Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-22
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


dow. About eleven o'clock he left the house
when his wife locked the doors against him.
He broke in and pitched her out of the window
He was committed for trial in default OF Sl0,-
900 bail.
A rich merchant of Boston, forty years old
married the daughter of his lawyer on the 4th
of July, and started on a western tour. Ar
irving at Milwaukee they visited lawyer ana
signed papers of separation. lie gave her
$1,000 in cash, settled upon her SO Oo0 IN Bos-
ton property, and she returned home. The
cause of this strange interruption Ill the Money
moon remains secret.
A gentleman's leg was amputated Wednes-
day, at the massachusetts Hospital, in order
that he might have an artificial leg applied.
The amputated leg was four inches shorter
than its fellow but perfectly sound. The patient
has walked for htwenty-seven years upon
crutch, but will, in few weeks, be able to
walk so well with ''Palmer Leg" that his
| lameness will not be observation-disclosures
Some weeks since the failure of a Boston
merchant was announced and a recent state
ment of the condition of his affairs shows his
total debts to be in the neighborhood Of three
hundred and thirty thousand dollars, with as
sets to the extent of about forty thousand dol
lars. The merchant claims that he was worth
on the first day of January, 1857, clear OF all
| membranes the sum of one hundred and
thirty thousand dollars. -Irdvelter.
A man supposed to belong in Milford, was
seen Wednesday afternoon about the depot of
the Boston and Worcester Railroad, and when
just beyond the Providence crossing of the
Worcester road, he was overtaken by the New
| York express train, run over, maHgled i'll a
shocking manner and Instantly fSilled. He
had with him a jug of rum, Which, was found
after the accident unbroken.
| The fine new shin Sarah ATinot of RostOn
Capt. Wheldon from New Orleans for Liver
pool, was burned at sea June %. Crew saved.
She was ship Of 1895 tons, built last year in
East Boston, ard was owned by Messrs Will
liam F. Weld & Co. There is about $4,000
insurance in Boston on the vessel. The cargo
of cotton was probably insured in Europe
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Father and Son Drowned-A father and son
named Heard, who lived in Wayland, went
out in a boat Wednesday morning on
the Sudbury River for the purpose of fish
ing. In the afternoon the boat was found
empty, nd the old gentleman buoyed up in
the water by frock which he had worn and
an oar grasped in his hand 1t is supposed
that the son had fit, and fell out of the boat,
and that his father was pulled out in trying
to assist him. The old gentleman was 81
years of age and his son was fifty.
The body of a man named Woodward re-
cognized as a ahorer on the Nashua and Low
ell Railroad, was discovered in the Merrimac
river, at Tyngsboro, Thursday morning, by
some boatmen.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Alvin Weeks fell from a boat at Rockport
Tuesday, and was drowned The deceased
leaves a wife, 10 whom he had been married
about two years.
very valuable horse belonging to Col.
Tuttle, of the Merrimac House, New buryport,
while being groomed on Tuesday, jerked his
head suddenly against an iron staple and tore
out an eye, so that it actually dropped upon
the ground. The horse was valuable, $3.50
having been refused for him.
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.
The HouSatonic Bank BuryLory-Mr. John
Smith, who attempted the robbery of the
Housatonic Bank in Stockbridge, worked his
way under the bank, through hole just large
enough to admit his passage, which he dug
from an adjoining shed, working at night, and
living in thefwoods by day, preying upon the
neighboring farmers for his subsistence. He
had been working diligently for about three
weeks, and had progressed so far that only a
flat stone separated him from the coveted
treasure. While working through the stone,
he broke the bit with which he was boring, and
had recourse to a chisel and hammer. Unfor-
tunately for him, a harness maker had acct
X,
and went after it about midnight. He heard
the sound of the chisel and hammer; his curl.
osity was excited; he listened became con
WINGED that the noise came from under the
bank arousfdp thu caught file rascal in the
act.
The enforcement of the dog law in Windsor,
Berkshire county, has produced a collision of
town authorities selectman versus a consta-
Bile. Rev. Mr.. Barnes, of Savoy "a good
man, in the view of the seectman, having
been attacked and his clothes torn off by an
unlicensed dog, the said selectman considering,
very rightly, that cit was shame, in this en-
lightened age of the world" to treat ga minis
ter OF the gospel so, ordered the constable "to
arm himself with the weapons of DEATH and
destroy that and all other unlicensed dogs
The constable obeyed, but in killing the Offend
ing animal, he went to the house of his owner,
and dragged him from under the protection of
that root, which, in the eye of all law, even the
dog law, is a sacred castle for dogs and men,
Whereat the seicctman comes down on the
constable for exceeding his authority. The
constable says, you told me to do it, the Sc
lectman, 81 didn't" and the question will
probably go into the next election, and perhaps
into the church.-RepubHcm
Mr. Wason of Springfield brings back from
brief visit to Europe authority to build $50
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railroad Two are to be finished in extra orr
entail style for the royal family carriages.
CONNECTICUT
The accommodation freight train over the
Norwich and Worcester Railroad, Tuesday
morning, from Allyn's Point for Worcester,
met with serious accident at Poquetannock
Bridge. The draw-bridge was open to permit
smack to pass through, but the engineer did
not perceive it soon enough to stop the train
in time, and the locomotive, tender, and one
freight car, were precipitated into the water.
The men employed on the train jumped, and
all escaped uninjured except one, who was
somewhat hurt.
Mr. Gideon Cross committed suicide in Put
nam, on Tuesday. He was between 70 and
80 years old. He left note stating that he
was not insane, but that he was fully aware of
what he was doing.
PERSONAL.
Mr.. Blondin, by his next friend, Mr.. Eddy
of Niblo's Garden, has petitioned the Aims
house Governors for leave to stretch rope
from Backwells Island to New York CITY,
upon which he proposes to cross and reeross :,
Permission was not granted
Judge Woodruff of New York, has decided
that Mr.. Forest shall pay his wife $500 per
month alimony pending the re-hearing of the
divorce suit, and $500 for counsel fees
Garibaldi has son, who is a soldier, by him,
and fights like q lion by his fathers side.
lhis young man is % years old.
MISCELLANEOUS.
RachePs letters are soon to be published for
the benefit of her family. Here is a specimen
OF some of the smaller ones my Dear
Friend While walking in the Pope's garden
the other day, my little Jewish instinct broke
OUT, ana stole four oranges. | cannot excuse
myself 1or the act, except by sending you one