Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-10
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON. AND VICINITY.

MS arm SO oauIy crushed IN moulding ma
chine that amrutation above the elbow was
necessary.
Thomas holland fell from building in
| Charlestown, recently, dislocating his shout
der and bruis;ng his head severely.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY
| farmer recently went TO Lowell with a
| load OF poultry to sell, and had on his wagon
IN conspicuous place, large owl which one
OF his boys had killed short time before.
The vender of poultry was hailed by son of
the Emerald Isle, who asked him "what he
aXed for that bald faced turkey 2" THAT is
not turkey" says the countryman at is an
owl. don't care saxpence how ould he
Is, but want 10 buy him" and buy him he
did
Thomas Dunleary was Instantly killed at
the paper mill of Thomas Rice, in Newton
Lower Fails, ON the 8th. lie was caught by
the band and drawn over tile pump drum,
which revOlTeS with fearful velocity
ESSEX COUNTY
lie shipping property of Newburyport.
May lst, will be about $1,000 less than one
year previous. That amount of shipping has
been sold or lost and not replaced.
One of the aldermen in Newburyport has
Deen committing fraud in discussing moneys
Ior the rel ct OF the families OF persons in the
army aud navy. The form of the charges
against him is that he failed to paw to The
claimants what he had drawn in lheir,names ::
and that he drew from the city, in the names
OF different person, more than those persons
were entitled to.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The buildings of the New Bedford Cordare
Company's works were damaged by fire the
oth INST, to the amount of several thousand
dollars.
Taunton has voted $4,000 for the support
OF paupers and lunatics, $4,000 for roads and
bridges, $500 for town officers, $4,000 for
highways $4,000 for public schools, $500
for the high schools, and $4,000 tor incident
ais, discounts, and attachments.
The bodies Of David Waite and George
Hart were washed ashore at Westport harbor.
on the olh. They had been away with boat
load oil wood, and while returning it is sun.
posed, they capsized.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Albert II. Gould OF Dorchester has been
commissioned by the governor, with the con.
sent OF the council, a justice of the peace for
Norfolk county.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The supreme judicial court has appointed
The 10Th day OF May next for a special Term at
LenoX, to try two capital cases-one against
VIM. Collins of Pttsheld, tor The murd of
rs wife; the other against Henry Pratt of
New Ashford, for the murder OF young girl
claimed by him to be his wife.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The county Jail at Greenfield contains only
one tenant, and the house of correction only
one-showingsa great scarcity either of rogues
or OF sharp officers.
About $3.50 has been subscribed at Green.
neld 10 BUY more land for the enlargement Of
the Franklin County Agriculture; Society's
grounds.
MAINE.
About twenty five young men have recent
ly left Nlachias and that vicinity fer Puget
Sound, Washington Territory.
VERMONT.
g. f. Haskell of Derby Line has i'm his ward
twenty sheep having thirty. two lambs-twelve
having had twins, and eight one eacll-all
alive and doing well.
RHODE ISLAND.
There were 63 deaths in Providence durinp
the month of March, which number was "a
less than in March, 1861, and the same num-
Der less than the average for six years past.
CONNECTICUT.
a span OF furious horses, owned by Willard
Church of Hartford, while running away with
All oyster cart on the 6th inst, threw out MIR,
Thomas Griswold head first and fractured his
skull, causing his death in less than an hour.
He leaves wife and several children
Otis NASH secesfi democrat, and newly
elected justice of the peace in New Britain.
entered the store of DIR. Brockway, an active
Union democrat, on the evening of the cIec.
ton, commenced a conversation on politics
got mad, aad attacked the doctor with lis fists
In Hartford a malignant scarlet fever il
sweeping off many children. There were four
funerals in one sparsely poepled neghborhood
on the It'll, and three more children were
down with the disease.
Personal.
Gen, Lander, a short time before he died
wrote poem, which, during his last illness,
he desired his wife in the event of his death
to send to the Atlantic Monthly 1t will an
pear in the May number Of that periodical
with the title "Under the Snow" it is quite
striking, both in thought and diction
Not many weeks ago, the rebels expelled
the venerable Judge Caron from Nashville,
for persisting so firmly in his loyalty to the
national government He is now about to re.
turn to that city, to try for treason the indivd.
uals who maltreated him.
Miss Louisa Lander, sister of the late Gen.
Lander, has taken studio at No $50 Broad
way, with the intention of remaining in New
York short time.
WAR ITEMS.
The Winchester Virginian puts forth n
mysterious boast that the southern confedera.
cy will soon make a grand haul" Weguess
1t will be by hauling down her flag and haul
ing IN her horns.-LOuiSvaie Journal
Gov. Andrew, immediately upon the receipt
ct the intelligence of the victory near Pitts.
burg, Tenn, telegrapheq to Secretary Stan
ton, congratulatlng him upon the brilliant
Achievements OF the western army, and prof
ferlng the services of a number OF MassaChu.
sets surgeons, who would assist in the care of
the wounded, without compensation. except
their necessary expenses
The Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore sun ntimates that the war department
have i'll contemplation the formation of few
negro regiments to garrison the southern forts
when the sicEly season approaches. 1t has
been said that Mr.. Stanton will not hesitate to
make use OF this class of people the moment
the necessity becomes apparent.
All the relics worth having have been car.
ried away from Manassas. Nothing now re-
mains but desOlated section and few log
huts, the backened ruins of the burned build
lngs, the wreck OF the engines and cars, and
the DIRT forts; and visitors find the two hours
lor exploration, allowed by the excursion
trains, very stupid and Improbable.
A gentleman who recently arrived at Wash.
lngton from fortress Monroe says that the Of
Ulcers there generally obtain the first and most
authentic Eews of the movements of the fed
eral army from the Norfolk and Richmond pa
pers.
Commodore Foote has made his ten strike.
and has several spare balls yet, but nobody
left to set up the pins-writes Tim, the alley
boy, to the Boston Post
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Minnesota State News of March 10Th
says,-"the snow is going quietly and favora-
bly,, but so late that it will put back the farm