Worcester daily spy., 1859-10-15
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.


The contractors for sinking the shaft at Hoo
sac tunnel have abandoned their operations as
the pay is inadequate to the labor.
Notice has been given of an intention to pe-
titon the next Legislature to make Pittsfeld
the shire town of Berkshire county, intead of
Lenox. The subject of the removal of the
shire town of Berkshire comes before the Leg
lslature nearly every year, and two or three
times the citizens have had projects submitted
10 them, ana voted against change.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Boston Traveller learns that n man
named Quimby, of West Lynn, was commit
ted to Salem Jail on Wednesday ON the charge
OF the revolving and unnatural crime of incest.
the victim being his own daughter A num-
Der OF trunks have been landed within a few
days on the westerly Marblehead beach, under
very suspicious circumstances The police
ana custom officers are looking into the matter.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The government contract for oil 1853 900 gal
Ions OF winter sperm) has been awarded TO
VIM A. Robinson & Co. of New Bedford, at
price which has not transpired
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence Journal savs:-"An Irish.
man, named Maxey, at work at the Narragan
sett Brick Yard, in Darlington, met with = sad
accident on Wednesday, by the caving in of n
clay bank, by which both of his legs were bro
ken below the knee; and it is feared he is 9th
erwise seriously injured internally"
The expenditures of the city of Providence
TOR the year ending in September were $685.
490, while the receipts were $479,049. The
principal items of expenditure were-public
schools, S64, 1853; fire department, S36 81
city watch, S3l 1888 celebration of American
independence, $500 police, $ll, 500 light
ing streets, S2S,2l3. The city debt is s629.
l02, decrease from 1858 of $1l93SO.
CONNECTICUT.
we regret to learn of the serious illness of
Edmund Perkins, Esq of Norwich, who is
dangerously ill of an inflammation of the stom.
ach, at the Bra ltord Island House on Brad
ford or Mystic island, opposite Mystic harbor.
Mr.. Z. visited this place, we believe. some
three weeks ago, and has been ill for nearly
that time.-HaI2tord Times
Pickpockets tried their hand among the mas
sengers at the railroad depot in Bridegroom
while on their way to the State Fair. ID. V.
b. Baldwin of Newton found himself relieved
of S60 Capt B. Foote of Brookfield of $40
and Thomas Brooks of Ansonia of $50.
Frederick Boardman, Henry Bostwick, and
Isaac Smith, of New Milford, came down the
Housatonic River last week, in birch canoe.
weighing l7S pounds. They rowedIto Bridge
port and returned home OIL the cars.
In Killingly, last Tuesday, Othnel Russell
returned Californian, sought to kill Rev. Mr..
Miner, the Baptist minister at Chestnut Hall.
He cut and stabbed him with knife, and shot
at him twice with a revolver He then went
in search of Thomas Pray, prominent and
respectable member of the Baptist Church. in
order to kill him, but Mr.. Pray was absent
The fellow was arrested, and is now in ail.
Russell has been divorced from his wife, and
he seems intent on killing everybody who
helped his wife to get clear of him. Mr.. Mi
ner, who saved himself by running like a
deer" was not very badly wounded.
On Tuesday last boy of nine wears son of
Mr. Orrin Mitchell of Chestnut Hill. killing
y, was severely kicked by his fathers horse.
lie was found lying senseless on the ground,
with his forehead badly fractured He is not
expected to live
A revival is in progress among the Metlio-
dists in West Kilingly.