Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-20

Stephen II. Purdy, who was committed to
the New Haven Jail eighteen months ago for
cruelty to a seaman on board the Ocean
Spray" of which lie was mate, has been par
doned by the president, and had his fine re-
mitted.
A boy named Marvin E. futile has been
missing from his home in Bethlem since June
9th, and his mother fears he is drowned. Any
Information would be gladly received by Chas.
Bloss of Bethlem.
The New Haven Journal says that man
fishing in Plants pond, in Plainville, caught a
pickercl, Saturday, weighing y lbs. 1t gives
its authority for the statement, and expects to
have it believed
Edw. l.. Brooks, son Of Isaac Brooks, Esq,
of Stratford, aged % years, was drowned near
! Steubenville Ohio, few days since. While
| travelling on a steamboat, railing against
which he leaned gave way, precipltatlng HIM
into the river.
Michael Gilbert of New London took a let
ter containing SIG, and belonging to a friend
who he knew expected it, from the New Lon
don post office, Saturday, and went oil with
| it. He was overhauled, fined $50, and jailed
sixty days.
James Geer of Ledyard, while riding
through Main street, Norwich, Saturday, was
| hit by blasted stone which came from lot
where improvements were in progress. He
was badly damaged and met with narrow es-
cape from death.
During thunder shower at Bloomfield, on
Saturday, the lightning struck the spire Of the
new church and went down the chandelier,
which it demolished at an expense to the society
of SIS. COW belonging to Capt. Allen was
| killed in a field in the same town during the
| same shower.
A railroad disaster has been narrowly escap-
| oil on tbo Naw Havap ond Now Tondnn road
Mr.. Sherman, road master, on the rear end OF
train which crossed the Fair Haven bridge,
Thursday afternoon, 18th, noticed a deviation
of the rails. Leaving the train and returning,
he found two out of four six by twelve inch
timbers crossing one of the long spans were
broken. Prompt measures were taken, and
no trains allowed to cross till the damage was
repaired. The bridge is 900 feet long, 1.-THE
spans nearly $50 feet each, and about forty
feet above the water. The discovery was
timely.
MISCELLANEOUS.
OF the will of "Old Boxer" who left $780,.
600 with nary a cent for my Mary Ann" in
punishment for her marriage with the family
coachman, it is now stated that the other heirs
do not sympathise with the old mans spite
and will divide the property fairly. This is
clever. Besides, an uncle has left Mary Ann
an extra $4,000 and the dear girl is really in
clover.
The st. Louis committee appointed to raise
funds for u marble statue of Hon. Thomas
H. Benton, have obtained the desired amount,
Sl0,000 and awarded the work to Miss Harriet
Hosmer Of Watertown, Mass.
On the 10Th inst. a citizen of Richmond, Va,
died from excessive joy. He had succeeded,
after long litigation in the courts, in recovering
$llOO from debtor, which so elated him that
on its reception he was seized with apoplexy,
and died in less than day.
AT recent sale of autograph letters in Lon
don, a letter of George Washington, the first
president of the United States, written when
a subaltern in the service of the colonial gov.
ernment, to the government of Virginia, sold
for SIT.