Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-23
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The sailmakers Oi Boston and vicinity have
combined 10 prevent women from being EN-.
ployed in that business, and they have formed
protective union" to make this prescription
successful II is very mean for company of
men to combine thus to shut out women from
employ ment
The steam gun-boat Saxon, for Gen But.
ler's expedition, is now ready for sea. She is
armed with two of Sawyer's rifed cannon aud
a crew of fifty men. Among her passengers
were one hundred and fifty .Seamen from the
receiving ship Ohio, who are going to the
Philadelphia navy yard.
The twenty-niuth anniversary convention
OF the Massachusetts Antislavery Society
will be held in Boston to-day and Friday.
Phillips, Garrison and Rev. W. r. Alger are
announced to speak.
OreStes n. Br0wnsOn gave a lecture before
the Emancipation League in Boston on Tues
day, IN which he strongly urged the impossi
billy OF IA reunited nation till slavery was
abolished. Regarding fanatics he sad "All
earnest men were fanatics to the lukewarm. All
dsinterested were fanatics to the selfish All
heroic men were fanatics to the cowardly.
All living men were fanatics to the dead
Uriah j. Daily, Boston stable keeper has
been fined SO in the police court, tor cruelty
10 one OF his horses. lie threw the contrary
animal down, and for ten inmates beat the poor
beasts nose am thrust the whip stock down
its throat. Mr.. Daily said he inflicted the
chastisement not from passion, but as Il moral
duty
Mr.. James 7. Hewes, graduate in the last
class OF the Cambridge Divinity School, has
accepted an unanimous invitation to become
pastor OF the Halves Place Unitarian Society,
10 South Boston.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The death pt Row Daniel kiniaU ,fN oo1
ham, at the advanced age Of SO years and 6
months, leaves only twenty of those alive who
graduated at Harvard college before the COM
mencement OF the present century. Josiah
Quincy, the oldest OF the graduates, will be 30
on the 10th OF next month";
BRISTOL COUNTY.
n Taunton sportsman was fishing in one of
the Mldeleboro' ponds, the other day, with
some KIND OF trap, says the Taunton Ga
zette, when fish, or some other amphbous
monster, took one Of the bats, and proved TO
be OF sufficient size and strength to drag into
the water his spaniel dog, which seized the
trap IN his mouth a moment or two after il
had been sprung. Both dog and trap were
total loss.
MAINE.
The dwelling house of Mr. Theodore Sar
gent, OF Gouldsboro', was consumed by fire
one day last week. No Insurance. Lost all
the contents.
RHODE ISLAND.
The Rhode Island Historical Society are
endeavoring to make a collection of visites or
photographs Of the officers and soldiers of the
Rhode Island troops now IN service, and call
upon the friends OF living or deceased soldiers
to send such portraits to the society, for pre-.
servation. Albert q. Greene has been chosen
president Of the society for the present year,
S. G.. Arnold and George a. Brayton, vice
presidents, Sydney S. Ryder, secretary, and
Edwin NJ. Stone and B. b. Rowland, librari.
ans and cabinet keepers.
a building on Dyer street. Providence, oc-
cupied by j. w. Winsor and John p. Mum
ford, was burned on Tuesday evenin" Mr..
Mumford loses flour and salt to the value of
about $1,000, mostly insured.
CONNECTICUT.
In Norwich, in 1861, the number of mar
riages was 1877 births, 407 deaths, 233 The
number of births in Bristol in 1861 is reported
at AZ marriages, 60; deaths, So.
The Eagle Scythe Co. OF Hitchcockville,
with the new year, declares Il dividend of 10
per cent, and at the same time by inventory
shows its stock TO be worth 230 per cent. That
concern can stand war tax.
Mr.. Samuel Root Of Pleasant Valley had
his left hand cruelty mutilated by buzz saw
in Pleasant Valley, last Thursday.
The vast variety Of articles produced at
Waterbury is almost beyond comprehension.
Most Of the equipments and brass ornaments
upon our soldiers uniforms are made there.
1t has been computed that each soldier may
have pound OF metal upon his person and
equipments. in the shape OF buttons and other
b.ass ornaments, and two thirds of them are
made in Waterbury.
According to the Norwich Bulletin, the pop.
ulaton Of Greeneville, n manufacturing vii.
lage in Norwich, is as follows Whole popn.
lation, 2454; Americans, 928 Irish, 1856;
Scotch, 272; English 70; Germans, A; French
Canadians, 4. The number OF children from
to Is years of age is 651.
The infant daughter OF the late Col Sam.
Colt Of Hartford, died on Monday. The only
remaining child is little boy four years Of
age.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Philadelphia has the largest fire department
in the world 1t consists of 100 companies, q
steam engines, 46 hand engines, LOG hose car.
riages with four swhels, aud 10 with two
wheels. The estimated value Of the property
is over one million dollars. The number of
fires in that city during the past year was