Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-28


Prof Hitchcock of Union Theological Semi
nary. Among the graduates we notice the
names of Mary T. Bush Of Worcester, Jessie
d. Grassie Of Bolton, and Nancy Perry OF
Holden.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY
One day last week Mr.. Philetus a. Bryant
of Chesterfield shot bacl, eagle that weigh
ed 81 pounds, and measured feet from tip to
tip OF its. The eagle came near the house and
took beets hide that hung on fence, weigh
ing Sereaty pounds and carried If seven rods.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Van Vert, president of the bogus SILVIA,
ter Bank, at Winsted, Conn, who passed
counterfeit money at Otis Beckett, and vicini-
ty, has aforementioned to the state prision for
six years he attempted to play insane, but
Judge Rockwell told him itwas no use, and he
got better Immediately, and pleaded guilty to
all the charges A young man named Rath
bone of Sandisfeld, for rape, has been SEN
fenced to two years in the state prison Jones,
the colored man who murdered Briggs, anoth'
er coored man, at Egremont, was sent to the
state prison for ten years, for mansaughter
A young lady in Lee, Of one OF the most
wealthy and respectable families in town, has
left her piano and music to take care OF them
selves, purchased sewing machine, and gone
out to work by the day. Within few months
she has accumulated $50, "a deposited it in
the savings bank. There is a husband tor her
in Springfield.
Messrs D. S II. Stearns of Pittsfeld found,
last week in a bale OF wool purchased in Boston,
stone weighing SO pounds. The wool was
imported from the Cape OF Good Hope, where
the stone was doubtless put in the bale. Sand,
in large quantities, and small stones up to the
weight OF one or two pounds, are often found
in imported wool.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
On Friday moraing, 9th inst, James Nj.
Williams, merchant at Warren, stepped up
to Mr.. N. A. Wyatt and shot him through the
heart with a revolver. He died ms lntly.
The cause is supposed to be trouble about an
old debt Wyatt is young man and leaves
wife and one child. Williams has been
arrested
Hon. Alvah Smith of Lempster was severe
ly Scalded on his arms, face, and neck, on the
18th inst, by the explosion Of a ltety valve
in a steam boilr, He was so badly scalded
that the entire skin came Oft
RHODE ISLAND.
James Lowrie, a boy of seven years, was
drowned in the dock at Bristol, Wednesday.
The boys mother lifted its body from the wa
ter before she knew it was her child.
The barn belonging to the estate of the late
Thomas Church, in Bristol, was set on fire
Thursday by an insane man, and con Umed
with its contents. The incendiary escaped
CONNECTICUT.
Two cases of insanity have lately occurred
at kllingly. One party is an Irishman, about
70 years of age, unmarried. His mental trOu-
bic was brought on by intemperance. He is
confined by chains. The other is married
lady Of highly respectable connections. She
has tried to commit suicide, and has to be
strictly watched.
AT the commencement at Yale College the
degree of "a. b." was conferred on a class of
1885, the "a. NJ. upon 46 the 'fB. L." upon
s, and the degree Of civil engineer upon one.
Of the honorary degrees, that Of LID, was
conferred upon the new president FELTON, Of
Harvard university; and the degree of Master
OF Arts upon Judge Park tot Norwich, Of the
superior court of Connecticut, upon DR.. Steph-
Ell G. Hubbard of New Haven, and upon
several of the alumni of the college.
Frederick Arnold, a lad of about 10 years of
age, son Of Mr.. George Arnold Of Masonyille,
Conn, was drowned on Sunday, the 22d inst,
in the Quinnebaug river at Woodstock, while
bathing In diving it is supposed he came i'll
contact with a rock and broke his neck.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hon. Jacob Barker, the renowned banker
has arrived at Nantucket, to enjoy his usual
summer visit to his native island. The In
quirer says, although the frosts Of many win
tiers have gathered upon his brow, his step is
elastic and he retains the same clear intellect
which characterized him in days gone by.
One hundred boys in the Rochester house
of refuge conspired together last Wednesday
to escape, and just after dinner when they
were in they yard, one of them pried open the
rear gate, where they all rushed ont and start
ed for the woods and fields in all directions
a New Yorker named Purple was stabbed
twice with bowie knife, at the st. Nicholas
Hotel, in New York, Thursday evening, by a
Philadelphian named Hyman.
The factory of Potts 6 Klett, in Philade
phia, two hundred feet in length, was demo
ished by lightning during the thunder storm
of Thursday afternoon. OF eight persons who
took shelter in the building from the rain,
three were badly injured.
There Isl story afoat that while some young
people were out berrying in Essex, Mich,
the other day, large Eastwood tree started
from its roots without visible cause, striking
young child and leaving its mangled corpse
imbedded in the earth. The sun was shining
full in the heavens and not d breath of air was
stirring.
1t is asserted by those who have made par
ticular inquiry on the subject, that the secret
organization which recently excited fears of
boodshed in the Cherokee country, is, to say
the least, political, and similar to what was
commonly known in "the states - as the
" know nothing party"-contined to pure
booded Indians.
The census taker in Butler, Ohio, reports
how the vengeance of heaven is visited on the
family wherein an uncle became the husband
Of his neice. Seven children resulting from
that union are still living, all of whom were
born blind, with imperfect limbs, and scrofu-
lous and diseased bodies.
Another PangGorn has turned up very
old one; solomon, of Rising SUM- Indiana
He says he was born in New York, in the year
IT'S, and is consequently 1876 years old, The
Cincinnati Times says he is resigned to live as
ong as God will permit him