Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-24
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

| of obtaining money on false pretences.
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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
| BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The injunction against the Shawmut lnsur-
ance Company, Boston, was, on Saturday,
made perpetual. Attorney General Phillips
| appeared for the Insurance Commissioners,
and j. A. Andrew for the Insurance Company.
The injunction was modified SO far as to allow
the officers of the Company to act under the
direction of the Court, and with the concur
renee of the Receivers, in the matter of laying
assessments upon stockholders.
On Friday afternoon, as the Saxonvile train
| upon the Boston and Worcester Railroad was
approaching the Brighton depot, man of
| about twenty-five years of age, named Thomas
Kenney, jumped from the train, stumbled and
fell beneath the cars, which passed over his
head, crushing it in a horrible manner and
| killing him almost instantaneously.
An ancient manuscript, bearing the auto
| graph of John Alden, who made such bung-
ling work with Miles Standish's courtship,
has recently excited some curiosity among the
antiquaries of Boston. 1t is an original deed
from an Indian by the name of Quishataset,
whose acknowledgment is certified to by John
Alden, under his own signature and in his ca
pacity as one of the Assistants, in these words
taset this Sd of 4th month 1915, before me,
John Alden, Assistant"
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
| In the Superior Court at Plymouth, before
Judge Russell, on Friday last, the case of Moses
Bates VS.. Major Ben: Perley Poore, for libel,
was tried. 1t was commended that Mr.. Poore
had injured the reputation of Mr.. Bates by
some reflections on his character, published in
| the Boston Journal under the signature of
"Perley," and written at Washington. The
| jury returned verdict for damages to the
amount Of Sl,793 SO.
On Tuesday evening last, the spool factory
of Clark Brothers, in Middleboro', was con-
sumcd by fire, with all its contents. The
building was owned by Messrs. Tnkham &
Thompson. Loss $500, without insurance.
Loss of the Messrs. Clark 81 500; insurance,
$500.
ESSEX COUNTY.
On Tuesday evening, 18th inst, the students
in Phillips Academy called upon Elk President
Pierce, ct the residence Of Hon. John Aiken,
Andover, where Mr.. Pierce has been staying
a great portion of the time since he returned
from abroad The Andover Advertiser says:
"He received them with very felcltous ad.
dress, after which they were severally intro
duced to him."
The Haverhill correspondent of the Travel
the scene of considerable excitement a few days
since by the assembling of twenty-one men,
mostly of property and standing from the
East Parish, who refused to pay their taxes on
account Of some dissatisfaction about the cree
ton of school house. Two were actually
arrested and lodged in Lawrence jail, but the
other nineteen thought better Of the thing,
| paid their taxes and returned to their homes in
| quiet.
| BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford Mercury records the
nearly simultaneous deaths of two aged ladies
at Sippican, marked with circumstances of re-
markable coincidence. Mrs. Grape, on visit
ing the woodhouse in the evening, did not re-
turn, and search being made, she was found
in dying state, having accidentally struck
her head against the passage way Mrs. Bor-
| den had gone to the cellar of her residence on
an errand, where she was seized with palsy,
and expired in few moments.
BARNSTABLE COUNTY.
A Mrs Winslow of Brewster, has gathered
this fall from about three acres Of land in Har
wich, two hundred and thirteen bushels Of
cranberries, for which she received $1343.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
On Wednesday night, William Hubbard of
North Hadley, while in a paroXysm of insanity
caused by the excessive use of intoxicating Ii
quors, attempted to kill his wife, stabbing her
three times in the back with knife, which
undoubtedly would have resulted in her imme-
| date death had the knife not struck the back
| bone. AS it is, she is in very dangerous
| condition. lie was committed to the hospital
| for the insane at Northampton the following
! day.
The case of Mary Elizabeth Russell of Pei
ham VS.. Elijah Cowles of Hadey, for breach
of promise, in which the damages claimed are
| $4,000, was on trial in the Superior Court at
| Northampton on Friday, and excited consider
able interest. Mr.. Cowes married year
since a sister of Schuyler Colfax Of Indiana,
and Miss Russell was his housekeeper pre-
vious to marriage.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
In the case of Dr. Gilman VS.. the town of
| Deerfield, to receive damages for injuries re-
| ceived in consequence of a defect in the high
way, the jury have awarded the plaintiff ST.,
$50.
| CONNECTICUT.
Among the antique articles exhibited at the
New Milford fair, was medicine chest, shown
by Mrs. o. Bennett, which was used by DIR.
Fisk, of Boston, 200 years ago G. Roberts
presented a walking stick $50 years old, and
Mr.. Tyrrell exhibited a basket more than 100
years old, owned by the mother of Roger Sher-
man.
The Rev, Jacob G. Miller was installed asso.
cate pastor of the First Congregational church
in Brantord on the 10Th inst.
L. Thumb. Esq, Of Bridgeport, has been
victimzed. Some rascals broke into his barn
and stole silver mounted harness, two brides
and Wildcats" horse blanket. The little
General would have "walloped" the fellows il
he had caught them, and now offers a reward
for the property.
Mr.. G. l.. Daboll, inventor of the air whistle
has put one upon the New London lighthouse
The whistle is blown by condensed air instead
of by steam, by all apparatus worked by two
horse power Ericsson caloric engine, blast,
being given about four times minute in foggy
weather.
Daniel I. Porter, teacher in one of the
public schools of Hartford is under arrest fol
numerically chastsing one of his scholars
Samuel b. Mettlcr, son of DIR. Mettlcr.
During the thunderstorm Of the night o.
the 18th, the lightning struck tree on thu
farm Of L. Durham, at Mansfield, and wen
into the ground with terrific force, tearing III
rocks and stones striking an aqueduct pipl
1t run upon it distance Of one hundred anc
seventy rods, knocking ont the plugs at the
troughs, and killing a trout in the spring
M. ii. Bishops Office, New Haven, was ell
tered "in broad daylight" on Friday, and one
hundred and fifty dollars in bills and CHECK
for fifty dollars stolen