Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-12-03

BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
S. H. Randall, president of the mercantile
library association of Boston, has been ''re-
| quested to resign because of a number of
irregular proceedings
1t took SS,779 to get the town of Belmont
Incorporated, most of that sum being spent in
lobbying. Some of the residents of the town
protested against money being voted for such
a purpose, and the matter was carried before
the supreme court. The judge has decided
that the money should be restored to the town
| by the treasurer.
ESSEX COUNTY.
On the 9th ult., fire broke out in large
barn in Bradford, belonging to Mr.. Samuel
Chadwick 1t was evidently the work of an
lncendlary. Two large oxen were in the barn.
hundred tons of hay, oats, barley, corn, and
many other articles. One OK escaped much
burned, and the other is supposed to be buried
| In the ruins. The oxen and portion of the
hay in the barn, belonged to DVvid e. Kim
ball.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
On the 23d ult., as the Catholic clergyman
officiating at North Attleboro' was returning
to Pawtucket, he was driven into at the rail
road crossing near the Attleboro and Paw.
tucket line, by some rowdies in uniform, who
began further assault on him, when Mr.
John Quinn of Attleboro' rode up and offered
MN assistance; whereupon Quinn became
the object Of attack, and either received a
blow from one of his assailants, or a kick
upon the head from his horse, which took
fright and dragged him violently short dis
lance, so that he died of his injuries on the
18th. He never recovered sufficiently to give
any account of the affair, but the clergyman
has given the opinion that his injuries were
inflicted nv the horse Tho JiaS ho,, =
been identified.
MAINE.
A Maine paper tells of man who is so
mean that when he went counting he walked
two and half miles to save one cent toll!
In Houlton the merchants are issuing
unique shinplasters, which bear the spirited
legend of ''good for one drink
A Mr.. Stone, who lives i'll Neary, has ac-
quired wide reputation among the hunters Of
Maine as successful bear trapper. One
hundred and six of the Bruin family have been
captured by him.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
DIR. G. NJ. futile of Littleton, who was
charged by coroner's jury with having
caused the death of Miss Mary Frances Col
burn OF Littleton, by malpractice, has had his
case investigated by the grandjury of Grafton
county, who found no bill against him, and
eXonerated him from all blame in the matter
CONNECTICUT.
Willard Davis, SO years old, died at Ash
land on the 18th ult. He had voted at every
presidential election, and always for the sue
cesstul candidate. AT Bunker Hill he sup
piled our army with cattle, sheep, and hogs,
driving them from Ashford.
The expenses of New Haven last year were
nearly four times as large as those of Hart
ford.
The New London Chronicle says that Lei.
cester, who figures largely in the Richmond
papers as Sharps rifle manufacturer in that
city, was formerly under the name of Lester,
the presiding geslius in Prentiss & Larneds
planning mill in New London.
PERSONAL.
George Brown, editor Of the Toronto Globe,
has recently led to the hymenial altar the
daughter of Mr.. Nelson, the famous Edinburg
publisher. This young lady is said to bring
her husband a dowry of $4,000 A nice
little plum.
Mrs. Lincoln will have no receptions at the
White House the coming season, it is said, on
account of the death OF her son last spring.
1t is said that the secretary of the interior
is satisfied that the Indian troubles in Mime
sofa originated in the Instruction in the
south, and that theywer fomented by British
The American General Ward, in the SER
vice of the Chinese against their rebels, and
lately killed, was native of Salem, and only
81 years old. He was son OF Frederick G.
Ward, and his own name was Frederick
Townsend Ward; he graduated from the Sa-
lem high school in l847, and has had an ad-
venturOus and romantic career snce-one
experience being that of lieutenant in the
French army in the Crimeah war.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An Albany restaurant issued $4,000 of shin
plasters, and has already redeemed $4,000
worth! The proprietor don't see the profit
of such banking.
1t is understood that ten or twelve thou
sand of the sick and wounded soldiers are to
be Immediately removed from Washington to
the hospitals north.
The last news from New Orleans says that
Com. Farragut, with a tremendous fleet, is
ready to ascend the Mississippi, to cooperate
with Com. Porter in the reduction of all the
places in the possession of the rebels in that
river.
The official canvass in Kansas has just
been concluded. Carney, the republican can
| didate for governor, has 1888 votes--a major
ity of 1907 over his antagonist, Wagstaff.
Wilder, the straight republican candidate for
congress, received 9539 votes, beating Par
rot by 1895.
The Fight at ClarIS's Mills,