Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-10
General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Brighton has been thrown into state of
considerable excitement, says the Herald, by
the elopement of one of its citizens with the
wife of another citizen. The parties left that
| town some ten days ago, he in the forenoon
and she in the afternoon. The man formerly
| kept hotel in Brighton, and is possessed of
| considerable property. He left behind him
an interesting wife, and the partner in his
| flight left two children to the care of her hus-
| band.
Near 400 dogs have already been entered
for the dog show at the Aquarial Gardens in
Boston, to open next Monday. Among the
number is a stag hound, said to be the only
one in this country.
Two men, each rs years of age, have re-
Gently procured at the city registrars office in
Boston, licenses permitting them to get mar
ried. One was an American, and the other
an Irishman.
There are sleeping accommodations at the
''Soldiers' Home" in Beach street, Boston,
for 300 men, and upon short notice twice that
number could be furnished with beds. Two
thousand can be subsisted there daily.
Nine boys have been arrested for being en-
gagged in a fight on Boston wharf, and each
sentenced to ten days Imprisonment.
Appleton Oaksmith was put on trial in the
United States circuit court, Monday, charged
with being engaged in fitting out the ship
Margaret Scott OF New Bedford for the slave
trade.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
In Lowell, Friday, little son of VIM. B.
Dillingham;, five years old, was run over by a
grocery wagon, and his skull so badly crushed
that he lived only half an hour after the acct
dent.
Brigadier General George H. Gordon ar
,i,t
| afternoon, in good health and spirits He eX-
poets to return to Virginia to-day or to-mor-
row.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Rev. j. w. Healy has resigned his PASTOR
ate Of the Congregational church in Walpole,
to accept a call from the Hanover street Con-
gregational church in Milwaukee, Wis.
Monday morning the house, barn, and out
buildings of Mr.. VIM. Adams, in Midway.
were destroyed by fire, together with most of
his furniture, half a dozen tons Of hay,
horse, two oxen, two cows, and seven swine.
The loss was about $500, on which there is
$500 insurance.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
At the celebration of the birthday of one of
the citizens of New Bedford, on Saturday,
eighteen persons were present among the in
vited guests, whose aggregate ages amounted
to twelve hundred years, the average being
sixty-seven years.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
carpenter named Perry was drowned in
the water shop pond, Springfield, Saturday.
RHODE ISLAND.
Professor Caswell writes to the Providence
Journal that for the eighteen hours ending at
four o'clock on Thursday morning rain fell in
that city to the extent of lilo inches.
CONNECTICUT.
Henry Whitemarsh, lad fourteen years of
age was instantly killed in Isaac Cooks wool
en- factory, in Preston, on Saturday morning
last. In running belt over pulley, he got
caught, and was so terribly manged that he
lived but a few moments
The barn of Henry Eaton in Hartford was
set on fire Saturday night and destroyed
Loss $500; insured.
Mr.. G. Sander has issued the first number
Of German paper, called the Connecticut
Stats Zeitung, in New Haven.
! On Thursday last a two horse team belong
ing to Gordon Tyler while crossing the stream
near Little Rock, was drowned The driver
attempted to swim them across the stream.
but the current was too strong. He was al
most exhausted, and had to be helped ashore.
WAR ITEMS.
fort Monroe correspondent of the Phla-
delphia Inquirer relates the following affect