Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-19
GENERAL News Summary.


! In Boston, on the 18th, boy eight years
old, son Of Dennis Mahoney, was accidentally
shot in the legs, by pistol carelessly used in
the hands Of another boy or girl. The wound
inflicted is not of Il serious nature.
| Eben Senter, an old offender IN the swim
ding line, was brought before the police court
in Boston, on the 18TH and waiying examine
ton on some half dozen complaints for swim
ding, was committed for trial in default of
| bail in S2300.
John Donovan, recently discharged from
the 9th Massachusetts regiment, has been ar
rested in Boston for swindling lady of SO by
falsely representing to her that her grandson
was sick in Virginia, and requested him to
obtain that amount from her for him.
a cricket match was played at the grounds
in East Cambridge, on the 18th, between the
Boston and Lowell clubs. The latter won the
toss, and sent the BOStonianS to the wicket
| They scored l02, and the Lowell men 56
| The Bostonians then scored l20, making them
l66 ahead. AT this stage the Lowell club had
4 to leave, and one of the conditions of the
match was, that if the game was not played
out betor the drawing of the wickcts, it should
| be drawn game.
| NORFOLK COUNTY.
! A man named Charles c. Center, who was
convicted last fall, and sentenced to three
years imprisonment in Dedham jail, for rob-
berry from the Boston post Office, has been
pardoned by the president, at the suggestion
Of several of our representatives in congress.
The Universalist church in Foxboro, which
was partially destroyed by fire on the Both of
December last has been rcmodeed and refur-
nlshed, and opened for public worship.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mrs. Ruby Trip was found dead in her
room, in New Bedford, on the 18th. She had
been in feeble health. Her age was "a years.
The News states that in Fall River there is
large number Of boys who go prowlng
about the streets, seeking what they can pur-
loin. They are in the habit of taking door
keys, when they can find any in the doors of
the dwellings where they chance to pass
| In New Bedford, the 18th, two black
smiths shops, occupied by John Teachout and
Isaac King, and a barn, We're destroyed by
| fire.
\ little girl, aged about two years. the
daughter of Francis Waldron of North Digh-
ton, while at play in a bake house, on the
| 18th, fell into a pail of boiling water, and
scalded herself so badly that she died in few
| hours after.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
a barn belonging to Jas. Keenan, of Sand
witch was totally destroyed by fire on the 9TH.
The barn contained about two tons of hay, and
was set on fire. No insurance.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Palmer pOstoffice was entered by bur-
glars on the night of the 10th, and robbed of
quantity of money and letters; and an I'M
successful attempt was made to force open a
safe which contained $500 or over No ar
rests have yet been made, but rumors and
circumstances point very directly toward GER
tain parties as principals or Gtcomplices in
the crime.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Willard Mckinstry, the editor of the Ere
donia Censor, and formerly printers APP
| prentice at Northampton, has recently been
| appointed postmaster at Fredonia, N. Y.
| MAINE.
Newry is a great place for trouting A
party from Portland went there few DAYS
since, and caught 800 trout and a skunk, mis-
taking it for a wood chuck
The receipts of the Kennebec and Port
land railroad for April were about $1,000 more
than last year, while the expenses were the
same.
Palmer Block, in Rockland, was totally de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th Loss estimated
at about $4,000, upon which there was $4,000
| insurance.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mr.. Ephraim Putnam Of South Lyndeboro'
was found dead in his bed on the morning of
the 18th inst. He appeared to have died with
out struggle. His age was seyenty-seven
years.
RHODE ISLAND.
Mr.. Lyman =. Adams, young citizen of
Pawtucket, starts to-day for Memphis, Tenn
essee, with d. a. Dwight, Esq, of Boston,
for the purpose of purchasing cotton for vari-
GUS parties in Providence and Boston, and to
resume the operation Of the ''Chickasaw cot
ton ess."-Iroridence Journal, l7th.
Brig. Gen. Pitman, ofProvdence, has been
found guilty Of the charges of neglect and vi
olation of duty, and conduct preiudical to
good orderand military discipline, upon which
he was tried by court martial, but as his COM
mission has expired no sentence is passed.
CONNECTICUT.
One of the six Townsend premiums for En-
glsh composition, competed for by the senior
class in Yale College, has been awarded to D.
Henry Chamberlain of Worcester.
Hopes are entertained of the recovery of
Mr. Buck, the overseer in the state prison at
Wethersfeld, who was stabbed by convict.
The 4th will be celebrated with great ecat
at Hartford Two balloons are engaged, and
display Of fireworks costing 5000 will be
presented.
cow, owned by Mrs. Lucy Slater of New
Britain, gave birth some five or six weeks
since to three bull calves, all Of which are
alive and thrifty.
The only son Of Denison Parker of Ches-
ter, lad Of II years, was drowned in the
pond at Griswold's factory, Chester, on the
l4th. He lost fish line in the pond, and in
attempting to recover it, got beyond his depth.
little daughter of Chester Goodman. of
West Hartford, aged three years and nine
months, ON the 18th inst, contrived to reach
vial of oil Of vitriol from shelf, during the
absence of her parents from the room, and
drank OF the contents The child died after
about thirty hours of intense suffering.
Rev. George H. Clark has been chosen rec