Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-18
General News Summary.


BOSTON AND VICINITY.
At the annual meeting of the Bunker Hill
Monument Association, on the 18th, George
Washington Warren was reelected president.
During the year ending June LIST, the monu-
ment was visited by 1924 adults. and l1l6
children.
In Boston, on the 10th, Lorenzo Lane fas-
tened himself into privy with the intention
of killing himself, having with him an awl
and chisel. Upon examining him, it was as
certained that he had inflicted about sixty
wounds upon his person, most of them in the
vicinity OF his heart. 1t is probable that they
will prove fatal. He was taken to the hospital.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The five Congregational churches in Lowell
belonging to the Andover conference, contrib
uted last year, for religious objects, charities,
and parish expenses, Sl3,33O. This is an
average of S2656. which does not indicate very
hard times.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The carriage business in West Amesbury,
which for some months past has not been very
brisk, is now Frightening up, and there is
prospect of more active business operations
during the present season.
Colonel Maggi, who has charge of the en-
campment at Lynnfcld where the 32d regi-
ment is being organized, having thoroughly
inspected the recruits sent there. numbering
about So, has rejected 80 of the number, as
being disqualified by their youtmuness or age,
small size, or want of powers Of endurance,
for the service. All of the men had been pre-
viously examined by surgeons and been favor
ably reported upon
Inc house OF George Morse in Kingston.
with barn and shocmaker'S shop, were de-
stroyed by fire on the 10Th
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Rev. Daniel Webb of Barnstable recently
preached in Taunton. Heis eighty-four wears
of age. has been for more than sixty years
licentiate IN the Methodist Episcopal body,
and is probably the Oldest active preacher of
that denomination now living.
The Taunton Gazette reports the proceed
lngs OF town meeting held in that place on
the l4tll attended by three persons besides the
town officers All the business was transact
ed in fifteen minutes.
Col. Peter Cook Of Fall River proposes to
present well modelled and full rugged ship to
the best scholar in mathematics, reading, and
spelling, between the ages Of seven and four
teen years, belonging to the public schools in
Fall River.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Alanson Porter Of Montague has a cat that
some time in April last, found nest of young
red squirrels in the barn, which she brought
IN one at time and ate, until she had eaten
all but the last, which she carried and gave to
some young kittens she had The kittens
didn't want to eat it, adopted it into the fami-
ly, and the young squirrel still lives and
thriyeS.
MAINE.
The hennebec journal says that a much
larger breadth Of land than usual has been
put under cultivation this season in all the
region between the kenncbec and Penohscot
waters, particularly near the sea shore.
Farmers there are engaged in hoeing their
corn, which looks well. The fruit trees all
promise splendid crop.
In Portland, on the 18th, while some men
were engaged in unloading granite from car
near the Victoria wharf, the strap which fas-
tened the guys broke, and the derrick fell.
| striking jonathan Hanson of Biddeford on
the back part ofthe head killing him instantly.
| NEW HAMPSHIRE.
man in Concord, who does quite n busi-
ness in stone wall making, is blessed with a
wife who has good health and ainewy frame.
and works all day with him in building stone
| walls
VERMONT.
The drought is becoming very serious in
northern Vermont. Lamoille, Chittenden, and
Orleans counties, have not been visited with
a copious rain since last fall. For the past
four or five weeks no rain has fallen. and the
grass is drying up in the pastures.
gentleman in Poultney already has four
sons in the war, and now sends two more. be-
ing all he has, and regrets that he is too old to
go himself.
Commencement this year at the University
OF Vermont, Burlington, will occur August
9th Rev. G. l.. Goodell of New Britain.
Conn, addresses the society of religious in
quiry, and John W. Way of Roxbury, Mass,
the literary societies.
Mrs. Stalina Gill of Danville has recovered
verdict of $500 damages and costs in the
Caledonia county court, against DIR. Roval M.
Aver, for malpractice as surgeon. lie did
not set rightly the plaintiffs shoulder, broken
Bye fall from carriage in May, 1861
RHODE ISLAND.
girl only ten years of age, named Mary
Il. Ormsbee, was arrested in Providence, on
the 10Th, for stealing SlS from a store She
acknowledged the theft and named several
parties to whom she had given portions of the
money. These had to be arrested, before
they would admit the truth of her statements.
CONNECTICUT.
In Willimantic all the factories are running
with full force Of operatives and all but one
on full time-the Windham Company run but
three quarters time. The mills of the Thread
Company have been driven with work for
months. There is considerable amount of
building going on in the village this season,
and business is good generally
VIM. Allen of North Windham was very
severely injured on the 18th by the falling Of
a portion Of the frame of a small barn, while
it was being raised, with him upon it.
On abe Nth, girl named Myra j. Carpen-
ter, aged ID years, was drowned in Mill river,
near East Rock. The deceased lived with her
sister, Mrs Edwin Case, in New Haven. She