Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-08
General News Summary.


the Boston fire department.
Anne Il. Cummings, aged 16, domestic in
the family of Mrs. Penniman in Brookline,
attempted to commit suicide Saturday even
ing, by taking a large quantity of bedbug
poison. 1t appears that her mistress repri-
manded her severely for staying out late the
evening before, and discharged her. The
girl is now at the hospital in Boston where
she lies in a critical condition.
Michael Crowley has been arrested in Lex
ington on charge of placing Instructions on
the Lexington branch railroad, and commit
ted for trial in default of bail in $500.
+ The eagle, which was liberated from one of
the balloons in Boston on the Fourth, was
caught on Saturday morning, on Maiden
marshes, by Ralph Linnel, of Charlestown.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
In Stoneham. Sunday, some men who had
been drinking freely, got iuto quarrel, when
one Of them named Hiram MarstOns drew a
pistol and discharged it at John Benty. The
ball entered his breast, passed through his
body and lodged against the spine. The ball
was extracted. Marstons is under arrest.
ESSEN COUNTY.
In Newburvport, Saturday evening, an I'M
known man. in state of inSenSbility, was
discovered lying by the turnpike roadside.
He was conveyed to house in the vicinity,
but he died in about two hours. He was APP
parently a laboring man, thirty to forty years
old, had dark hair and whiskers, and weighed
about l75 pounds. He was dressed in
black suit, and wore Il straw hat.
The Washington Mills company of Law
renee have given notice that the wages oftheir
employees will be raised to what they were
some six months ago, or before the reduction
of ten per cent. was made, on and after the
first instant. This is done in consequence of
the prosperous business the company has been
doing within the past few months.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Horace NJ. Hathaway, aged thirteen, fell
down the hatchway of the ship Henry Knee
land, at New Bedford on Saturday, and was
fatally injured.
Patrick Fitzgerald was found dead in his
bed, in New Bedford, Saturday evening. He
was found with his knees on the floor and his
throat resting on the railing of the bed As he
had been intoxicated, it Is supposed he rolled
partly off, but was SO insensible that he could
not move his head. He was a gardener.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
John Sweeney, aged sixty-seven years, a
lahorer on the western railroad, was killed al
most instantly at Washington, on the 2Sth
ult., by stepping backward in front of the
mountain locomotive, with his back turned to-
ward it.
A heavy stone wall, thirty or forty feet in
height and several rods in length, fell over one
night recently at Lee, causing noise like an
earthquake. 1t was built on the east side of
the marble quarry to prevent the refuse stone
from falling into the river
The medical and other leading men of Pitts
field are working earnestly to have hospital
established in that healthful village for sick
and wounded soldiers.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
\ very large and enthusiastic meeting was
held at Springfield, on the morning of the
4th, at the City Hall, to respond to the recent
call of the president for troops. Spirited adj
dresses were made by mayor Bemis, George
Ashmun, Gen. DevenS of Worcester. Hon.
NJ. X. Kun of Missouri, Hon. Geo. Walker,
Judge Chapman and others.
RHODE ISLAND.
In Providence, Friday, a woman named
Ann Burns, wife of James Burns, who is in
the army, was drowned while attempting to
rescue her little son, who was in bathing and
had got beyond his depth They sank togeth-
er, when young man named Thomas Harvey
plunged in after them, and succeeded in get
ting the bodies ashore, but too late to save the
life of the mother. That of the boy was re-
stored. She leaves two children, the young
est about six weeks old
Two large steamers reached Portsmouth,
Sunday, filed with wounded soldiers of the
army of the Potomac. The Providence
journal says the number to be sent there will
reach seventeen hundred.
CONNECTICUT.
Newton Epson of New Britain, was killed
near Ncwington station by the down train on
the night of the 4th. He had been to Hart
ford, celebrating, and was walking home on
the track.
James Foley, so years old living on Nor
gan street, Hartford, was drowned in Little
river on the 9th, while fishing. He had when
found two eels in his hat and a bottle of whis-
ky in his pocket
The wife of Rev. Mr.. Eddy, of Winsted,
now in prison down south, last week received
government check for 81, l20, as the amount
due her husband for services as chaplain up
to May LIST.
Personal.
The popular American prima donna, Isa-
bella Hinkley Susini, died in New York on
the 9th. She had lately given birth to a
child, and her confinement was followed by
fever. A little over year since Miss Hink-
ley was married to Susini.
An army correspondent of an Illinois pa
per, writing from jackson, Tenn, thus speaks
of Gen. John A. Logan, now in command of
the federal forces at that place, and lately a
democratic member of congress :-'Gen. Lo-
gan has made quite metamorphose, political
ly. Feeling like making speech the other
day, he addressed the soldiers. He said he
had been nosed around by southern politicians
long enough. He had seen enough of the
cursed institution, and he would not sheathe
his sword until it was wiped from the land.'
Reports are current that Il noted ID. D., who
had to leave California for his advocacy of
secession, in a magazine he conducted. has
been invited to become the pastor of Pres
byterian church in this city, which has been
somewhat noted for its begging appeals for
| support in other places. We can scarcely be-
lleve this report, though some credence is
given to it from the fact that many Of its lead
ing members were born in Great Britain
Should the preacher in question assume this
| obscure position, it will be one of the longest
steps downward ever taken by any Scott
Boston Transcript.
Capt. Lowell, of the goth Massachusetts
regiment, killed near Richmond, was son of
Charles Russell Lowell of Cambridge. lie
graduated at Harvard College in 1858, with
the highest honors of his class.
WAR ITEMS.
The New Orleans correspondent of Mis-
sissippi secesh journal talks mysteriously of
an uprising in the Crescent city. The writer
says "the confederate regiments which dis
| banded have their arms slowed away securely.
and about 5000 of our best Louisiana bows
have returned to the city and Joined the "get-
ting up" which will give 5000 men to do what
don't think l ought to tell you at present"
The Montgomery Advertiser says that from
the most accurate estimate that can be made
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