Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-30
General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Seventy deaths occurred in Boston during
the past week.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
The Milford journal says business is reviy-
ing in the town Of Hopkinton. There is
plenty OF work and prices are tending up
ward. The boot bottomerS are receiving on
some kinds Of work 81 per case advance
little girl, the daughter of John Forbes
OF Marlboro was drowned in a spring on the
22nd.
Geo. +. johnson and Leonard Worcester
Jr., of Lowell have received appointments as
clerks in the post office at fortress Monroe.
Friday evening the factory at East Wo-
burn, occupied by VIM. Monarch for printing
satlnets, carding, &C., swas wholly destroyed
by fire, probably caused by an incendiary.
The whole loss Of building, steam engine,
new machinery, &C., is about $1,000. The
building was owned by John Bigelow of Bos-
ton.
ESSEN COUNTY.
The company Of six months troops being
raised in Salem for fort Warren, is nearly full,
and the Boston Independent Cadets will soon
be relieved.
Friday morning the stable of John Moulton,
in South Danvers, was entirely destroyed by
fire, together with eleven valuable horses, ten
or twelve sleighs, two wagons, harnesses,
oats, hay, &c. The building was owned by
VIM. NJ. Jacobs, and was insured for $500.
Mr.. Moulton was insured tor SllO0. Loss
$1,000. The fire was undoubtedly the work
OF an incendiary.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
In New Bedford, Friday, John Sullivan an
operative at the copper works had his ankle
dlslocated, and the main bone of his left leg
broken near the ankle joint, by heavy coup
ling rolling on the limb.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
George 10 years old, son OF Levi c. Miller
OF New LenoX, met with a frightful accident,
While Telling trees on the 18th. A large limb
of tree fell some 60 feet, striking his leg
just above the ankle, breaking the bone and
nearly severing tine foot, and driving the frac-
tured ends into the ground. The bones were
set and he will probably save his foot
couple of horse-tamers, calling them
selves w. W. Lewis and Samuel Beecher.
have been swindling the Great Darlington
people-getting handbills printed, hiring the
town hall, borrowing money, running up ho-
tel bills, and then skedaddling.
q. w. Linn & Co. of Lee, have started
their mill on bank note paper, to supply the
great demand for that article, created by the
reign of ''rag money"
| NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Isaac Adams, the inventor and for many
years manufacturer of the Adams Printing
Press, has one of the finest farms and resi-.
dences in the town Of Sandwich. Having re-
tired from business he now resides there
The Litteton journal says the White Noun.
tain travel has already commenced, and the
indications are that the hotels at both Notches
Will be well filled during the season.
RHODE ISLAND.
Counterfeit ten dollar bills on the National
Bank, Providence, have made their apnenr-
ance.
The dry goods dealers in Bristol having for
some time past missed various articles from
their stores, have recently been on the
watch, and have discovered the thief in the
person OF Mrs. Ann Burk, who has been ar
rested and committed for trial.
In Providence, Friday, Alvah V. Campbell,
aged SIX years, son Of IL. P. Campbell, was
run over by lumber wagon, causing injuries
CONNECTICUT.
The store Of Ethan Davis in Middletown.
and hause belonging to Capt. Marvin, were
burned Thursday. Loss 5000.
Business is reviving in Wilimantic. Sew
eral large stores and dwellings are being
erected. All but one Of the mills are on full
time, and business affairs are in as satsfac-
tory condition as could be expected in these
times.
WAR ITEMS.
The Nashville Union says active measures
are on foot and under successful prosecution
to raise 5000 troops in each division of Ten
nessee, or $4,000 troops in all, for the federal
service in the state They will be used for
home defense, to Jake the place OF the troops
now in the state.
The rebel General Pettigrew, captured at
Fair Oaks, has been removed from private
residence in Baltimore to Fort Delaware.