Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-03-08
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GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY. ~
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Concerning the Boston boot and shoe mar
ket the Reporter says trade has been good
ana the prospects are better. Western deal
ers are buying freely, prices are firm and
stocks moderate. Total shipment ny rail and
sea for the week ending Wednesday is 9349
cases.
The Boston Courier, in speaking of some
''private thtatricals" in that city, discourses
thus THE aroma of delicious refinement
pervaded the entertainment as well before as
behind the curtain and the precious memo
res OF the talent, the beauty, the strength, and
yet the dellcacy OF these entertainments, will
linger long in the minds of all who were SO
fortunate as to gain admission"
Lieut. ChaS ~. Whittier OF Boston, of the
! 10Th Massachusetts regiment, has been APP.
| pointed abide camp 10 Cen German.
difficulty occurred, Thursday, on board
the gunboat Saxon. Matthew'S the steward,
attempted 10 eject sanor from his apartment
| scuitie was the consequence, which attract
| ed others OF the crew 10 the spot, and Mat
| thewS seized Cieaver, striking right and left
| with it, and inflicting severe wounds on two
sailors. Matthews was arrested, aud in de.
fault Of bail tor $1,000 was committed Tor fur
| ther examination.
Charles Mackay'of England, the poet ar
| ll'Sd Ut DootOh ny TIE CdHaud, CFiudy lDOlU-
! ing, and is stopping at the Parker House
The rebel flags captured at Roanoke Island
| and transmitted TO Gov Andrew, have been
! placed in the representatives hall The place
| chosen was on the line of the three small win.
dows beneath the gilt Goldfish, aud opposite
the speakers desk and that no undue infer
ence might be drawn, high above all, and al
most in 1.-The codfiSh's beak," MI. Morrssey
periodically spread the stars and stripes.
\ al.
places till the close of the SESSION.
In the Boston police court, Henry Bently,
for assauting his wife, Mary Ann, has been
sentenced to the house OF correction Tor three
| months.
Patrick Burke fell off gravel train on the
Providence railroad, near Roxbury, on Thurs
day, and was run over and instantly killed
Michael Sullivan had one OF his legs broken,
Friday, by the falling in Of a wall at the scene
Of the late fire in Boston.
The claims OF Robert G. Winthrop and
Caleb Gushing to the presidency of Harvard
College are strenuously urged. The journal
says that 1t is generally supposed that Rev.
Thomas Hill, late OF Wa!tnam, now president
OF Antioch College, Ohio, Will be invited to
the vacant chair
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
In Lowell, Wednesday evening, store in
Canal Block, occupied by j. L. Croxiord.
ureiy destroyed by fire. The property of
other occupants OF the building was also dam
aged. CroXtords loss was $500; insured TOR
SooO The building was owned by Gilman
hlmball and George Motley, and insured Tor
$1,000. which will more than cover The loss.
The Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
Company ol Springfield paid Mrs. IL. G. Blais-
dell OF Lowell, ON Thursday, the amount of The
policy OF insurance (S3O00) on the life OF her
| lltn hiah pl 4; 4
On the 16th OF January last
NORFOLK COUNTY.
James Humphrey Of Weymouth has been
designated as Il trial justice Of criminal cases
for the county of Norfolk.
ESSEN COUNTY.
james A Cunningham OF Gloucester has
been commissioned as lptain of Co. L OF the
LIST battalion OF infantry. This is the new
company just raised for the purpose of increas.
ing the garrison at fort Warren, where the
battalion is now stationed
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The North Brldgewatep Gazette gives an
account OF the arrest of a heretofore respecta-
bic married woman of Bridgewater, on a
charge OF larceny. Her operations were quite
extensive and The proof of her guilt was am
pie The name is vely properly suppressed
by the editor of the Gazette, who dismisses
the case with expressing the hope that she
may sin no more Hitherto the woman has
borne good name, uBsolled by even suspi-
clon, and the charity which nova days GOV.
ers sin mighty and multudinnus, may well
hide what is perhaps but the infrmity of this
poor woman.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
Isaac Bea of Chatham has Leen appointed a
trial justice OF criminal cases, Tor the county
OF Barnstabls.
The governor has re-opponted Joshua L.
Bowey OF Proyincelown TO be the agent for
province lands in that town.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The supreme court, in the case of Barnes
VS.. Springfield, has decided in favor of the
complainant. The arS>n was issued TO test
the legality OF the a,G N of The city council
i'll establishing the boundaries OF certain
street in Springfield. The court decides, ac
cOrding to the Republican, that the council
had no authority to establish the boundaries
OF the street, nor 10 alter its width, nor to as
certain its loCation on the petition OF the su
pervisors only Outing the summer of 1860,
many of the streets Of the city were survey ed,
altered, and established, under similar peti.
tons and in all these cases, we suppose the
action OF the council is by this decision made
illegal and void This is an important and
awkward result, for the work OF reviewing
and re establishing the street boundaries in
that year, was on the whole quite valuable
Now, it must be done over, for tile benefits are
too impuT tant to be lost
The wife 0t john NJ. Stebbins, of Spring.
field was recent y on visit to her fathers,
in Hinsdale, N. H., accompanied by her two
sors, aged three years and two years respec
lively. While there, Willie, tile eldest SON
fell into a pail of hot water in the kitchen,
scadng him so badly that he died in Just 81
hours.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
One of the wounded men in the fight at Ro-
anoke Island was Hiram Shifted OF Lee, be-
longing to c.. L, 9th Massachusetts regi-
ment ball from an exploded shell entered
his side and was taken out at lis back. lie
died on the 18Th ult, and was buried on the
2Oth-hls birthday-on Roanoke Island with
due military hunors. Efforts are making to
have the remains OF this brave young soldier
brought to his old home in Berkshire
The elephant case" which has been SO hong
IN court, between travelling menagerie and
the town OF Adams, has been satisfactorily
settled
Al the time of the recent accident in Pitts
Held, Mrs Barnes, who was crushed to death
among the ruins, was engaged in knitting,
and little child by her side was SINGING the
Juvenile hymn, "Kept by Fathers hand. y
The child escaped.
MAINE.
The wife oi'Mr. Luther w. Read of Angus.
tn committed suicide on the 24lh ult by hang.
ing herself With 4 skein OF thread in the kitch-
en- OF her house. SHE had been for some time