Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-02
General News summary,

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Rev. S. r. Dennen of Watertown was dis
missed from his pastoral charge by council
convened July 9th. The only reason for
the dismissal is the inability of the society to
provide adequate support. Mr.. Dennen has
been engaged to supply the pulpit of the Win
throp church, Charlestown, during the alb
sence of their pastor, Rev. A. L. Kittredge,
who is now in Europe.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
A fire occurred at about one o'clock Thurs
day morning in the machine shop of Wilcox
& Mason, situated in the rear of the factories
at the Falls Village, Attleboro'. The upper
part of the building was destroyed but the
large force pump connected with the estab-
lishment very promptly arrested the progress
of the fire.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The house of PhillipF Miller in Midway,
was struck by lightning, Thursday, and Mr.,
Miller was instantly killed He was engaged
in shutting Il window when the lightning killed
him. The house was somewhat damaged.
MAINE.
In one neighborhood in the towns of Lee
and VIM, Penohscot county, over fifty have
died of diptheria since the first of May.
The wool clip of Maine, the present year,
has greatly exceeded that of any former year
1t is computed that Somerset county has
yielded 100000 pounds; and that the yield in
Franklin county reaches ll5, 600 pounds
The Machias Union says that the same
stage line that carried seven skedaddlers flee
ing from draft, into New Brunswick, brough
back seven volunteers from New Brunswick
for McClellan's army. Well agree to sen(
the New Brunswickers all our skedaddlers i
they will send us good men in return-in fact
they may take them at any price. Maine dis
owns them.
CONNECTICUT.
The Killingly Transcript says 1.-THE new
mill in course of erection at Masonville is tt
contain about 10000 spindles. The motiv,
power is to be one of the celebrated iourna
turbine water wheels, built by the Phenix irol
foundry of Providence, and of 40 hors,
power"
The small poX has disappeared from Put
nam. Only one case is left, and the patient il
nearly well.
VERMONT.
Heman Morse of Dorset, a much esteemed
gentleman about 60 years of age, was liter
ally cut to pieces by moving machine ant
his immediate death caused, in his own field
on the 28th ult.
The only newspapers in Vermont that sup
Poll lilc copper HedU ticket nominated a
Bellows Falls, are the Rutland Courier, Bel
lows Falls Argus, and Woodstock Age The
Burlington Sentinel and the North Star boil
repudiate the nasty concern, and go in fol-
the Union, the constitution, and the enforce
ment of the laws.
terrific and destructive shower of rain
and hail, accompanied with lightning, passed
over the southwest corner of Windsor county
on the Both ult., doing immense damage to the
crops in some localities. The hailstones av-
eraged from one half inch to an inch in diam
eter, and were so numerous that upon the
grass lawn in front of the farm house of Pliny
Barrows, in Weston, his youngest son, for the
fun Of the thing, shoveled up two bushels of
hailstones from a space less than ten feet
square.
FRUIT ITEMS.
The prospect for heavy crop of peaches,
we learn from all quarters, was never better.
The trees are laden with incipient fruit. The
crop In this vicinity promises to be all that
preserving kettles could wish for. In Della
ware they expect to sell peaches in October
for fifty cents a bushel. In this county plums
and peaches will play trumps and nothing
else There is a fine time coming for fruit
eaters.-Phila. North .4meracdn.
The grape crop of Ohio is threatened by
rot, which prevails to an unusual extent Al
the late meeting of the Vine Growers Associ-
alton in Cincinnati several members stated
thot tIoX- l,,l Il,