Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-10
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
ESSEX COUNTY

low, tHIce young men employed IN the works.
were badly but not dangerously burned
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The net proceeds of the Bristol county
cattle show, in Taunton, exceeded $1,000, and
some OF the liberal friends of the society have
proposed handsome subscriptions for the open.
ing of more convenient access to the grounds
The descendants of the late William Walker
held family gathering at the old homestead
in Dighton, on Tuesday last Fifty-seven
| persons were present, including six great
| grandchildren.
Early Sunday morning the barn and carpet
! and paper hanging warehouse of John S.
! Thomas, in Fail River, were destroyed by
fire. His loss was about S6000 The Young
Mems Christian Association, which occupied
| part of the building, lost their furniture and
nearly their whole library. The shop of Mr.
| Burrill, adjoining, was partially destroyed (;
insured in the Peoples office, Worcester, for
| $500.
NANTUCKET.
Rev. Daniel Webb was in Nantucket last
week. He is now upwards of 81 years of age,
ana has been IN the ministry more than 62
years. lie is the senior of the ten thousand
travelling preachers in the various branches of
the Methodist church, and still ulfls his du.
ties as pastor.
Of 100 persons who contributed, in 1776,
some f2O for the construction of the Siascon.
set well and pump, not one Of the number sur
yves. The sums contributed vary from It's
by VIM. Ro.ch, to I'D.
Capt. Alex. Macy, and three Methodist
clergymen, were thrown from a spring cart,
recently. and severely bruised, owing to the
sudden stop of their horse.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY
Helen Forbes, daughter of John Forbes, a
in IL, H.,
Dennisons water cure in northampton, was
riding with her friends on Monday, across the
bridge over the Connecticut, when she pre-
tended to have dropped her handkerchief and
leaving the carriage to reclaim it, she mme
diately jumped over the guard of the bridge,
into the middle the stream, and was drowned
Her illness had produced insanity
The senior class Of Amherst college, accom-
panied by DIR. Hitchcock start on geological
excursion to the Green Mountains, Wednesday.
The eXcurslonlstS propose to go as far as Rut.
land, VT, be gone four days, and pay the
expenses OF the trip by giving concerts at
some of the principal villages on the route
Henshaw Bartlett lad of Is years, Willie
hunting for gray squirrels in Northampton
| West Farms), few days since, shot a lynx
weighing % pounds.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Austin 7. Williams of Westfeld, who was
brutally beaten a week or two since, and was
supposed to have died of his wounds, returned
home, alive and well, on Saturday last He
refused to say anything of the fight, having
probably been bought or frightened into
| silence
On Saturday last young man named
Noble, formerly clerk in several stores in
| Springfield, dropped dead with the heart
disease, while visiting in Wibraham He was
in the woods at the time of his death. and a
considerable distrance from any dwelling.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The high wind Of the 26th destroyed the
Douglas flag in auckland On the return of
the Greenfield Band from the Ashtield cattle
show, that day, the band stopped under the
tattered flag and played death march, as APP.
propriate to the dying condition of the demo-
cratic party.
A son of Orvie Sherwin of Shelburne
Falls, ID years old, fell from the abutment of
the Shelburne Falls bridge on Friday last,
striking on the rocks twelve feet below, break
ing one wrist bruising the other, and badly
batterlng his head and face He Will probably
recover.
Twenty-three teeth, all there were lett, were
extracted from the jaws of a young man in
| Conway, few days since at a single sitting.
He reckons he will have no more toothache.
Silas Scott of Bernardston shot hen hawk
few days since while it was engaged in car
rying off a chicken. The hawk measured
four feet across the wings.
MAINE.
Mr.. Joshua Watson of Sedgwck, three years
ago obtained small head of new kind of
barley, and from that head he has raised this
1.-THE third year five bushels OF good, hand
some barley. He raise twelve bushels of this
cereal this year, on just one fourth of an acre
of land.
One Of the democratic editors in Maine
writes, that the element which attaches Maine
to the republican cause, is the Iigious ele
ment Probably, fvC-eighths of the congrega-
tiona baptist, methodist and universast
churches, vote the republican ticket, and while
this is the case, the editor dsconsolateIy says,
II is useless to think Of redeeming the state.
The Lewiston journal, says there was a large
attendance at the catholic church, on Sunday
last to witness the interesting ceremony of the
conservation of one hundred young persons
mostly girls-to the service of the church,
Bishop Bacon, Of Portland, performed the
service.
Sam'l Taylor and Moses Fogg's sash, blind and
heading mandatory, at Kendas mills, was
destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss about Sl0,-
OOO-no insurance, The WaterviIle firemen
were present, and rendered efficient service.
Harvey 5. Wilson, esq. Of Bradford, a few
days since, dug one hundred and forty pounds
OF sound potatoes, all the produce Of one seed
potatoe. -Four of the above, weighed seven
and one half pounds.
In Beyer, few days since, Mrs. SWEET, wife
OF Capt James SWEET, was severely burned on
her face, arms and hands, by the bursting of a
huld lamp, one of the tubes of which, had no
wick in it.
VERMONT.
While Edward A. Woodward of Walden
VT, was engaged with others, in raising a
building by means of jack screw, some part
OF the umbers gave way, and the house settled
crushing Mr.. Woodward to DEATH He was
bent double, with his dead between his knees.
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