Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-10

BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY
Seventeen officers of the 55th QriSh) regi-
ment have requested Gov. Andrew to rescind the
order for consolidating that regiment with the
18th regiment. The consolidation has taken
place, however, and the officers of the new regi-
mcnt have been elected, as follows Colonel
Eben f. Stone of Newburyport; Lieut. Colonel,
James O'Brien of Charlestown; Major George
Wheatland, Jr., of Salem.
The 18th regiment has been organized by the
choice of the following field officers Colonel
Henry Walker of Quincy; Lieut.. Colonel, Eben
ard of FoXboro.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Jonathan d. Brock Of Brighton, was instantly
killed on the Sth inst, while at work upon tree
which he had cut down. and which, in falling,
had lodged upon one of its branches After cut
ting away the branch, the body of the tree rolled
and in trying TO get out Of the way, it is sup
posed that his foot slipped from under him, it
being on steep hill side where he was cutting,
and another large limb fell upon him and killed
him. Mr. Breck was ffty-sevcn years old, and
leaves wife and two children.
ESSEN COUNTY.
About $4,000 has been paid out by the East
ern railroad company TO persons injured in the
collision of trains at Wenham last September
The Boston and Maine railroad are giving life
tickets to those who were on the train on the oc-
casion of the recent melancholy accident
The Andoyer Advertiser atfrms that Andover
raises more corn than any other town in Essex
county, and more wheat and rye than any other
town in the county with the single exception of
Haverhill, which exceeds it by only a few bush
els.
HAMPDEN COUNTY
The mail train from Boston to New York on
the evening of the It'll met with severe acct
dent, in consequence of a snow drift, about four
miles this side of Springfield. The TWO engines
were thrown entirely from the track, and the
smaller engine, the "Nantucket," was so thor
oughly demolished as TO be scarcely worth re-
pairing. No one was killed, though the engi-
neer and firemen and several others were in
jured.
Charles Suffer, an old and hitherto successful
burglar, has had his career in crime suspended
for while by five years sentence to the state
prison, administered at the criminal court in
Springfield on the 9Th. He was sentenced for
the robbery of Kirkham'S jewelry store, in that
city, which he accomplished few weeks since,
while employed there, by druggiug the clerk and
then making away with his plumber
FRANLIN COUNTY.
The state engineers have re-surveyed the Hoo
sac tunnel route from Greenfield 10 North
Adams. The cause of this is, that it is wished 10
reet the road to contractors. and Haupt & Co.
have as yet refused to deliver up the original
survey.
MAINE.
According to the Bangor Wing, from eighteen
to twenty inches of snow fell there on the 9th
and It'll. Travel was Distracted both on the
road and rail.
NEW HAMPSHIRE
The centennial anniversary of the birthday of
Mrs Fellows, widow of the late Moses Fellows
was duly observed in Salisbury on the Goth ult
Every lady in the town was invited to enjoy the
Inequalities of the house. Among the guests
was Mrs Eastman, now in the one hundred and
first year of her age Mrs. Fellows has now
living 63 grandchildren and 131 great-grand-
children.
The Nashua manufacturing comnanv sold
goods in September and October amounting 10
S177,909 IS. Tax, five thousand three hundred
and thirty-seven dollars twenty-nine cents The
jackson company sales for September and De-
tober of goods all exempt from taxation (made
last spring and removed from the mandatory
before the internal revenue law went into opera
tion), amounted TO about three hundred thousand
dollars. Extra dividend of twenty per cent was
paid during the past season
CONNECTICUT.
Counterfeit one dollar bills on the Jewett City
Bank three's on the Mystic Bank, and twenty
dollar bills on the Union Bank, New London, are
in circulation.
RHODE ISLAND.
The vestry of the third Freewill Baptist church
in Providence, was considerably damaged by
fire on the Sth The library, containing some
three hundred and fifty volumes, was DESTROYED.
Loss 500. Insured.
PERSONAL.
Edward Everett is seriously i'll at Was Arlington,
ard compelled to give up all his engagements to
speak at present.
Andrew Robson, senior, a well-known and
prominent citizen of New Bedford, died sudden
ly on the 8th, in the cars in or near Boston,
Col Kurtz of the 23d regiment has resigned
and is on his way home, on account of some mis-
understanding with the Commandant at New
bern. Col Edward A. Wild of the 35th regiment,
who lost one arm and had the other so shattered
as to be useless, in the battle of Antietam has
received present of very beautifully embel-
llshed book, containing Il representation of the
battles IN which he has participated and the all-
tographs of a number of his friends, who ask
him to accept fund of three thousand dollars,
as an expression of their sympathy for the severe
loss which he has sustained.
The Charleston Mercury tells this story of
Stonewall jackson; During the battles before
Richmond, straggler, who had built nice fire
in the field and was enjoying it all to himself OBJ
served what he took to be a squad of cavalry.
The man in front seemed to be reeling in his
saddle. The stragger ran out to him and said.
Look here, old fellow, you are mighty happv
Where do you get your liquor from? Give me
some; I'm dry as powder horn Imagine his
feelings when he found it was Jackson-tbe
most ungraceful rider in the army, and who nat
urally SWAPS from side to side as it he were
three sheets in the wind"
MISCELLANEOUS.
New York print remarks: Let Britain send
powder and ball for the massacre of American
people. We shall glory in sending bread and
beef to her starving operatives us u christian re.
turn for her shop-keepiug sense of justice
Inc little Kingdom of Bavaria harbors ut this
moment no less than six crowned heads They
are, the regnng king Macmillan II the ey.
monarch Ludwig, king Ohio / of Greece, Queen
Maria of Bavaria, Queen Amelia of Greece, and
the consort of Francis H. Of Naples.
One of the S9 army oyergoBts inspected and
passed in New York, has been ."analyzed" and
found to be made chiefly of old ground 40 rn,rs
goats hair aud shcaru,ans dust, not woven Far
such stuff cannot be spun into threads. You
can thrust your finger through it with case, and |
wind, rain and day light pass through it like
sieve. "