Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-07

Iou' HAS Deen examined on charge OF beat
ing and wounding Geo. S. Donnell, one of his
crew, and held for trial at the September term
OF the district court.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Ira g. Hoitt, a. NJ, who has been princi-
pal of the Holliston High School the past two
years, has been appointed principal of the
High School at Stoneham.
We understand that the trustees of Andover
Theological Seminary have elected Prof j.
H. Seelye, now Of Amherst College, to fill
the Brown protessorship of Sacred Litera-
ture at Andover Seminary, which was recent
ly filed by Prof. Shedd
The rate of taxation in the city of Lowell,
this year, will be 5000 on every thousand
dollars. Last year it was 80.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Two ''ladies" have been before the court in
Taunton for fighting each other with broom
handles; and another named Bathsheba B.
Simmons has been prosecuted for breaking
down and lnJuring certain fence on the Ste
pnen Hathaway farm, so called, in the town
of Dighton.
| Asa Macomber's barn, five miles from
Taunton Green, containing five or six tons of
hay, was destroyed by fire at | o'clock Tues
day afternoon. The fire was thought to have
been set by children who were playing with
matches in the barn.
The murder of John Bullock, at Freetown,
month or two since, will be remembered by
our readers. Two persons have been arrest
ed on suspicion and are now in Jail.
MAINE.
A gentleman at the Mt. Kineo House, al
Moosehead Lake, writes, under date of Aug.
2, that the fishing 'was remarkably good for
the season. Yesterday l caught fine string
of trout, one weighing three pounds, and sew
eral weighing two pounds
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The house, barn and outbuildings belonging
to Mr.. John Huntington of Bennington, were
entirely consumed on the 2nd. All the tools
and some twenty tons of hay were also de-
stroyed. The fire was caused by a small boy
playing with matches. The property was in
sured for $1,000.
Dexter Richards of Newport, N. H., has re-
Gently purchased of the farmers in that town
and vicinity 10000 pounds of wool, averaging
about At cents per pound, which he will man.
utacture into tiannels for the New York and
Philadelphia markets.
CONNECTICUT.
The freight boat City of Norwich has beer
chartered by the government Owing to an
error in the dispatch, the steamer City OF
Boston was stripped and prepared tor service
but she was not the boat wanted by the poy.
eminent.
The Office Of DIR. Ellsworth, in Hartford, i.
constantly besieged by crowd waiting for {
certificate of exemption from military duty
The same eagerness for certificates prevails
in New Haven, and DIR. Hubbard has abou
as much as he can do to examine the hundreds
of eXempts.
A notorious house in Hartford kept by on,
Dan Green, was surrounded on the night o
the 4th, by the police, and nine girls were ar
rested. The girls were arraignedin court the
next morning and ordered to Jail five days
and fined 1888 each. The justice told The
girls that at the expiration of their sentenc,
they must leave the town, or they would b,
prosecuted and dealt with much more severe
| ly.
MISCELLANEOUS.
At Barnet, England, lately, grocer was
arrested on charge of selling adulterated
goods, was tried, convicted and sentenced to
one months imprisonment. Who is punished
here for selling adulterated supplies for the
! use of our soldiers2