Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-24

the operatives in the Porter Mill, Lewiston
had her hand caught in some machinery, and
badly mutated This, like several other re-
cent accidents, was occasioned BY attempting
to clean machinery while in motion.
In Orrlngton on the 1lth inst, Rose Bart.
lett, an interesting girl of twelve years, was
horribly and fatally burned by her clothes talk
ing fire Her father, Capt. Bartlett, had ar
rived home from sea but a few hours before
with presents for her.
Eben Howe, driver of stage from Gorham
to Fryeburg, has lately lost two valuable
horses, each as in the case of the horses of Mr..
Stratton of Athol, having leg unaccounably
broken while standing their stables.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The store of Mathew Barr & Co., in Nashua,
was entered one day last week by a stranger,
who requested the privilege of writing letter,
which was granted Mr. Barr had occasion
to leave the store few minutes, and on his
return the letter writer had left, and with him
$3.50 in money which Mr. Barr had in his safe
There is Il postmaster in Upper Bartlett, N.
H., who objects to having the stage driver leave
the mail for his office thirty minutes OF so in
| advance of the schedule time. He is a very
exact official, and his salary for a recent quar-
ter was sixty cents.
Mr.. Emerson Lougee, of GiImanton, has for
several years been feeding and tanning school
OF perch, roach, and pickerel, in a pond near
hls house. He can call them at any hour of
the day. The pickere were trained with more
difficulty than the others.
Rev. Henry Wood, formerly editor of the
Congregational Journal now chaplain in the
United States navy, has been ordered to the
Portsmouth station. He is recently from the
Irlgate Powhattan, of the East India SQUADRON
CONNECTICUT.
The child OF Clinton l.. Young of Klllingly
10y OF two or three years, fell into well
one day last week, distance of thirty feet
striking upon the head of laborer working at
the bottom, knocking him against the side of
the well, but miraculousy saving the chld's
me The mother saw the child slipping over
the embankment, but was not able to save it.
While Patrick Heines was at work in a well
III bristol, thursday afternoon, the earth above
caved in, burying him ten feet deep in the
sand 1t was two hours before his dead BODY
was recovered.-James Haggarty OF Middle
town, twenty-One years of age was drowned
on the 10th inst.
While her husband had fallen asleep on the
floor Mrs. Dana Bebee of Pttsford left her
sick bed, and crawling on her hands and knees
to brook twenty rods from the house, drown.
ed herself where the water was but two feet
deep.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mohs' Maflette, the eminent Egyptian anti
quaran writes of a new discovery in Egypt ::
The excavations made at Memphis have
brought to light metal founders workshop.
We have already discovered his tools, about
forty pounds OF unrefined silver, gold medals,
twenty silver medals never seen before, and
other objects destined to the crucible"
Recently party of about a hundred men
pretending to be volunteers for Garibaldi,
landed on the island of Monte Cueto off the
Indian coast, and began pilaging right and
left. Their chief booty was made in the house
OF rich Englishman. GaribaIdi has their
description and will order them shot if they
fall into his hands.
Kew John Winebrenner died at Harrisburg,
Pa, on the 1lth inst. He was the founder of
the denomination known as the "Church of
God, and was honored and esteemed by the
entire membership, which embraces many
thousands in many states Of the Union
The executors of a will made in Milan Aus.
TRAN Italy, bequeathing considerable sum of
money as legacy to the best work of charity
have sent the full amount to Garibaldi, as full.
hhng most obviously the purpose contem.
plated by the maker of the will
One house in New York has stock of CAM
CTS hair shawls valued at one hundred and ff
ty thousand dollars. Their separate value
range from twenty to fifteen hundred dollars.
ana their patterns are sumptuOus beyond des
crlption. They have a heavy gold embroidery.
John c. Weber, a well known merchant of
Philadelphia, died suddenly on Wednesday,
l9th while present at prayer meeting at the
church Of Rev. Albert Barnes. He was first
noticed tanning himself nervously as if suffer-
ing from intense heat, and expired in few
moments