Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-04

closed their social festivities with ,rousing
cheers for Lincoln and Hamlin. The uext
gathering is appointed at Ephraim Kings, in
Westport.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
On Friday last commissioners Lathrop
Walker, and Knox, visited Greenwich to at
tend to reported cases of pleuropueumonia,
on the farm of Gen. Warner. They found no
evidences of disease, or of exposure to it, DR..
Tyler, of North BrOokfeld, was the examining
surgeon
Seymour Bagg, of Chicopee, shot his hand
to pieces on Tuesday, 2Sth ult, while firing at
chickens in West Springfield. The physicians
recommended amputation, but he swore it
should not be done, and showed fight when
they took proper means to prevent him from
bleeding to death. He is now in the Monsoon
almshouse.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
While Mr.. Edmund Capen and his mother
were returning home from the Baptist church
in Springfield, Sunday afternoon, the horse
became frightened and unmanageable, throw
ing both the occupants of the carriage to the
ground. Mrs. Capen fell violently upon her
head, receiving severe injury to the spine
at the neck, causing paralysis, and leaving no
room for h pc of her recovery
Somebody having charged John Aspinwall
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recently wandered unseasonably in that town,
his friends have come forward and certified
that lie was no such man.
CONNECTICUT
Inc cattle commissioners for the state of
connecticut held a meeting, last week, and
decided TO adhere to the decision in June last
not to allow cattle to cross the line from Mas
sachusetts into that state. They have been
overwhelmed with applications from butchers
and drOvers, to withdraw this decision, since
the cattle disease excitement has died ont.
There is still fear among the border towns
that the epidemic will appear on the approach
of cold weather
The Norwich Bulletin says the body of w.
H. Croker, which has recently been recovered
from the wreck of the illated Hungarian, was
brought to that city on Saturday evening, in
charge OF Mr. Henry D. Baldwin, a brother
of Mrs. Crocker, who went to the scene of the
wreck for the purpose of bringing it home
Seth Thomas, of Plymouth Hollow, left an
estate worth about half a million dollars, at
his death eighteen months ago. There was
no will, and bis six children appointed TWO
men to divide the estate into six portions,
which they bid in among themselves at an auc.
ton held for the purpose. The lawyers got no
fees out of the business.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Leonora Donna Pedro, a bogus countess
whose real name is Sal Corkey, has been ar,
rested and lodged in Jail in New York for false
pretenses after living for nine years on the
boarding house keepers her assumed arts
tocracy and her magnificent talk about her
Jewelry and her beautiful place on Staten Isl
and.
The Newark Advertiser aments the slaugh-
ter Of the woodcock in New Jersey, which be.
gan on Saturday, as permitted by the statute
"lts fatal gift of beauty, like that in our own
race, says the Advertiser, 'has attracted the
eye, and its racy flavor the epicurean appetite
otthe fowler, The bird must die, the spoilers
are abroad without number, with dogs and
guns, and their victims cannot escape
Hon. Joel w. White of Norwich, now spend
ing few weeks in Saratoga with his family
had his rooms entered on Thursday of last
week and robbed of some $4,000 in iewelry
The ladies were absent from the room only
about fifteen minutes during the morning. and
1t was during their absence that the tibet en-
tered, and overtuning the trunks, took all the
diamonds, jewelry, &C., belonging to Mrs
White and the other ladies i'll the company.