Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-18
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General News Summary.


BOSION AND flClNIT1.
The -four trade of Boston is one of its most
extensive branches of business, and is con-
stantly increasing. The receipts this year
will average nearly fire thousand barrels of
-four for every business day. Per steamers
and railroads principally, the vast quantity of
million. and half of barrels will be poured
into that city in 1862.
Sunday afternoon, while Alanson Studley
of Charlestown was attending church in that
city, bold female thief took his horse and
carryall from a shed near by and drove off
with it. She had some trouble unhitching
the horse, and a bystander, suspectng moth
ing wrong, assisted her. A reward is offered
for the recovery of the team.
In the police court, Boston, Monday, John
Pepper was committed to jail, without bail, to
await the result of injuries received by Pat
rick O'Neal, in an atfray in Lancaster street,
Sunday. O'Neal, who is now in the hospital,
was stabbed in the left breast, and received a
severe cut upon his head.
Charles Smith, living in South Margin
street, was held in $1,000 for trial, charged
with stabbing his wife, last Friday night The
woman was cut in the neck, but the wound is
not serious in its character
ESSEX COUNTY.
In Beverly, early Monday morning, fire
broke out in the ropewak of MesSrs. Wilson
Son-more recently used in the hair curl
ing business - completely demolishing it,
Most of the stock was either saved or only
slightly injured, and the caloric engine was
apparently but slightly damaged The build
ing, machinery, &C., probably cost about
five thousand dollars. There was no insur-
anCe.
The governor has appointed James Davis OF
(1lOnppgtpr n bp STA ~,
police court in Gloucester, vice Joshua p.
Trask, deceased.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The dwelling house of Amasa Southworth,
near French & Wards wooden mill, in Slough
ton, was consumed by fire on Saturday eve
ming. All the furniture was saved. Insured
for $500 in Dedham.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
petition for the introduction of water into
New Bedford is to be presented at the next
session Of the Massachusetts legislature.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Hon. John Sullivan died suddenly Monday
morning, at Exeter, of apoplexy. For num-
Der Of years he has been attorney general of
the state, and was at one time Judge of pro-
bate. Judge Sullivan was a lineal descendant
of Gen. Sullivan, of revolutionary memory,
and his father, like himself, was a celebrated
advocate.
CONNECTICUT.
Several enterprising fellows in Connecticut
have gone into the collection and restoration
OF old postage stamps on large scale. One
OF their modes of procedure is to visit unsus-
pecting clergymen in needy circumstances
and state that as matter of curiosity they
desire to procure million postage stamps,
for which they will give two hundred dollars.
lla -
an effort for the two hundred dollars in these
hard times, opens his files of letters and care
fully cuts off the stamps; sets the Sabbath
school children at work in all the country
around, and eventually earns his money.
The New Haveners have stocked the artifi-
cial pond they have got at Whitneyville, with
fish from lake Superior and other northern
waters, and expect in three or four years to
take any unlimited supply for market, from
that source, of salmon trout that grow to
weigh fifteen pounds, and of lake trout which
weigh only from three to five pounds.
RHODE ISLAND.
Henry Collins, an Irish laborer in the en-
ploy of the Providence & Worcester railroad
company at Providence, fell from an embank-
ment upon the track, a distance of twelve
feet, on Sunday, and was killed. He was in
toxicated at the time. He leaves wife and
five children.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The emancipationists of St. Louis, who are
opposed to Frank P. Blair, are denominated
''chareoals," and the supporters of that gem
tlemen, ''clay banks"
The use of postage stamps as currency is
about to cease in New York. The ferry COM
panies, street railway companies, omnibus
drivers, and many shopkeepers no longer re-
ceive them.
New York milliner named Henrietta
Maille, has obtained verdict of $4,000 dam
ages against Lord & Taylor, dry goods deal
ers, for an illegal arrest and search on the
charge of stealing goods.
The fine old castle of Heidelberg, the adj
miration of Rhine tourists, is, it is said, crum-
bling to pieces, owing to the shaking caused
by the railway trains through tunnel which
runs directly under it.