Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-08-21

The case of Henry Cooper, colored porter
lately employed by Lee Sprague & Co, gram
dealers in this CITY, for embezzlement ofmOney
from his employers the proceeds ofsales made,
was commenced at the opening of the court,
Monday afternoon, and is still on trial. A. b.
r. Sprague, a member of the firm VIM. a.
Wilson, book keeper for the firm ; and E. B.
Lamson j. II. Chaffee, S. P. Nickerson, and
| Mr. Garfield, witnesses for the government
gave in their testimony. 1t appears that de-
fendant has been in the employ of Messrs.
| Sprague & Co. since October last. He claim
ed to be fugitive slave, was exact and precise
in all his dealings, and a prominent member
of the church and choir of lions Methodist
Episcopal church. The first discovery of any
thing wrong was made known in taking account
of stock, July l, when a discrepancy was WIS.,
IDLY manifest, between the books and the
amount of corn and IT cal in the store. A
watch was then kept, and it was found that
defendant whose business it was to open the
store in the morning, and who remained there
at noon while the others were absent at dinner,
was in the habit of appropriating to himself
the proceeds Of sales made at those times. 10
test the matter sundry bills of money were
caused to be marked, and with this money the
four last named witnesses made purchases at
sundry times, and thus proof was elected of
foul play. w. A. Williams, Esq, is counsel
| for defendant
James Powers and John Kinney of Westbor-
| Il, II,
sentenced to the house of correction for one
year.
HARPER's MAGAZINE for September opens
with an illustrated poem by Fitz James
O'Brien, entitled the Sewing Bird" which
has useful lesson. There are other illustrat.
ed artices,-one by Porte Crayon" on "Sum-
mer in New England" and another on "Spi,
ders." There is quite the usual variety and
number of articles. For sale at Mellen's.
| The ATLANTIC MONTHLY for September
has an excellent article entitled "Among the
Trees" which gives an account of the various
trees in our forests, and furnishes interesting
facts in regard to their growth and peculari-
ties. The author OF this article seems familiar
with woodcraft. Fanny Kembe has "Notes
on Shakespeare" in which she favors Golfers
cancellations. An article on Couture" by
Mr.. Emerson, it is said, appears in this mum.
| Der; but there are also one or two weak arti-
cles, such as should not be tolerated in this
magazine. Excellent things are promised for
the next month. For sale by S. Thompson.
IMPoTANr SEWING MACHINE DEoIsIoN.-A few
days SINCE we published article from Fhiladel
phia paper, announcing decision of Mr.. Justice
Dunlap of the circuit court of the United States,
granting a reissue of the Akin s. Felthousen pat
ent, on wheel feed" to their assignor, James e.
Wilson, and claiming that this patent covered the
Char feed, or 'four motion feedn used by Wheeler
& Wilson, Grover Baker, l. NJ. Singer and Others
and that George B. oloat being the only licens
ed under this patent all the rest liable for in
fringement
1t seemed singular that patent for wheel feed
should cover a bar feed; and especially singular
that the Aikes and Felthousen patent granted orig
naly in Aug 5, 1851, should cover the patent of A
b. Wilson, of the firm of Wheeler & Wilson, grant
ed Nov. u, 1850, nearly year previous; but we
concluded to wait for farther development. This
has now come in the form of decision OF Mr.. JUS
ce Nelson OF the southern district OF New Ork In
the cases of Wheeler & Wilson and Grover & Ba-
ker against George B. Sloat, James B. Wilson, A
c. Stockman, j. b. Gibbs, and other, fully
tanning the A. b. Wilson patent, and granting per-
petual injunctions against these infringing parties
The hearing had in June last, and occupied
number of weeks, while the evidence taken filled
some two thousand printed pages. Judge Nelson
had the bench with him Mr.. Justice Smalley,
and has taken till the present time to make up his
decision which we find in full in the New York Tri-
bune of yesterday.
This decision is very complete upon the contested
points, asserting that the rights of the evidence is
all way to the priority and validity of the
| b. Wilson patent, over those of the j. G. Wilson
claim, under which Soat and others have assumed
to act The A. b. Wilson patent has at various
times, and indeed, always, heretofore, been sustain
ed in the courts, but it has been so thoroughly
and powerfully contested now, and now, as ever
it comes out triumphant. The injunction covers all
making, vending, and using of the infringing ma
Chimes and the court puts the matter into the hands
of master, to collect the tariff on all past infringe
ments, and stop all further ones. We hope our sew
ing machine friends will keep cool as the weather
will admit, and submit to the powers that be- with
| MS good a grace : they can