Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-07-14

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and there is no new thing under the sun"
Some bows bathing near Trask building, in
Springfield, Thursday found "among the
bulrushes" living infant, about month old,
which had been deserted by its mother. The
| woman herself came to Springfield from North
ampton, and left for the east, her baggage
being checked to Worcester. She was a tall
woman of dark complexion well dressed, and
had evidently intended to kill the child.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Miss Mary Niles of North Adams fell into
the water, while crossing bridge, on the 4th,
and was about drowning, when she was res
cued by two young men. Almeda Clark, who
was standing near, laughed at her friend S
misfortune but when she crossed the bridge
she also slipped and was sinking for the last
time, when another man jumped III and
brought her to shore.
mysterious illness has occurred at the res
idence of Judge Love, in Williamstown, at
fecting some fourteen out OF twenty college
boarders, and causing several to suspend their
studies and leave for home. Its symptoG S
were those of a slow fever and the well water
being impregnated from drain, is surmised to
be the origin of the disease.
Two sons of Israel Whitcomb of Florida
were buried by falling building one day last
week, and although escaping injury one of
them was so frightened that he has been crazy
| ever since
The Hallowell Gazette says VIM. r. Page,
Esq, of Constantinople son of Rufus X. Page,
Esq, of that city, has been appointed U. S.
Consul at Jerusalem. His father purchased
the steamer Bangor in the year 1912, and sent
her to Constantinople in charge of his son, to
run to Trebezona in the Black Sea, and down
to Jaffa, the sea port for Jerusalem on the
coast of Syria. AS she was the first Ameri
can steamer that had been seen in those wa
tiers, and her accommodations for passengers
far superior to the English and Austrian steam
| ers running there, she attracted great atten.
ton.
RHODE ISLAND.
The chemical examination of the heart and
stomach of the late Tyler Mowry of Smith
field, who was thought to have been poisoned,
revealed no evidences of arsenic, or of posons
of that class. Prof. Hill of Brown University,
who conducted the examination will institute
further test for metallic poison. The facts
of this alleged case of poisoning have not been
explicitly laid before the public.
j. H. Randall who fell from his bedroom
window in Providence, in fit of somnambu-
lism, died on Friday morning in consequence
of injuries received.
CONNECTICUT.
VIM. r. Toole, vicious and evil disposed
negro, has been arrested in Branford, for COM
hitting felonious assault upon Mrs. Bridget
Carter, respectable lady of that town. He
is about rs years of age, and is desperate
character.
Leonard Judd of Bethany, father of young
Judd who was found drowned in the Nauga-
tuck river a few weeks since, shot himself, on
the 10th inst, having borrow ed gun for the
purpose, on the pretense of shooting wood
chuck.
There are counterfeit threes on the New
Haven County Bank in circulation, having a
farm scene in the centre, female figure in the
right lower corner, with ''three" above it.
female figure in the left lower corner, sur.
mounted by "3, and red tint to the bill
John j. Penrose, Esq, was thrown from his
horse in Plaintield, Wednesday afternoon, his
feet ca,ching in the stirrups when the horse
commenced kicking, striking Mr. Penrose in
the face, and breaking his jaws in three places.
He is expected to recover.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Capt. John johnson of Cincinnati has been
a member of the Masonic order in good stand.
ing for So years. He is now in his 88th year,
and is attached to Mcmillan Lodge, No. al,
Ohio. He is probably tie Oldest Free Mason
in the United States. He sat in the lodge
once presided over by George Washington,
more than 40 years ago.
The organ grinders of New York have
and for mutual protection Their PRAYER
meetings are held in lot adjoining the Five
Points House of Industry, and are conducted
IN the Italian language, under the leadership
of members of their own profession.
The friends of the defaultng postmaster,
Isaac " Fowler, have collected 100000 to-
ward the fund to reimburse the government
for his deficiency. Gentlemen to whom Mr..
Fowler, in his palmy days, lent large sums of
money, without taking any memorandum or
written acknowledgment, have generously
paid into the hands of the committee the en-
tire amounts due.
Only four fatalities are reported in the New
York papers of the 18th. In one case, la
borer stabbed his wife with carving knife
III another, negro stabbed his brother for re-
tuslng to lend him money in another, print.
er committed suicide; and in the last fire.
man died at the hospital from injuries received
III fight on the evening of the 4th.
Rev. DIR. Cheever, who leaves for Europe in
the Adriatic, to-day Saturday. for three
months tour through Great Britain, will be ac
companied by his friends down the bay on the
steamer May Queen. DR.. Cheever says he is
not going to be idle while away. He will
preach i'll London and elsewhere, repeating
many of the anti.savery sermons delivered at
the Church of the Puritans.
Mr.. Rogers, an employee at Col. Fremont's
mills, having been accidentally drowned, his
fellow employees made up purse of five or
six hundred dollars for his bereaved wife who
had been but one week in the country, and
the people of Bear Valley gave a handsome
sum more, to which Col Fremont added five
hundred dollars.
Knox College, at Galesburgh, Illinois, has
conferred the degree of LII. D. upon Hon.
Abraham Lincoln
On Wednesday of last week June 9th