Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-06-22

Veazie Bank of Bangor, Maine, for a bogus
bill on the Getty Trust and Banking Compa-
ny" of New York of like amount. The oc-
currence took place at the station IN Spring
field.
BOSTON.
A bold robbery was committed at the Web
ster Bank, Boston, on Saturday last. A mem
Der of the firm of Chase & Shorey went to the
bank to make deposit of about $500, and laid
his book with its contents on the counter sup
posing the teller saw it and attended to it ac-
cordingly. In an instant before either of them
was aware of it both book and money had dis
appeared and no traces were left of the thief
A similar robbery of a smaller sum was made
at the Traders Bank on the same day.
A disastrous deficit of $685. 900 has been dis
covered in the affairs of the East Boston Su-
gar Refinery The Directors own about one
half Of the shares, and were of course largely
interested in the success of the company
Much indignation, however, exists among the
stockholders
1t is said that Pummer, the mutineer now
in Jail i'll Boston, awaiting his execution, has
many near relatives living of whom but one
sister is acquainted with his terrible situation.
Two of the crew Of the Junior, who were wit
nesses in the case, and had large sum due as
witness fees have suddenly decamped, leaving
their dues behind.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Mathew MeHugh, gardener, in Newton,
died on Sunday last from the effects of dose
of bed bug poison, administered to him by
Mrs Mcclure, who stole the bottle containing
it from the Nonantum House, under the i'm
preston that it contained ardent spirits.
The Lawrence Manufacturing Company i'll
Lowell made, week before last, 392, 900 yards
of cotton cloth. This was the largest weeks
| dom, tbara fHbor Drn1uot
for the last year, as reported in the statistics,
was 100000 yards per week.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Rigorous Old Aye.-AIr. Simeon Marshall,
residing at the Cut, near Gloucester, 81 years
of age, the other day, started alone in dory,
from the Stage Fort, rowed to Kettle Island,
about three miles, procured some bait, then
rowed to Eastern Point, four miles more, and
went to fishing He caught barrel of fish,
and then rowed into the Stage. After dress
ing his fish, he wheeled them to his home,
about quarter of a mile distant.
The golden wedding" of Mr.. and Mrs.
John Wilson of Beverly was celebrated at the
homestead on the 10th inst Descendants
came to the festival from Salem, Haverhill,
Marbehead, and many other towns to which
they had wandered.
Mr. William H. Newhall of Bedford, on the
18th inst, shot black eagle that measured
from tip to tip of the wings six feet and ten
inches, and from the top Of the head to the
end Of the tail, two feet and nine inches The
body, after the skin was removed, weighed ten
pounds.
The Newburyport Herald states that onSat-
urday, as they were preparing to launch "a ship
in the yard of Mr.. John Currier, Mr.. George
W. Jackman, who was employed under the
shin in aGari ~caugnU between the bilge ways
and the ship, and was badly crushed. One of
his ears was nearly torn off, his face wounded
and he bled profusely from the nose and ears
Martin Cogger was drowned at Newbury-
port on Sunday, while bathing He leaves a
wife and three children.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
AT marriage ceremony in New Bedford, on
Saturday last, the bride stated that her age
was about twelve years, and the bridegroom
twenty-five. The parties are of Portuguese
extraction, and the girl married not from any
wish Of her own, but at the solicitation of her
mother.
CONNECTICUT.
Bank Shdcing.-The recent report of the
Bank Commissioners of Connecticut shows a
financial system decidedly ahead of that prac-
ticed in Massachusetts. Of the seyenty-five
banks in the State, thirty -three are known to
be in the practice of buying up paper at enor-
nous discounts. The Jewett Bank bought a
note in 1856 for $685. hdUing eight gears to
run. The discount was taken out for the
whole time and carried to the credit of earn
ings, and was used to pay the next dividend.
The Quinnebaug Of Norwich has loaned to one
party over $4,000, at rates of ten to eleven
per cent The City Bank of Bridgeport had
no specie in its vaults but had the certificate
of another bank for $4,000 in specie, on which
it paid four per cent
Governor Buckingham of Connecticut has
vetoed the bill Incorporating the Peoples Pa
eific Railroad. This is the same company for
which an act of incorporation was extensively
petitioned for in Massachusetts last winter. The
prayer was not granted Gov. Buckingham
opposes it chiefly on the ground that Connec-
ticut possesses no sovereignty outside Of its
own limits, while the proposed company con-
templates operation in many other States, and
under other jurisdictions.
The Connecticut State Senate has amended
the "Maine Law" by leaving the fine for
drunkenness discretionary with the Justice,
between certain fixed limits. This is regarded
as an Improvement upon the compulsory TWEEN
ty dollars fine, as now established, because
there are many cases where mitigating circum-
stances render the imposition Of the large sum
an absolute cruelty.
RHODE ISLAND.
Abel Carter, fiagman at the Pawtucket sta
ton on the Providence and Worcester railroad,
was killed Monday morning by the hourly
train from Providence to Valley Falls. He
was attempting to drive dog from the track
when he was struck by the locomotive and
thrown some distance from the rails. lie liv-
ed but a short time He was 81 years of age,
and leaves son and daughter.
Col. Henry G. Mumford one of the leading
citizens of Rhode Island, for many years High
Sheriff of the county, chief marshall Of the
city Of Providence, and active in many other
public capacities, was struck with paralysis
about month since, and died on Monday in
the 9th year Of his age.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Albany Statesman gives an account of
the tarring and feathering Of guilty couple in
Undertook last week by the villagers. Syl-
vester Groat was taken from his bed stripped,
and had tar poured over his head and body,
and coat of feathers applied Evangeline
Folmsby was served in the same manner, saw
ing the head. The villagers deserve imprs-
Onment for life.
a chimney, 1873 feet in height and Is feet
square at the base, was upset in Brooklyn, N.
Y, on Saturday last. Heavy wooden braces
were set into one side of the chimney, and the
foundation on the same side of the pile was
removed, after which the braces were set on
fire aud in half an hour, the whole mass fell
with the crash and shock of an earthquake.
Jesse Trader boy Of IA years, with vic
ious habits and temper committed suicide in
Hillsborough, Ohio, last week, resting the butt
OF his muskct against an iron kettle, so that
the muzzle touched his forehead as he sat on
the bed, and pulling the trigger with the
branch Of tree prepared tor the purpose.
The ball entered his brain.
Prot Bannister, fathcr-in-law Of the late i'll