Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-13

Mrs Nj, j. Hurburt store, in New Haven,
was entered by burglars Friday night, and
robbed OF $500 worth of silks velvets and
bonnets, many OF the latter belonging to Gus
toners and being left for repairs She offers
$50 for the arrest of the thieves.
At a late hour Wednesday evening, f. G.
Stedman of Norwich Town heard IL noise in
his store, and, on opening the door, called
upon the intruders TO come forth. They did
50, two Of them and, as they passed out struck
Mr. Stcdman SenselesS with Slung shot.
Quarternaster Strong, of the Putnam Pha-
lanX, has gone TO Washington to engage quar-
tiers for the PhaanX which will visit that city
and Mount Vernon the Sd of next month with
l2S muskets
The old cotton factory in Towards Valley,
Hampton, which has recently been used
as saw and grist mill, was set on fire and
burned on Monday night, loss $1,000, and no
Insurance.
The Tolland county Agricultural Society
have awarded the first premium on farms to
Cornelius Farmer, OF Ellington; second pre-
MUM to Ira X. Marvin, of Tolland
X. x. Belden, the student who has been on
| examination i'll New Haven, for killing Geo.
| S. Stafford, printer, has BEEN committed for
murder. His associates McCuock and Bald.
win have been held us aders and abettors of
| the crime.
One of our leading manufacturing estab-
! lishments, says the Winsted Herald, received
liberal order from Savannah for goods Oil the
very day of Lincoln's election The goods
ordered were percussion capSl
MISCELLANEOUS.
Samuel Unruh, wealthy farmer living Just
| above Philadelphia, had caused the arrest of
| parties, last week, for trespassing on his land
| for chestnuLs the previous Sunday, and find
ing he had made mistake about one of them
who threatened suit for false imprisonment
the fear 50 worked on the nervous old man
that he committed suicide.
George Gordon, a leading democrat of Ne
| braska, was arrested over the river in Iowa
last week, for horse stealing, and the citizens
had got moose about his neck to hang him on
the spot, when the civil authorities in,erered.
He will now serve the public in stale prison,
| instead OF in the teIrlto ial legislature.
The wife OF Whcelock w. Porter of Vino.
ma Mimi, who lately clipped with two men.
and was caught and recovered at La Crosse,
seems TO have been bewitcled as Eve was by
an apple She says tie men gave her apples
before she left the house, and Kept her eating
them neal y all the time, and she believes the
apples were drugged
One day last week, Oliver Simmons, m in.
sane express messenger, broke open pack
age OF money, while IN hansitu, between Bald
more and llagcrGtown, containing S9445. lie
took out $1,000, spent $50, put SIS in his peck
ct, and burned the rest Of tee money in a
swamp. lie was consigned 20 the unatic
asylum.
On the day preceding election, prominent
politician, named Whppe, from one of the
towns near Albany, visited the city to procure
money for meeting the expenses Of the cam.
paign, and, having accomplished his mission,
mystcriousy disappeared Ills absence ex-
cites great anxiety among Ills friends, who are
now in search Of him
The crystal throne, which was one Of Tie