Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-12-22
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Gilman Clayton, young man of 10 years,
committed suicide at South Boston, Thursday
evening, under singular circumstances. His
relatives apprehended illness, and tried to fur,
nish relief, but were persuaded to leave him
to himself. He had threatened to destroy his
life, but his friends were not willing to believe
he was in earnest.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The citizens of the town of Medford were
greatly shocked, Friday morning, on learning
that George w. Porter, town treasurer for the
past twenty years, and gentleman who has
always enjoyed the highest respect and conf
dence of his fellow townsmen, had committed
suicide by hanging himself in his stable Mr..
Porter has been suffering under a depression
of spirits for several weeks, and his suicide is
attributed to this cause. lie leaves a deeply
bereaved wife and family,
ESSEN COUNTY.
Three children Of w S. Lawson of Frye
Village, Andover, while sliding on the ice of
Shawshin river, 18th inst, broke through and
two were drowned-Susan, aged IL, and Al
bert aged years. Edwin, aged 10 years, was
saved.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
In Taunton, Tuesday, little daughter of
Geo w. Tucker was burnt in such a manner
that she died on Wednesday. Her mother
left the room for few moments, while the
child was throwing bits of paper into the CRATE.
She was two years old.
BARNsrABLE COUNTY.
The Yarmouth Register states that one night
last week man 10 years old took three thou
sand mackerel from his nets in Provincetown.
harbor which, valued at seven cents apiece for
Boston market would yield him the handsome
profit OF S2lO.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
There is a woman in Bernardston, over so
years old, who drinks one quart OF laudanum
and two quarts of ether per week, and has
been in the habit of using these stimulants to
this extent for twenty years Sometimes she
takes them separately and sometimes mixed.
She is dependent on the town for assistance,
and the druggists bill for the above articles is
generally paid by the town. She complains Of
nervousness.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Henry f. Squires, young man of % years,
and native OF Pittstield, was drowned last
Sunday in the Connecticut river, while skat.
ing. His body was not found till the Wed.
nesday following
VIM. E. Fox, a notorious criminal from
Westfeld, has been committed to the jail in
Springfield for passing counterfeit money in
SouthwicN. He has been in Jail four years
out OF the last five, for assaults and liquor
selling, and once served a term in the state
prison for incendiarism.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
AT the west end of the Hoosac tunnel, last
Tuesday, Il bank of earth caved in where the
men were at work eXCavating, and one of the
number, Thomas Buckley, aged 45 years, and
married only three months ago, was crushed
TO death.
Southworth & Valley of Wiamstown are
running their cotton mill on three tourths
time and Elisha jerks and Adams Brothers
of South Adams, dispense with lighting up
for the present. in their mills.
A paper published at Stockbridge, in the
year 1900, states that the library of lately
deceased clergyman sold for 93 and the IL
quors in his cellar for E276. Commentaries
are needless
RHODE ISLAND.
The Woonsocket Patriot says that Messrs
Eyans, Seagrave, & Co, Of Waterford, put
their mill on three eighths time on Monday
They employ several hundred operatives in
the manufacture of fancy cassimeres. The
WOODEN mill of Messrs. Bradford & Taft, at the
same village, is running full time, as it did
during Il former depression.
On the 18th inst, six natives of Rhode Is
land arrived at Chicago, having been d-iven
from the cotton states. They report that vigil
| lance committees and minute men are every
where busy in driving off and lynching citi-
Zens from free states.
Arunah Grant of Woonsocket died very
suddenly on the evening of the 14th inst. His
wife was putting on pair Of new shoes, when
he stopped down to assist her. lie had no
sooner done SO than he complained OF feeling
| i'll, and died in few minutes.
IL. III
home from his work. Wednesday evening, re-
marked to his brother that something was
choking him. lie stopped aud rested against
a fence, and died without struggle. He was
about % years old, and had been in this coun
try about three weeks.
CONNECTICUT.
! L. d. Rockwell OF Danbury, a carriage
blacksmith, and an old democrat, has been ex
PEELED from Lenoir county, N. c., on susp-
cion of being an abolitionist. He was the
victim of gross insult, aud sacrificed his prop
erty at ruinous prices, after having resided
south about three years.
On the evening of January 5, 1859, the New
| Haven and Middletown stage drove up to the
| house Of Edward Camp, in Durham, upset and
! killed the driver, Aphonso l.. Chaker. The
family of Chalker brought suit against Camp
ct al. for damages, for heaping the deep snow
in manner dangerous to public travel, and
thereby causing the stage to upset, The jury
awarded the plaintiff the sum OF $1,000.
Ellen Sizer, an adopted daughter OF James
| Treadway, postmaster oil Saybrook, lady
q years OF age, started ON the 18th inst, to
visit her friends in New London, She did not
however reach her destination, and no tidings
Of her have since been learned. 1t is feared
she wandered away in a fit of temporary alb
eratiQn, or has been toully dealt with.
Prot. Davis and several students OF Trinity
College, Hartford, from the southern states,
have gone home to spend the holidays. From
the thoroughness of their preparations for leav.
ing, it is believed they have calculated upon
the contingency Of remaining away.
The fine steamer Commonwealth met with
q serious accident, Wednesday morning, when
near Throggs Neck, bursting her starboard
steam chamber and scadng nine passengers
ard one Of the walters. Four of the passen
gers were so dangerously injured that they
were sent TO the hospital.
Personal.
Mrs. Calhoun, relict OF the distinguished
senator, has been complimented b. the South
Carolina state fair with u pair Of silver pitch
ers, as premium for beautiful window cur.
tains wrought with her own hands, during
recent visit to her daughter, in Prince George
county, Maryland.
lamar Davis, a pretender to literature, and