Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-10-05
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY

Moses Goodrich, provision dealer, of Lynn,
while crossing the track of the Eastern rail
road, Monday, was run down by a passing
gravel train and fatally injured. One of his
feet was crushed, and lie was severely injured
on the head. The horse was instantly killed,
and the wagon made perfect wreck.
In Newburyport, on Monday evening, sa
lutte of nine guns was fired i'll honor of an heir
which was born to a married couple who had
been for some years childless. The mother
was formerly belle of the city. One gun
was fired for each pound of the child's weight.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Caroline S. Whitmore, a lady 81 years old,
wandered from Deerfied, on the 19th in an
insane STATED She had on dark calico dress,
plaid shawl, brown hood, has light hair, thin
features, walks fast, talking to herself great
deal, and would probably answer to her name.
Sabbath BreakerS.-The pigeon hunters were
so numerous on Montague Plains, on Sunday,
Sept. Is, as to disturb the Inhabitants who re-
side in the neighborhood.
The receipts of the Connecticut River rail-
road for this year are largely in excess of those
of last year, for the same months. The August
earnings were S27 lib, against S23, 469 for the
corresponding time of last year, making an in
crease of A. 43 in favor of the month Just past
The increase in August has been, in passen-
gers S2,290; freights S2,354
CONNECTICUT.
The Connecticut Liguor Laic.-The citizens
of Hartford, in town meeting on Monday, re
fused, by vote of 208 yeas to GAG nays, to re-
imburse Constable Charles d. Mott for a
judgment of $3.50 and costs rendered against
him recently in the United States Circuit, on
account of a seizure of liquors under the State
law. Another suit of $1,000 is still pending
against the officer, who acted under the advice
OF the selectmen. The seizures were made in
1856. The action appears to have been based
on the decision of Judge IngersOll, that the
warrant on which the constable acted was de-
fective, although in the exact form prescribed
by the statute-the inference being that the
state, and not the town, is responsible for the
damages.
The following is a list of insurance on the
factory of the Peck Smith Manufacturing
Company, which was destroyed by fire in
Southington, on Sunday ast:-Etna, Hart
ford, $6250 Hartford do. $5000 Phenix,
do, $5000 North American, do, 5000; City,
do 1925; Home, New York, $1,000; Massa.
soft, Springfield, $3.50 Springfield Farmers
and Mechanics, do, $4,000; Conway, Con-
way, $3.50; State, New Haven, S3125; Peo-
pies, Worcester, $500; Western Massachu-
sets, Pittsfeld, $500.
James c. Denison of Redding Ridge had
hand crushed in a threshng machine, Sept
10, winch resulted IN his death, after great sui
fering, on Friday, Sept. 20. lie leaves wild
ow and two children.
Another mysterious disappearance" is that
Of an Irishman named Michael Cleary, from
Mystic, who broke out of his own room by
jumping out of the window, Sept. 7, almost
month ago, leaving his clothes and about
$1,000 in one of the New London banks, be-
sides other money due.
Warren, the Wellington wife murderer, is
said to have been seen at South Coventry, and
the statement is perhaps true as he could not
well find a safer place than in the immediate
vicinity of the Tolland County jail
MISCELLANEOUS.
The New York Times says that in 1841 a
schooner loaded with Seeding oysters was
capsized in the Sound, about mile and half
from the Long Island shore, little west Of
Eatons Neck. and her deck-load of thirty
bushels swept overheard. The great oyster
bed lately discovered in the Sound probably
sprung from the oysters lost at that time.
There were about two hundred vessels, in
Guiding three steamboats,, engaged in "drcdg-
ing for oysters at the newly discovered oys-
Ter bed off Huntington, on Saturday
Mr.. Slade, Of Alstead, ~ H., the only sur.
ylying revolutionary pensioner in Cheshire
county, recently met with fall by which his
thigh bone was fractured and his life endan.
gered. He is nearly hundred years old.