Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-15
General News Summary.
BOSTON AND vICIFITY.

BOSTON AND vICIFITY.
The JOurneymen horse-Shoers of Boston re-
Gently held a meeting and voted that on and
after the l7th inst, the journeymen who
work at driving and at the forge demand from
their employers the sum of two dollars per
day for ten hours time, and twenty five cents
per hour for all over time. There are twenty
fye Understanding establishments in Boston,
and one thousand horses receive new shoes
or have them repaired daily.
Dennis Lee of Chelsea. was convicted in the
superior court Boston, Friday, OF assaulting
his wife with pistol, with intent to kill. He
is worthless fellow, and after practising at
firing the weapon, he went into the room
where she was and discharged it. There were
two balls in the weapon, both of which took
effect IN the lower part of her face. They
have not been extracted, and probably never
can be. One OF her arms and portion of her
body is paralyzed, and she will be cripple
for life. He was sent to the state prison for
fifteen years.
Eight hundred hands are employed in the
arsenal at WATERFOWL, and ARRANGEMENTS are
making to increase its manufactures in the fu-
ture. Two additional buildings are to be
erected, which will cost seveuty-tive thousand
dollars. The Traveller says that the articles
manufactured during one quarter of the pres
ent year. April, May and June, were as fol-
lows: Ninety-eight field gun carriages, one
carriage for twelve inch rited gun, twenty
nine casemate carriages for eight inch guns,
nine mortar beds, p ,292 rounds of field gun
ammunition, 10000 fuses, 1850 brass fuse
plugs with mouth pieces, 9,787, 900 rifle cart
ridges, l,S46,00 musket cartridges, and ia
war rockets-in all nearly L, 900, 900 separate
articles, from a fuse up to aponderous fortress
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tillery now made, is mostly that for thetwelve
pound light gun-that known as the Napo-
leon gun. The powder store house contains
some five hundred barrels of powder.
ESSEX COUNTY.
In West Amesbury, Thursday evening, the
large carriage shop owned by Isaac b. Little,
dwelling house owned by Mr.. Little and oc-
cupled by IL. b. Bachelor, and the chapel Of
the Congregational society, were DESTROYED
by fire. Mr.. Little'S loss was $4,000, insur-
ance $l175; loss to the Congregational
church $2000 no insurance.
Private George McGregor of the Lynn
City Guard, company f, went into the Lynn
Mechanics Bank on Wednesday of last
week to get 500 bill changed. and having
received small bills for it, left the bank. Some
three hours after having left the bank he
counted the money, and found that he had one
hundred and fifty dollars. he Immediately
returned to the bank and corrected the mis-
hke to the satisfaction of the teller.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The Cape Cod Republican states, that l ,525
barrels Of cranberries have been raised in
Harwich the present season, and sold for
$l2,249 so.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
In Springfield, Thursday, Patrick Gordon
and Michael Bateman were crossing the rail
road track, when they were caught between
the half past five freight trains, going north
and south. Both were struck by the locomo-
tive, and thrown into the ditch at the side of
the track. Bateman escaped with only few
bruises, but Gordon's arm was badly broken,
so as to require amputation, and other iniu-
RES received which it was thought would prove
fatal.
Rev. George H. Gould was ordained as
pastor of the Olivet church in Springfield, on
Thursday. Rev. DR.. Sweetser of Worcester,
preached the sermon.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Henry Harmon of Dalton, the man stabbed
last week by soldier of the 49th regiment. at
Plttsteld, has since died of his injuries. Ma
son, the assassin, is still confined in Jail in de-
tault OF bonds, but will probably be dis
charged tor the offence of assault, and tried
Tor murder, or perhaps manslaughter Mason
Is doubtless not the correct name of the
criminal, for he has lately been identified as
an Albany rough, having fed from that city
but short time since, under the name of
O,Neil, to escape punishment for a stabbing
affair there.
In the western part of Berkshire, between
Richmond, State Line, and the tunnel the
snow was twelve and eighteen inches deep on
the level on the 10th and 18th. The railroad
trains were "stalled" several times, an in
stance hardly known before so early in the
year. The sleighing has been excellent in
Hinsdale, Pittsfield, and other places in the
vicinity.
NEW HAMPSHIRE,
Mr.. Daniel Sargent of Milford, who was
bitten last March by dog supposed to be
mad at the time, died last week. He was ia
ken with symptoms Of hydrophobia two weeks
previous, and suffered all the terrible devel-
opments of that terrible disease. The father
was severely bitten by the same dog
VERMONT.
An old man named John Fuller was mur-
dered at Mechanicsville, on the 9th, by an id.
lotto laborer named Loyal Moses. Fuller Law
down to sleep, when Moses struck him three
blows upon the head with an iron bar, smash
ing his skull and scattering his brains. The
murderer makes full confession of the deed.
and says the old man told him that he ''wisb
ed somebody would knock him in the head.o
CONNECTICUT.
The 18th Connecticut regiment left Nor
witch for New York Thursday.
RHODE ISLAND.
We learn that quite a number of cotton
mills in this village and vicinity are making
preparations to re-commence operations at an
early day. The price of manufactured fab
RIGS has risen so much as to afford hand
some margin for profits. We are told that
mills making light goods are doing as well as
they have at any time during the last twenty
years. lIoonsocket Patriot.
PERSONAL.
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