Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-06
GENERAL NEWS SUNNI AIRY,
MIDpLEsEX COUNTY.

There were passed in Middletown Conn,
Tuesday, four counterfeit bills of $40 on the
Railroad bank, of Lowell. The counterfeit is
a very successful imitation.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Michael b. Cotton, a man rs years of age,
fell dead from his chair, in the house of Mr.
Downing, North Adams last Saturday fore
noon. He had eaten hearty breakfast and
was reading newspaper at the time. He was
man of occasionally Incorporate habits.
Richard Sanford, of w. M. Root & Co.. of
Pittstield, member of the Allen Guards, died
last week Wednesday, having contracted his
sickness at Camp Stark" in North Adams.
He was buried with military honors on Fri
day.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Francis Dewitt of Ware, formerly Secreta-
ry of State, has been appointed trial justice, in
place Of w. S. Breckenridge, resigned.
MAINE.
Sometime since knowing cat was carried
from Perry to Eastport. Pussy didn't seem to
mind her new quarters, and she was sent on
board vessel, and was carried to the West
Indies. Lately the vessel returned to East
port; the cat was soon missing, and upon ill.,
quiry it was found she had returned to her old
home in Perry.
The clothes lines of three different families
in Brunswick were robbed on Monday night,
24th ult. The Telegraph advises people not
to leave their clothes out o nights, as there are
some people who do not know their own prop
erty from somebody else's.
In the town of Farmingdale, Kennebec
county, there is no ordained clergyman no
lawyer, no physician neither is there any
house for public worship, or any public insti-
tuition except schools within the limits OF the
town. The place would be paradise for
some folks.
RHODE ISLAND.
The subscription books of the Blackstone
Valley Insurance Company" of Woonsocket,
were opened a week ago, and about $50 900
have been already subscribed. The capital
stock is 100000
One day last week a Young man named
Weatherhead, who was ill and deranged with
typhoid fever, left the house of his mother in
Smithfeld, since which time nothing has been
heard of him. 1t is feared he is dead
Counterfeit ten dollar notes on the Woon-
socket Falls Bank are said to be in circulation.
The vignette is a large steamer, with female
figures and an eagle-altered from some bro
ken western bank.
The Georgiaville factories have been stopped
about two months for want Of water; they are
now running full time, having seventy horse
power engine to assist. y
Joseph Smith, manufacturer, of Pawtu ket,
L
ming. by three men, beaten till he was sense
less, and robbed of his watch and small
amount of money.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mrs. Catharine Bottstord a female of pre-
possessing appearance, who has resided in
Charleston, S. c., for several months past as
a seamstress, has been imprisoned there on
the charge of disseminating seditious senti-
ments among the slaves She admitted that
her sympathes were on the side of the slave,
and that she thought John Brown was a hero
but denied that she had tempered with the op.
pressed.
The party of Norman H. Garfield, of But.
Ter county, Cal, consisting of himself and
seven men, were recently burned to death by
party of Vashee Indians. The bodies were
subsequently found tied to the trees with chains
and thongs, and the process of burning had
been so slow that the upper portion of the bod
les had not been consumed. The whiskers
Of the victims were not even smged
Mr.. John N. Smith and his two sons, of
Beaufort District, S. c., have been sent out
of the state by Il vigilance committee; Mr..
Smith was himself planter, but was sus.
pected of harboring free negroes, whom he
refused to turn away at the bidding Of his
neghbors. Twenty five guns were fired on
his departure.
A wonderful parrot is noticed by the De-
troit papers. The intelligent creatures poti
cal conversion is reported to be one OF the
strangest freaks. Early in the campaign he
hurrahed for Douglas only, till suddenly he
changed his tune, and now not only hurrahs
for Lincoln, but becomes enraged when any
one cries out for any other candidate.
The telegraph reports the death of Rem
brant Peale. The veteran artist had not been
well since he left Boston for home, about
otn H.. I,. hon,
received, were the last he was able to bear
He died at Philadelphia Thursday morning at
the age Of SO years.
The Earl of Leitrim was nearly assassinated
in Mohill, Ireland, ON the 18th inst. He was
returning IN the afternoon from public meet.
ing, and, while passing the shop of n man
named Murphy, was fired at the charge OF
three balls narrowly missing him. The would
be assassin sent challenge a few DAYS before
to the Earl, and is supposed to be insane.