Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-23

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| Henry Allen, keeper of billiard saloon in
| Boston, committed suicide in Maiden, Thurs
day evening, by hanging Cause, pecuniary
trouble
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The State Lunatic Asylum in Taunton is TO
| be surrounded by heavy stone wall on every
side not bounded by the river. 1t will be 7
feet above the ground, of an average thickness
OF y feet, and will extend over a length of II
miles. Its completion will require three
years.
In the breach of promise case-Watestill
! Stevens VS.. Elisha Fuller-which has afforded
| the old ladies of New Bedford fruitful sub
| Ject for gossip, the disappointed maid being SO
years OF age and the faithless young man 6S
years, has been settled by the parties, the iu-
ry being unable to agree. Defendant allows
her $500, and pays the costs of the suit She
sued him for $1,000.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The Newburyport Herald says that an in
dustrious old man in that city who made his
living with the wheelbarrow, had succeeded
in burying $500, in dimes ninepences, and
quarters, some three or four feet under ground
in the bottom of his cellar. About a month
ago the 'sub-treasury" disappeared, and to
this day not a cent has been recovered.
The Salisbury mill, in which are employed
nearly a thousand persons, have recently built
upon the sides of their mills, iron baustrades
from each story, with ladders running from
them to the ground, for the better protection of
the lives of their employees.
Alonzo Downing of Saugus committed sui
eide by shooting on Friday evening. He had
been for many years subject to fits.
CONNECTICUT.
The huil1inuS ponnriSino tho 1vOrtyS Of TT
B. Osgood & Co., formerly the Meridcn Scale
Co., about half a mile west of the village of
Hanover on the west side of Merden, were
entirely destroyed by fire on the evening of
Thursday the 10th. Loss, something over
$1,000
The painful disease known as the putrd
sore throat prevails as an epidemic in Canter.
bury. A few days since eight children in one
family died with the dreadful disease, which
caused profound and general sorrow.
Thomas Kelley was killed on Thursday 10Th
in the Hartford Quarry Co., at East Windsor.
He was driving dirt car, and fell down while
ahead of it, and the wheels being low, the
body of the cart came directly upon him crush
ing him TO death. He was about twenty-five
years Of aye.
RHODE ISLAND.
John NJ. Worthington of Cranston, twice
arrested and discharged for completely in the
Burrlll Arnold mulupr, mas DGel arrested on
several complaints for violation of the liquor
law. The complaints were instituted by
Mr.. Angel. who attempted to get him convict
ed of the murder. and against whom Worth
ington now has suit pending for malicious
prosecution.
The Providence journal announces the sud
den and unexpected death of John ]. Stimson.
a worthy and estmable citizen of that place,
from Justification of the heart. He was born
in Hopkiuton in 1898. and was therefore in
the 62 wear of his age.
The small pox. in an unusually contagious
form, has appeared on Brigham, Numtord.
Clifford, South, Chestnut. H0spital south
Main, South Water, India and other streets in
Providence.
Personal.
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