Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-14
General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

In Boston, Thursday, boy nine years old,
named Timothy Burke, was badly injured by
the accidental discharge of shot gun in the
hands of Albert Towle Fifteen shot took
effect in Burke's head and face, but his
wounds are not dangerous.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Jesse Stiles, while at work on Wednesday
evening where they were taking down the
fremont mills, Lowell, was instantly killed
by stick of timber, or piece of iron, which
fell and struck him on the head, crushing it
in terrible manner.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The editor of the Fall River News saws that
groggerieS and dens of intamy are springing
up, as if by magic, in that town, and calls on
prominent and influential citizens to unite
with the officers of the law to suppress the
evil.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Charles H. Roberts, a horse thief from Port
land, Maine, was arrested in Springfield,
Thursday. The officer had been in chase of
the fellow for some days.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
AT PittSfeld, the new company which is be-
ing raised for the 34th regiment, by Capt.
Andrew Potter, already numbers about fifty
men.
Knox county must be a nice place to live in,
if one wants to be safe in person and property.
Not solitary complaint was made before the
grBnd jury at its two last sessions, and hence
no indictments were found
The exercises at the grand Masonic cele-
bration in Portland, June 24th, are to consist
of an Grafton, procession, and a collation. be-
meath huge pavilion. Many of the fraterni-
ty outside Of the state will join, and the affair
promises to be grand.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
N. P Willis, the writer and poet, together
with his family and some friends, is spending
the summer at a quiet rural retreat in Camp
ton, four miles from Plymouth.
correspondent of a Manchester paper
says that he counted forty pairs of silver
bowed, three pairs of gold bowed, and three
pairs of steel-bowed spectacles, besides two
pairs Of the latest improved steel spring eye
glasses, in use in the legislature Of the Gran
lite State, now in session at Concord
VERMONT.
Hiram Cole, of Shaftesbury has a hog one
year and seven months old, weighing $50
pounds, being seven and one half feet long,
over three feet high, and two and half feet
broad across the shoulders. This is said to
fact from actual measurement.
The new bridges to be built across the West
and Connecticut rivers at Brattleboro', in
place Of those swept away by this springs
flood, will be of the clock patent" and Brown
< Hart of Claremont are contractors, at $l3
per lineal foot.
. LamoiIle county has already furnished so
volunteers for the new 9th regiment In the
town of Waterville, in that patriotic county,
46 men have gone to the war out OF lO4 sub
ject to do military duty.
AT Hydepark, on the Sd, little son of d.
E. Carlton was nearly kicked to death, while
at play under horses hoofs in the stable
RHODE ISLAND.
The Newport News learns that seventy
seven furnished cottages have already been
engaged for the season, being one more than
was taken on the first day of July last.
The celebration of class day at Brown Uni
versity took place on Thursday. The orator
of the day was Joshua M. Alderman of Prov
idence and his theme was '''The Alliance of
Scholarship and Patriotism" Mr.. A. is a
member Of the 10th Rhode Island regiment,
and only came home on brief Through, to
deliver his Grafton. The poem was delivered
by Henry d. Colby of Newton Center, Mass.
His subject was Memory"
In Providence, Thursday, Julia Farley, a
widow woman about forty five years of age,
was found dead in her bed, She was addict
ed to habits of intemperance.
The Woonsocket Patriot says: COX trains
have commenced running Cor rather 1calking)
on the Air Line railroad. They stop some
distance this side of Boston-viz: at the Har-
ris new privilege. "Look out for the engine"
when the oxen kick
CONNECTICUT.
Wednesday afternoon Gov. Andrew and
council visited the asylum for the deaf and
dumb in Hartford, where Massachusetts sup
ports about 20 pnpils. The governor adj
dressed the pupils from Massachusetts in
very happy manner Many of them had
complied with his invitation to write to him
and he had been exceedingly pleased to re-
ceive their letters. He asked them to con-
tinue the correspondence. Gle replies to the
letters either singly or by a general letter.
The Hartford Press says, that Gov. Andrews
Kind treatment Of the children gives them a
lively sense of the interest Massachusetts has
IN their welfare, and they are very proud of
the noble state.
The schooner Brownstone of Norwalk. La
den with coal, was sunk Off New Haven har-
Dor, Wednesday evening. Her crew were
saved. 1t is thought she can be raised and
the cargo saved.
German laborer at Hartford, in the en- |
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