Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-12
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

OF Tie Great ReDelllOn OF l145. One with the
head of the Duke of Cumberland, the british
Hero, exhibits rebellion justly rewarded
at Garlic, the prisoners with halters around
their necks, being on their way TO prison.
The other with the head of George l, has on
the reverse the map oil Great Britain, repre-
sented as reduced to order and restored to the
kings authority by the Sword OF the Lord,
which is seen in the heavens.
Profa AgassiZ commences course OF lee
lures at the Boston Aquara Gardens, to-day,
his subject being Natural History.
BRISTOL COUNTY
The special policemen of Taunton have held
a meeting, at. which about one hundred and
htty OF the temperance petitioners were sworn
H. The following committee are to prepare
the mode OF warfare against intempeTance =
Samuel L. Croker, John L. Sanford, Harri-
son Tweed, Samuel A. Dean, Syyanus N.
Staples, Charles L. Lowering, LeBaron B.
Church, Edmund II. Bennett, Joseph A. Hall,
VIM. Brewster.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The Boston Traveller says that Mrs Mary
Clark, well known as Polly Clark, and moth
er of j. S. Clarke secretary OF the Congrega.
tional Library Association, only lacked two
and half months of being one hundred years
old. Her funeral took place at the meeting
house in South Plymouth on Wednesday at
ternoon last. The Rev. Daniel H. Babcock,
formerly pastor of that church, preached the
funeral sermon from the text: "Your fathers
where are they and the prophets DO they live
forever 2"
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The number of men now employed at the
Springfield armory is 400 And they made,
the past month, 10000 muskets Since the
10Th OF last June--seyen months--over Al 900
guns have been made. The carriage contract
department, recently established, has contract
ed at Worcester, Concord, NH, New Haven,
Conn, and Troy, N Y, for $50 battery wag-
ons, 100 FORCES, 1000 carriages, 1000 sets of
harness, and 10000 accouterments.
The town clerk of Northampton reports
that, according to his census, just taken, there
were about ninety less births in that town last
year than in 1860. The Gazette thinks some
people have not done their duty.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The largest works in this country for
making rattan baskets by machinery are
those of L. B. Williams, at Huntington
They employ seventy to eighty.fiVe hands,
and turn out nearly 1000 baskets of all descrp-
tons daily.
Hon. Marshall S. Hager of Richmond, Me-,
slipped upon some ice as he was getting from
train Of cars at Portland, and falling under
the wheels was crushed to death. He was one
of the wealthest citizens of Maine, and the
greatest shp-owner in the state.
In the state of Maine there are 191 divisions
of the Sons of Temperance, embracing 1898
members, of whom 1921 are in the army. The
UlSitorS, or female members connected with
these divisions is II 800.
VERMONT.
A number of gentlemen are about purchas.
ing Bell Mountain with view of trying the
experiment of DEMONSTRATING the moose The
entire base of the mountain is to be enclosed
by high fence. The object is to make the
moose serviceable in driving singly or in pairs.
A rather discreditable affair recently took
place at Cambridgeport VT, in the meeting.
house there at funeral. Two choirs took
their places in the seats allotted to singers, and
when the hymns were announced each struck
up tune. Thus two tunes were sung at the
same time, making most dscordant sounds,
and entirely destroying all the soemnity that
usually invests such occasions. The difficulty
originated in some trouble about rival preach
ers.
CONNECTICUT.
There is an extraordinary love for steeple ar.
chitecture among church-going people in Con-
necticut Ambitious spires run heavenward
to the most extraordinary extent. Some of
them are out of all proportion to the building
llSeiI, Ut tue reSOuTCES OL TIE parishes LUdL
build them. Bridgeport shas remarkable
passion in that line. In the great struggle
there, who should have the highest spire, Rev.
DR.. Hewetts parish was the most successful.
Like the man who drew the elephant, now
they have the tallest spire, and have almost
impoverished themselves by it, 1t threatens
to come tumbling down every time the wind
blows, but to keep it fast in position, it has
been anchored to the earth by two huge iron
chains!
A Connecticut editor has been made the
custodian of the gun with which Gen. Putnam
killed the wolf in a cave in Pomfret. 1t is an
old Tower musket, and bears the English coat
of arms. This gun is the property OF Samuel
T. Mallory OF Central Falls, in whose family
it has been for many years.
WAR ITEMS.
A letter from Halls Hill, Va to the Taun
| ton Gazette, says Gen. Mcclellan has selected
| the Massachusetts twenty-second to act as
| skirmishers for the division. For this reason,
the most of their drill now is devoted to Skin
mishing, their colonel being considered one of
the best skirmishers in the army.
The value of the munitions of war and
stock captured at Zollicoffers camp is estma-
ted as follows Horses and mules, 100000 !;
wagons, $50, 900; ordnance, S35 900 muskets,
$4,000; boats, 10000; stores, $4,000. To-
tai, 100000.
Gov. Andrew is to select the officers for
Gen. Buffers Eastern and Western Bay State
regiments, and they will hereafter be known
as tue thirteth and thirty first Massachusetts
volunteers. The families of the members are
entitled to relief from the state from the time
OF their enlistment.
letter to the Boston Transcript, from Ship
Island, says that Col. Jones not only performs
well his duties as a soldier. but has supplied
the post of chaplain also, ever since they have
been on the island. On Sunday afternoon he
reads prayers, and sometimes gives them good
advice besides. Every day he may be seen
passing through the hospital with his oranges
and jeles for the sick
1 FOREIGN.
The awful catastrophe at the Hartley col
liery was not exaggerated by the previous re-
! ports. Two hundred and nineteen men and
boys were killed outright or smothered in the
coal pit. The following is Il statement of the
families left destitute widows 1903 chill
dren, 257 sisters supported by brothers, u
orphans, 2 parents supported by sons, 16
aunt supported by nephew, grandmother
supported by grandson, l, Total, 407. There
/ are only 20 Of The male population OF this col.
liery left alive.
A magnificent meteor was seen in TIE heay-
ems above great extent OF northern Germany
on the evening Of jan Sd. 1t was simutane-
ously visible at Berlin, Dresden, Munter,
| Dessan, and other widely distant places At
Dessan its appearance was preceded by sound
resembling thunder. 1t was OF fiery red col.
or, and equal TO the full moon in apparent size,
with radiance 90 extreme as to resemble the