Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-15
General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Edward Parks, young man of twenty-five
years, committed suicide Wednesday night,
by drowning himself at Rowe's wharf, Old
Cambridge. The body was found with rope
round the waist, and the other end wound
about stone that weighed forty or fifty lbs.
Deceased was married on the 26th of July to
worthy young woman named Adelia J. Grit
fin, signed the enlistment rolls the same dav,
but had not been sworn in. He had evidently
been lately laboring under mental depression.
VIM. Craig has been arrested in East Bos-
ton for discharging a pistol at his daughter,
Mary g. Craig, seventeen years of age. He
gave as reason that she was out too late
nights, visiting places that were not proper for
her to so to. The girl was not wounded.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The late David A. Neal of Salem bequeath-
ed the sum of $4,000 to that city, the income
to be expended in the purchase Of fuel, to be
given or sold at low prices, as may be deemed
best by the trustees, to snch worthy and in
dustriOus persons as are not supported in
whole or in part at the public expense, but
who may need some aid in addition to their
own labor, to enable them to sustain them
selves and their families during the inclement
season of the year.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
In Quincy, w Wednesday, a train ran over an
unknown Irishman, about thirty years old.
who was walking on the track under Presi-
dents bridge.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The United States coast survey party now
located on the southern peak of Mount Tom
will complete their observations from that
point in about two weeks. Prof Bache has
been there until within a few days, and the
force has been increased until it occupies
twenty tents. Observations are made to Mo-
nadnock in the south, to Wachusett in the
east, and to Sanford, Conn, in the south.
road has been constructed to the summit of
the mountain so that carriages make the as
cent, though with some difficulty.
Mrs. Elizabeth Breck of Northampton has
volunteered to act as matron of a United
States hospital. She leaves for Newbern this
week.
The barn of Major Miller, in Haydenville,
was destroyed by fire on the 9th, together with
twenty tons of hay, several calves, and 5000
or $500 worth of corn. Loss $1,000; insured
for $500.
Albert futile of Hadley, died very sudden
ly on the 9th. He had commenced grading
oats, and had got nearly round the lot, when
he was observed to fall. He expired almost
instantly.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
George l.. Botham was arraigned in the
Springfield police court, Wednesday, for set
ting fire to barrel of shavings in the house
where he lived, the property being owned by
his wife. He had for a long time threatened
to commit incendarism, when under the eff
fects of his frequent sprees. He was commit
ted to Jail in default of ball. to await his trial
in the superior court.
DIR. Chapman of Longmeadow finds himself
sadly bereft by die results of the late battle in
Virginia Col. Chapman of the Connecticut
9TH, who is reported as fatally wounded and
in the hands of the enemy, is his brother. So
is Captain Chapman, also reported killed or
missing, and in his company brother in law
also in the same category.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY
A fire broke out in the Lenox Glass Works,
at Lenox Furnace, on the 18th, and all the
buildings Of the works were entirely con-
sumed. The loss will probably exceed thirty
thousand dollars, on which there was no in
surance. The works have been stopped for