Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-18
General News summary.

Avian Fitch Of Holliston, has been acquit-
Tea OF the charge of manslaughter in killing
Mary and Rosa Reeves last November. He
was tried before the supreme court at Con-
| cord.
At meeting recently held in Brighton. it
| voted to give bounty Of sips to each volun-
tecr. Private offers were also made to give
In addition $50 to the first, and S25 each to
the next four who would book their names.
ESSEN COUNTY.
A barn belonging to Nathan Barker, in
North Andover, was burned on the 18th. 1t
| contained four tons Of hay.
Camp Stanton, at Lynnfied, is designated
as the general rendezvous for all recruits from
the counties of Banstable, Bristol, Dukes,
Essex, MiddleseX, Nantucket, Norfolk. Ply
mouth, and Suffolk, under the command of
Col. Maggi. Recruits are to be sent as often
as ten shall nave been obtained in anv town
or city.
The dwelling house Of John Dudley, in
Lynn, caught fire on Wednesday and was
considerably damaged by fire and water.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Hon. Foster Hooper, in the Fall River
News, recommends an immediate session of
the legislature, and letting the state offer a
uniform bounty for volunteers: relieving the
cities and towns from the difficulty of meeting
the eNlgency by resort to municipal taxation
or furnishing any exact quota.
The school ship Massachusetts. belonging
to the state, was at Fall River on the 18th
She has on board about one hundred and for
ty boys from thirteen to seventeen wears of
age, who work the ship and stand regular
Watches. There are also four experienced
seamen on board. The officers are the best
that can be procured.
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patriotic places in the state. Sixteen bns
ness firms and individuals have subscribed
5000 each, one 5000 and eight 500 each.
which with smaller amounts have raised the
sum total to $4,000, in aid of the PROMPT en-
llstment OF the towns quota of troops.
About 200 pounds of ham were badly dam
aged, Thursday, at the smoke house of II.
| Illllnghast in New Bedford, by the smoking
apparatus becoming over-heated.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
They have one of the best kind of CLONE
Guards" in Wareham the Volunteer H0eiDg
Guard,-whO go about in squads hoeing the
gardens Of those who are in their country's
service In Dixie, wedding out the rebels.
MAINE.
The Belfast journal says there is a greater
demand at present for spinning wheels than
at any time for the past twenty years. Farm
ers seem to be returning, as much as possible,
TO the old time economy, dispensing with su-
perllultles, ana producing at home as many as
possible of the necessities of life,
The statutes of Maine provide that any per-
sons drafted Tor active service in the militia
may DC released on the payment of $50 into
the treasury. '''''
Colby Norris, of Ellsworth. was killed nm
the l4th while loading vessel, bv n stick of
UNDER falling upon him. Miles McShea. an
employee OF the Grand Trunk railway. Stun
Dleu ON the track as he was altering a switch
at fortland and freight train ran over him
and inflicted wounds Of which he died in a few
hours. Katie jenkins, little girl who was
injured by truck team at Portland. died five
days afterwards.
CONNECTICUT.
good deal of fault is found with the rail-
road station at New Haven, it being so darl,
IN the daytime as to make it almost impossible
to distinguish the face of a friend The Hart
iord Courant says that little girl stopped at
the station with her mother short time since,
near evening, the darkness being, of course,
dense, and seeing the conductor and brake
man hurrying around with their lanterns, the
hackmen Justify calling and beckoning at the
same time for passengers, she looked up to
her mother and wonderingly asked, "Is this
hell?"
Messrs Yeomans, Drake, and Warner, all
conductors on the Providence and Fishkill
railroad, have given up their places and taken
up their muskets. Mr.. Yeomans intends to
enlist company in the state.-Ha1tfoyd
Post.
Rev. Jonathan Bruce, ID. D., Of Milford,
has offered to give $40 to each person who
will enlist from the town of Milford and if
full company is formed there he will give
them $500 additional.