Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-03-10
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

LII tIle OHlteu OtdleS OOuTi, Oh InuTSudy
Sprague j. gave decision in the case of Elias
Howe, Jr., VS.. c. w. Williams ct al, Same v.
A. Morton ct al. which had been on trial be-
fore the court some two weeks. The decision
sustained the Howe patent, and granted an in
junction against both defendants, forbidding
them to sell either the "Sloat' or the Got
tage" machine. Hon. B. r. Curtis and Giles
for Howe, Hon. Caleb Gushing, Durant, and
Washburn for Sloat ct al.
The kerosine oil works of Messrs. Page &
Wetherell, on Bennington street. East Boston,
were destroyed by fire early Friday morning,
together with dwelling house adjacent, which
caught fire and was nearly consumed. Fran.
els Dunbar, while endeavoring to save some
of the property, was burned to death.
The case of VIM. H. Forbes, the Harvard
College student, indicted for assault with a
billy on policeman, in the Chapel of the Col
lege, was assigned for trial Thursday after
noon, but was again postponed. 1t is under
stood that Forbes has Settled" with all the
parties interested, and that he will plead guilty
so that the case will not go to the Jury.
Yesterday morning the British brig Evan
Crerar, Capt Crerar, from London for Bos-
ton, in coming into the bay during thick
snow storm, struck near the Graves and Out
er Island at y o'clock, and came off again. an
chored, and in forty minutes afterwards
sank down to her lower yards. The crew took
to their boats and landed at the Boston Light
House.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
The gossips and good people of Billerica,
had festival on the Sd inst, over the marriage
of Mr.. David Fitch, aged 81 years, and Susan
Andrews, aged 55. The event was celebrated
by the ringing of bells, firing of cannon, and
social gathering of the citizens, envened by
music prepared for the occasion and performed
by the Band.
The shoemakers of Stoneham had a meet
ing Wednesday evening, and committee pre-
viously appointed to urge the craft to strike re
ported that 329 had signed the bill of wages
and agreed to strike. An effort is to be made
to get the female operatives to join the move
ment without satisfactory results.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Dennis Sullivan, laborer in the Bleach
House OF the American Print Works at Fall
River, had one of his arms caught round the
shaft overheard, and Immediately severed
from the rest of the arm with strips of flesh
reaching above the elbow. 1t was painful
and shocking accident.
Yesterday morning the Anawan House, at
Fall River, was destroyed by fire which orig
mated in a bed. The progress of the flames
was rapid, and the interior was entirely de-
stroyed
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Springfield Republican states that Gin
the absence of any new appointment at the
Armory, Mr. Erskine S. Allen, the master
armorer, is acting superintendent. Ex~Gov-
ernor Anderson of Maine, is prominent can
didate for the vacant office, and it is believed
is more likely to be appointed than any of the
more Immediately local candidates"
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mr. Truman Bill of Gilsum was driving
home from Keene, last Monday evening, with
another man named Gassett, and had reached
Beaver Brook Falls, two miles or more north
of our village, when the horse, blind one, we
learn, ran off the bank some twelve or fifteen
feet Mr. Bill was found dead in the water
the horse on top of him. The wagon was over
the other man, who was not seriously injured
Nashua (N. II } Gazette.
CONNECTICUT.
Previous to his departure from Connecticut,
Mr.. Northway was in Hartford, where he
subscribed for the Courant and Press, to be
sent to Samuel Deming, st. Joseph, Mo-"
He also subscribed for the Litchfeld Enquirer
for the same individual. Mr.. Northway's
name is Samuel Deming Northway, and it is
known that be purchased a ticket for st. Jo-
seph and told some of his friends in Boston
he was going there to purchased hides, this
spring. He is without doubt laboring under a
mind diseased.
A miserable hovel in the south part of Sails
bury, occupied by an old colored woman
named Hannah Youngs, was consumed Satur-
day night, March 3, and the body of the wo-
man was found next morning among the
smoudering ruins, burned to a crisp. The
old woman had habit of smoking a pipe in
bed, and it is supposed the fire was communi-
Gated from the pipe to the bed clothes
MISCELLANEOUS
The people of Milton, Florida, could not
abide the incendiary influence of an exhibition
of wax figures, including the Saviour and
Apostles and John Brown, and seized them
and burned them up; leaving the poor propri-
etor only too thankful that he was not consum-
ed in the same fire.
Silver Lake, pretty little sheet of water in
the heart of the town of Albany, Ga, has
commenced to disappear through one of those
curious subterranean passages which seem to
penetrate the earth to the low country, and
connect with the streams leading to the gulf
The meanest man of America is supposed to
live in Cleveland. He applied to Justice, re-
Gently, for execution to levy upon the ,oooden leg
of a man who owed him $44. No constable
could be found to serve the execution.
The Dayton (Ohio) journal publishes the
marriage of Mr.. Stephen S. Doggett to Miss
Emma L. Harris, both of that city. The GER
emony took place on Saturday, the 10Th ult.,
at O'Clock A. NJ. In the same paper appears
the notice of Mr.. Doggetts death on the same
day of his nuptials, at 12t O'Clock P. M. The
deceased was in his 2lst year.
The smack Princess, burthen twenty-three
tons, sailed from Norfolk, Va, on Saturday,
March 81, with a cargo of oysters in the shell,
packed in ice, for Havana, vessel and cargo
owned by Capt Henry Fitzgerald This is
the smallest vessel, ard the first venture of