Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-14
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Sixty-fve of the crew of the Minnesota
who stopped at the Mariners House, IN North
Square, have been sent off to their homes,
with their money all safe and Through tick
cts" in their pockets. This was effected
mainly through the efforts of Mr. John u
Harrington, who was acting as agent OF tlle
Boston Port Society When the men were
paid off, Friday, he was present and received
the money from those who wished to be safe
before venturing among the landsharks out
side He received in this manner S1S9l, for
which he gave receipts, and subsequently re-
turned their money, as they were about to
leave the city He has also in his possession
$3.50. which a drunken sailor threw away, in
his fright, as he was pursued by the ''sharks."
This will be returned when the owner, now at
the Mariners House, is in condition to take
care of it.
The Emperor of Russia has presented to
Mrs Hudson wife of the Commandant of the
Navy Yard, a magnificent diamond cluster
brooch valued at $1,000, as an acknowledge
ment of the courties extended by Capt. Hud-
son, when in command of the Niagara, to sew
eral Russian officers who were on board the
ship when he was engaged in laying the At
lantic cable. The gift was received by the
lady on Friday last
The lady who started the first Sabbath
school in Boston, in 1911, is now living in
Medford, at the age Of seventy
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
AT twelve o'clock, Sunday, the large steam
saw mill of Artemas L. Brooks, in Lowell, was
destroyed by fire, together with the greater
portion of building used orstoring lime, hay,
&C., belonging to Horatio Fletcher, Esq, Mr..
Brooks loses $4,000 insurance $25O0. Mr..
Fletcher loses S2500.
Miss Ellen Goodsoe, young lady of Hollis
ton, nineteen years of age, attempted suicide
last Monday week by taking rat poison, 1t is
supposed that she has lately been disappointed
in love, and last Monday afternoon she bought
box of rat poison a part of which she took
that night Her condition being known Tues
day morning, DR.. Lake was called and she
was soon placed out of danger; but on Wed
nesday she took the rest of the poison, from
which she died early Saturday morning, after
two days of terrible suffering.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The steam tannery of Mr.. Hugh Conway,
in North Salem, caught fire Sunday morning,
and together with a small wood building adj
joining was totally destroyed. Mr.. Conway's
loss is estimated at $500, insured at South
Redding Office for 81 400. Messrs. Conway &
Dugan also lost about $500 worth of hides.
At Haverhill young woman named Mary
e. Jones, who had been deserted by her hus-
band, Daniel Jones, recently carried her young
babe, three months old, into the woods, and
left it to die. She confessed the unnatural
deed which wss perpetrated because she could
not endure the thought of having her child
live, liable to become degraded and mis-
cradle being, like herself.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The shoddy and saw mill belonging to ID.
p Whiting of Unionville, Franklin, was dis
covered to be on fire at about ten o'clock Sun
day night. The flames spread rapidly, and
the whole was burned to the ground The
building was occupied by f. b. Ray and Eras-
tus lockwood. The total loss is $4,000. There
was 5000 insurance at the HaYerhill office, on
the stock and machinery.
MARTHA's VINEYARD.
The Vineyard Gazette says that the shoe
business is now fairly in operation in Edgar
town, and calls upon capitalists to sustain the
enterprise 1t says "ten thousand, or even
five thousand dollars invested in this new en-
terprise, would furnish more active and steady
employment and prove greater source o.
wealth to our whole people, than twenty
times the amount invested in the whale fish
| cry.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
An elderly man giving his name MS Shen
the bridge, last Saturday night, and paid TWEEN
ty-tive cents which he said he received there
by mistake thirty years ago, and having never
been In Springfield from that time till now
had never had an opportunity to make an hon.
est restitution He probably held to the doc.
trine Of "better late than never"
As Mr.. W. IL. L. Barnes of New York. for.
merly of Springfield, was hastily coming up
the gangway of ship in which he had Just
arrived at that port from Europe, he hit his
head, falling back insensible and although
this occurred month since, it is said he has
n If recovered from fbo
entertained that it will be permanent injury
to the brain.
The Ames Company of Chicopee have made
rifed cannon for the new Russian steamer
General Admiral, which has been built at New
York.
CONNECTICUT.
RaLrodd CataStophe-Wh Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Mech of Canterbury were crossing
the track of the Hartford and Providence
Railroad near Packersvile, Saturday after
noon, the train from Providence coming sud
denly round the curve, struck the carriage
killed Mrs. Mech instantly, and injured Mr.
Mech SO that he died within an hour. Mrs
NJ. was so mutilated that she could not be rec
ognized except by her dress. Mr. Nj. was
also terribly mangled They had been to
Grlswold, and were on their way home when
the calamity occurred. They were about fifty
years Of age.
AS Samuel c. Morgan, President of the
Quinebaug Bank, Norwich, and his wife were
riding from Voluntown to Jewett CITY, Friday
afternoon, their carriage was overturned and
both were thrown violently to the ground.
Both were severely bruised, and Mr. Morgan
Is stlil confined to his bed by his injuries.
Ihe "one year amendment" received but 40
votes out of 222 in the Connecticut House of
Representatives
AS Joel Fuller was coming up "Jobn Tom
Hill" in Marlboro, Conn, last Thursday. ON
his way to Hartford, he heard rustic in the
brush, then sharp, lively rattle He got a
stake and killed rattlesnake over three feet
long, with from seven to ten rattles which he
cut off and took with him to Hartford.
RHODE ISLAND
A boy two years old, child of Mr.. Bannon.
who works at the bleachery near SCOTS Pond
IN Smithheld, was drowned there Thursday
last week.
Some of the letters stolen from the New
post office, last Thursday night. have been
found at The Cliffs, in the vicinity of Ochre
Point One of them, it is supposed from in
formation in it, contained a check for sixty
dollars. Another bundle had also been found
In the same vicinity, which on Sunday even
ing had not reached the Postmaster
In Newport, on Friday night, about eleven
o'clock, two soldiers belonging to Fort Adams
named, one Henry G.. Smith and the other
Huseman, borrowed a skiff at the lower end of
the city and started for the Fort The skiif
was upset, the weather being rough and Huse-
man barely escaped with life. Smith has not
since been seen, and it is supposed he is
drowned. lie was about q years of age, and
belonged in Massachusetts.
There was II gas explosion in Newport,
last Friday evening" at the Coddington Fac
tory There was first a leakage of GAS and
then the careless use of a lighted lantern. Ii