Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-08-28
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Lieut. John f. Dunning, late of the sixth
Massachusetts, is recruiting Boston com
pany, to serve tor the war, which, with the
consent of Hon. Edward Everett, he proposes
to name the everett Guards"
MiDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The house latela Asa@pS4iAd IN -NaRt0e 4hs
cattle, was destroyed by fire early Tuesday
morning. 1t was the property of Benjamin
Sewall, and was unoccupied.
William Coombs, convict at the state
prison, committed suicide on Monday last He
was in for five years, on account of having
five wives, and had served out three years and
half of his sentence.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The store in Coleraine, owned by the Girls
woldVlle Manufacturing Company, and occu-
pied by j. B. Whitney of Shelburne Falls, was
destroyed by fire on Friday last There was
$1,000 insurance on the goods, none on the
building.
Patrick Mullens has been tried and found
guilty of causing the death OF Cornelius Har-
rington, at Buckland, on the 18th of July. The
crime was the result OF a drunken quarrel.
The citizens of Charemont having virtual
ly declined to pay their town subscription to
the Troy and Greenfield Railroad, suit has
been commenced in Boston for its recovery.
MAINE.
Some time during Sunday night an old
woman who has long been mendicant in
Portland, was burnt to death in that city, in
the fourth story Of an old building called
"Sevastopol," where she lived and lodged
alone.
CONNECTICUT.
Gen. James T. Pratt has been appointed
major general of the Connecticut state militia.
He is a ull fedged Douglas democrat was a
candidate for governor against the present in.
o
peace convention last spring.
Counterfeit ten dollar notes, purporting to
have been issued by the East Haddam Bank,
have been put in circulation in the Naugatuck
Valley. Though unlike the genuine, they
were well executed, and calculated to de-
ceive.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Miss Catherine Hayes, the accomplished
vocalist whose death is announced, was born
in Limerick, ireland, in the year 1920, and
made her first visit TO this country in 1851,
where she had a very successful career. Her
voice was a soprano of great compass and
strength, very smooth, and remarkably flex-
ibe.
The rebel flag was recently taken into the
port of Antigua, w. l., by North Carolina
schooner, and hosted upon the flag staff Of
the firm to whom its cargo was consigned.
DOlllG Vi tHe lHuiBtdtt iSadhhSio NV eOOuCl saw
the symbol Of piracy and oppression, than they
hauled it down, trampled upon it, and finally
tore it into thousand pieces.
During an interview between two New York
merchants, one day last week, one of them,
John gilbert, oil the firm Of Culbert & Finlay,
expressed the wish that "the rebel privateers
would enter New York harbor, seize the
vessels, and fire the city" The other, Rufus
Story Of Front street, Immediately slapped
his face, and branded him in the streets as Il
traitor.
The Baltimore county court house, in
Baltimore, was set on fire on Friday night, in
the clerks department, reducing the most
valuable records and papers to ashes. The
judicial records and papers OF every descrip-
ton, the land records, and every thing per.
tanning to them were wholly lost The fire
was the work # an incendiary interested
probably in the destruction OF evidence which
would have been against him.
Rev. Daniel M. Lord, for many years pas
tor of the Mariners church in Boston, was
thrown from his horse at Shelter Island, N.
Y, Monday and instantly killed. He has re-
sided on Long Island for the past ten years.
When the Massachusetts, seventeenth regi-
ment was approaching Newark, in the New
Haven train, last week, the cry went up that
there was female in the cars disguised as a
soldier A close search resulted in the
discovery of female wearing the oyercoat
of one of the volunteers. She was at once
elected.