosecuted Intant-In the Court of Com
mon Pleas, at Providence, the case of Char
lotte G. Fisher VS.. Henry G. Lillibridge has
been on trial. Both parties reside in Provi-
aence, anu the charge specifies that the prom
Use OF marriage was made September q, 1857
about SIX weeks before he was twenty-one
years old. The defendant admitted the prom
Use and rested his defence on the plea Of Gin
fancy" The jury failed to agree, standing
eight Tor awarding damages and four for ac-
qulttal. How many such "infants" are there
in Providence
On Monday morning John Fitzgerald, lad
about sixteen years of age, in the employ of
Dennis McCarty, stevedore, while at work
around some freight cars which were in mo-
lol, at Indla FONT got thrown down partly
ON the track, and had both feet crushed, the
right one badly so at the heel, and his left
shoulder severely bruised.
RELIGIOUS.
Pastoral Resignation The resignation of
hey. IhoS .. Rice as pastor of the Orthodox
ooclety IN tins town was announced from the
pulpit yesterday. Its acceptance will leave
the Orthodox, Baptist, and Unitarian Societies
III this town all without settled nastor Mr.
Rlce was settled in Brighton about a wear ago.
Tie was formerly settled in Danielsonville,
Connecticut
1t has been stated that Rev. Chas g. Ames,
recently Of Minnesota, had received call to
settle with the Unitarian church in Quincy
the place made vacant by the death of Rev
Dr. Lunt. The Quincy Patriot reports, that
the city resolved to ask that gentleman to sup.
ply the pulpit for one year, by vote of IL to
O. A proposition for a permanent settlement
was not carried
Mr.. Austin Wiley, formerly editor of the
Portland Inquirer, was ordained pastor of the
Congregational Church in Anoia, Minnesota,
May Is.
a proposition is on foot to remove the Meth.
odist Theological Seminary at Concord, N.
H., to the vicinity of Boston, provided a sufIi-
clent sum is pledged by its friends to justify
the removal
MISCELLANEOUS.
The libel suit of w w. Smith VS.. the New
York Times was decided Wednesday by YER
dict of 81 cents in favor of the plaintiff This
action was based on the publication of the dy-
ing statement of Donnelly, executed year or
TWO ago, In which he attempted to throw sus-
plclon on an innocent man, who is the plaintiff
i'll this action.
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