Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-20
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Clarence Butler, Esq, who was recently
tarred and feathered at Bastrop, Texas, be-
cause he refused to join the ranks of the reb-
| els, and narrowly escaped hanging,-the rope
having been prepared for that purpose, is an
nOunced to speak in Boston, Sunday morning
and evening.
George S. Boutwell, j. Ingerso Bowditch,
and Jonathan Preston, have been appointed a
board Of appraisers on the value of itain
lands proposed to he granted to the Massachu-
sets Institute OF Technology and the Boston
Society of Natural History.
The literary exercises at Cambridge closed
| Thursday, with an admirable grafton be ore
the Phi Beta Kappa society By Geo. S. Bout.
well, and, in its way, an equally admirable
poem by Elbrdge j. Cutler, of Ilolliston.
The officers elected for the current year are
president-E. lockwood Hoar vice. presi-
| dent-Charles Sumner; secretary Solomon
| Lincoln, jr.; treasurer-James G. \ errill in
place of N, l. Bowditch, deceased.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
a cavalry company, composed of young la
| dies, has recently been formed under the
name of the "Di Vernon Phalanx Miss
| Pinkie Pomeroy is the captain, and Miss Ann
| Kip is the lieutenant.
/ BklSIOL COUNTY.
! The Taunton Gazette says "an eXtraordi.
nary sight, IN the way of worms or caterpil-
lars, may be seen in the pasture lands of Mes
srs. Ansem Bassett and Solomon Woodward,
| jr., in the rear OF the house OF the last named
| gentleman, where vastnumbers, millions upon
| millions OF these creatures have made their APP
| pearance upon the ground, devouring and
| Ulackening every green thing that comes in
| their way. They are working in all direct
ions, and Mr.. George Leonard has fortified a
| fine grain field Of his against them by sprink
| ling the outer edge thereof with lime and tar.
| The space upon which they have thus far
travelled is upwards of half an acre
Through the liberaIty o: Benjamin Lindsey,
Esq, the former editor and proprietor of the
New Bedford Mercury, the bound volumes of
that paper, from its commencement in 1907, to
the year 1860, inclusive have been placed in
the free public library.
NANTUCKET.
Joseph son of Mr.. Samuel L. Manter, was
drowned in Nantucket harbor, on Saturday
last, by falling out of his boat while bluefish-
ing. His body was found on Monday, and
buried.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
James NJ Williams, who murdered Vanness
Wyatt at Warren, some time ago, and was
one OF gang of five who have committed
uurueTS Ill GIdltOi county Wltnl0 Tile past
eighteen months, and who escaped conviction
on his first trial, attended church on Sunday
last for the first time since committing the
deed. Thirty of the best citizens Immediately
left the house. Col. Isaac Merrill was so ex-,
cited that he left his hat in his pew, and went
| home bareheaded.
RHODE ISLAND.
One of the inmates of the Butler Insane
Asylum, at Providence, was lately prosper
Gus Baltimore merchant. Secession troubles
broke up his business, rendered him insolvent
took from him two sons now in the rebel ar.
my, and finally berett him Of his reason. Ills
wife, an invalid residing near Providence, on
failing to receive letters from him as usual,
was at last informed of his situation, and from
that time declined TO her grave. She was bu-
ried two or three days since.
CoNNEoTIcUT.
Rev. DIR. Stiles of New Haven, and secre-
tary and agent of the Southern Aid Society,
is gazetted as a chaplain in the rebel army.
His two sons are also in arms against their
country. Whether he still receives money for
Southern aid ;" is not stated.
The grape blight is destroying the grapes
near Hartford Bunches of green grapes that
were growing finely few days since are now
white and moudy. The blight is seen in the
| vineyards of Europe as well as in this country,
| anu no ISuleuy has DSel dSCeTldlDtu as
| the cause is unknown.
Matthew Morris was stabbed and killed by
Charles Fox at Woodbury., Wednesday even
ing. Fox was arrested.
The mill Of the Messrs. Sprague, at Baltic,
have entirely suspended operations for four
weeks. The satinet mill of Messrs. s. & H.
Sayles, in Killingly, have also stopped work,
owing to slack trade.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A marriage has been celebrated at Bristol,
England, under singular circumstances the
bridegroom being upward OF ninety years and
the bride fifty years old. Neither OF them had
been married before They are both in re-
ceipt of parochial relief, the man being Grip.
pie and the woman blind of one eye, and
asthmatcal.
The McCook family, OF Ohio, furnish IA
Their and seven sons to the country. The IA
Their and one son are colonies of Ohio regi-
ments, another son is an officer in the navy,
and the Others hold military positions in the
volunteers.
Daniel Van Clief, butcher of New York,
| has three sons, who, one after another, enlisted
and went with the thirteenth New York regi-
ment. The old man could not bear TO be left
behind, so he enlisted too, and followed his
| sons to the war.
| The London Times of the 21St ult., pub
| all twenty-four pages The impression is said
TO contain four thousand advertisements of all
lengths, and is the largest production ever
issued from the daily press.
| The other evening an absent minded citizen
of Adrian was standing on the curb stone,
viewing the comet, and was much absorbed in
heavenly things, when an acquaintance tapped
him on the shoulder and asked GLOW do you
like the presidents message 2" He exclaim-
ed; 30, splendid, splendid nucleus rather
thin, but | admire the tail four hundred mil
lions long, and four hundred thousand broad
PERSONAL
Mr.. Judd. the American ambassador to Ber-
lin, was mistaken in Paris for the other Jud,
the famous Jud, that cannot be iound-Jud
the murderer of Poinsot He was followed
for three days by three police spies before he
discovered who were his prosecutors, or they
discovered who was the object OF their pur-
suit
Thomas Carlyle, through pleasantly char
acterisic letter to the London Times, has set
on foot public testimonial to the family of
Fire Inspector Braidwood, who persisted re-
| Gently in the great fire at London.
Lord AdOlpus Vane Tempest, whose name
is not unfamiliar to American readers, is now
in New York He has been sometime alluded
to as an illustration of the old phrase drunk
as lord, his eccentricties lying somewhat
in that direction. lie recently married the
Duke of Newcastle's daughter, which was the
cause OF grand "row" in the dukes family.
How THE ScoTT GIRLS WERE TAKEN
Capt, Hawley gives in the Hartford Press the