Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-03-22
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


gold on the highway in Gloucester ON the 18th
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AT the Seamen's Bethel in Boston, Thurs
day evening, the pastor, Rev. p A Stowe.
presented To Hon. Alexander Il. Bnllork
sneaker of the house of representatives. 4 fine
oil portrait of Lieut. Fairfax formerly of the
San Jaclnto. In accepting the present Mr..
bullock made an address, audiu2 in terms of
praise to the cause in which the donor was
engaged
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Margaret VIM, aged tilty-fye wears. was
found dead at the loot OF the attic stairs in the
house OF Patrick Nevens in Lowell. on the
18Th inst. 1t is supposed she ieli down the
stairs.
ESSEN COUNTY.
| ne Salem Gazette states that a firm in Sa.
lem has offered to head paper, for The relief
OF the suffering families OF the missing
! Gloucester fishermen, with flee hundred dol
| lars.
The funeral of 1t. Col. Merritt took place
IN Salem, Friday. Gov. AndIew with other
state officials, was present, but not in an oti
cial character.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Ihey have fine dill club In Taunton, and
many OF the most prominent citizens are in
terested in the organization
"A boy named Fucker was arrested in At
tleborough Thursday, for being concerned in
recent post office robberi S in that town. An
other lad named Whitney was arrested a week
ago tor taking letters fro.n the same office
fuckers 10 years OF age, and Whitney r.
james, alias Edward Kennedy, who has
been on trial at Taunton, for some DAYS mast
on the charge OF setting fire TO a house in New
bedford, has been declared by verdict of the
| jury III the case to be not guilty and he was
discharged. The testimony of the Witnesses
for the accused supported an aIihi-circum
stances In other respects being strongly against
| him.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
| a confidence man hired horse and chaise
OF Calvin IL. Wilbur, in Bridgewater, few
days since, leaving team in his poss .ssion
which proves to have been stolen
MAINE.
Michael WEIGH, OF lloulton, has offered five
| prizes OF not less than one dollar each. to five
| young ladies' in ArOostook county who shall
present the best samples OF maple sugar. The
sugar received is TO be made into a monster
Loaf and presented TO president Lincoln.
In Searsport, Mrs. Hartford left her house
with her three children alone in it. Francis.
ten years old, look gun which had been left
loaded with ball, put on a percussion cap, and
not knowing IT was loaded, pulled the trigger
and the ball struck his little sister Ida in the
head, killing her instantly
In Bangor five boys have been arrested and
sent to the reform school. Their offence CON
sisted in calling at houses, and while one
would occupy the attention of the women up
STAIRS in Offering cook books for sale, others
would steal the kettles on the cook stovesand
afterwards sell them at the Junk stores
An OK team recently broke through the ice
OF mill pond i'll Bath. Some young ladies
witnessed the accident, and supplying them
selves with ropes, started to the rescue. One
young lady held the oxen by the horns, while
another laid down on the ice and water and
succeeded in passing line under the fore legs
OF the oxen and fastening it, Then the brave
girls manned the ropes, and with the assist.
ance OF others who had by that time arrived.
they succeeded in pulling the team from the
water.
On the 18th inst, the body of DR.. BRYANT
Morton, formerly OF Cleveland, Ohio, lately
OF Damarlscotta, Me, was found in the woods
near Bath
RHODE ISLAND.
An important case, involving the rights of
parties on the upper and lower dams in Paw
tucket, Is now ON trial in that place.
"A female lmposter has been soliciting aid in
iawtucket, representing that she has d son in
the army on whom she is dependent This is
another specimen Of the confidence" game
Nearly all the manufacturing establishments
in Pawtucket are running again on full time.
The Messrs Littleteld Brothers have recently
started up their extensive threrd works and |
are employing large number of operatives.
CONNECTICUT
The Hartford Courant entons the exis
tence in that city OF a swift and fatal disease,
considered by physicians species of spotted
fever. Two persons in a boarding house have
died with it in less than twenty four hours
after being attacked.
The schooner Telegraph arrived at her dock
in Norwich, Monday from Porto Rico. She
brought cargn of moasses.
The little village OF FitchvilIe with popu
latlpn OF about two hundred has furnished
fourteen volunteers tor the war.
Two persons recently entered the cabin of
the schooner Hudson, ut New London, with i
out disturbing ;wO men who were sleeping
here,and puroned all tie captains books and
papers, the schOOner's manifest and about Sc |
in cash
Richard Cullcns of New London had s247
IN bills and specie taken from his house
person lodging with him previous to the rob
berry has not been seen since
j. 5. Woodruff OF Hartford, has purched A
pair OF oxen weighing about 1000 rounds.
The cattle were raised in Vermont.
PERSONAL.
lancey is taken with his head ready shaved
preparatory for admission to any institution for
which lie is an eligible candidate.
The Rev. Charles Mason, d D., rector of
GIace Church in Boston, is seriously i'll. His
disease is typhoid fever
lhe president has nominated Arthur Tracy
Lee, son of Col. Lee OF Roxbury, to one Of
the appointments Tor West Point Academy
winch are within the gift of the executive
zen, Benham is to be Immediately ordered
to the field.
Mr. George Peabody, the great American
banker, quits England for IL time with fhp snng
income OF $780, 900 per annum.
Mrs Lincoln, who has been quite III avor
since the death of her son, is reported conva.
lescent. I0"'"'
WAR ITEMS.
among the incidents connected with R.,rr
SIDES expedition was the di coverv nv ann
men at Columbia, OF one of the "nscnIior Nv
stlul'ohs OF the south in the shape of whip
Tng post the morning OF their departure.
ihey instantly destroyed it, to the great do.
hght OF number OF negroes and the uttrr
CONSERVATION of few white men present.
MISCELLANEOUS.
On the 10Th Of January the United Staies
6arqne Arthur captured the schooner ] G,
McNeel OF Indianola, Texas, to which mort
she was bound from Vera Cruz with n CARGO
OF coffee aud tobacco, valued at $4,000. The
schooner was commanded by Alfred Coffin a
native OF Nantucket, who has lived for several
years IN Texas. lie went to Texas an aboli.
ZIONIST, but is now a secessonist.
The SPECTRE SCouT.--A correspopdor,
OF the New York Evening Post oivas ~. al