Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-12
General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Owing to the exorbitant charges for silver
change, the proprietor of Youngs Hotel, in
Boston, has started the issue of ''checks" for
fifteen, twenty-five, and fifty cents, bearing
his signature.
In Boston, Thursday, Laura c., two and a
half years old, daughter of Stephen II. john
son, fell from window, distance of twenty
seven feet, striking on the top of her head,
and was almost instantly killed.
In Boston, Thursday night, the furnace and
range store of VIM. White, in West street,
was entered by some burglars, who tipped
over good-sized iron safe, before blowing
open its door with gunpowder. The safe con-
tanned $4,000 in Boston, Portland, Albany,
Ogdenaburg and st. Louis city bonds, and
other valuable papers, together with $500 in
cash, and a hunter-cased gold watch and
chain worth SOCIAL OF which property was
secured and carried off by the rogues.
In South Boston, Friday, a small copper
powder mill, used for grinding powder for
making composition for fuses, exploded in
Ayers foundry, injuring three men. The
mill had been in use some ten years, and at
the time of the explosion contained less than
pound of powder. j. S. Hale was wounded
quite severely in the arm T. j. Mahony re-
ceived a severe confusion on the back; and
Michael Tayck was wounded in the flesh on
the hip.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
A war meeting was held in the town of
Stoneham, Wednesday evening, and the
quota Of thirty men raised on the spot.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The dead body of boy five years old, son
of Mr. l. II Marsh bonnnt 6raSsar woe
found floating in the water of a reservoir in
Franklin, on Thursday. From the appear
ance Of the body, and the marks of violence
upon it, the conclusion was arrived at by
corOner's jury that the lad had been murdered
and then thrown into the water. Suspicion
fell upon vicious Irish boy named Daniel
Shean, with whom he was in company, as the
murderer, and it is said that Shean has con-
fessed the deed. The youthful murderer is but
ten years old.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
job Hammond of Acushnet enlisted, re-
Gently, but, on second thought, didn't want to
go to war, and chopped off one of his fingers
with an AK after returning home.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Tom Derrigan, fireman on the Amherst and
BelchertOwn railroad, was killed at the AM
herst station Tuesday night, while Stacking
cars. He was caught in the coupling projec-
tions and though Immediately released, he
lived but few minutes.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The American writing paper manufacturing
company, composed of the principal manu-
facturers Of that article in the United States,
held meeting at Pittsfield, Wednesday,
which was largely attended, and agreed to
add per centto their invoice prices, to cover
the amount of the national tax on their ma
terial and product
MAINE.
The Portland Press says 1--WE learn that
on information being received in Oxford
county, that the ununformed militia of the
state would be called ont for duty, subject to
a draft by order of the governor, about thirty
copper-heads, of town in the vicinity Of
South Paris, took the night train and Skedad-
died for Canada"
AT Belfast, on the Sd, child of Stephen
Clark, of that city, whose age was fifteen
months, in seeking to divert himself, APP
preached the stove unobserved by his mother,
and applying his mouth to the nose of the tea
Kettle, inhaled the steam that was issuing
from it. He was so badly scaded that he died
on the 9TH.
VERMONT.
The 9th regiment was mustered into the
United States service on Wednesday, by Mai.
| w. Austin of the United States army. This
| regiment expects to leave by the 18th and
VIII probably be the first to go into the camp
| OF instruction at Annapolis. The principal
officers are as follows Colonel. George j.
Stannard, St. Adams; lieutenant colonel
Dudley X. Andruss, Bradford; major. E. S.
Stowell, Addison; surgeon, b. w. Carpenter,
Burlington; chaplain, Lucius c.. Dickinson.
Cavendish; adjutant, John c. Stearns, Brad
ford; quartermaster, Frank o. Sawyer Bur-
lington.
| RHODE ISLAND.
| The Pawtuckct Gazette reports, that on the
evening of the Sd, as Mrs. Robert p. Pratt
was returning home, she was knocked down
| by man who dragged her into the woods and
robbed her of few dollars in money, all she
had, her breastpin, belt-pin, cloak and bon
net. She was then left but was unable to
pursue her way home for some time in conse-
| quence of her injuries and exhausted cOndi-
ton. During her struggles with her brutal
assallant she was severely bitten in the arm,
| was choked in savage manner, and her face
was pounded almost to pomace, her eyes be-
ing nearly or quite closed, and she received
other injuries
The Rev. John Jennings has resigned the
pastorate of the Baptist church in Woon-
socket, and goes to Westfcld, Mass.
| CONNECTICUT.
| In New Hartford, on the evening of the
th. three boys went in bathing in the Far
mlngton river, above a large DAM and one of
them, lad Of ii years, getting close upon
the dam was drawn Under by suction into n
hole in the dam. The other BOYS became
frightened, and kept the loss of their com
panion a secret. Wednesday morning, (the
9th,) they were forced to tell where the lad
was. AT once it was resolved to take up a
portion of the dam. This was done, and I'M
der the boy was found, alire. He was
| perched on the timbers of the dam, the water
up to his thighs. He was delirious, and was
so weak that he had to be carried home,
/ wrapped in sheet.
MISCELLANEOUS.
An eronaut named Westbrook assembled at
Sparta, Ohio, ON the 4th, and when he was
about 400 feet from the ground the balloon
burst. He fell to the ground and was killed.
cargo Of prize cotton was sold in Phila-
delphia, on Wednesday, at foyty-sia cents
pound, payable in gold
The New York Evening Post says of Gen.
Mitchell 1--we are told by gentleman who
has been with him throughout, that with
fifteen thousand men under his command it
has cost the government nothing for forage,
and very little, comparatively, for pay. One
instance Of his readiness may be related: He