Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-08


Betsey Mitchell of Yarmouth. committed
suicide on the 9th ult, suspending herself
from stair bannister with skein of linen
thread. Her husband had been removed to
the Asylum the day previous for insanity.
ID. L. Page OF Germantown, also man of
considerable property, and oppressed by an
undefinable fear OF want committed suicide ON
the LIST inst. He was thirty-tive years OF age
and has left wife and two children.
Edmund Daggett, Of Hope, Me-, gentle.
man of seventy years, committed suicide ON
the 9th ult, by hanginging himself in his
barn. He was a man Of considerable property
but was still under the deusion that he was
coming TO want.
Freeman Peasee of Prospect, Me-. labor.
er in the granite quarries OF Cobb & Co., at
Spruce Head was killed on the 9th ult, by a
blow from an iron bar which was hurled
against his breast while he was using it for a
lever.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Lieut.. Chas a. Walker, late of the New
Hampshire volunteers, is reported to have
lett handsome property most OF which is
willed TO Miss Ora George, to whom he was
engaged to be married. Miss George is "A
school teacher in Concord, and formerly of
Massachusetts.
Aaron Bradbury was shot by Abel White
on the night of the 4th, in Canaan, N. H.,
where they both resided. The shot was fatal,
and White fled to the woods. Bradbury had
been engaged in some disturbance near
Whites house, under the provocation OF which
the crime was committed.
The commencement exercises at Dartmouth
t'oliere take place the last week in the month
Rev. DIR. Henry of New York is tue alumni
orator, and Edward Everett orator. and John
Plerpont poet of the literary societies. The
graduating exercises occur on the 18th inst
RHODE ISLAND.
Eliza Homes, living with respectable fam.
lily in Westerly, as a house servant, was shot,
Wednesday evening, while in the act of clos.
ing the window blind, by some unknown per.
son, seven shot taking effect in her face and
neck.
ii. W. Child, a valued citizen OF Warren, r.
l., died very suddenly on the 81 inst, while
sitting In his chair, cOnversing with his wife.
lie was 70 years of age, and was for many
years sexton OF the Baptist church in that
town.
CONNECTICUT.
The Connecticut Legislature, before adjourn.
ing, passed bill furnishing reasonable cores
pondence, &c, with $1,000 fine. An amend.
ment was incorporated into the bill, imposing
penalty of 500, or imprisonment or both,
on any person who raises secession flag.
MISCELLANEOUS.
In the mistake near Great Bethel there were
many badly wOunded-but one in particular, a
soldier of the New York sixtyninth, had to
have his right arm amputed. He bore the op.
Grafton with much fortitude, and on seeing the
arm about to be taken away for burial, called
the man back, and grasping the fingers shook
hands with the arm, saying-"Good bye, old
triend-you served me often at pinch, and |
thought TO carry you to the grave, but you are
gong before me. Good bye"
The Mozart regiment, which consists in
part OF three Massachusetts companies, from
Newburyp0rt, Milford, and West Cambridge,
left Yonkers, N. Y, for Washington, on the
morning of the fourth. They did not stop at
New York city.
The bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
church who reside in the southern states are
nearly all secessionists. A convention is
called 10 meet at Montgomery, to take
steps towards the severance of the church as
well as OF the state.
The shroud in which the corpse of young
lady was dressed took fire at the residence OF
VIM. Virgins, in Louisville One of the
watchers, a lady, made an attempt to extin.
gulsh the flames, in which attempt her own
clothes 'gnited, and she was so severely burn
ed that she is not expected TO recover.