Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-02
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


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dead in her bed Sunday morning. She was
in her usual good health the night before, and
1t is supposed that disease of the heart was the
cause OF her death
Prentice, of the Louisville Journal has sent
his old friend Roger Hanson, at fort Warren,
a five gallon demJohn of good whiskey, ae-
eordiDg to promise. The whiskey has arrived
in Boston, with a characteristic letter, advising
that II Roger is to be hanged within fort
night the beverage be drank as rapidly as pos
slole, otherwise u be taken in moderation.
| The wife of Edwin Burdin in Boston was
badly burned upon the breast and stomach,
while filling lighted fluid lamp
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Michael Leary had his foot so badly injured
In the picker room of the Lowell corporation,
while ascending on the elevator, that amputa-
ton became necessary.
In ee Methodist clergymen closed their
two years appointment in Lowell, Sunday.
ESSEX COUNTY.
There is an old man in ewburyport who
frequently gets liquor for the sick OF his neigh
borhood. lie has been seen, several times, to
drink stiff horn from the bottle as he nears
a certain pump, and afterwards fill up the bot
tie with water.
Moses II. Hale has been appointed wegher
and gauger in the Salem custom house, in
place OF John Prince, who becomes an inspect
or in Mr. Hale's place.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Hon. John Mason of Swanzey, now up-
wards OF 81 years of age, is still an office hold
er In the service OF the nation and town, he
being postmaster and town clerk of Swanzey.
He has held the former office 43 years. and
the latter As years.
The African NJ. E. church in New Bedford
was damaged by fire to the amount OF $500,
on the Both ult.
The salary Of the police justice of Fall River
has been increased from $1,000 TO $1,000, and
that of the clerk of the police court from $500
to 5000.
The truant officers of New Bedford have
arrested, since Jan. LIST, forty seven boys and
three girls. Five have been sent to the farm
school, six placed in temporary confinement
and the remainder were taken at once to the
schools.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Edward Netteton of Montague has a two
years old Worcester county sow that has had
forty two pigs in less than one year.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Chas M Thomas, brass founder in Sprinp-
field, has beea committing forgery to heavy
extent. He realized large profits from gov
eminent work, and was enabled to take up his
forged paper before it fell due. lie has lett
some forged paper at Hartford. A portion of
his dishonest gains was squandered upon bad
women, and it is supposed he has fled to Eu-
rope, accompanied by one OF the Social cir
cle."
Small change is so scarce at Holyoke that
the issue OF 'shinplasters" has commenced
| We trust they will prove more valuable than
similar articles in Dixie. They have Tor sew.
eral years been paid out as wages by certain
manufacturers in northern Berkshire, in de-
nominations as low as 8 and 6 cents.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
James Cummings and Robert Lambert have
been arrested in Manchester, for stealing A
number of pairs of ladies' kid boots from j.
| A Griffin OF Litchfed.
A gray eagle has been captured alive at
| Newton. The bird had fox trap attached to
its leg when taken. The eagle measures from
| tip to tip of its wings y feet
VERMONT
| Ten feet eight inches of snow have fallen
| in Barre the past winter. In Watsield eleven
! feet have fallen, and the snow now is four feet
! deep on a level.
RHODE ISLAND.
Henry Angel, aged forty five years, was
found dead in the sitting room of the Exchange
| Hotel, Providence on the morning of the
3lst ult. He probably died from heart dis
| ease.
| Capt. Salisbury has enlisted in Providence
! during the past ten months more than seven
hundred seamen for the naval service
Allen q. Mathewson attempted to get on
| the cars at Nayat, but, having bundle in his
hand, lost his hold and fell on the side OF the
track. The thumb and three fingers of his
left hand were severed, and his right arm bad
| ly mangled.
CONNECTICUT.
After the fire in Norwich, Monday morning
one of the banks was broken into and consid.
cradle money stolen. For obvious reasons the
| matter is kept very quiet
The losses by the fire in Norwich, Monday,
| on buildings amount to $1,000, on goods
| SlO,6O0. Total insurance $13,250.
The expenses for streets in Hartford the
past year amounted to S3l ,306 49,
a. w. EASEL, an old resident of Bolton,
| died, recently, from the effects OF bite of
rat, which he incautionsly stepped upon while
| barefoot.
Another confidence" man has made his
appearance in New Haven, calling himself
| Col. Dudley" and protesting to be on mis-
| sion TO examine the different STYLES of fire.
arms. In New Haven he wore field officers
uniform, sported the shoulder straps of an in
tantry colonel the sabre of a cavaryman, and
the buttons OF general. His manner was at
fable and his disposition genial. Dudley has
since been arrested in Boston. He is an old
offender.
WAR ITEMS.
What Uncle Sam wants to do at Island No
| III. lie wants to put his Foote in it.
Eleven of the southern generals received
no military education, and never before had a
military command.
A Cincinnati paper says NJ L. c. Hopkins
Cincinnati merchant, on visit to Washing.
ton, has obtained one of the celebrated Center.
vile "quakers," and has forwarded it home.
He says the rebels had labeled their uuakers
o2pounders, GA Founders, rifled, &c Ii is pro-
posed to mount the bass wood gun on tho
heights OF Cincinnati, which the people have
otten compliance were not well guarded
a gentleman who was in Richmond last
January had u long conversation with Ben
McCuloch. He says McCulloch appeared TO
be mild hammered man, but he coolly re.
marked that he was going out west to fpbt
the Yankees, and would fight them till hell
troze over, and would then fight them on the
ice." Wv
MISCELLANEOUS.
a correspondent of the Chicago Tribune
says there is in Cairo an organized band of
scoundrels who lad tor some time before the
inauguration Of the war been engaged in the
neianous business of kidnapping negroes
whom chance of business brought to Cairo
and running them off to Kentucky and Ten.
nessee and selling them into slavery.
The Chicago Tribune of March Doth saws
that Wendell Phillips addressed an audience
AT bryan Hall, on the preceding night, which.
III point OF respecablity and intelligence. has
never been exceed in that city.
In pool across road in the county of Tin.
perary, ireland, is stuck up pole, having az
nXed to It board with this inscription =
| "Iakp notice that When tho watar IL 49,. al.