Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-04-29
GENERAL SUMMARY.


In Pittsfield, April 23rd, Mr. Smith sought
to kill Mr. Foot, Ia SickieS, for "dishonor-
ing his bed" The bystanders allowed consid-
cradle choking to take place but intertered
when large butcher-knite was about to close
| Foot's career. The parties are described as
respectable" and it is said that Smith will
yet kill Foot.
A malignant and fatal disease of the throat
has recently made its appearance at Wellfeet,
Mass. Iu the family of Capt. Richard II.
Freeman five children between the ages of five
and fifteen years have all died within the
space of twenty-three days.
A case was tried before Judge Hoar, in the
Supreme Court, at Taunton, last week. in
which they sued to recover the amount of
three promissory notes. 1t was proved that
the notes were given for Intoxicating liquors,
and verdict was ordered for the defendant.
Robert Niles of Cranston, r. l., has been
arrested on charge OF perjury in swearing to
false statements i'll a case of scandal which has
recently created considerable talk i'll Provi-
dence, and i'll which dispositions have been
taken, preparatory to an application to the
Supreme Court for divorce
The store of Luther A. Tabor of Holyoke
was broken into on Tuesday night, an en-
trance having been forced through a front
window, and jewelry and other goods, to the
amount of $500, were stolen. The perpetrat-
ors made successful escape with their booty.
Judge Hoar of the Supreme Court, with the
concurrence of his Associates, has decided that
imprisonment for the non-payment of fine and
costs, imposed for a violation of the liduor
law, is no part of the Imprisonment provided
for in the statute, and has ordered a woman so
held in the House of Correction at New Bed
ford to be discharged.
Miss Riley, visiting the family of William
d. Niback, member of Congress from Indiana,
was strangled to death by swallowing the sep
arate portions Of Seidltz powder, instead of
mixing them beforehand, so that efiervescence
took place in the stomach.
By u recent decision of the Supreme Court
of Maine the American Peace Society comes
into possession of between eleven and twelve
thousand dollars, left by will to that Society
by VIM. Ladd, many years since.
1t is stated in dispatch from New York
that the mail bag from Havana, brought by the
Quaker City, which arrived there on the 20th
was found at a public store in Broad street,
where it had been sent as containing sugars.
The mail was found under the sugars, unin-
jured.
man, absent in California some three
years, on coming home 10 Nashville Tenn
recently, found a babe only three months old
lying IN the cradle. He at once cut off the
infants ears to avenge his wounded honor"
The screams of the child Gale din the family,
when the infatuated man learned that the babe
beonged-to neighbor, who was visiting his
wife. He had to flee to escape a lynching.
-Four brothers have been sent to the Indiana
Pcnitentiary, from Crawford County, for
horse-stealing Their father, who had been a
bed-ridden cripple for fifteen years, is proved
to have been the leader Of clan to which the
young men belonged, banded for unlawful
purposes Their name is Prother
Some people take cold easily. Howard
Paul, in his amusing patchwork" tells of
delicate young man who kissed a lady's
Snowy brow" and was laid up with influenza
a week, in consequence.
In Western New York lives distinguished
man, who could not write when he was mar
ried, but who was instructed by his wife so
thoroughly that within five years after his
marriage he was elected High Sheriff of his
county, and within ten years served four years
in Congress, and is now one of the most prom
inent financiers in the Empire State, president
OF bank, and worth probably half million
Of dollars.
Aroostook County in Maine, stretches away
for two hundred miles from Bangor to a point
further north than Quebec. Fifteen hundred
families are said to have settled there the past
year, and still they come. The State Legisla
ture are now moving valuable land grants for
a railroad. to penetrate this region-great ex-
ertions are being made to develope its natural
resources.
The Baltimore Exchange says that, accom-.
panylng the announcement Of the conclusion
OF the Sickles case, comes rumor from Wash
ington, to the effect that member of one of
the Foreign Legations was shot at by q citizen
yesterday, under circumstances bearing some
resemblance to those which have thus been
adjudged sufficient justification for the killing
of Key.
The wife of a settler "squatted" at New
Haven, Minnesota writing, April 9Th, to her
friends at the East, tells a sad tale of destitu-
ton and want. Children with feet done up in
rags for want of shoes, and with pants patched
with all colors till the patches themselves are
exhausted, nothing TO be had without money,
and no more prospect of money than of lilies
in December, is the burden Of her sorrowful
story. According to her testimony, many 9th
ers are suffering in the same way.
The arrest of Mr.. Mejan, French Consul at
New Orleans, ON charge of harborng u free
negro sailor who deserted from his ship. has
drawn out vigorous protest from the British.
Spanish, Prussian, and Belgian Consus at that
port. The act is regarded rs an infringement
OF The privileges and rights of Consus.