Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-19
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.


terteit 10 on the Atlantic bank He is no.
toriouSly shrewd aud expert English rogue.
Warren V. Tewksburv of Amesbury, was
arrested on the l4lh, for passing considerable
number OF counterfeit bills, and committed to
Jail for want OF $1,000 bail.
The funeral OF the late DR.. Luther V. Bell
took place Monday afternoon, from St. John S
Episcopal church, Charlestown. The services
were largely attended by the citizens OF
Charlesluwn and vicinity, including the gov
ernor and council, members OF the Legislature,
the Charlestown city government, members OF
the Suffolk District Medical Society, naval OF
tiCerS, dele cations OF the Somerville Light III
! tantry and Charleslown City Guards, officers
of the eleventh Massachusetts volunteers at
home on Through, and other military men.
The remains were inferred in a tomb at Mount
| Auburn
The funeral of the late VIM. Appleton took
place from ST. Paul's church, Boston, at noon
Tuesday. The exercises were very impress,
siye. The church was filled with deeply
sympathizing audience, including many dis
| tingushed gentlemen III the various walks OF
| lite.
President FELTON, of Harvard college has
been suffering from severe sickness; and fears
are now entertained that his disorder will ter
inmate fatally. lie is at the residence of his
brother, S. NJ. FELTON,, Esq, in Chester county,
| Penn.
Mr.. Seth Adams OF Quincy had his pocket
| book, containing 5000 in money and certif-
cate of five shares in the Quincy Stone Bank,
stolen from his pocket, while attending the flu
neral OF the late DR.. Bell in Charlestown, Mon
day.
Some thirty persons have been seriously in
jured in Boston the present winter by falling
upon the ice.
a fire broke out on the Cunard steamship
wharf, in East Boston, carly Tuesday morn
ing, aud large frame building used as store
house was consumed. The loss was from
$4,000 to $4,000. Noinsurapce.
FRAKLIN COUNTY.
The great bullock Constitution, tatted by
Mr.. Sanderson of Bernardstou, which weighed
1860 pounds and was sold to Bryan Lawrence
of New York, at ''big price" has been
slaughtered and weighed in that city. The
live weight day before lie was slaughtered,
was $500 pounds The dressed animal
weighed 2,473 pounds, or 154 pounds more
than the celebrated OK "Union," and exceeded
any OK ever slaughtered in this or any other
country.
ESSEX COUNTY.
At South Danvers there is said to be 4 dog
"Fido that can count paper money like Il bank
teller, and when he comes to an uncurrent bill,
he Tops it one side and barks at it."
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Inc OlssSOh lLlilo db DOulu l1duley IdlS
pay semi-annual dividend of seven per cent,
making ten for the past year.
The Methodist church at Chicopee was al
most entirely ruined on Thursday by the ina.
biity of the roof to sustain the immense ac-
emulation of ice and snow which had gather
ed upon it.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
VIM. B. Calhoun of Springfield was chosen
to represent district No in the legislature, at
the special election held last Monday.
There is a great demand for tenement
houses in Springfield, the business caused by
the war bringing a large number of mechanics
to that city.
James Parker, the veteran conductor on the
Western railroad between Springfield and
Worcester, has lately added to his large col
lection Of rare coins, Higley Connecticut
copper, only three Of which were ever issued
and the market value OF which is S75. TWAS
a gift to Mr. Parker, whose museum contains
fine specimens of almost every known Ameri-
can coin and many foreign ones, collected dur.
ing the last twenty years.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
On Saturday afternoon as Mrs Mary A.
Brown, wife OF Thomas E. Brown of Fail
River, was passing down the steps into her
back yard, she slipped, and in falling, struck
upon her side. She did not complain of any
injury received at the time but being in
delicate situation, her neighbors were fearful
of the result. AT one o'clock Sunday morn.
ing, she was taken with labor pains, and
medical assistance was summoned. She gave
birth to a child, and soon after stated to an at
tendaht, that she was dying, and Immediately
expired.
The wife of Mr.. A. W, Simmons of New
Bedford was found dead in her bed, Sunday
morning. She had been unwelI during the
night.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
In the supreme Judicial court al Dedham on
Tuesday, chief justice Bigelow passed sentence
Of death on Georga C. Hersey, convicted of
the murder OF Betsey Frances Tirrell of Wey-
mouth, by the administration of strychnine.
Hersey is to be kept in Norfolk county jail,
until the governor shall fix the day for his ex.
ecution.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
nineteenth months old hog, weighing
when dressed eight hundred and seventy
pounds, was sold in Manchester last week.
What adds interest to the matter, says the
Mirror is, he was one of litter OF eleven,
and was so weak when "'ushered on the thea
tire OF life" that he could not stand up to draw
sustenance and was fed with tea spoon!
RHODE ISLAND.
The village of Wexford is endeavoring to
secure railroad mmunication with the 'rest
| to the SloningtOn road little ways from Da-
| visviile.
The superintendent Of the naval school in
| Newport, is very much tire ubled by the dealers
| in liquor supplying the students with intoxi.
eating drinks. The removal of the school is
threatened, unless the city council take imme
diale and severe measures for the suppression
of tipping shops and houses of ill-fame.
CONNECTICUT.
AT Guilford, on the 14th, Congress Hall
Block, and the house of Edward Landon, town
clerk, were destroyed by fire.
The police department of Hartford consists
of one chief, one captain, one lieutenant, TWEEN.
ty-oue patrolmen, and eleven supernumerares.
"A school teacher in Preston, having whip
ped daughter of Jirah Chapman, Esq, Jirah
Chapman, Esq, went to the school house and
whipped the teacher
According to the Hartford Courant, a dodge
frequently attempted in that city with designs
upon the reasury, is, for women to bring Ger
tlhcates OF marriage to some of the soldiers
and call TOR the bounty in such cases provided
by law. Some of the certificates are, on ac-
count of certain alterations from the original,
forgeres, and many frauds. Some OF the
hardest old sisters of the city have, according
to these documents, very recently entered into
the holy bonds of matrimony, and are endeav-
oring to get living by it,
WAR ITEMS.
The ordnance bureau of the navy dep IT.
ment sent to flag officer Goldsborough, on
Friday, seven hundred tons OF ammunition,
shell, shot, and other ordnance stores.
The Providence Journal wonders if bishop
Polk is not thinking affectionaiely of his do
cese in the south, and wishing that some one