Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-10-16
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pretended to identify, claimed, and left the
store. He has not been discovered.
The lumber office of Emory Willard in
Brighton, was entered Saturday night, and the
safe broken open with gun powder. Large
quantities Of mortgages, policies, and other
papers were torn open and scattered in the
road notes to a large amount were taken, but
subsequently recovered uninjured. Some $50
or $40 in change, was all the burglar realized
by the operation
ESSEX COUNTY.
Mr.. Aaron Eaton OF southampton, aged 90
years, and the oldest person in that town, was
in the field moving this year, and did what
would be fair days work for half the hired
men. lie has taken and paid Tor the New
buryport Herald more than sixty years.
The Lynn post office was burglariously en-
tered, Sunday night, by breaking a pane of
glass and christening the window, and robbed
OF several hundred letters, including the mail
of Saturday evening, and letters mailed on
Sunday From Sl5 to $50 in change and
postage stamps was also taken. 1t is, of
course, impossible 10 determine anything of
the amount contained in the mail matter at
present, but no doubt ii was considerable. A
dark and stormy night favored the operations
of the robbers. - BoSto,. Traveller.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The little daughter of Calvin ID. Pratt of
Taunton came to an untimely death, Saturday
morning, i'll consequence of swallowing the
chemical preparation upon some friction
matches with which she was at play on the
preceding afternoon. She was taken with
vomiting just at night, and though medical
aid was resorted to- the child gradually sunk
away during the night, and expired soon after
o'clock.-Idanton Gazette
A final dividend OF 194 per cent has been
ordered in the case of VIM. Mason & Co., pay.
able after the 20th inst. The Indebtedness
proved against the estate was S457 900, upon
which dividends amounting to 79B per cent
have been declared.
NORFOLK COUNTY
Five young ladies from the Union Straw
Works, in FoXboro, walked on Friday eve
ming last to Walpole Center, a distance of six
miles, to hear the lecture of the Hon. Charles
Sumner. They returned on foot the same eve
ming, feeling themselves amply repaid for their
long walk.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence Post says that on Saturday
afternoon, the little daughter, five years old,
Of John Gilmore. Providence, was so badly
burned that she died at an early hour on Sun.
day morning. Some boys had made bonfire
Of some rubbish in the neighborhood and
after they had left it she went ont and rekin-
died it, when her clothes caught fire, and
burned her terribly about the arms, chest, and
legs
VERMONT.
On Friday, 18th inst, a young man named
Grimes, employed in a. j. Fullam's American
stencil tool works, at Springfield, W.T. was
caught in belt, which drew him around the
shaft, crushing both legs and one arm, the
bones being entirely crushed. His injuries
will prove fatal.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Daniel West, who has for many years lived
the life Of hermit among the mountains of
Tennessee, died ON the 23d ut., at the age of
rs years. He lived a long time in the hollow
of sn old poplar tree, where he built his fires
IN winter, cooked his primitive food, and slept.
He also had a rude shed near the tree, where
he manufactured some rude implements of
wooden ware, which he disposed Of for the
necessaries of life. He was a soldier in the
war OF 1872.
j. .. Beattie was arrested few days since
in Charleston, S. c., on suspicion of being an
abolition inCendiary. One of the detectives
introduced himself to Beattie, and by pretend.
ing to EN- ertain similar sentiments drew from
him the fact that his father Marvlander, had
liberated his slaves, and was an opponent of
the institution. He was lett in charge of the
police
Ill mercer county, ONO, man who put
SuychnIne in his watcrmt Ions and thus killed
five persons who were depredating upon his
vines, has been indicted for mansaughter.
The anniversary of the death of David C.
Broderck was commemorate in San Fran
cisco, The flags of several OF the engine
houses were at half mast, and the republican
and independent newspapers published articles
AUDITORY Of the man and honorable to his
memory. The work on the monument has
not yet commenced, although the'sum of five
thousand dollars is in the hands of the COM
mttce.
young woman was returning from church
when she was attacked by three men, who
Knocked her down with club. Her screams
scared off the ruffians who escaped in a buggy.
The supposition is, that it was an intended
kldnap1ln case, the fellows having mistaken
the young lady for some one else. Great ex.
citement was occasioned by the outrage