Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-11-05
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY

ESSEX COUNTY.
In the Superior Court for Essex county
Judge Brigham presiding, Mary E. Jones Of
Lawrence, married woman of eighteen years
of age, who, having been deserted by her hus
band, abandoned her infant child in the woods
of Haverhill, where it starved to death, plead
ed guilty to a charge of manslaughter, and was
sentenced to twenty years at hard labor in the
House of Correction.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The grand jury of Bristol county have made
presentment of the county for failing to pro
vide suitable court accommodations at Taun
ton. The petition for a mandamus TO compel
the county commissioners to build a court
house is being argued in the United States SUI
preme Court.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A barn, owned by Isaac Ross, was burnt at
South Adams, on Tuesday evening, with a
span of horses owned by Alonzo Cummings Of
Cheshire and forty tons of hay. Lafayette
Richards was badly burned in attempting to
get the horses from the barn.
In view of the anticipated presentation of a
petition to the Legislature for the removal of
the county seat from Lenox to Pittsfeld, it has
been proposed to take a vote on the subject of
removal at the state election on Tuesday, and
votes have been distributed throughout the
county for that purpose.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The officers of justice have detected and
routed gang of robbers and general maraud-
ers at Westfeld. Their organization was ex-
tensive, and implicated persons as far along
the Canal Road as New Haven. Their opera
tons embraced housebreaking, driving off
stock, and depredations of all sorts. Those
who have been arrested have confessed their
guilt, and more disclosures are expected.
CONNECTICUT,
Rev Mr.. Miner, the Baptist clergyman of
Killingly, upon whom Othniel Russell, recent
ly returned from California, made violent as
sault, charging him with improper conduct with
his (RusselPs) wife, has made full confession
acknowledging his criminal familiarity with
her during the last two years. The reverend
sinner has left for parts unknown.
Knapp's Rosin Oil Works in Stamford were
destroyed by fire, Wednesday night, together
with 5000 gallons Of oil. In an instant after
the explosion, the whole interior Of the build
ing was a mass of flames and smoke. Loss
$4,000.
The train on the Naugatuck railroad, near
Derby, was stoned on Saturday night last, one
of the stones striking a passenger i'll the car.
The suspected parties, two negro brothers
nomed Oliver and William Dillon, were pur.
sued, when they leaped into the Housatonic
river, and one of them is supposed to have
been drowned, as he has not since been seen.
Mrs. Brown of Bridgeport, attempted to fill
a burning fluid lamp, last Monday evening
consequence, an explosion, and Mrs. B. badly
burned. The child of Mrs. Cook, burned the
same evening in the same way, has since died
of injuries.
George W. Richardson, of Canterbury, lost
four children in six days by malignant sore
throat.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The sporting men of New York propose to
hold state convention at Geneva, on the 18th
inst, Tor the purpose of organizing effective
action against the game and fish laws of that
State. Sportsmen are summoned to the res.
cue and defence of their "inalienable rights. u
The Invalide Russo announces that the
Caucasian mountaineers, have another chief
named Mohammed Amik, not less intrepid and
fanatical than Schamyl and who may still re.
sist one or two winters. The Russian army in
the Caucasus, which comprises $4,000 men
cannot be reduced for some time to come.
The celebrated will case of DIR. Edward
Dearborn, of Sanborn, n. H, which has been
in litigation for several years, was finally ar.
gued before the Supreme Court at Dover, last
week, and the will sustained. Caleb Gushing
appeared as principal counsel for the contest
ants. The will left a property of $4,000
wholly to educational and benevolent purpos
es, and nothing to the family.
DR.. Tyler, leader of the Gree Lovers" Of
San Francisco, has emigrated, with a party Of
twenty associates, to San Salvador, in Central
America, where they expect TO be able TO put
in practice their detestable doctrines without
the interference of government They have
nIrabac nd IN ono of ,rnnI urabla lanI at
a shilling an acre. One OF the party is said tc
have put all his rcperty-S40, 000-into tho
common fund for the equal benefit of all those
belonging to the association.
In New Jersey, the other day, a young cou
pie, while counting by the fire, fell asleep
While asleep the young lady's dress took fire
AS soon as they awoke, the young man made
every exertion to extinguish the fire, but with
out success. The young girl rushed out o
the door enveloped in Il sheet Of flame, which
continued to burn until her clothing was al
consumed. She lived only few hours after
wards. The young man will probably b.
crippled for life.
A woman in Fairfax county, Va, writes t.
Gov. Wise that there are u great many per
sons residing in her ncighborhood whom sin
suspects to be aboltionists, and requests
Shapes rifle for herself 1t is said that til
governor sent her the rifle, and requests her t
raise volunteer corps of women in her re
gion.
A lunatic, who once escaped from an asylum
at Marseiles, in France, and getting possession
of small fort on an island in the bay, whic
had been abandoned, but still retained fe,
heavy guns in position, with a considerable
quantity of ammunition, actually cannonade
the town, and fired shots into several vessel
entering the harbor
"The reason why" Mrs John Wood left III
Winter Garden, N, Y, was, that while Agne
Roberston's dressing room was beautifully pre-
pared, and furnished in the most luxuriou
manner, hers was destitute of almost the M
cessities OF the commonest apartment.
Parties lately arrived from Pixies Peak stat
that fearful mortality had broken out !