Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-14
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

sequence, was IN town yesterday ana procured
a Palmer artificial leg, with which he walked
OIL SO naturally as 10 completely conceal his
loss. 1t is the colonel's intention 10 return to
the army.-Boston Journal, 12th
John IL. Houghtou OF Roxbury, while hand
ling razor recently, probably in deranged
state Of mind, cut himself in the neck so Sc
verely, that it was necessary to convey him
to the hospital.
NIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Hiram Is. Banks of Waltham has been COM
missioned second lieutenant in the sixteenth
Massachusetts regiment. He is brother of
the major general, and has another brother,
Capt. Gardner Banks, in the sixteenth.
ESSEX COUNTY.
In Lawrence, FRIDAY morning, the building
occupied by Warren & Robnsons card cloth
ing mandatory, and by Webster, Dustin, &
Co, machinists, was badly damaged by fire.
Warren & Robinson were insured to the
amount OF $1,000; loss probably covered.
Webster, Dustin, & Co, were insured Tor
S22OO, which will cover their loss.
a red fox recently paid visit to Lawrence,
and made his escape from the city in spite of
men and dogs
The boot and shoe manufacturers at Lynn
are now doing considerable busintss, and Civ
ing employment to nearly all the boot aud
shoemaKers in that city.
A snow bank still remains in New bury, Old
town, near Gravel Ill., that is eight feet deep.
We see by the Cape Ann Advertiser that
| the ndetatlgabe efforts OF the committee of
relief Tor the widows and orphans of the ,st
| fishermen are being rewarded, and that they
have been enabled 10 do much good with the
| subscriptions that have come in but that yet
| there IS room flr benevolence, as a sufficient
| sum has not yet been obtained to cover their
| proper designs.
| PLYMOUTH COUNTY
The editor OF the Old Gloomy Memorial
| says =" Business seems to be recovering
slowly from its complete prostration and we
here in Plymouth are beginning TO feel it
| little. The Ply mouth Mills are doing good
| business, we understand, and running all their
machines. The Batting Mill, near the Ply
mouth Mills, has changed hands, and is now
owned by Boston firm. Preparations are
| being made to improve and enlarge their ma.
| chnery. The Plymouth Tack and Rivet
| Company are running more machines, aud
continue to increase their business
Uncle Branch Pierce OF this town, says the
| Plymouth Iock who is known tar and near
| by sporismen, attended our last town meeting,
| and brought with him his famous gun, which
he has owned for forty years. Pierce says he
has killed tWo hundred and Siriy-SeVeR deer with
| this gun,-brngiug down double game three
|
OF twenty-thiee at single SHOT; and four
wild geese at another discharge. He is now
in his seventv-tourth year, hut hale and
| hearty, though his deer hunting days are past
| not having shot one, he said for five years
| He used to accompany Daniel Webster in
many deer chase, and the atesmans luck
was always excellent when Uncle Branch led
| the way
BRISTOL COUNTY.
a woman named Ellen Fitzgerald died sud
denly in New Bedford on Friday. She was
sINty years OF age, aud OF incorporate habits,
VIM. (. Duriee of New Bedford has invent.
ed new plan for a gunboat, one popularity
OF Which is that the guns are fired under water.
1t IS described by those who vino have seen it
as highly ingenious.
In the box 81 hospital stores Just sert by
the ladies' of Fairnaven, to the rooms of the
New England Woman's Association, Boston.
was beautiful linen sheet, spun ana wove by
hand before the revolution.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The Congregational church in Enfield have
zen Mr.. Seymour, nephew OF Prof Tyler
OF Amherst College, call W hich he has ac.
copied.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The corpse of soldier named Patrick
Clearly, be ging in scarborough, was
recently sent home from Manassas 10 his
moth r, but being INSTRUCTED to South
field, it first Travelled to Berkshire county,
where village ct that name exists in the
town OF New Marlboro. The mistake was
recIitied by telegraphic inquiries of the author
tiles at Washington.
An unoccupied house in Great Darlington
owned BY u l.. Markham, was burned to the
ground on the 3D.. Loss 5000 insured for
$500
W. ID. Livingston of South Lee has invent.
ed new tirearm OF great power. Ii is a
0reech-lOadlng weapon, called tile volcanic re.
repeating gun, and has chamber containing
Sixty cartridges, which can be discharged as
rapidly as one can count. The model Tor this
weapon was made in Worcester.
The chimney OF Capt. Miles Washburn's
house, near LenOX Furnace not having been
burnt out for twenty years, took fire on the
Attn, and became so hot as to char the wood
work near il aud destroy the best clothes of
the family, kept III closets close by.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A letter was dropped into the post office al
Greenfield, last week, directed to "Eggarbor-
city Nuchersy." Alter some study it was
sent to Egg Harbor city, NJ
RHODE ISLAND.
a man named Andrew has been missing for
some days past from Washing on Village.
lie was known to have ten dollars with him.
ana It is suspected by many, that he has been
murdered for the money.
The dwelling house OF Thomas w. Greene
situated near the village of East Greenw
was destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss
| S2OOO. Insured for $500
CoNNEcTIcUr
Lieut.. j. Watson Webb, Jr, adjutant Of the
second regiment United States artillery, has
arrived at tort Trumbull. He reports to Col.
| Gates, commanding the post for duty.
An independent eector of the democratic
persuasion, ON leaving the polls at New Lon.
| don, was asked for whom he voted. "For
Breckiuridge, sure" he replied. "Who the
dlvil else wud be votIn tora" Another Sc.
cesh sympathizer scratched from his state
| ticket the name Of Col. Kingsbury, who com.
mands a regiment in the Union army, decar-
| ing to the modera or, Il won't vote for any
man that will fight against my country -
! Such traitorous fellows deserve to be banished
to the rebel states, for which their hearts
| yearn.
Capt Roys made trial of his new whaling
| bomb aud harpoon, which took place at East
| New London on Thursday. The harpoon
struck the water about ninety feet from The
muZzle OF the gun, but from some defect in
the composition the bomb did not explode.
Capt koys proposes to remedy this, and try
again.
John Comstock of the eighth Connecticut
regiment returned on the Ellen S. Terry ON
the 9Th inst. lie went Immediately home to
Centre brook, but expired about five hours af.
ter getting there
The store OF Birch & Spence, in Sherman.
containing tile post Office and town clerks of.
fee, was destroyed by fire on the 9Th. The
town records were saved.