Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-11-12

view" She says her husband will return
with his family, having learned by experience
that there's no place like Maine for the SONS
and daughters OF the old Pine Tree State.
The Bethel Courier says the plum crop was
very fine in that vicinity the present year.
The editor raised two bushels of the Lombard
! plum on one tree, the fifth year from the nur.
sery. The stalk is scarcely three inches sdi'
ameter. Few persons ever saw tree so load
/ cd with fruit
AT Fort Kent Aroostook county, chimueys
were thrown down by the recent earthquakes,
and the waters in the rivers are said TO have
been moved
VERMONT.
Franklin Severen a member of the egisla-
! ture, wilhelm his seat, Tuesday morning, re.
ceived telegraph dispatch informing him that
his dwelling house, barns, and Sheds in Rock
ingham, were burned to the ground the night
before. Loss over $1,000, insurance $500
| Jabez Wilcox of Stamford clipped last Mon
day night with the wife OF Lyman Grocer, and
after stopping i'll Bennington one night, started
t'r Canada the following morning. Wilcox
lett wife and four children, and his paramour
a husband and three children.
Albert Palmer, who has been station agent
at Vergennes for year or more, has been ar
rested on a charge of emhezzIing the funds of
the railroad corporation. 1t appears there is
$1,000 he fats to account for
y fellow giving his name as Charles Boyd.
and pretending to be sent by friends in Cali
tontia, called at Ephraim Bryant's, in Hart
land, and after a weeks visit suddenly LETT
with Sl25 Of Mr.. Bryants money
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Thomas Egan, nineteen or twenty years
old, and Of respectable Irish parentage, com.
mtted suicide at Manchester, N H., last
Thursday, by taking opium. lie was ii weay-
er, out OF work and depressed in spirits. lie
went to Manchester from West Warren, in
this state; and the Manchester Mirror, says:
-"he leaves a brother in Milford, Mass, an
other in Worcester, Mass, and brother and
sister in birmingham, the residence of his
mother"
Mary Quincy, an Irish girl about twenty
years Old, attempted to committed suicide, at
Manchester, N. H., Friday morning, by jump
ing into the canal near the Stark counting
room. Her dress and crinoline buoyed her up
until the bad purpose melted away, and she
was rescued.
In Dover, n H., George w. Davis was
committed for trial, to Jail, ON tie 20th ut.,
on the charge OF theft and forgery by which
the sum of $l60 was drawn from the Straford
Savings Bank. Davis, 1t appears, was pay
ing attention" to girl of the name of Rand,
whose sister had a hank book containing the
Above deposit. This book Davis induced her
to steal and draw out the money, forging the
name OF her sister in receipting for it, and
sharing with each other the plumber
Daniel jameson, a middle.aged farmer from
Dunbarton, while selling apples in Manchester,
Friday afternoon, was attacked by Il mum,
Der OF boys, who knocked him down
by stone which hit him on the head. The
assault was made because Mr.. jameson drove
them away from his wagon while they were
stealing his apples.
RHODE ISLAND.
The cold milP' in Newport, owned by S.
ROdman Sons, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday night, mourning a loss OF $4,000
and throwing fifty hands out OF employment.
This is the third mill which has been destroy
ed i'll Newport within year, two Of which
were owned by the same corporation.
Many Of the leading and eminent citizens of
Providence have called meeting to be held
in that city this (Monday) evening, with a
view tn the immediate relief of the people Of
Kansas.
CONNECTICUT.
On Monday, 9th inst, child of Edward S.
Amber Of Danbury, while rambling about the
house discovered a vial of liquid corrosive
sublimate, which the child ignoranty swal.
lowed. Powerful antidotes We're Immediately
administered, but the child died in Il few
hours.
The new dwelling house. nearly finished
erecting by Charles Hotchkiss OF Wolcotvie
for MIR. &. Z. Thompson, was completely burnt
down early on Wednesday morning; no doubt
the work of an inccndiary. Loss $4,000.
Mrs. Warmar, whose husband keeps a.saloon
in Thompsonville, was killed, Thursday even.
lug, near Windsor Locks, on the Springfield
and Hartford road. She was an incorporate
woman and quarreled with her husband, who
two days before had driven her away from
home.
Sarah Jane, ten year old daughter OF John
Lee of Brook6ed, was drowned while cross
ing river on a log, on SATURDAY last. She
was accompanied by another girl and both fell
in, but the latter was saved.
The infant found on Cushman's door step,
in Ellington, a few days since, is TO be named
Stephen A Douglas, for the reason that the
little sucker was in search OF his mother.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Stephen A. Douglas (coored) was arrested
in Philadelphia, on Sunday, for drunkenness
and disorderly conduct, and Patrick Henry for
breach OF the peace
Hon. James NJ. Cavanaugh of Minnesota,
better known among his associates as "our
jim, while ON the stump two or thr.e days
before the death of Douglasism, was drawn
INTO Held fight with one of lis hearers, who
doubted the correctness Of his statements
Cayanaugh first tirted a tumbler of water
into his antagonists face, and followed it with
blow which sent him Keeling toward the
Pacific.
AT Occoquan, Prince William county, Vir.
glnia, where few months ago some hot headed
| fellows cut down a republican flagstaff Lin
coin received 55 votes on Tuesday, Bell As.
Breckenridge 81 and Douglas l. Well done
for Occoquan
Jacob Sears, an elderly man, was found a
few mornings since lying upon lime kiln in
Troy, N. Y, roasted to death 1t is supposed
that he got upon the kiln tor the purpose of
getting warm, when the gas from the works
sutiocated him, and he remained on the hot
kiln until his body was roasted and lie extinct.
Mademoiselle Sarah Felix, sister of Rachel
and herself an actress of merit has left the
stage to go into the somewhat prosaic business
OF cultvating an oyster bed, OH the west coast
Of France.
The editor of the American Agricuturst
has been sued for libel, the c,mpanauts lay
ing their damages at $4,000 The ground of
the libel was contained in an article cautioning
persons against investment without personal
examination, on the waste lands of Long
Island, IN which the plaintiffs are interested in
portion of this particular tract.