Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-07-11
enNEnAL NEWS sUMMARY.

ice water. lney were Jdilee D"SS "'1
ant gardner at the navy yard, Ebenezer Aim
ball. teansier at the navy yard, ana a steve
dore named French The last named came
from the hold Of vessel in which he had been
working, drank four tin dippers full OF water,
and Immediately fell dead upon the deck.
Edwin Wright, ESQ., has been appointed
special police Justice of Boston, during the alb
sence of Judge Wells, lieutenant colonel OF the
tenth regiment.
William w. Swan of Dorchester, has been
appointed lieutenant in the regular army, ana
has been ordered To report TO Fort Pre0le Mr.
Swan is a son of VIM. ID. Swan, Esd, OF the
well known firm of Swan, Brewer Il Iileston,
Publishers OF Wurcesters Dictionaries lie
is latin school boy, and Il graduate OF Har'
ward college.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Edward Corney has been sentenced 10 the
state prison for lite tor assault with intent to
commit rape upon Mrs. Cunningham OF
Marlboro.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Several hundred aboring men OF KoXbury,
who have been thrown out of employment, IN
consequence of the war, have organized and
waited upon the city government with earnest
applications for assistance They want work
or aid 10 keep the wolf from the door,.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Widow Anna Holbrook of Windsor was IS
years old on the 9th ut,, and has had II
children, 33 grandchildren, and p great.grand
children. During her SD year she pleced and
presented a bed ,uilt TO each OF her daugh-
tiers, none Of which was composed OF less than
1000 pieces, and some of Them contained 3O0O
Or her last birthday, about fifty OF her de.
scendants assembled at the house OF Marshall
Miner in Windsor, and the old lady, who still
enjoys good health, presided over them with
propriety.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
John +. Gerald, a temperance lecturer, came
near losing his life on Tuesday, willie cross
and destroyed, while lie was thrown violently
through the air long distance, and was con-
siderably injured.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The people Of Amherst are carrying on
hot contest Tor the post oifice-Lucius NJ, Bolt
wood and Samuel c. Carter contestants. The
latter has the endorsement of the member OF
congress, the former apparently the voice OF
the people.
Mr.. Brown, agent OF the Indian Orchard
Mills, died very suddenly of heart disease, on
the 3D. inst, just as he was preparing to pre-
sent sword in behalf OF the mill operatives
to the captain of one of the companies of the
tenth regiment
Sylvester Prentice of Worthington, has a
Spanish sheep, seven years old, which has
given him nineteen lambs in five years and
three months. He has now from this sheep a
flock of thirty FIVE and has lost five lambs,
making forty in all
The barn of Horace Cook, opposite the
Mansion House, Northampton, was destroyed
on the 4th--set on fire by fire crackers.
Twenty-three persons united with the
church in Haydenville, last Sunday, twenty
one by profession, and two by letter.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
An unsuccessful attempt was made, Monday
night, to break into the Holyoke bank. The
burglar had tried to remove the lock of the
street door, by boring round it with an inch
augur; but fortunately his augur broke, and
a portion of it was found in the door.
MAINE,
One day last week well known citizen of
Portland received a severe castigation at the
hands of respectable lady, whom he had
been in the habit Of annoying by his insulting
language. She collared him, gave him some
severe cuts across the head and face with her
weapon and he sung diminutive.
RHODE ISLAND.
Edward Gladdng, Geographic operator at
Bristol, young man of estmable character,
died on Monday afternoon. A few hours be-
fore his death he was married to Miss Sarah
Livesey, young lady to whom he had been
engaged, with the understanding that he was
IN no p,,rriad when lac attained his majority.
He was q On the day of his death.
CONNECTICUT.
Benjamin S. Balcomb Que of the "Cole.
brook murderers," died at the state prison, on
Sunday morning, July 7. His sentence of
death was committed by the general assembly
of 1851 to Imprisonment Tor life in the state
prison, where lie was taken, July 9Th, of the
same year. making his confinement one day
less than ten years
There will be a regatta OF round bottom
boats, on Tuesday, the Both of July, for the
possession OF the champion flag of New Haven
harbor. Two new boats, the "Pollywog" and
the "Hyac," have been built the past winter,
with especial reference to speed and the pos
session of the flag.
The house Of Samuel Pratt, merchant at
Southington, was entered on Sunday night,
and $500 taken from his pocket book, which he
had left in his clothes by the side of his bed
gold watch which was lying on the bureau
was also taken. Several other houses in the
vicinity were entered the same night and rob.
bed OF small sums.
Peter Myers, a farmer of Burlington, near
Collinsyille, fell in his field on Monday, from
the excessive heat. He WIS haying at the
time, ant died Immediately, before he could
be removed from the field. lie was very
thrifty farmer, and valued and respected cit.
izen.
MISCELLANEOUS.
1.-The Adams Troop" is crack company of
cavalry, raised in Natchez drilled by General
Quitman, and now said 10 be in Virginia
"The outfit of each member cost over $1,000,
and there was not private in the ranks who
had not fortune of at least $50 000 They
have equipped themselves and bear their own
expenses, and ask no pay from the govern.
ment." 1t is suggested that few rounds
from Major Cobb's battery would make bad
gap in the society OF Adams and Natchez
counties, where this troop is said to have been
raised.
Rev.J. c. Richmond, of the I'd Wisconsin
Volunteers, is man well fitted for the service
he has entered, In difficulty with congre.
CATION in Milwaukee, the vestry barred the
rector from his church. He was equal to the
emergency, shoulderei stout piank, and
marching up to the door, began the attack in
stanter "In the name of the Father (thunlp),
the Son (bdng), and the Holy Ghost" (crashj
and the rector entered amid a halo of glory
and splinters
Edward Wood, salt boiler in Syracuse,
while working over one of his boiling kettles,
last week, was seized with a fit, fell in, and
was literally boiled TO death His brother Pat
rick was below throwing fuel into the fire arch
and only knew of the accident by the splash.
ing OF the boiling brine.
Alderman Genet, president of the New
York board of aldermen Alderman Tuomey,
and Stephen Phibin, "a wealthy gentleman, :"
and several Others were drinking together,
Monday night, at the Hone House, when a
dispute rose among them, ending in fight,
which! spoiled the beauty of Tuomey's fea.
lures, and led to Phlbin's confinement in the
watch,house. The president of the board was