Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-03-06
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basket why were the rebel commission.
erS, Mason aud Sl!dell, like Daniel in the
Scriptures Because they were given up TO
Lyons (lionsl and the Lyons mouth was
shut"
The flags upon the public and other build
ings in New Bedford, were at haf-mast, yes.
teIday, in respect 10 The memory of the late
Gen. Lander
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Smiths drug store, i'll Springfield. was en-
tered, MOniay night, 10y a burglar. The noise
awakened the clerk vino slept in the store, and
he threw Ratchet at the robbers head. The
weapon failed to hit him, and the villain
Stable! the clerk slightly in the side, and
struck him over The head with heavy weapon,
Knocking him Seuseless. Tue burglar prUba
bly, lett Immediately after the scufie, as nothing
was missed from the store.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The town house OF Belchertown was crush.
ed on Monday night by the superintendent
weight OF snow and ice on the root, leaving it
perfect ruin. Had the catastrophe occurred
twelve hours sooner, during the session of the
annual town meeting, it would probably have
been fatal to hundreds of the principal inhabi-
tants. This house was erected in 1916, at an
expense of S2lO0.
Lorenzo W. JOY has been appointed post.
master at Northampton.
A>iNut' OoOuCli VI hdISs III tllS buuio" COul'
pany, twenty seventh regiment, had his sword
bent nearly double by a bail which struck it
during the battle on Roanoke island.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
a large brick block in PlltstielI was crush
ed in by the weight of snow, Tuesday noon.
The walls were crushed out by the pressure
and on one side fell upon a small wooden
building in which five persons were sitting at
dinner, aud rrrcipIta ing them all into the cell
n,
the other side the wall fell upon a lin shop,
demolished II, killed one OF the tnmen and in.
| Jured another fatally. IL. w. Hubbard peri.
odical dealer in the block had both legs near
| ly cut of and can hardly recover A young
lady who was in his store at the time was also
seriously injured.
RHODE ISLAND.
| In Providence, Wednesday child named
| Julia MlcAlanns was severely scalded. She
ran against her sister, who was crossing the
room with 4 pitcher of not water, which was
spilled over The child's head, neck, and arms.
| The same day Thomas Esmond, an Irishman,
about 40 years old, while handling some bales
| OF hOcks in a store, tell backward about six
feet, striking across the stairs, and breaking
his thigh.
A boy named John McCourt, while tending
"picker" in factory in Pawtucket, had his
| hand caught i'll the machinery, aud three of
his fingers were SO badly lacerated us to rem
der the amputation of them necessary.
George Robinson has received tie appoint
ment of postmaster IL kingston in place Of
Asa Gardiner.
CONNECTICUT.
The following vessels have been chartered
| recently in New London and vicinity: the
! prupellers Chas. Osgood, Decatur, Quinne-
! baug, Shetucket; the new screw steamer
! Thames from Mystic, and the Golden Gate of
| Norwich
Chester B a son of Samuel Z. Lyman, of
Columbia, while riding down hill, on the oath
ult., came in contact with a tree breaking
both bones of his leg between the knee joint
and ankle. The fracture is said to be Il very
bad one.
The bark May Flower, Capt. Duell, arrived
at New York on Monlay, from Barbados,
bringing Capt. Fisher and two of the crew of
the schooner Treasurer of Bridgeport, Conn,
abandoned in the Cult Stream Jan g.
The special post office agent has decided to
recommend the removal OF the post Office in
Hartford from It's present location.
MISCELLANEOUS.
a number OF wagons have been observed
recently in ST. Louis, containing "movers"
coming from Illinois into Missouri. They are
the advance guard OF the returning Union ex.
lies from the southwest on their way TO their
homes, from which they were driven last fall
The confederate government follows Capt
Cuttle's advice, and whenever they find
piece OF paper they make note Of it,"
a man advertists in the London Times "lor
competent persons to undertake the sale OF a
new medicine" and adds chat it will be prof
liable to the undertaken"
very gentrmaniy appearing man, repre-.
seuling himself as book agent, recently en-.
gagged board at private boarding house in
| Cleveland, Ohio. One evening he told the
| landady that he was going TO the theatrr, and
requested that The door might be unlocked
which was complied with. The next morning
the gentleman did not make his appearance
at the breakfast table, and on search it was
found that a large quantity OF vauables had
disappeared with the man of theatrical tastes
| Boarding house keepers must exercise caution
in receiving strangers, these rogues are
| plenty and travel freely about the country.
A little boy about ten years OF age, whose
parents live in Caledonia, N. Y =, had been dam
! gerously Ill Tor number OF days, and on the
18th ult his breathing ceased, his heart was
still, and To ali outward appearances he was
dead. The body was laid out, coffin order.
| ed, and arrangements made Tor the funeral
but about three o'clock in the afternoon his
friends were joytully surprised to see the
winding sheet move, and N a moment more
| the little fellow turned over and asked for IL
| drink. lie returned to entire consciousness
| but died the following day.
In Washington, Saturday morning, hack
was driven to the National Hotel hack stand
with the corpse OF a cOlOred woman inside /:
appears that she was taken sick, and being en-
ctente, miscarriage resulted. Her mother
was taking her home, and when in front of
her house. the daughter, saying she had the
small pox was refused adu itVance, aud died
| in the hack.
The Richmond Enquirer says tine war has
already cost Virginia some $4,000 900; and
it considers the price heavy one Tor making
itself "Ihe chopping block Of the north and
south, and cock pit OF contending nations--the
Flanders OF America
The New York Herald is advocating the
reelection OF Mr. Lincoln to the presidency.
Considering that the lerald's candidates are
invariably defeated, we tremble for Mr.. Lin.
coins chances.
From the Boston Daily Advertiser.
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