Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-15

BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Aparty of eleven ladies, residing in Charles
town, recently made an excursion to Maple
wood, on the horse railroad. The aggregate
age of the eleven ladies was $50 years. The
oldest was So and the youngest 60. The old
est one facetiously remarked to the conductor
on the return trip, that the woods were so de-
lightful, nothing but the sense of propriety
prevented her from running array and hiding
in the bushes, SO as to stay there all night.
The horse railroads in Boston have COM
menced to discount 10 and u per cent. on
every dollar bank note presented for the pay
ment of fares.
John Sullivan, belonging in Charlestown,
man about 40 years of age, while bathing in
the Mystic river near Chelsea bridge Sunday,
had an attack of cramp, and was drowned.
He was intoxicated at the time. He leaves
wife and three children.
At the close of services in the Universalist
church in Roxbury, Sunday forenoon, after a
most patriotic discourse, the pastor, Rev. Mr..
Bartholomew, announced his readiness, if a
reasonable number would join him, to enlist
for the war or procure a substitute. Some
fifteen gentlemen present Immediately gave
him their Names and more will follow.
John Stone, Daniel Webster, Jr., and Caleb
Watts, have been arrested in Boston on a
complaint charging them with conspiracy to
cheat the Franklin Insurance Company out of
$4,000, and the Suffolk Insurance Company
out of $2500, by false representations relative
to the amount of stock destroyed by the fire
on Broad street on the night of the 18th of
May last. The case is now on examination
in the police court.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
In the superior court at Concord, on Fri
day, Eugene C. Stratton, of Cambridge, a boy
about Is years of age, was convicted of hav.
ing committed a rape upon a little girl named
McGarvin. The crime was committed in
Cambridge several months since. Stratton
will receive bis sentence, imprisonment for
life, on the 18th.
The council lately summoned to consider
the case of Rev. Mr.. Mott, the pastor of the
Free-will Baptist church in Lowell. who dis
appeared so mysteriously short time since.
have decided that he ought to be cut off from
both his ministerial and church relations
Rev. j. Il. Rankns of St. Albans, Vt. has
accepted the call of the Appleton street
church in Lowell. to become thcir nastor
lie VIII De installed about the frSt OF Septem-
Der
ESSEX COUNTY.
A woman IN the Newburyport almshouse,
named Robinson, widow, has been starving
herself Tor the last three weeks. In all that
time she has refused everything but water,
and at last accounts was unable to move.
minister in Beverly, who happened to
have few sleepy hearers of the masculine
gender in reproving their somnolency, stated
that throughout the whole twenty-seven years
OF his ministry he never yet had seen wo-
man asleep in meeting.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford Mprcurv teIls +bo s+or,
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"onia'i; lesl0eli' III 'i'a' Guy, whose nus,
D"ne was Aheh prisoner at BARS Blum and
S - wv WIN many oIlerS at oahsoury, N
u men IL became pretty certain that there
"oulu IL. W general eAcllahSe OF prisoners,
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go , ''.1N'y VI ms "lie; c"ligu anu IN
bn vl .'li'' el IHsodru "oui proDaDly
,mor ..T ,s,.a Gil, salu tlIe lonely wo-
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| NEW HAMPSHIRE.
| II correspondent OF the Boston Post, writ
ing from marlborough, says: "We generally
attend meeting when we are in these parts.
Inc freewll Baptist folks we like for
| thelr plquant orlglnalities. ''Christ wants NO
t III months men for has arFny!" exclaimed
Ai'''i ~ III ohe Vi MS eAhort;lllOns TO the SIN
ners 10 come under the banner of Prince
Emanuel HE wants you to enlist for the
whole war; and not go home until you have
put down the rebellion Of sin and the devil.
instead OF dollars, he gives a crown of glory
for bounty"
IT, az e as1e e. oehl, we've listed, bound,
''N ''t o. zion Tp N" Hai neMii
''Some of YOU Sinners he continued
Glove your sins so dearly. that T ver;I, ho'
lieve YOU would not give ;em nm far a tom ocro
lot in Heayenr" 80
The Manchester American sars tbo+ po,,
DR.. Bouton of Concord who hos fnrn1a o,
been regarded ne an onolonist Gov Sia,,on1.
preached recently on the cost of nationo
bless,rcs ond - Ia - VI ii'''oi.''i
favorable to or,opc;ro+;or &c a. - 49,
nr,oII, Isr ~, NV 'i''o'
Messrs Ra,noiJs e. 70 &c p.o,.:1o =
fer bonntv IF ty,o,'t, Iii or
men who will within ono w.aoi, f', S 4 ~ , n.iy
enlist in tho liobt hattnr,, H. a' 9., slle l-t
now organi2ing in Pbodo roi r'.I 'i' ieiiieil'
non IrEUur l1,..'i'
In New Havnn Sa+urda.- A..
Shnltos oaaJ o. S"lu'uay' Nlrs: Elzaoeth
ond story vindou, n,d 1ua;pe9 no,i' d see
from the f,Il tbot sI,a ~ 49,. SUI
was temnorariI,, dorn,,n"J - 9 .L . "i'er one
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