Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-10
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The ordination OF Mr.. George Sturgis Paine
OF Worcester, and late of tile General Theo.
logical Seminary, New York city, took place
on Wednesday, the 22d ult in the Emmanuel
church, Boston The ordination ceremony
was performed by the Right Reverend Bishop
Eastburn, assisted by the Rev Charles Bur
roughs, d. D., the Rev Frederick ID Hunt
ington, d. d., the Rev. Justin Field, and the
Rev. Winslow W. Sever. The presentation
was by the Rev Dr. Burroughs of Boston.
The ordination sermon was delivered by the
Rev. Mr.. Field, and was an able and eloquent
exposition Of the duties of the christian
preacher. After ordination the holy commun-
ion was administered by the right reverend
bishop, assisted by the rector to the congre-
CATION and reverend clergy pres mt, among
whom were the Rev. DR.. Wells, the Rev. Mr..
Allen, the Rev. Henry Burroughs, SC
The number Of certificates granted in Bos.
ton to families of volunteers, for the month of
January, by the city relief committee, is near
ly 1000, and the amount of aid granted for
the month will exceed $4,000.
The steamship Mississippi, a splendid iron
vessel, having double engines of 62inch cylin-
der and of 1000 tons burthen, has been char.
tered by the government, and is now taking
in stores tor the Butler expedition.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The referets in the case of the assignees of
Samuel Wolcott of Natick VS. various insur
ance companies tor the recovery OF insurance
on Wolcott's property, which 1t will be recol.
lected within a few days OF his failure was de-
stroyed by fire, have decided that the insurance
companies must pay SAL 600 damages and
S9253 costs.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
| Col. Pierce, OF the twenty ninth regiment,
writes that his companies have nomenclature
of their own:-Capt. Brady 5 of Sandwich are
called the "Gass Blowers :" Capt. Trips Of
Taunton, the "Alewives; )" Captain Richard
sons, the "Pets ;" Capt. Sibley's of Charles.
town, the "Pgs )" Capt. DUten's of Plymouth,
the Cousins" Capt Leach's OF Bridgewater,
! the "Countrymen !" Capt. Clark S, the COB
slacles;" Capt. Wilson's, the Qua Ducks"
| Gen. Mansfield has honored this regiment by
! calling it the balance wheel OF his division
The Brdgewater Normal School has receiv-
ed donation of three hundred and thirty vol
umes OF books, from Hon. James Arnold Of
New Bedford.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Wood for fort Pickens is being shipped from
Plymouth. The owners of the wood get 81 40
per cord, delivered at the wharf. The origin.
al contractor gets SIT so per cord from govern
ment for the wood, delivered at the fort The
sub contractor, who is also the shipper, gets
SIG per cord
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The Yarmouth Register says the story about
young Baker of South Yarmouth, who, it has
been reported is to be shot for desertion, and
whose parents are said to have been sent for
| to see him, is cdnaTd
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Mr.. John b Green was ordained as pastor
OF the Unitarian society at Bernardston, on
| Wednesday.
MAINE.
| The committee on banking in the Main,
| legislature have decided to report leave t,
withdraw on all petitions for the surrende
of bank charters, or the diminution of banl
capital.
| School houses are an index of public spir
and intelligence. Mr.. Weston's report upo
education in Maine, says that the last yea
| Durham built a school house, costing $500
Lew istap, one at S6000 Gray got in beloy
this figure, theirs costing S2l9; Westbrook'
| 5000. Benton, in Kennebec county, got il
under Gray, theiis costing but Sl50; whit
Readfeld got up one at $500. Bowdoinhan
managed as cunpingly, theirs costing bu
SloO; while Bath, in the same county, wa.
prudent enough to expend S20,710 for one
Webster plantation, in Washington county
takes the palm, however, in this table
small things; theirs cost them SIS! bu
Machias saves the credit of the county, b,
building good school house at the cost
$4,000.
The Portland Transcript says: "a youn.
lady residing in country town, not many
miles from this city, has knit one hundred pair
Of mittens for soldiers, furnishing the yarn her
self. Canary young lady show more pat
riotic record than this !"
VERMONT.
party of Woodstock sportsmen, three il
number, recently returned from fishing ex
curson at Bombazine Lake, situated in Cas-
Teton, where they caught one hundred and
fifty pound of pickerel, the largest fish weigh
ing fifteen pounds
n. G. Needham of Ferrisburg, raised las
year four hundred and tNenty-iour bushels
potatoes from one acre of land. They wer,
of the kind known as the Hawkins potato
should be planted early and on warm land.
Eleazer Taylor OF New Haven, raised, tn,
past year, one hundred and thirty.six bushel
of corn on an acre of ground The cor
measured l22 bushels 20 quarts, but weighs
1868 bushels. Seven ears of seed corn wer
gathered, from one kill. The corn was egh
rowed.
~, Alfred B. Daseomb, formerly principal
Westminster Seminary, was ordained as
| congregational preacher at Waitsield. on til
10Th ult.
CONNECTICUT.
- Col. Samuel Colts will is published in tn
Hartford papers. His property to the amour
| OF two millions all goes to his relatives an,
personal friends. There are no public b.
quests
Smith Williams, school teacher of Porl
land, Conn, has been fined 81 and costs TO
cruelty beating a scholar by the name of Mar,
Cox.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
The Detroit Advertiser says that the gigan
tic productions of our forests are every da,
passing through Detroit, in the shape of i'm
mense sticks of hewed timber some of then
are eighty feet in length and upwards, an,
from twenty to thirty inches square-of sole
oak. They are designed for the several ship
| yards. An unusual amount of ship buildint
is going on this winter, chiefly designed fol
| the grain trade on the lakes
Drain, the man who stabbed his vile
! Georgetown, the other day, was a member
company l, l4th New York regiment II
was addicted to wife beating, for which h
usually received correction at the hands of hi
fellow soldiers. When deserving of punish
| ment he would be addressed in this wise
! Colonel Drain, you're horse is ready, YOU
better lake an air, and they would then tax
him aslride rail and jolt him about the cam
until discovered by the officers, when tn
| Colonel" and his horse would be relieved
| from duty
The pirate Semmes, who has gratiied III,
London Times by filling one Of its column
with coarse, abuse of the north, has sufficient