Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-18
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
ERANKIIN CAENrY

FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Harris Whiting of Shelburne Falls, prom
Using young man of q years, and a clerk in
the store Of Richmond & Thayer, hung him
self in barn at his boarding place, on Wed.
nesday. He is supposed to have been tenn
porarily insane.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Charles L. Balch, a dapper young fellow, at
tached himself to the governor and council,
when at Williamstown and visiting the Hoosac
tunnel He pretended to be a reporter for the
| New York Tribune, and contrived to get
"dead-headed" at hotels and over railroads..
| The Tribune says its reporters are all instruct
ed and enabled to pay their own way so that
Balch is probably member of the great or.
der of the Sponge.
A little boy sleeping in a chamber, in North
Adams, rolled out of his bed and out of the
window on to the ground, a distance of twenty
feet, few nights since, and was only awaken.
ed by the fearful fall.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
We are informed that Mr. w. G. Bates, who
denounced the Grafton of Mr.. Manning, at the
Westtield Normal School, on account OF its
anti-slavery character, is not the president of
the association, and does not belong to the
alumni Of the school. He was, moreover, the
only person who expressed disapprobation of
| the sentiments of the orator of the day.
| Charles L. Russell, young man of the con-
tidence stamp, employed in David Smith &
Co.'S carriage mandatory, in Springfield,
met with a fatal obstruction to a long series of
thieving operations on Monday. He had been
accustomed to riding with the hackmen at the
Messrs. Richmond's stable on Sanford street,
between there and the depot, and while the
drivers were temporarily absent amused him
self with stealing letters from the silver-plated
signs on the carriages. No sooner were the
rpDpirpd fban If thaun
again missing, and the constant ounging of
Russell about the stables, caused him to be
suspected, watched, and finally caught in the
act. lie was at once arrested but for fear he
would cause further mischief if prosecuted, he
was let off by promising to pay damages, and
leaving some tools for security was allowed to
go to his home, in Worcester, to raise the
money. He has numerous creditors in Spring
field, who were so fascinated by his gentle
manly appearance and remarkable gift of CAB
that they lent him quite treely.-SPriaQtfeid
Republican, dug. 9Th.
VERMONT.
Mrs. Bailey, wife of lawyer in Highgate,
was badly burned, a short time since, by pour
ing burning fluid upon kinding wood to make
it burn better. Of course the can exploded.
1t is about as safe TO use gunpowder for kim
ding as to use burning fluid,
Thomas Cults, a respectable farmer of Or
wei, COllulllteu SulClue ny cutting MS throat
with pruning knife on the morning of the Sd
inst. He was deranged at the time, undoubt-
eddy.
In Highgate, last week Friday, mischiev-
GUS boy undertook to scare some little girls
with hideous mask. One of the girls, daugh-
ter of Mr. John Hogaboom in her fright fell
off the edge of bank and broke one of her
legs.
Gold has been found in Hardscrabble brook
in Springfield Twenty seven particles of gold
were found in one pan of dirt How big the
particles were is not stated.
RHODE ISLAND.
Robert Ashton, boarding with Mrs Thomp.
son in Lonsdale, while in state of intoxica.
ton, Monday, attempted to swallow piece OF
meat weighing two ounces. 1t lodged in his
throat, and before assistance could be obtained
the man was dead.
The Woonsocket Patriot says, 1--WE learn
that frost was plainly visible on low lands in
this vicinity Thursday morning Whether
sufficient to injure vegetables remains to be
seen"
The potato rot has made its appearance in
the vicinity of Woonsocket, but is not yet OF
virulent or general character.
CONNECTICUT.
Mrs. Abigail Whittemore, aged SO, died in
East Kiingly on the 7th inst. The jury OF
inquest rendered n verdict chat she came to
her death in consequence of the incorporate
use of sprituous liquors obtained Of John
! Sleath."
Two dwelling houses in Witon-one be.
| longing to John Hull, the other to Mrs. David
Santord-were struck by lightning and burnt
on the 4th inst, during the Saturday evening
shower when the Lightning struck so frequent.
ly. The families were both absent,
The Rev. James Richards, ID. d., was on
| Friday nut under bonds of $4,000 TO anDear he.
fore the superior court at New Haven, in Sep
TENDER, to answer to a charge of assault and
battery upon DIR. Francis Bacon in Litchfield
July 2lst
Jim Egerton and Jack Rand, arrested in
May last for attempting to rob the Thompson
Bank, are now on trial before the superior
court in Windham county, G. i. Cleveland
ID. Z. Tyler, and Gen Jencks, Esqs, for the
defence.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
The venerable Joseph Hoxie of New York