Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-26

figy, and warrant was issued for his ar
rest. But he fed.
Isaac Phillips of Farmngdale, while at
work in MitcheIFs saw mill, in Gardiner. fell
head foremost, fourteen feet, among the rocks,
under the mill, and miracul0usly escaped from
death
The Lewiston Journal says a prominent
Douglas man in that city gave So on Monday
to buck ont Ola bet Of SIS which he had made
that Douglas would carry Illinois,
Mrs. Bridget Deyine, wife of Anthony De-
vine Of Portland, dropped dead in her own
house on Saturday afternoon, while engaged
in domestic occupations. Physicians ascribed
her death to disease OF the heart. She was 81
years OF age.
RHODE ISLAND.
Late onday evening. two barns and
paint shop adjoining on Chapel street, Provi-
dence, were destroyed by fire. One of the
barns, occupied by Dr.. Ingraham, contained
three valuable horses, several carriages and
other properly which were also destroyed.
| John p Dunbar, who occupied the paint shop,
was insured in the Peoples Mutual, Worces-
! ter, for $3.50.
The balloon witnessed from birmingham,
| HOlllstOn, and other places i'll this state Mon
day morning, sailed from Providence and con-
tanned DR.. VIM Heme, and two other gentle
/ L IN
hours after leaving Providence.
The Providence Press states that counter
felt tens on the Chcopee Bank, Springfield,
Mass, have appeared in that city. Vignete,
male and female Indian and child pillow,
sickle, grain house, etc. 10 in each upper
corner, female seated in each lower corner
ten KS on the back
CONNECTICUT.
On the morning of the 18th inst, Daniel
| Woods aged II years, and his brother Francis,
aged years, sons Of widow Francis Woods,
of New Britain, were taken up for stealing ap.
pies from the trees of Joseph Warner. Daniel
was sent TO the reform school for five years,
and Francis was fined S11 and costs and 80
days in Jail additional-very severe punish.
ment.
The son of Gilbert Robinson of North Hav-
en-, lad OF l3 years, while out hunting, Satur-
day afternoon for birds for an invalid sister,
was accidentally shot by the discharge of both
barrels OF his fouling piece at once. He was
instantly killed.
The Putnam PhaIaux have voted to 60 on
an excursion to Washington and Mount YER
non, leaving Hartford the 18th of November,
provided 100 privates will go, besides music
and officers. The thing is not definitely decid-
ed upon.
Henry Bailey died at his residence in
Noank, on the llth inst, aged GA years. Mr..
b. was man of iron nerves, but has passed
through many severe hardShips. He was out
in the great snow st 4rm known as the "Christ.
mas snow storm, on board smack two days
without food or fire, and was nearly frozen to
DEATH
PERSONAL.
a visitor to the poet Tennyson writes-"He
spoke in terms OF warmest praise of Charles
Summers recent speech in the senate and
added, The most eloquent thing, rs L thought
in the whole Speech was the unspoken thing,
the silence about his own story"
That nefiable fop, CDR Rawlings" having
been discharged from further employment on
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper, has been put
under bonds not to cowhide Frank, as he had
! threatened to do. 1t was needless precau.
| ton, however. A swell head is always a COW
ard.
young Boston lady, who was at the Cliff
ton House, Niagara Falls, when the Prince OF
Wales arrived there, hits him off as follows
"On Saturday | saw the prince walking in the
most democratic manner, He trudged along
in the middle of the road with Sir Edmund
Head, the Duke OF Newcastle, and other gen
tlemen. He wore light pants, very large, a
blue sack coat, a tall white hat and a turnover
collar-and such ,chappjng big feet he has got
He went along in all the dust, look ny straight
before him. He is short, and looks no more
like the pictures in the shop windows of Bos
! ton, than do"
Theodore Parker's last literary labor was
| satire entitled "a Bumble-Bee's Thoughts or
the Plan and Purposes of Creation" 1t was
written as a contribution to an Album dedicat
ed to the memory of Kucher, the German
philosopher.