Worcester daily spy., 1861-11-07
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

ESSEX COUNTY.
John b. Hubbard, Esq, the principal oil the
high school in Lynn, has resigned that sItua
ton to accept commission as first Lieutenant
in the first Maine battery OF light artillery, at
tached to Col. Snepley's regiment.
During the storm Of Sunday, Caleb H.
Howard, while sailing in the river near Sails
bury Point was drowned by the swamplng OF
his boat, and his body ilUated uut to sea. lie
was lhrty.three years OF age, and leaves u
wife and three children.
'Rhe people ii, ing in and between Gloucester
and Rockport had II grand celebration, 6Ion-
day, on the opening OF a branch railroad be-
tween those two places. They had line
time, lots OF invited guests vino made speeches,
and everything went off merrily.
Died. at Wenham, Oct. 81, Nehemiah Per
kins, aged ninety five years, five months, and
nineteen days. lie was born at Wenham,
Nav %, 176G, and has always lived on the
same farm, which the family still hold by ln-
dian title. Mr.. Perkins had two brothers that
lived almost to his remarkable age, viz: John,
who died at Wenham, Feb. 3, 1S47, aged 90
years, months, 10 days and Edward, who
died at Wenham, June l3, 1868, aged 50 years,
II months, Il days.
On Sunday last, Col, Paul Porter, for many
wears one OF the most trusted citizens of Wen
ham in all public affairs, departed this lie
For seven years he was representative III the
general court; town clerk ten ears thirteen
years moderator Of the town meetings aud
for many years seleCtman, sc. In the war OF
1872 he was colonel OF the Ipswich regiment
Of militia.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Patrick Foley of Bird dgewater, while step
ping from the car to the platform, the train
being in motion, was caught between the two,
aud so badly mangled, that he lived but few
minutes after he was carried to the house OF
brother, whom he was going to visit. In Ell.
deavoring 10 save Foley, Mr.. L. y. Rnnels
came near losing his own life, being caught
between the car and platform.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
John Fox, Of Quincy, one day last week,
entered q well in which a charge Of gunpOw-
der had just been fired. lie was overcome
hy the gas and suffocated to death On Thurs
day morning following, Mrs. O'Ncil, in ,he
same town, was run over by the express train,
and instantly killed.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
An old copper penny OF the date of 1923,
and known as the Rosa Americana, was found
lately on the David Builinton farm in Somer-
set. In removing a portion OF an old stone
wall, the coin was found embedded in the
earth under the foundation stone, and was per-
feet with the exception OF being thickly pitled
Ou one side there is Il representation Of an
American rose, surm0umted With the English
crown and the words, Rosa Alnerjcana--Utile
Ducj. On the reverse side is Il portrait of
George tue First, with the following mscrip-
ton around the rim--GeOrgius D. G. Mag
Bril- Frat ct Hib. Rex.-FdH Rirer Nclcs
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
Joseph S. Uewens OF Falmouth has been
convicted in the United States Circuit Court,
t,,p oh itp M pn 10
office OF $1,000 package. The trial lasted Il
week.
MAINE
The family of Isaac C. and Susan A. vii.
hanson, of Wiscasset, lost in the short space
OF six days, their entire family Of five child.
ren. AT one time four of the five lay dead in
the house, awaiting burial. The eldest was
nine ears and nine months old, and the
youngest about seven months.
The wife Of Joseph Lambert, of Lewiston
on Saturday last, gave birth to three daugh-
ters, weighing six pounds each The mother
is OF slight form, not weighing usually more
than one hundred pounds.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
The woolen factory Of |. Woods s. Son, in
West Heunlker, together with corn and grist
mill and all their contents, were destroyed by
fire on Saturday last. The factory had been
used as knitting factory. Loss $4,000, par
tally insured.
RHODE ISLAND.
Captain Anthony Crowe took the sailboat
Owl, Monday, TO go to Newport, having with
him eight persons, six OF whom were sailors
for the brig Edward +. Newton, about to sail
for Havana. When off Prudence the boat
capsized. Charles ). Bdrnum of Newport,
Alfred Lee, sailor Of English birth, and a
Portuguese sailor. were drowned.-P ProCideace
Journal.
CONNECTICUT
Mr.. Lot Norton Of Salisbury has this year
picked forty nine bushels Of winter apples
(natiYe fruit, } from a tree one hundred years
old-a tree that has never failed to bear every
other year, and always about fifty bushels Of
apples that keep well till the July following
the time OF picking.
Two patriotic young ladies in Warren
carried forty bushels Of potatoes into the eel
lar and earned one dollar which they gave TO
buy stockings for the soldiers.
In one OF the Rocky Hill stone pits, Tues.
day afternoon, a premature explosion occur
red by winch TWO men were shOckirglY cut
and mangcd by fragments of rock, bat mirac-
uIousIy escaped death
Rev. Father DAILY, assistant to the Very
Reverend james Hughes Of the ST. Patrick
cathedral in Hartford, died on Friday last.
High mass was celebrated ut the cathedral,
Sunday, by Bishop Mcfarland, assisted by
twenty six priests.
Mr.. Kenyon, while engaged in hosting in
cotton at the Thames mill in Greenviile, Nor
wich, Tuesday, fell backward, down the
hatchway, by the breaking of the tackle. His
neck was broken by the fall, and he died III,
stantly.
The building of Col. Solomon Porter, on
Cover street, Hartford, was destroyed by fire,
Sunday evening, together with $50 tons Of
hay, five tons Of tobacco, LOO bushels OF corn,
and quantities of lumber, and other property
Loss $4,000.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Shortly before his retirement, Gen. Scott
obtained positive information that his entire
estate, all of which is situated in Virginia, has
been seized sequestered for the benefit OF the
so called confederate government.
King Kamehamcha, of the Sandwich Isl
ands, has issued a proclamation enjOning
strict neutrality upon his subjects "in the hos
tlities now unhappily pending between the
United States and certain states thereof, styE
ing themselves the confederate states OF Amer
lea"
Mrs. Marks, the second of the two women
under arrest in New York for completely in
the murder of Sigismund Fellner, attempted
to commit suicide in her cell Monday night by
opening vein in her arm. The other woman
Adeline Fraum, took her own lie day OF two
preyions.