Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-01
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.

An exciting game of base ball was PLAYED
between the employees of BOwker & Phipps
boot manufacturers of Hayden Row, and til,
employees in Coburn, Claflin, & Co.. s boot fac
tory OF Hopkinton, on Tuesday and Wednes
day of this week. After hard fought con
test, victory was gained by the first named
party, whose score was SO innings and rs tai
hes The other side in SO innings made 4
taIlies. There were fourteen players on eacI
side.
| ESSEX COUNTY
Mrs. George Southwick of West Danyers
was shockingly burned by the explosion of :
mud lamp last week, but her life was saved By
her retaining presence of mind enough to keel
| ner mouth closed and go out and roll over il
the wet grass until the flames were extin
| gulshed. The accident was caused by the
falling in OF the wick, so that in applying the
name to the tube the explosion took place
NORFOLK COUNTY.
GEORGE Wallace was arrested Wednesday
IN Roxbury, for attempting a revolving assault
upon Child of 10 years, named Emma lie
Crow, in the locality known as "Mrs Bates
Garden" The child screamed like a heroine.
which caused the brute to desist from his pur.
poses. He was held for trial under $1,000
bail.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Second Baptist Church in Seekonk
was robbed on Wednesday night last of a sofa.
several chairs, and a portion OF carpeting The
thieves were seen about daylight by Mr.. Sam.
uel Allyn, milkman, coming out of the
churchyard, and he describes them as two
men, driving white horse, and having their
load concealed by covering.
The semicentennal anniversary of the First
Baptist Church in Pawtucket was celebrated
on Wednesday, with appropriate services, in
their house of worship, large congregation,
including many of the clergy of the denOmina-
ton of Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as.
sembled on the occasion.
The annual meeting OF the Randall family
was held in the grove at the old homestead,
on Wednesday. Members were present from
New York, Boston, Dorchester, Fall River,
Weymouth Braintree, Rehoboth, and other
places, to the number of over one hundred.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Miss Henrietta Chamberlain, an excellent
matron lady of about 80 years OF age, and
member of the Congregational church, COM
mltted suicide at Dalton, Wednesday morn
ing, by hanging herself on an apple tree op-
posite Halls hotel She had been sick a long
time, and was mentally deranged.
The wife of Capt. E. Smart of North Ad.
ans, while filling lighted fluid lamp few
evenings since, was nearly burned to death by
the explosion which attends such carelessness
Several similar accidents have occurred in the
same town during this and the past weeks.
Mrs. A. Bigelow OF Great Darlington is
generous to the churches of her favorite town.
A baptismal font OF Italian marble is among
her late gifts to the new Episcopal church,
and similar token OF her interest in their
welfare has just been received by the Congre-
gational society.
The Williams college expedition to Green
land and Labrador has been heard from off the
latter coast. The party were all well, and had
lett two OF their number gathering natural
curiositles on the coast of Labrador, while the
remainder had started for Greenland
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
= The farmers of Franklin county hold their
annual show and fair at Greenfield, on the 9th
of September. No neat cattle will be exhibit
ed, but preparations are in. progress for an
extensive display of sheep. Massachusetts
farmers are finding it for their interest to raise
more sheep and fewer neat cattle
RHODE ISLAND.
Some sacreligious thieves entered ST. James
Church in Woonsocket, one night last week
tore up and carried off some of the carpeting
and attempted to take down the clock It
would seem that they became alarmed, and
decamped without fully carrying out their in
tentions.
CONNECTICUT.
Mr.. Green of New Haven was found in a
room of his house, wasted to a skeleton,
speeches. and unconscious, Wednesday eve
nlng' The police took charge of him, but he
died the next morning. His family do not
give any satisfactory information in the case,
and mystery wells the affair. 1t is generally
believed neglect and starvation were the i'm
mediate causes of his death.
There are two claimants for dover from the
estate of fTnorun Stoa1o 90 II
formerly kept tea store in Hartford, and was
drowned by an accident to the steamer Cham.
pion last fall. ltappears he had been divorced
in 1852 on the ground of adultery with Mrs
Nicholson, whom he afterwards married. but
without legal right to do so, as the decree of
divorce prohibited him from marrying during
the lifetime of his former wife The case is
now on trial in the probate court in New Ha-
ven.
AS Col. Cooley of Hartford attempted to put
notorious rowdy and drunkard out of one
OF his saloons, Wednesday evening, the latter
drew pistols and knives upon the colonel, cut
ting trighttu cash upon the head, nearly five
inches long, and inflicting other wounds of
serious but notfatal nature. His assailant was
arrested.
Mr. Foster, who was recently reelected to
the United States senate by the Connecticut
legislature, has concluded that it is not good
for man to be alone, as he is soon to take unto
himself wife. The lady is said to be well
known in Washington society.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The morals of Hayti, as exhibited by stats.
tics, are shocking. An official Haytien docu.
ment giving the number Of Births marriages,
deaths, and divorces in various villages in diff
terent parts OF the empire during three months,
shows that the whole number of children born
those he 81 ,,,l,, : A
born out of wedlock. In Port au Prince, the
capital, out of APO children born, only 80 were
legitimate.
The little girl in Rochester, N. Y, whose
singular fascination by and affection for a
snake was mentioned some time since, died
last Friday, the day the snake was killed
She was under the care of physician who
practices the electro system. He declared the
snake had taken all the electricity from her
She pinned gradually from the time her parents
removed her from the vicinity infested by the
reptile.
1t may crafty our readers to know that the
heir OF Spain, the Prince of the Asturias, has
made his appearance in public life at the ma
ture age OF t,Co and. a halt. His royal high.
ness, at a grand reception in San Idefonso,
wore dress of sky blue gtace silk with silver
buttons, and straw hat with scarlet velvet
band, and behaved with great dignity"
Three wives of one husband, who is now
serving sentence in Auburn IN. " state
prison, paid him formal visit the other day,
all at once, just to heap Goals OF fire on his
head. One brought some apples, another
peaches, and the third cake and then they
marched out proudly, Indian file, leaving him
to his digestion of the visits and its fruits.
Hugh Lindsey, the veteran Snowman, and
the shining light of circuses forty years ago,
died in Lower Heidelberg, Pa, lastweek. He
got rich in the business, invested his profits i'll
real estate, and has for many years lived