Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-08-05

ton, G. II. P.-Thomas Barr of Lowell G.
S. W-William A. Swift of Boston. G. S.
Charles d. Cole of Boston. G. T.-Charles
Hayden of Boston, G. J. W.-William II.
Pearson of Boston.
The batherS on Chelsea Beach were slightly
astonished, Wednesday afternoon, by noticing
fine shark sporting in the surf. He was
about twelve feet long, and his jaws were
made up on the most liberal and approved
scale. lie was taken in
On Tuesday morning young man named
Sullivan was caught in the machinery at Goes
bone factory in ROxbury and thrown violently
round drum. The lower part of his body
was badly torn, one leg was crushed and one
arm was shivered, He lived but short time.
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
The engine OF an excursion train on the
Connecticut River Railroad ran off the track
near Northampton, Wednesday afternoon, in
turing Young man named Huntoon, from
New York, so seriously that he is not expect
ed to recover One or two Their passengers
received slight injuries. A severe rain and
hail storm was prevailing at the time, and sand
to the depth of several inches had been wash
ed upon the track where the accident happen
ed. Nearly six hundred passengers were
upon the train, which was moving at the rate
of scarcely twelve miles an hour.
The Machias Republican says that the store
of Levi Leighton, Jr., of Epping, Columbia.
was entered by burglars Friday night, and
5000 taken from the safe.
William Wooster, of Columbia, killed a bear
in logging road, on July Both. bullet be-
tween the eyes fixed the flint OF his bearship.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Miss Lydia Barnard, now in her 102d year,
one day last week walked nearly quarter of
a mile and back to procure her miniature, and
the same week went half the distance unat-
tended to call upon venerable neighbor She
is an early riser, and is an example to all those
feeble folks who recline for rest during the
day, as she deems all such habits quite out of
place for one in her years. She has certainly
made vigorous commencement upon the sec
ond century ". H. Cabinet.
RHODE ISLAND.
Nathaniel Washington, colored boy, has
been held for trial in Providence on the charge
OF manslaughter, for causing the death Of two
OF his playmates by drowning. Six boys were
out in a skitf upon pond in Olneyvillc, when
the accused mischievously capsized the boat
by standing in the gunwale. Three boys were
rescued, Washington swan ashore, and two
were drowned.
CONNECTICUT.
David Lyman of Middlefeld, raised this
season, five acres of wheat, which yielded at
the rate of forty bushels to the acre, and is
said to be Gas white and good as Genese itself
can boast Of"
Erastus Fisher of Fishervillee was arrested
at Norwich, Wednesday night, for assaultng a
fireman on the express freight train of the
Norwich & Worcester Railroad. He is charg-
ed with having pulled the fireman off the en-
gine and assaulted him with blows, without
any provocation
MISCELLANEOUS.
A correspondent writing from Niagara Falls
says that where the Suspension Bridge origin
ally sagged only two or three inches under the
weight OF train, it now Says nearly twenty
inches. The general impression in the neigh
borhood is that this great work of art will one
OF these days give way and fall into the river.
Visitors now walk over the bridge, instead of
crossing in the trains as formerly.
The editor of the Savannah Republican has
seen mug, lately sold in that city, and actu-
ally found i'll the hands OF a negro, on which
were these words, 'Perish Slavery Prosper
Freedom! Since the bodess hand wrote the
words OF doom on che palace walls of Belshaz
Ear, nothing like this ever happened.
The overland mail route which was placed
by the administration beyond the reach of re-
form, and which costs 100000 year, and
yields gross revenue Of $4,000, pays, ac-
cordlnS to the estimate of the intelligent
Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia
North American, about 100000 year profit
to the contractors.
Two men, who have been travelling with
Dan Rice's circus, have been arrested for the
murder of Decker of Coxsacke, N. Y, on the
10Th ult. The murder grew out of a dispute
about the commences of 81 bill which the
murdered man refused to take in payment Tor
some refreshments.
Rev DIR. Humphrey of the Free Church of
Scotland, and holding high position in the
church of which he was a member, lately ran
away with the wife of another clergyman of
high standing and considerable wealth. They
came to Toronto where they were living III
sunshine and clover, till the police, having
been warned of their indiscretions, served them
with warrants, and detained them, to await the
pleasure of their friends at home. The faith
less divine left wife and six children, and the
foolish woman a husband and eight children,
to grieve for their loss and shame.