Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-18
GENERAL NEW SUMMARY.
ESSEX COUNTY.

ESSEX COUNTY.
The Gloucester schooner Charles E. Glover
sailed for the Western Bank on the Both of
March, and has not since been heard from
She is supposed to have been lost with Ler
crew. This is the fourth Gloucester vessel lost
since january, 1859, with an aggregate loss of
about thirty lives.
melancholy OccWTence.-On Wednesday at.
ternoon, the funeral services of two persons
Mr.. Felt and Mr.. Ashton-were performed at
the First Universalist Church in Lynn. They
were relatives, and had passed their childhood
as well as maturer years together They
were both consumptive in habit, and both re-
moved to neighboring town at the same time,
hoping for an improvement in health. They
lived there In adjacent houses, were taken Sc
riously ill at the same time, died within TWEEN.
ty-four hours of each other-one on Sunday
and the other on Monday ast-and were bur-
led together, as we have stated, in the same
ground, and on the same day. Verify, in
their lives they were united, and in their
deaths they were not diyided.-Reporter.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Capt. Archibald Dewitt, of Franklin, broth
er of Hon. Alexander Dewitt, died very sud
denly Tuesday morning. He retired to bed in
good health, and rose in the morning about
five O'Clock, when, on going into the kitchen,
he fell dead upon the floor. Capt De Witt
respected citizen of the town.
Thomas Kingsbury Esq, well known and
respected citizen of Needham, upwards of sew
enty years of age, had fall from the scaff0ld-
ing OF his barn, ten days since, causing his
death on Sunday last. He was treasurer of
the town, which Office he has held for number
of years. He has also represented the town
in the State legislature and held many offices
of honor and trust
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
A five year old boy of L b. Andrews of
North Bridgewater has an irrepressible ten
dency to travel He took several trips in the
cars last summer. He left home again about
nine o'clock last Friday morning, and told his
sister that he intended going to New Bed
ford, and since then no trace Of him had been
obtained.
Mr.. w. p Ramsdell of North Abingdon
Mass, has obtained wife by advertising in
the Barnstable Patriot. Miss Rebecca Ryder
Smith OF Barnstable is the willing fair one
The Patriot announces editorialy that Mr.
Ramsdell was "highly pleased, and willing to
pay his BILL"
MARTHAs VINEYARD.
Some of the Gay Head Indians who were
codfishing otfNoman's Land last week, saw the
veritable sea serpent. He was heading direct
ly for the proposed fort on the Point. The
Indians were very much frightened and in
stead of chasing him, he chased them, SO they
reported. We are glad that the monster has
again been seen and are only sorry that his dis
coverers had not the courage to hail him and
inquire whether he intended visiting Nahant
this season.-NeU Bedford STANDARD, Nay 16.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
About 500 letters from the Sandwich Isl.
ands, and from 200 to 300 from California,
were received at the New Bedford Post Office
May 18th and 10Th.
Horatio Lowell, who had been confined in
the House of Correction, at New Bedford for
the past six weeks, made his escape from that
institution on Thursday last. He belongs in
Taunton, and was serving out three years
sentence for burglary.
Job g. Lawton, Jr formerly Of Fall River
from which city he was Representative in
the General Court, and member of the Consti-
tutional Convention, is now Associate Justice
OF the Court of Sessions of Solano County,
California, and editor of the Herald, published
at Susan, which raises a Douglas flag and
hoists the name of James S. Green of Missou-
ri for the Presidency.
CONNECTICUT.
The golden wedding of Rev. Frederick
Marsh and wife, at Winchester Center, is to be
celebrated by their friends on Monday May %
in the customary manner. The fiftieth anniver-
sary Of the worthy pair occurs on Sunday, the
| Zlst, but the celebration is necessarily post
poned to the next day.
A subscription paper is in circulation in
Winsted for the purpose of raising bonus of
$500, to be applied to the construction of
line Of telegraph from Winsted to Waterbury,
there to connect with the world outside and
beyond.
In digging for water pipes in Hartford last
Friday, female skeleton was found that had
apparently lain there for many years. 1t was
nearly perfect, excepting that portion of the
skull was gone. About a week since male
skeleton Of very large size was dug up at the
Charter Oak Place Both are supposed to b9
the remains Of Indians, that part of the city
having been used by the aborignes as place
for burial.
In Winsted, on Thursday last, a gentleman
and his wife called upon family by the name
of Wakefield, and staid to tea In wettng up
some biscuit for the teatable arsenic wassused
by mistake instead of.crcam of tartar. All the
family together with the visitors partook free
ly the biscuit, and were poisoned, and wheth-
er any Of them would survive was uncertain.
The ship-builders in Connecticut appear to
be full of business this year. AT Fair Haven, in
particular, the business is experiencing, says
the New Haven Journal and Courier, decid-
ed revival.
AT the present term of the Superior Court of