Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-12

BOSTON AND VICINITY.


party Of thirteen persons went down Bos-
ton harbor recently, and in six hours time,
caught l76 cod, 60 haddock, and II pollock,
making a total of just 250 fish.
George Lawrence and his wife, and Charles
May have been arrested in Chelsea, on suspi-
cion of being the parties who broke into and
robbed the store of Nathaniel Wales, in
StOughton, in March last.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The editor of the Newburyport Herald has
seen a cucumber, grown this year in that
town, that was Is inches long and inches in
circumference.
John Cross has been confirmed as surveyor
of the port of Marblehead.
The canker worms have appeared in large
numbers in the northeastern part of Massa-
chusetts, and have destroyed the foliage in
many Ofthe orchards Of Topsfeld, West New
bury, Newburyport, and other portions of
Essex county.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The first Congregational (Unitarian) church
of New Bedford, are now having erected in
their house of worship, the largest church or
gan in New England, having As draw stops,
blank Sliders, and composition pedals, and
total of 2203 pipes.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The one hundred and tiftieth anniversary of
the incorporation of the town of Abingdon was
celebrated on the 9th. 1t was great gala
day, the programme consisting of a process
| sion, an Grafton, poem, a dinner at Pond
Island Grove, and speeches from the govern
or and other distinguished personages.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The sum Of 100000 has been disbursed to
| the workmen in the L. S. armory at SPRING
| field, for labor performed during the month
| Of April The Republican says "Since the
reception at the treasury department of Ma
ior Ingersoll's rich caricature of 'paymas-
ter short of funds the money required for
the armory has been forwarded with perfect
punctuality. Joking will sometimes effect
what reasoning and urging will not"
A respectable elderly woman was assaulted
in Springfield on the evening of the 9th by
some rowdies who struck and scratched her
in the face. The rascals left before any alarm
could be given.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
AT Worthington, on the 9th, an only son,
l-2 years old, of Charles +. Cole, was SO
severely scalded by falling into pail of boil
ing water that his life is despaired of.
A snow drift two feet deep by actual meas
urement was found on the 9th of June, in the
sugar camp of Amos Cole at Worthington.
Daniel Sylvester Of Chesterfield, being I'M
able to swim, was drowned while bathing in
Dead Branch on the 9th. He was an unmar
ried man, 40 years Of age.
MAINE.
In Bangor on the It'll, Patrick Gallagher.
while trying to stop runaway team, was
struck in the breast by thill, and knocked
down, the wheel passing over him and break
ing his back. He died the next morning at 8
o'clock.
| VERMONT.
Thirty car loads of sugar were hurried into
Canada on the morning of the 9TH, over the
Vermont and Canada railroad. 1t was ex-
pected that $4,000 in duties would be saved
| if the sugar crossed the line before noon, as
the new Canadian tariff went into effect then
The commencement of Burlington medical
college took place on the 10th. The gradual
ing class numbered 35.
In Middlebury, a breach of promise case,
which has excited much interest there, in
which a Miss Ross aged forty-six, sued Mr..
Norton, aged ffty-six, for $4,000 damages, has
just been decided by the jury giving the fair
plaintiff damages in the sum of $40.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A correspondent the Boston Herald gives
an account of an affair which happened in
Sandwich A man named Frank Libby has