Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-10-03
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


George w. Hammond, well known citizen
! OF Charestown, and treasurer of Hook and
Ladder Co. No. l, mysteriously disappeared a
| fortnight SINCE aud has not since been heard
from His affairs were left in a disordered
condition and his family in Distress
ESSEX COUNTY.
The members OF the Essex Cadets" at
tached TO the fourteenth regiment, have sent
! home fifteen hundred dollars. Seventy mem.
! bers of the company were represented in
making up this amount.
| Mrs Sally Hale, a much respected widow
lady residing in Byfed fell from her bed
while in the act of arising, last Tuesday
morning, badly dislocating her hip and receiv
ing other injuries SO severe that her lille is
despaired Of
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The extensive mandatory known as the
Taunton Oil Cloth Works, engaged in the
manufacture OF patent enamelled cloth, was,
on Tuesday, wholly destroyed by fire. The
building was principally owned by James W.
Grammar & Co, who carried on the business
and employed about thirty persons.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
While a Frenchman named Murray was
employed, Monday, in Trask's foundry, in
Springfield, saving lumber it'll a buzz saw,
stick caught i'll the teeth, which burst the saw
throwing fragments upon his face and head,
which caused instant death.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The supreme court at Greenfield recently
decided an impor mt suit, i'll which the par
ties al interest were the American Coloniza-
ton Society aud the town of Northampton, for
the possession of $4,000 bequeathed by the
late Oliver Smith OF Hatfield, conditionally to
the former, to revert to the fund Tor the estab.
lshment oil an agricultural school at North
amptOn in case the conditions were not com
piled with. The court decided in favor OF the
town.
The young girls at Northampton have or
ganzed Zuuave military company, with Miss
Hopkins as captain The company will give
an exhibition drill at the agricultural hall, on
the evening of the first day of cattle show.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Lieut. Col Bell, of the New Hampshire 4th
regiment, while sailing on Massabesic Pond in
Chester, Saturday, with two sisters of his wife,
was capsized by a squat of wind. Col. Bell,
by his gallant daring, succeeded in lifting the
ladies again into the boat, and swimming him
SELF pushed his shivering load to the shore.
The dwelling house of Nathaniel Hubbard,
in TamwortlI, together with his barns and out
buildings, was consumed by fire on Sunday
| morning. The fire was caused by depositing
ashes in an out building day or two previ-
Gus The entire productions, the present year
stroyed.
Lydia A. Sanborn, employed as room girl"
in the weave room OF the Langdon mills in
Manchester, was observed, Monday night, ac
cidentally falling into the canal. She was q
| years OF age, and was to have been married
! soon.
RHODE ISLAND.
VIM. Sayles, of Chepatchet, went out, Mon.
day afternoon, for a load Of pumpkins but,
|
when both himself and his horse were found
drowned in an adjacent pond.
Capt Frederick Shepard fell from his sloop
at Horizons Point, near New London, on the
evening of the 9th ultmo, and was drowned.
The rope slipped from the ''tiller" as he was
steering, and he was thrown backward into
| the Sound.
| On Tuesday evening, young man in Prov.
idence, of prepossessng appearance amused