Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-06-06
General News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

! BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Two sailors got into fight in North street,
/ Boston, Wednesday night and while thus en-
gagged, one of them stabbed his shipmate,
whose name is Donnelly with knife, sever
ing the maXillary artery and cutting his check
| clean through He also stabbed him in the
side, the knife CHANGING off the ribs, and over
the left eye. After having his wounds dressed,
! Donnelly was able TO walk to his boarding
house.
Hon. George I. Curtis has accepted the in
yitation to deliver the Grafton before the city
authorities of Boston, at their approaching
celebration of the anniversary of the Declara-
ton of Independence.
VIM Hadley of CharleStown has been ar
rested ON charge of robbing Benjamin Had
ley, his brother, at Somerville, of $3.50. Had
ley acknowledged the act, and Sill - of the
money was recovered.
Two Of the Boston letter carriers have just
now completed their twelfth year of service.
They have, neither one, been absent but twice
one week at time, during the period. Their
daily walk upon their routes, for more than
three hundred days of each year. has never
been less than twelve miles per day. They
| have therefore walked each of them, Il, 800
miles-rather more than less-since their first
days service, distance that would have car
ried them on foot once round the world and
half way round Il second time. The carriers
department, when they came into it, number
ed only eight postmen. They have seen it
increase to twenty-fye.-BoSt transcript.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Nearly four hundred dogs have been IL
censed in Lowell for the present year, and
there are four hundred more to be licensed.
In Lowell a few days since, countryman
made the acquaintance of two fast girls
and invited them to take walk. When near
the Playground the verdant youth was knock
| ed down by two men, who robbed him of
twenty-three dollars. The girls immediately
left their new friend.
On the 3lst ult., Joshua Hosley a young
man % years of age, committed suicide in
Townsend, by shooting himself through the
head with a revolver Mr. HoSley had re-
turned from California but short time since,
where he had resided for the last five years,
| and had accumulated quite handsome prop
erty by mining. He was young man of en-
cellent habits, and no cause can be assigned
for this rash act.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Pacific Print Works at Lawrence are
resuming operations, employing 1000 hands
four days in the week. The Washington
Mills are in full operation; the Everett are
berton nearly two-thirds; the Atlantic has
only portion of one mill running, and the
Lawrence Duck Co. has been entirely quiet
since the 18th of April.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The marlborough Gazette says :-''One
of the inmates of our town almshouse, is said
to weigh something over 300 pounds. Many
amusing anecdotes are told of his manners
and appetite. Not long since he was quite
sick and the physician prescribed very light
diet; he was therefore furnished with as much
rice as could be placed on large dining
plate, together with six crackers, every morn
ing, noon and night but after trying it day
or two he rebelled, declaring that ii was i'm
possible to keep from starving on such short
ratiOns."
NANTUCKET.
The Nantucket Inquirer says that a lYter
| from Mr.. Bishop states that during the present
month he hopes and expects to get a cable
laid for telegraphing not only between Nam
! tucket and Martha's Vineyard but to the con-
tinent. The ultimate destination of the cable
is to the Light Vessel at the south shoal,
| thereby taking off foreign news eighteen or
! twenty hours before the arrival of the steamer
at the city of New York.
Capt. Rufus Coffin of Nantucket, late of U.
S. revenue steamer Hercules, who has been
sick for several weeks Of typhoid fever, has
been ordered to take command of Z. S. reve-
nue. cutter Morris, at Boston.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Henry q. Haskell of Deerfeld has an old
tax bill Of Hatfield for l747, an old receipt of
1896, a certificate of 1776 that Eliakim Field
of Hatfield had manufactured 10 12 pounds
of saltpetre, a deed of l776, and tax war;
rant for l747.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
H. NJ. Randall of Northampton almost ri
| walls the Roxbury Samson, DIR. Winship. The
other day he ''headed" barrel of copper
weighing l130 pounds, and previously lifted a
weight Of S25 pounds.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
| A freight train of the Western Railroad last
week ran off the track near the four-mie
house in Westfield, and ten head of fat cattle
destined for Brighton were killed outright,
and several others injured so that it was ne
cesSary to kill them.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Ex-Gov Colby of New London states that
neither himself nor his father before him ever
bought barrel of flour for their own con-
sumption. Sufficient wheat has always been
raised on the farm, of which one hundred
bushels are now in store.
RHODE ISLAND.
A jeweler named Jesse A. Chedell in the
employ of H. q Slack, Providence, received
blow in the side by a shaft which flew out
of place, inflicting an injury which it is feared
may prove fatal
Gov. Sprague returned home last Wednes-
day.
CONNECTICUT.
Thomas Simmer, workman in the railroad
machine shop IN Hartford, recently met with a
severe accident. While using sledge ham
mer, small piece of steel was clipped from
the hammer, and flew into his right eye, pune
turing the ball, and causing the substance of
the eye to ooze out.
Hon. VIM. G. Buell. of Chatham was ser-
ously injured on the LIST, by being thrown from
a vehicle by the running Of a young horse,
which he was driving, and was unable to con-
troll, on account of the breaking of the bits.
Among recent counterteits the following on
the Mechanics Bank of Norwich is reported:
Threes altered to ones; Wig; ship, female;
female and ship on right; eagle and female on
| left.
| WAR ITEMS.
The Chicago Tribune states that since Gen.
Halleck took command at Pttsburg Landing,
| orr army has built- incredible as the story