Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-05-25
WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS.

"dS oHe VI TIE WedilllleSt CltlZenS III the west
ern part Of the county, has been contested by
the relatives of the deceased. The will dis
poses of about $40, 900 worth ofproperty, all of
which goes to his widow, his children, and
grandchildren, but is not equally divided be-
| tween them lie was man of eccentric hab-
Its, and the objection is that he was not capa-
Bile of making will at the date of the present
| one.
George w. Lawton and wife of Amherst
have recovered $4,000 and costs of the town of
Northampton, for injuries sustained by Mrs.
Lawton by being thrown from a wagon on ac-
| count of a defect in the highway. The acct
dent happened in January, 1858, and she has
since been wholly incapacitated for work The
suit was to recover $4,000 of the town.
Samuel Bemis, a young housebreaker who
annoyed the people of Greenfield and vicinity,
last fall, and has since been carrying on his
depredations in New Hampshire, was arrested
! in Bellows Falls, last week, and lodged in Jail
Albert II. Moore of Mortified shot last week
representative eagle, measuring feet and 6
inches from tip to tip He believes it to be the
Washington Eagle" of Audubon; if so, it is
an unusually magnificent specimen of the fin
est bird in our country. 1t has been forward
ed to the State Museum of Zoology.
Rev. p. X. Clark, who has supplied the pull
! pit of the first Congregational church at South
| y
imous invitation to become its pastor
The Troy and Greenfield railroad company
voted on Friday to accept the provisions Of the
new tunnel loan act as passed. last winter. The
| grading of the road between Greenfield and
Shelburne Falls, will be commenced as soon as
the survey is made, which is now in progress
CONNECTICUT
The chambermaid of the Connecticut River
steamer Island Belle, died very suddenly the
other morning, and the cook of the boat has
been arrested on suspicion of poisoning her
1t is reported that his family, with whom she
breakfasted, administered the poison to her in
order to get her out of the way, that a friend
of theirs might get her situation on board the
boat
Two young men, graduates of Blackwellps
Island, went into Connecticut as they say, "tc
have - of a time" They had it for a day
or two, at Rocky Hill and elsewhere; and
now they are likely to have time at the
Wethersfield State Prison. Last Saturday
they were put in Jail on charge of attempting
to kill citizen of Rocky Hill.
The town of Stonington, to which half Of
Mystic belongs, have voted to open a road tc
the Mystic Bridge Railroad Depot. The town
at the same meeting decide not to open the
proposed road leading from Stonington to Led
yard.
The inhabitants of Watertown are much ex
cited in regard to the brutaities of an Irisl
resident of the town who horsephipped one Of
his daughters so severely that her screams
were heard nearly half mile. She has beer
obliged to leave her home for the fear of hel
life.
Sudden Deah.-Mrs. Mary Jane Root o.
Greenville, has been sick a few years with
consumptive disease. This spring, she APP
peared much better. Sunday evening she was
visiting at the house of her aunt, and went tc
bed with her early. On retiring, Mrs. Roo
said to her aunt, "If always felt as well as
do now, should be perfectly happy. Let's
have good talk" They lay conversing, a
few minutes, Mrs. Root takingan animated part
in the conversion, and seemingly happier than
she had been known for many months, when
she coughed odce or twice with low hacking
cough, and the blood flew from her mouth and
nostrils in a copious stream. She died in ten
minutes. -Norcich Bulletin, May 24M.
Merritt Todd, the young man who, it will be
recollected, killed his father in Mortified sew.
eral months since, has Just had his trial before
the Superior Court ut Litchfeld, the jury rem.
dering verdict Of not guilty, by reason Of in
sanity.
The commencement of the Wesleyan Uni
yersity at Middletown, occurs June % DIR.
Cummings breaches the baccalaureate sermon
on Sunday, June 10 and June 2lst, Edwin =.
! Whipple delivers an GRAFTON, and 7. Il. AL