Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-06-13
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

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BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The mystery connected with the robbery of
the jewelry store of Josiah Gooding on the
9th ult, has been partially solved by the ar
rest OF young man named j. Frank Bean,
and the recovery of large portion of the sto-
len property. Bean, against whom the evil
dence is very strong, has been bound over in
the sum of $1,000 for trial
In the Superior Court, Boston, the jury in
the case Of George Sparhawk against Genery
Twichell, president of the Boston and Wor-
cester railroad company, returned verdict for
the defendant. The suit was brought to re-
cover damages for an alleged assault on plain
tiff
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Newburyport Herald states that a boy
was born at Salisbury Point on Sunday, who
had six grandmothers living, and all under so
years Of age.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The three story wooden building, corner of
Union and Purchase streets, New Bedford,
was destroyed by fire early Monday morning.
The building was owned by Nathan Chase and
the heirs of George Tappan, and was damaged
to the amount of $1,000. The occupants of
the building paper hangers, daguereotypists,
SC, also suffered slighter losses
Sanford Howard of the Boston Cultivator,
has recently purchased a valuable pair of Black
| Hawk mares for Lord Bentwick, England. The
animals were Fanny Fern" bred by Francis
Wilson of Hinesborough, and "Black Hawk
Belle" bred by Mr.. Titus in Bratteboro
The price was $1,000.
One Of the school children III Bennington
bright girl of nine years, was recently re-
manded home for coming to school in state
Of intoXication.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
f
ing B. f. Bridges, Jr., in Deerfeld, on the
evening of his marriage, fracas ensued
among the singers, and one Of them, Frank
Ball, was hit between the eyes with stone,
lnfiictlng dangerous wound and splintering
the bone of the nose and the bone of the lower
part of the forehead.
A ease of some interest involving the ques-
ton Of the responsibility of guardians, and ad-
miniStrators has been decided by the Probate
Court at Greenfield. Alpheus Harding, guar
dian of Amos Learned, spendthrft, sold the
wards real estate by order of the court, upon
terms which the purchaser did not fulfil, and
the property reverted to the guardian, depre.
ciated in value, The court held that the guar
! dian must account to the ward for the loss
Several barrels and kegs of liquor, belong
ing to VIM. b. Brown, and kept for sale in the
building adjoining the Franklin House, were
attached by Sheriff Joslyn, on Monday morn
! ing. Brown was also arrested for passing
! counterfeit money.
Michael Kiley, child two and a half years
| old, was drowned in Greenfield, on Friday
last, while playing near river in his grand
fathers garden.
| HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
George Marks, a young man recently en-
ployed III Amherst. committed suicide in
Ware on Wednesday, 9th, under the influence
OF some unaccountable depression of spirits
He was visiting his sister in Ware, but stated
i'll letter that no treatment there led him to
commit the act, although Somebody" was the
cause of it.
RHODE ISLAND.
During the present term of the Supreme
Court torty-nine petitions for divorce were
heard and granted. One of the clerks of the
court is reported to have remarked that this
was an awkward kind of number, and as
they might as well make an even fifty, he
would just file bill against his own wife for
infdelity, and call it square
The commissioners on the cattle disease in
Rhode Island held their first meeting Monday
and voted to request the governor so far TO
suspend the operation of the act against the
admission OF neat cattle into the state as relates
to the country east of the Connecticut river,
where the disease has not yet appeared
Mr.. James Cottrell died in Newport, on Sat
urday, of lockjaw. He cut one of his fingers,
on the 18th ult., with a freezing hook" which
| was followed by inflammation and lockaw
MISCELLANEOUS.
Carrie Freeman, the little daughter of Rev
Mr.. Freeman of Warren, N. Y, was murdered
by Mrs. Fitzpatrick, respectable lady of that
village, while in a fit of insanity Carrie WIS.,
tied her house, where she had been a great IA
yorite, and when her mother went for her a
short time afterward the child was quite dead,
while Mrs. Fitzpatrick sat upon the floor bran
dishing a bloody knife, and crying out, 81
have done it !''-"I la done ii p
The citizens of Chicago propose to hold a
monster concert in the republican wigman for
the benefit of the sufferers by the recent lorna
do The board OF trade in Chicago has al
ready contributed $1,000 many gentlemen of
property have contributed 500 each and the
people generally have contributed very lber.
ally.
1t is reported that Mr. Fowler neither took
passage on board of the Moses Taylor for Ha-
vana nor has he at any time contemplated a
future residence in Brazil. He Is in the state
of New York-almost daily in the city of New
York and, If we are correctly informed, he
has not the remotest idea of awaiting himself of
the uncomfortable advantages incident to self.
expatration.
The Florence correspondent of the Newark
Advertiser says that the report duplicating the
American Consul at Palermo as an accomplice
OF the royal police i'll the recovery of refuge
from an American merchant vessel in the har
Dor, proves to be erroneous. Mr.. Barstow was
applied to by the DOlicp to intprfprn in lite lao