Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-20
General News Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

! Inc WORK OF ming up the Back Bay wastes
/ OF Boston goes on successfully and unceas-
! ingly, night and day. Seventy five acres OF
! the state lands have been filed from the sale
OF portion OF which the state has already
realized $4,000. There is now for sale one
and half millions of property, estimating
the land at the lowest price.
n countryman, while passing through one
OF the streets of Boston few days since, saw
an elegant equipage passing, and after gazing
IN wild amazement. first on the handsome
driver, then on the gentleman with folded
! arms and white cravat, he asked, (which one
owns the team?"
AT meeting of the "people's" ward and
city committee of Boston, Tuesday evening,
five ballotings were had for candidate for
mayor, without resulting in a choice. The
committee seemed to be evenly divided be-
tween Joseph M. Wightman and N. B. Shurt-
left
The Norway iron works at South Boston
were destroyed by fire on the 18th. The
building was l25 feet by 60, one and a half
stories high, contained first-class steam en-
glne, with other machinery, and was owned
by Naylor & Co. Of Boston. From 125 to
100 men were employed at the works, which
were run night and day.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The IIOlyoke House at the foot of Mount
Holyoke, near Hockanum ferry, Northamp-
ton, was destroyed by fire on the 10th inst,
together with two barns full of hay 1t is
supposed to have been the work of an inccn-
diary.
A Mr.. Strecter in Northampton, has a dog
one year old, that weighs one hundred and
twenty-nine pounds, and measures from the
tip OF his nose to the tip Of his tail, five feet
| nine inches.
The dwelling house and barn OF Zadok NJ
Lyman of Hadlcy were destroyed by fire on
the 10th. Loss $4,000; insurance S2l00.
IIAMPDEN COUNTY.
Ihe Dwight cotton manufacturing company
OF Chicopee, have commenced running two
OF their mills, each with half complement of
hands.
MAINE.
n case was recently tried in Franklin coun-
ty, Me, where an eXpreSsman who carried the
mail from the Wilton depot to the post office,
and occasionally took passengers, sometimes
with pay and sometimes without pay, was
prosecuted for personal damages received by
a passenger, in consequence of one of his
horses being frightened by hog. The jury
rendered verdict of $500 for plaintiff.
The Dover Observer reports the death by
drowning at North Brownvile Of Miss Mary
j. Marble, aged Is years. She was seen to
enter boat to cross a stream on certain
day; three days after her body was found be
low where she got into the boat.
VERMONT.
Deaths by diptheria, in the family of L. w.
Russell, of Concord, have been mention
ed. There have since died another child and
his sister. Thus in about two weeks a man
lost by this disease his wife, four children, and
| Il sister, all in one hOuSphoId
Counterfeit tens on the Bank of Royalton
are in circulation, well executed and likely to
deceive.
The Burlington Times says it is pretty well
settled now that Thanksgiving day in Yer
mont will be Thursday, December 4. 1t is
deferred on account Of the protracted session
OF the legislature, it being the custom in that
state not to have Thanksgiving till after the
Legislature finally adiourns.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
young lady, twenty years of age, died
very suddenly in Littleton on the eth. A
coroner's inquest was held, and a verdict rem
dered that she came to her death from an
operation performed by Dir. c. NJ. Tuttle for
the purpose of procuring abortion. The doc
tor denies the charge.
,,..,,. CONNECTICUT. ..41y, was destro,
- building in R9dfrihst. The lower floor !;
hent ma1et by Peckham.& Waterman, and
ny upper for religious worship Loss cove,
&C by insurance 00'e'
man named Patrick Sheriden was rece
|. y arrested at Hartford, for being nuisan
I po" ,lSltlhg the premises occupied by Sh
!ue" Tue othcer found in small bedroom ;
joining that used by the Sheriden family f.
IS. cows quietly Illuminating! ''' :
, s St r, Personal.
~. Inc youngest son of Secretary Wcllas 4;
nd at aShlngton, on the 18th inst.
Y Inc Hlchmond Dispatch saws that = r. .,
8iah went into the treasury department +
o'"er day, and invested million of doIIo
~ confederate eight per cent bonds. IN
II Jpurlial Judiclously refrainS from mentioni,
'nc name OF the capitalist in question.
1lH olu iady died in London recently. fro
sneer restitution, who was the claimant md
WIZ 10 an estate Of no less than SEVENTH
nee unions OF dollars. Although she was nro1
~ "oly tile legal heir, she became so Great
lIuuceu that when found dead in the street
IN S Silg laa on neither shoes nor stockings. an
lev days. ioou Ior SeVer
surgeon George II. Hubbard of Mancbe.
3" Ier' ~ H. late editor of the New Hamnshir
W ,' u.H"i vi nedlclne, and originally a sun
Be 9oo ii III 'he "a New Hampshire regiment. Ina
~ s''NN hlCulCdI director of tlp arm
No OF The frontier. Ills headuuartnrs ,ro =
:" Springfield, Mo- VIC "ro
"a Mr. Laird, the English NJ. p. who built III
~ Alabama it is believed, is increasing his grna
wealth by working night and day for hi
" southern employers. ~
u MISCELLANEOUS.
. -, In the United States supreme court a
I, washington, the black silk robes are abolished
: the new members being averse to them. A
= broadcloth. ~ 'i'i'P
n stewart, the dry goods prince of New York
mas made shopping easy in his new store. b,
a an engine of fourteen horse power, he hoist
j a lady from one floor to the other, or through
d Ihe whole series of floors, with perfect safety
\ The journey is made in snug little chambe,
\ with windows.
General Ward, senior mandarin of tba
! Cnlnese empire, but originally Yankee
I sailor, has ordered three gunboats at New
o York, for the Chinese government. The
launched. '"'' "eel
, 1t IS stated that the draft to raise the rosi-
! due OF men required in this state has been mr.
\ ragged with the war department by GOV. An
4 drew to take place on December s.
7 Y An adroit professional thief recently at
tempted to steal thousand dollar package of
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