Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-14
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
MIDLLEsEX COUNTY.
The number of births in Lowell in 1861 was
93o, being decrease of 1856 from the previou:
year. The marriages numbered $50 +; deaths
1l3, oil which 40 were over 70 years of age.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Miss Hannah Tewksbury of Newburyport
aged eighty eight, was burned to death on
| Tuesday, says the Herald. She had a fancy
to wear peculiar cotton apron which accden
taliy caught lire from the stove while the old
| lady was left alone.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The elopement of the wife of Can't. Prince
D. Borden Of the receiving ship Ohio with an
ludlVidual whose name is not given, creates a
great deal OF talk in Fall River and vicinity
me news gives some particulars of the af
ialr. The lady's name was Serena Wilbur
ana she was known as writer under the
nom de plume of "Mistietoe" and Carrie
Grove. She was married to Capt Borden in
1851, and since then has taught school at Cum
berland and Lonsdale, r. l., where she was
guilty OF some "iuipropretes. Capt. Dor.
den has decided to let her go, and will imme
dlately sue for divorce.
NANTUCKET
The Nantucket Inquirer OF Feb. 18th saws
Tine barn of Allen Smith was burned Friday
morning, letter stating the fact was for
warded to the Peoples Mutual Fire Insurance
company IN Worcester on the next Monday,
by return OF mail, Wednesday, an order came
directing the agent 10 draw at sight for the full
amount, which he did, and settled the loss
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Archie, son of President Hopkins of vii.
Hams College, while practicing with pistol
on the IN, accidentally shot himself, the ball
entering his ankle. 1t has not yet been found.
and the extent OF the injury is consequently
unknown.
The receipts into the treasury of Berkshire
county last year were S35,810, and the ex-
penditures vary but few dollars from the
same sum. There was balance of S8494 in
the treasury January LIST. The county debt
is S40,0S0.
Quite business has been done lately in
Bangor, Me, in passing unterfeit ten dollar
bills on the Atlantic Bank, Boston. and the
Bank OF Royalton, Vermont, by a band of
connterteiters. Three persons have been ar
rested in consequence.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
a case Is now on trial before the supreme
Jndical court at Manchester, N. H., in which
Inc plalntlf claims S7,20 and the defendant
tenders ST. This lawsuit about twenty cents
VERMONT.
DIR. Perkins exhibited at the missionary
meeting at Lyndon, last week, copy of the
New Testament which he found in Persia
which was 700 years old. 1t was written in
the ancient Syriac language 1.-THE same spoken
by Jesus Christ when on earth), upon parch-
ment, with reed for pen.
RHODE ISLAND.
We learn from the Providence Press. that
q in
from Burnside's troops, were quite in keeping
with the patriotism which has from the first
distinguished that city. The Old Guard
providence Artillery was out and the sound
OF one hundred guns went booming upon the
night air, and was enthusiastically re.ecboed
from numberless continental bands that ma
paded IN honor OF the occasion. And from
the belfry of Grace church the chimes runp'
out merriy, "Our flag is still there
CONNECTICUT.
The inhabitants of Jewett CITY, saws the
Norwich Bulletin, are much excited in conse.
quence OF the introduction of the small por
among them. Six or seven cases are report.
ed; principally among the Irish. 1t was in.
troduced by an Irish girl from New York city.
Messrs. Sla!er's mills are stopped, the district
school suspended, public gatherings forbidden
and general blockade proclaimed.
George b. Howard, VIM. Gooding, and
Bernard Lynch of New London have been
appointed master mates of the Dacotah, now
lying at the Brooklyn navy yard, and which is
soon TO cruise in the Mediterranean.
The Norwich Bulletin remarks of the speak
ers at the democratic convention that they
were men of "small caliber but large bore"
Charles ID. Skinner, aged II, and his wife.
aged 70, of Hartford, celebrated their golden
wedding on the 9th inst. Their homestead
has been IN possession of the family ever
since 1850. 'They are," says the Courant.
good specimens of hearty, cheerful, green
old age"
WAR ITEMS.
Fort Pulaski is thought to be very strongly
fortified, and not even assailable from the rear.
as every point where an army could be landed
is fortified by the rebels.
The prophetic RUSSELL in his last letter to
the London Times, thinks the Burnside ex.
petition too small to effect any great object.
A st. Louis letter says that since the Fort
Henry victory the secessionists OF that city
have been unusually gloomy and uncivil, and
mat, compared with their vIsages, the face of
tile LAGOON is picture of serenity"
a well known citizen of Washington, named
Magruder, shoe dealer, was arrested on
Thursday, on the charge of treason, he having
been communicating with the enemy. The
charges against him are alleged to be very Sc.
rious in this respect
The complete plans and specifications of our
gunboats on the western waters were found
among the effects of the rebels captured at
Fort Henry.
FOREIGN.
The very reverend the dean of Canterbury
went skating not long ago in pend near that
city, but the ice being thin he fell in IN TO his
armpits.
The king of Prussia is in state of health
which eXcltes much uneasiness amono his
friends 1t is rumored that he yet suffers from
the effect of the Baden attempt.
! The ex-king OF Naples has sent the sum of
elght hundred ducats as a contribution To-
wards me rellef OF those injured by the ernn.
uon OF Mount Vesnvlus at Tore del Greco
accompanying his fit by letter in which he
OF his poverty. "'u
The city of Odessa has been invaded hv
mice to an alarming extent. The cnts in ,Ia.
place have eaten so many thai thcv hs"o
grown too corpulent to catch any more.
| MISCELLANEOUS.
There is nothing new under the SIM NOT
even the oil mills in Pennsylvania Al Ra.
COON, IN Burmahl petroleum has been obtained
! Tor many years, and at this time there are
| over i've hundred wells which annually yiold
four hundred thousand hogsheads of it. Some
OF the Persian petroleum wells have furnished
fifteen hundred barrels day Nor are these
temporary products mentioned being old and
well known. An oil spring in the Ionian ia,
lands has flowed for over two thousand wears
The valentine trade Of the United States IL
worth about $4,000 per annum. and affords
employment for great many people-poets
| paper-makeFs, watercolOrists, ithoQrapbers