Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-09-30

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The following is from the Boston Courier of
"Wednesday morning:
Bdretdced Bad Misunderstanding after
noon, while the ceremonies for inaugurating
the Webster statue were in progress within
the State House grounds, some anti slavery
fanatics were busily engaged in distributing
printed petloned for removing the statue. upon
the ground that Daniel Webster devoted the
last years of his life to the defence of the fu-
gltlVe slave act.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Samuel Burnett of New Bedford, attached
to Spaldings circus, was drowned at Helena,
Arkansas, on Monday the 18th inst.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Another explosion of polishing stone oc-
CURED at the Bay State Tool Works in North
ampton, last Tuesday, by which German,
named Shafts, was so seriously injured as to
render his recovery very doubtful. Mr.. Cha
pin, who was hurt the week previous by the
bursting of a stone at the same establishment,
is recovering.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Considerable thieving of late has been
practiced on the cars at the Springfield depot;
but to guard against further losses the railroad
companies have stationed watchmen on the
express trains, while the passengers are out
getting their meals.
Mr.. Forbes of the Maine Temperance Jour
nal, has been sued for a libel by Essec Fuller
of Turner. The libel, as charged, consists in
the statement made by correspondent that
MIR. Fuller WIS rum-seller. The damages
sre laid at $5000
1t is stated that Mrs. VIM p Dana of Per-
ry, Nc, has preserved and put up the past
season fifty hundred pounds of strawber-
ries! Three tons of preserved strawberries!
Add the same quantity of sugar, and we have
nearly SIX tons OF preserves-enough to fill six
or eight molasses hogsheads Wing.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Rev. j. l. T. Coolidge, who recently
took orders in the Episcopal Church, has re-
moved to Providence, where, on the next Sab
bath, he assumes pastoral connection with
St. Johns Church i'll that city, as assistant
minister with the venerable DR.. Croker
CONNECTICUT.
The Norwalk Gazette says, that "the mon
ster oyster bed lately brought to light was dis
covered week before last by a party of five Da-
rien fishermen, whose names are VIM Wood
James Warning, Thos. Garlin, VIM. Hoyt, AL.
exander Stevens. These men went out fish
ing, and CHANGED to drop dredge for an an
Choir over the bed, when on taking it up it was
filled with enormous bivaves-which led to
further investigation, and the result stated
One vessel, last week, took up seuen hundred
bushels in single day The bed seems to be
almost inexhaustible, and must contain many
millions of6uShelS. We were shown samples of
the oysters yesterday as large as an ordinary
garden spade, the meats from which looked
more like beef tongues than the ordinary BIZ
valves There were on Sunday two steam
boats and about one hundred and fifty sail YES
sells on the ground dredging nearly all day
lmostly New York people, we are glad to
lima, Al.
of a boat and an oyster dredge has been brought
into requisition, and our blacksmiths are dill
gently at work making more implements to
take them with. There is no means of even
approximatlng at a valuation of this discovery
probably .tioe millions Of dollars would fall be-
low the reality. The bed lies little over the
center of the Sound in line bearing from the
Norwalk to Eaton's Neck light, and is in wa
ter from six to eight fathoms."
The bondsmen of John w. Seymour, the
absconding treasurer of the Hartford county
savings association got decision in the SUI
preme Court at New Haven, on Tuesday, re.
leasing them from the payment of the bond
(some Sl2,OOO) on the ground that it was Civ
en- when Seymour was first elected in 1861,
and could not apply to the defalcation in 1856
not having been renewed as often as he was
reelected.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A few evenings since, while the curtain was
down between the acts of the play at Laura
keene's Theatre, in New York, woman rose
in the dress circle and proceeded to address
the house, exhorting them to repentance. and
going on in way to lead the audience believe
that she was dementcd. She was quietly led
from the theatre, and peace was restored 1t
now turns out that she was not crazy at all.
but that she undertook the feat to win wager
of $25.
negro girl at Client, Ky, painted herself
and attempted to cross by the ferry to Indiana.
The novelty of the steamboat attracted her at.
tention and exposed her ignorance. Suspicion
was excited and she was returned to her cold
Kentucky home"
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