Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-31
General News Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

the DIVINITY school at Cambridge.
To the association for the relief of aged and ind-
gent ministers, $4,000
To the institution for the relief OF aged and desti
tute females, $1,000.
To the home for aged and destitute men, $1,000
To the fund of the association to establish a
Blouse ofthe Good Samaritan $4,000
Upon the decease of his daughter, the following
additional requests are to be paid
To the home for aged and destitute men, $4,000.
Institution for aged and destitute females $4,000
House of the Good Samaritan, $4,000
The election sermon is to be delivered this
year by Rev. James Walker, D. D., eX-president
of Harvard college. This will be the second
time this gentleman has been called upon by the
legislature to perform this duty The first lime
he officiated was in 1928, when minister of the
Harvard church in Charlestown.
The friends and relatives of soldiers in North
Carolina, who live in Boston and vicinity, held
meeting Monday afternoon, to devise safer and
more direct means of communication with them.
large committee of prominent and welknown
citizens was appointed to mature plan, and re-
| port at a subsequent meeting.
The city treasurer of Boston acknowledges the
receipt of six dollars. The money was accom-
| panied by the following; explanation pass to
the credit of tn city the enclosed six dollars.
| The writer assessed that sum less than he
| should have been"
| MIDDLEsEx COUNTY
William II. Harlow has been appointed post
master at Groton Junction, in place of George
| II. Brown, removed.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The history of the dale Guard" company
recruited in Gloucester and vicinity, has been a
noble and sad one. Out of 101 men, only ten
were left unframed after the battle OF Fredericks-
burg.
The citizens of Salem, irrespective of parties,
have nominated Capt Francis Brown for mayor
election next week.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
VIM. B. Greene, late colonel of the 18th Mas
sachusetts regiment, has purchased an estate in
Brookline where ne proposes to settle perma-
nentlv, after returning from his present trip to
Europe Col. VIM Raymond Lee, Of the Doth
regiment, will resign his commission on account
of i'll health.
The RoXhury schools have been attended dur
ing the past year by 4l9S pupils, and maintained
at cost of $47,667 Sc, or $11 IS per scholar.
The Latin school sent eight boys to college, six
of them to Harvard University.
FRANKLIN Comfy.
The Greenfield Gazette and Courier states that
two large barns, with their contents, belonging
TO Nelson Burrows, in Gill; were DESTROYED by
fire last Friday night. Four horses, five cows,
two yokeS OF oxen, and other live stock together
with a valuable lot of hay, grain, and farming
implements, were also destroyed. The loss was up
wards of $4,000, and was partially insured The
fire is thought TO have been set by one of the es-
capped lunatcs from the Brattleboro' asylum,
who persisted in the flames.
Charles L , son of Avah Hastings Of Green.
field, was shot through the body at Fredericks-
burg, and killed. He was but 20 years DID, and
had been i'll eight engagements. His brother
Lorenzo, Of the Dist, had not seen him for year
until the 10th and 2lst came on to the battle
field, where the two brothers fought side BY side
and after Charles fell he was buried by his
brother.
Capt. George Pierce, Lieut.. Remington, and
Lieut.. Moore, of the Greenfield company, and
several captains and lieutenants of other compa-
MES in the 10th regimen, have been courtmar-
tailed and dismissed from the service. They had
resigned on account of the appointment of I'M
satisfactory regimental officers.
Lieut.. David Wilson, from Shelburue Falls,
now of the 9th New Jersey regiment, has been
| in the battles of Yorktown, Williamsburg. Fair
| Oaks, Savage Station Glendale Malvern Hill,
Bristow Station, Bull Run and Chantilly, and
| escaped unframed, although be has had his belt
shot off and his clothes rddled with bullets.
| HAHPDEN COUNTY.
The Old Congregational church in Wilbraham
has been purchased by w. L. Collins and will
| be used hereafter as livery stable.
| MAINE.
| The colored citizens Of Portland will follow the
example of their people in other parts of the
| country by appropriate observance of tomorrow
| the first day of their year Of jubilee
| Six prisoners broke Jail at Portland, Sunday,
three of whom were subsequently arrested.
| While the turnkey was walking among the pris-
oners on the corridor of the Jail, two of them
seized and held him while the rest made free
| with his keys and escaped
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Inc congregational Journal, one of the oldest
| religious papers in New England, published at
Concord for the last forty-four years, has been
| Snbjugated by the advance in the cost of publi-
cation, and compelled to suspend
The chaplain of the UniteS States hospital at
Portsmouth, recently spent sabbath at "Ocra-
COKE beautiful, but long neglected island, and
gave the 'nativeS" the first preac hing they had
heard for nearly TWO years
The dwelling house of Mr.. Walter Whitlock,
in Weston, was destroyed by fire on the night of
December 18TH In his cellar were abe ut one
thousand gallons of native grape wine, which he
| lost.
CONNECTICUT
The citizens of New London have in circula-
| ton petition calling for public meeting for
| the purpose OF purchasing the proposed site for
the navy :, ard, at East New London, and Offering
| 1t gratuitously to the government. The estimated
| cost will be about 100000
Thomas Brown, of Salisbury, gathered from
dwarf pear tree on his premises the present sea-
son three barrels of rich, delicious pears They
were of the Glont Moroccan variety, on ounce
stock
James Conroy of Middletown attended a
wake Sunday night, the 21st inst, and the
next morning was suddenly taken with vomiting
OF blood In a short time he had vomited near.
y pailful, and died before the physician ar
rived.
MISCELLANEOUS
The 49th Massachusetts regiment is dolnp
| splendid service as provost guard in New York
1t has already succeeded in capturing several
thousand skedadilers, who, while portions of
Banks expedition were awaiting orders 10 EN-
bark, deserted and wandered Through the streets
in the disguise of aborers, bartenders, and stage
drivers.
Grateful Florence" has placed a handsome
marble slab in The wall of the house in which
Mrs. Barrett Browning lived for so many years.
The slab bears an inscription in Italian, of
which the following is translation :-"Hero
wrote and died Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
who, in her woman's heart, united the wisdom
of save and the spirit of poet and who
made of her verse golden link between Italy
aud England"
The melancholy story is told of lieutenant
IN the battle of Fredericksburg, who in the adj
vance of his regiment, was struck down by a
ball which shattered at the same time leg and
an arm.. He fell between the aes of sharp
shooters; he lay there for long time, suffer.
ing intolerable agony ind at last unable to en-
dure it longer, he drew, with his unshattered
hand, his revolver, and deliberately blew out his
own brains.
| MAGNIFICENT RESULT Those who arc
| always crOakinr nbOut The lukewarmnese of tho