Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-18
General News Summary.


BOSlON AND NitlNlI1.
A lady walking in Washington street, Bos-
ton, Thursday, accidentally got one of her
feet entangled in her skirt, by which she was
! thrown down, receiving a severe bruise over
her eye, and the breaking of an arm.
The truss business, says the Boston Gazette,
is increasing rapidly during the pendency of
the draft ip that city.
The funeral services of Capt. n. b. ShHrt-
| left, DR., of Boston, who was killed at Cedar
Mountain, were conducted at the church of
the Immaculate Conception, on Saturday last
Father McElroy officiated at the obsequies in
| the presence of sympathizing multitude
thronging the church.
The police sent from Boston to the war,
Saturday, an involuntary volunteer who had
received three city and town bounties and was
detected IN attempting to get the fourth Some
towns in their anxiety to get recruits, have
neglected to make proper inquiries.
The old church of the New North Society
(Unitarian), on Hanover street. has become
so environed with noisy boarding houses and
liquor saloons that it has been abandoned as a
place of worship. 1t brought $36 200, and is
to be used by the Catholics. The society,
which is one of the oldest in the city, will
probably build new house in some less heath
enish locality
In Boston, Saturday night, Mary Blood,
whose marriage to Austin B. Blood dates but
three weeks, threw cleaver at Austin, which
came near cutting off his arm. She was
| locked up to answer for her offence.
The only boat for pleasure excursions now
left in Boston harbor, is the propeller Stag.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Mr.. Wales B. Thayer was ordained on the
| 9th inst, as pastor of the Congregational Uni
tartan Society in East Marshfield.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford Mercury says fire broke
out in the Wamsutta Mills, on Friday last, in
volying a loss of about $4,000. 1t was extin-
guished by the fire apparatus of the mills.
In New Bedford, Joseph Meigs, a shpkeep-
er, fell from the upper deck to the lower hold,
Thursday evening, and remained insensibe
until daylight, when he managed to get to the
upper deck, where he was found with his left
leg broken below the knee.
The 18th Maine regiment will leave Angus
ia for the war on the 10th inst
Rev. A. Beard was installed pastor of the
Central Church, Bath, on the 10Th inst Rev.
DR.. Hitchcock preached the installation SER
| mon.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Some twelve or fourteen of the young mon
OF the Shaker community at Canterbury, n.
H., have enlisted for the war.
RHODE ISLAND.
On Friday, ninety four soldiers, belonging
to different regiments, principally New ork
and Pennsylvania, who have recovered their
health, were discharged from the hospital at
Portsmouth Grove, and sent to rejoin their
regiments.
CONNECTICUT.
In New London they are going to publish
| Al, III. 81. /
y Just measure.
Jesse S. Ely, of Norwich, has been appoint
assessor, and Ezra Dean Of Woodstock, col
lector of the eastern district of Connecticut,
under the internal revenue law.
In Goshen, two barns belonging to Mr.. Haz-
ard Bentley, were struck by lightning last
week, from one of which the gable-end was
completely torn out. Another barn in the
same town was struck and burned.
| Capt. jonathan Rose died at North Branford
on the I'd inst, in the Slst year of his age.
Besides holding local offices, he has served no
less than eleven terms in the legislature, hay-
| ing been member of the lower house in 1914,
rs, II, 10, '27, 80, 81, 46, 49, so, and 80.
MISCELLANEOUS.
flOt0w, the musical composer, is engaged
on 4 new opera, tho text of which has been
written by Franz DingIestedt, German poet
OF some fame.
In Belgium they are exhibiting Mr.. Fela, a
painter born without arms. He paints, hold
ing his brush in his toes, and his pictures eX-
cite establishment and admiration.
At the commencement exercises at Troy
university, N. Y, on the 18th inst, L. S. Phae-
don Clapp, formerly of Worcester, gave the
| salutatory Grafton in Latin.
The Chicago journal quotes provisions
from our treaties with England, under which
deserters from our army, flying to Canada,
can be arrested there. This fact is ''interest-
ing to those who are interested"
The Syracuse Journal thinks the prospect
in this country for a large crop Of peaches
never was better. The trees are breaking
down under their immense loads. Not only
IS the peach crop in a prosperous condition,
but fruit of all kinds. Every thing must be
low this fall
The French government recently drained
Lake Halloula in Algeria, 4, $50 acres, and
was at first very much afraid that dangerous
consequences might result from the putrefac-
uon OF the immense quantities of cells and
other fishes contained in the lake, but vul-
lures tlocked in tens of thousands from all
parts OF the country and deyourcd them.
One hundred and eighty-three bales of gov
eminent cotton have been sold at St. Louis,
realizing on an average of 10 IL cents per
pound. About 1900 bales in all arrived the
same