Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-06
GENEKAs. NEWS SUMMARY.


eight months old.
There were 216 arrivals and pa clearances
at the port oi Boston during the month of
January o! the former 80 were tdfegn and
Iol coastwlSe, and ot the latter 81 foreign and
III cOastwise.
No cars On wheels are allowed during sleigh
ing time n the streets bt Boston. The snow
on ali the streets WAS leyeIed this week
The gunboats luO and Huron have sailed
from Boston. the former for Ship Island and
the latter for Key West The bark Neapoli-
tan, reported burnt 10y the Sumter, was built
and owned in Kingston, Mass, and insure in
Boston,
The Maine fourteenth regiment, Col Nick
erson, arrived IN Boston, last night from Au-
gusta, and are temporarily quartered in Fan
eni Hall. They are attached to Buffers eX.
Capt. w. Chase, says the Boston Journal,
was robbed between three and four o'clock
Wednesday morning of $4,000 in promisory
notes and city scrip He lodged at 2l7 Ire
mont street, and the property was taken from
his bed while he was called away TO tend to
the want of 4 sick person in the room above.
ESSEX COUNTY
The NewburypOrt Herald says that one day
last week two young men at the north part
OF the city, j. 5. Pike and l Waterman, took
passage on skates for Lawrence. They started
,
they stopped three hours, and returned home
at P. N. The distance by the river can not
be much short OF sixty miles.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The barque Neapoitan, reported by tele-
graph as burned by the Sumter, was a fine
clipper vessel of 322 tons, rating A II was
built at Kingston, Mass, in 1856, where she
was owned.
BRISTOL COUNTY,
7. Df,,1r.
pointed masters mate in the United States
navy, and ordered to the new gunboat Kenne-
bee at the navy yard at Charles.won.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
y son OF Mr.. Joel Hamblin of West Barn
stable, aged about seventeen years, was at
tackled in the woods a few days since, by
boar which had escaped from tile pen OF
farmer in the vicinity. The boy was thrown
down and severely bitten in several places,
and only escaped with his life by timely as.
sistance.
The Barnstable Patriot says that Jacob, son
OF Mr.. jeremiah Baker OF South Yarmouth
it is reported, is condemned to be shot tol de-
serton from the navy His parents have re-
ceiVed letter informing them that they can
see him before the day fixed upon Tor his
death, and that his body will be delivered
to them if desired.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The committee appointed by the towns OF
Bernardston and Leyden to make arrange
ments tor the Bernardston centennial ceebra
ton met at Bernardston on ths Illh ult and
voted that the celebration should be held OH
the 10Th day of August next. Committees
were appointed to make all the necessary
arrangements.
| The editor OF the Arooslook Herald, who is
secretary Of state, writing from Augusta, Ne,
says dypther;a has developed itself in that
city, and is desoiaiing families ike the plague.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Hamilton E IUwle Of Exeter the civil en-
/ gineer who invented and applied a temporary
I steering apparatus for the STEAMER Greai East
{ ern during the terrible storm OF the l2ti OF
Z Sept ISL, has been made the recipient OF a
costly watcif from tie passengers on the YES
SCI A. that uuse.
CONNECTICUT
An earring make shock was felt in Norwich
and vicinity on Sunday evening last
According 10 the reports Of LIE board Of ed
uca1on, New Haven confirms 1516 school
children, between : and Il years OF 8ge,l and
Hartford 5s37.
I Tae house Of Al5ro Fyler, on Sonth street,
Z N "lnsiead, lock Ere abyai SIX o'clock Fri
dag morning, 5lst nit, and vas burned to
Z the ground.
/ Deming By The Hariioriers, and by lin re-
fused, has eeen sold, ard three hundred dol
lars OF the money raised has been pr sented
. 10 the colonel 10 buy horse Tor himself.
lie New Haven and New London railroad
! by GecVe OF tile court, passes into The hands
I Of tile trustees Of the first mortgage bonds
/ the first 1aJ Of March next Tie trustees
under this class Of bonds, are, Messrs Henry
| Hotchkiss OF New Haven, and Charles Buck
! ingham OF New York.
| The New Haven Register has fierce blast
against Harper's Illustrated Weekly because
1t has a cut representing Gen. Mcclellan
crushing JET. Davis and secession in "the
folds Of the anaconda" No doubt its feelings
are hurt at the prospect OF serious damage 10
the JEFF Davis concern
Gurdon Pendletun of Stoniugton, a blatant
secessionist, one OF the "Shoot the first man
that undertakes to arrest me- kind, was al
rested, Monday, BY deputy maIshals Payne of
New London and Sherman of New Haven, ON
an order from Tie secretary of state He took
the celebrated oath of allegiance, and was dis
charged
Erasmus Rawson OF North Woodstock, has
colt Just twenty months old, which weighs
one thousand pounds. When 105 manths old
1t weighed $50 pounds. Gain in 81 months,
$40 pounds.
James Z. Wilkinson, formerly of the Kill
unSly transcript, taken prisoner at Bull Run
writes from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, that he is
confined there with five hundred fellow pris-
oners They had just received some clothing.
which they needed sadly
WAR ITEMS
DR.. George d. Beebe of Chicago, a homue-
pathist, has been appointed brigade surgeon in
the army.
The rebels OF the south have DESTROYED l28
lighthouses that have been erected by the fed.
eral government for the benefit of commerce.
endangering the lives of thousands of persons
not connected with the war.
FOREIGN.
Accounts from Europe state that up to the
middle OF January the weather in the south
part OF France has been quite sprimg-hke.
Everything is green, and thousands OF orange
trees are covered with fruit; the roses, vic.
lettes de Parme and other flowers are in tuil
bloom; not emitting green peas growing in all
the gardens.
A writer says, in Notes and Queries, that in
| very out OF the way place on the roof of the
! Milan cathedral, are two wonderful statues by
Michael Angelo They are said to represent
| Adam and Eve, mot us they were in Paradise
but some years after their expulsion, when
toll, care, and age had begun to tell upon their
frames" Nothing further could be ascertained
about them"
MISCELLANEOUS
Chas. Backus, Long Island farmer, has
under cultivation eight large farms devoted TO
raising vegetables tor the New York market.
During the past year he has raised 30 acres of
potatoes, 10 or 20 acres of parsnips, carrots.
and beets, % acres Of corn, and 80 acres of