Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-07-01
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


In Boston, suit was brought against Chas
H. Mills by John M. Way, to recover the val
ue OF horse and carriage, left standing near
blackstone Square, and put up at Mills stable
by police officer. This was to test the RIGHT
OF city officers in this matter and the city as
sumed the responsibility and was in fact the
defendant in the case The horse and carriage
has been appraised at 1852, but Mr. Way con
sidered it worth more, and sued for $452 The
case was tried at Concord, and verdict was
rendered for $464 SO, for plaintiff-what he
claimed, with interest.
Thursday forenoon, boy five years old,
son of Richard d. Harris, who resides in West
Orange street, Boston, was run over by the
Worcester cars, and so badly injured that he
died in about half an hour after the accident
Mrs. Oliver Frost, the lady who was injured
at the exhibition of fireworks in Charlestown.
on Saturday evening, June 25th, is much more
comfortable, and that there is a fair prospect
OF her ultimate recovery.
ESSEX COUNTY
The onion crop in Essex County is again a
failure, as for several years past, and in Dan.
vers and Newbury, as in other towns the mag
got has so devastated the young roots that the
heldS have been plowed up and tobacco and
other crops substituted.
Larkin West, Jr., of Beverly, aged 20, was
drowned on Saturday near Collins Cove, by
the upsettiug of a mackerel boat
The city government of Newburyport, hay
ing failed TO appoint liquor agent according
to law, has been complained of, the case to be
tried in September. The fine for such failure
is 500, one half of which goes to the COM
plainant, and the remainder to the State.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Matthew Delury, about twenty four years
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of South Reading died very suddenly We'd
nesday afternoon. His death was owing to the
intense heat and his imprudence in drinking
too freely of cold water from a brook near the
field in which he and several others were NOW.
ing.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
A lineal descendant of the Indian King
Phillip was drowned at Middeboro' last week,
while bathing. His name was Thomas C.
Mitchell. He was not quite q years old, and
intended to be missionary to the Indians. The
mother of this unfortunate boy resides in Fall
River--FaH RiUer Ne,cs.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Sheriff Longley of Belchertown states that
John p Warren now in his possession for lar
cenyy who was-snspected of the murder of his
wife at Wellington, Conn, on the I'd inst, has
made full confession of his crime. Warren
says he murdered her on the day of her disap-
pearance by drowning her in stream called
Roaring Brook, in Wellington, and that he
moved the body from the water to different
place, and subsequently to the place in the
brush where it was found in the town of Ell
lngton.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
VIM. Herrick, sixteen years old, son of
Aaron Herrick of Westfeld, was taken with
cramp while bathing in Little river on Mon
day afternoon, and was drowned.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The lightning which struck school house
in Portsmouth, N. H., was the cause of some
curious phenomena. In the upper (boys)
schooroom, a lad about fifteen years of age,
named Frank w. Fernad had a perfect mini.
ature likeness Of an elm tree, its branches and
leaves, stamped upon his left shoulder, which
however, disappeared sometime afterward.,
One-half of his foot was also white as snow
for an hour and half
RHODE ISLAND.
Matilda Bowen, who has been confined in
the Bristol county Jail, several months, for in.
sanity, attempted to kill the jaior, John b.
Pierce, on Saturday morning last AS he en-.
tered the room where she was confined she
threw at him brick which she had pick
ed out Of the wall wounding him severely.
After severe struggle, she was overcome,
and put under more rigorous restraint.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A sale OF fee negroes, who have failed TO
pay their taxes, took place on the 10th inst,