Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-01-08
He was single man, about thirty-Hse years

He was a single man, about thirty years
OF age.
The expenditures of Lawrence for the past
wear were about Sl24000, including neary
$4,000 for military appropriations, &c. OF
this it is expected the state will reimburse
$4,000 There are now $50 citizens of Law
renee in the army, and the families Of 700 are
receiving aid. About $500 per month is now
paid out TO them.
The whole number of marriages recorded
by the city clerk in Chariestown, during the
past year, is 251 The whole number of
deaths recorded, $50
Rev. DR.. 2. j. CleaveIand, pastor of the
Appleton street Congregational church, Low
ell, has resigned his charge, lie having been
appointed a chaplain in Gen. Buffers division
He had been settled over the church about six
years.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Mr. Thomas McComt OF StoughtOn was as
sauted on Saturday evening by an unknown
person, who dealt him several blows upon the
back OF his head with a llatchet. He is in a
critcal condition
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
At Amherst, in 1861, there were eighty
births, including three pairs of twins thirty
four Of the children were OF foreign parentage.
There were twenty four marriages, only nine
couple being residents of Amherst : and fifty
seven deaths, precisely the same number that
occurred in each OF the two preceding years.
Benz. w. Alien, aged seventy-fve years,
was found dead in his barn in Amherst on the
Both ult. He had been threshing grain, and it
is supposed that he fell from the scafold TO the
floor, as a large cash was found on his head
above the temple.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A small meteorc stone fell on Connecticut
river just above Springfield, at about six
o'clock ON Sunday night, barely escaping a
bay who was skating down from Chieopee.
Upon going to pick it up, it burnt his hand,
but it was afterwards chopped out of the ice,
into which it had melted, and was carefully
saved by a lad named Dugan.
Wilbraham academy has received from j.
A Allen OF Springfield, collection OF about
three hundred specimens of birds, said TO be
the most complete collection of New England
birds in the state out of Boston.
MAINE.
lady in her 77th year, residing in Maine,
writes to her daughter in Massachusetts that
she is engaged in knitting socks for the sol
ders from yarn spun by her sister in her SOth
year. These ladies are daughters OF Col Paul
Dudley Sargent, who was one OF Washing
tons aids in the Revolutionary war.
VERMONT
In the Vermont supreme court it has been
decided that, though schoolmaster has in
duct committed after the dismissal Of school
for the day, and the return OF the pupil TO his
home, yet he may, upon the pupils return to
school, punish him fer any msbehavior he
committed out OF school, which has a direct
and immediate tendency to injure the school,
and subvert the masters authority. The
rights OF teachers in Furnishing pupils, and the
Limitations to those rights, clearly set forth
in the opinion of the court.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A most serious accident occurred at Ports
navy yard on Monday, caused by tile explo-
sion Of a boiler connected with the ordnance
department. The eastern end of the building
was blown out, tall chimney one hundred
feet high was totally destroyed and the engi
neer, Mr.. Bridges of Concord, was tn own a
distance of about two hundred feet. killing
him instantly.
Last Saturday the body OF man named
John Straw was found in the Amoskeag ca
nal, Manchester. He was resident of Hook.
sell, and leaves wife and one son. He was
an Incorporate man.
WAR ITEMS.
The following are the names of Massachu
sets soldiers who have died ia Richmond
since July 81 Eleventh regiment, A. II.
Farmer, Aug. TO- S. WEIGH, Aug. 90; fifteenth
regiment. b. Lamb, Nov. % T. n Wood.
ward, Dec. 7; L. Fipps Dec. Is Dec s, j DIN
Albrecht, sailor; Dee IA, Charles Upham
Dec. 49, p. A. Ellis.
The Savannah News notices that among the
late arrival in that city from Cuba, is large
box of beautifully prepared lint, presented,
through Capt Gladding, to the soldiers OF the
confederate army, by number Of Senoritas of
Havana. The lint is drawn in threads four or
five inches long, from the finest linen fabrics;
is white as driven snow and soft as down. 1t
is put up i'll neat little hanks, and tastefully
tied with cOlored ribbons. The lint was made
and contributed by number Of tue first ladies
Of Havana, and is sent as testimonial OF their
heartfelt devotion to OR cause.
Assistant surgeon Chas. Ii. Perry of Wor-
cester, who has recently been connected with
the naval hospital at Chelsea, has been ordered
| to the steam gunboat Kenebec.