Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-04-17
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


We un lerstand that the government has
made contract with certain parties in this
city to build an irOa gunboat of between 600
and 700 tons, to be furnished with Woodbury. &
submarine battery. The vessel will 81 1876
feet long and 80 feet beam, and will be built
throughout of iron in the most substantial
manner. She will carry one gun Oil deck and
large gun tor submarine firing through the
bow of the vessel. She is to be built at the
Atlantic Works, East Boston, and is TO be
done ready for service in from four TO five
mouths. The experiment of firing under
water was successfully tested at Slmspon' S
dock, at East Boston, this forenoon.-Boston
Journal, 18th.
Brigadier Generals MakaIl, Gautt and
Brown, Major Davidson, Capt. Sheicha and
Lieut.. Makall, son of Gen. Makall, who were
taken prisoners at the surrender OF Island
No. 10, have arrived in Boston, and been safe.
ly quartered at fort Warren.
Shadrach Mutt cOlored man, got into a
difficulty with some intoxicated IriShmen in
Boston, the 18th, and in the melee which fol
lowed, Mutt drew knife and gave one of the
assailants, John O'Harra several bad cuts in
the back OF the band. O'Harra says that Mutt
attempted several times to stab him in the
body. The parties were all arrested.
Green's rubber factory in Melrose was DIES
$4,000; insured.
Three workmen at the kerosene oil works
in South Boston were so seriously injured by
an explosion of gas on the 18th, that their re.
covery is doubtful.
Merriam Heath, woman over thirty years
of age, who was consigned TO the East Cam
bridge house Of correction on the Goth of June,
1859, on life sentence, died on the 18th inst,
after some months illness, of consumption.
The deceased, with her brother, (now in the
state PRISON. shot their aged father, a black
smith, OF Dracut, and buried him in his own
smithy, They had previously tried to poison
him. The intellectual grade of both was very
low indeed, and the family was also ntemper.
ate. The woman gave birth to a child soon
after her Imprisonment began.
MIDDLRsEx COUNTY.
Mrs. Martin of Lowell, wife Of John Mar
tin, who is in the army, was found dead in her
bed on the morning of the 18th inst Her
Death was probably caused by apoplexy, pro.
duced by the rupture of a blood vessel in the
brain.
George L. Cady and +. A. Haynes were
badly burned by an explosion OF powder at
the agricultural fair ground in Lowell on the
l4th inst.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Four spOrtsmen at Westport Point, recently
killed and secured'in one day, IA sea fowl.
The Methodist chapel at North Dighton,
was entered last week by some scoundrels
who committed the grosseSt acts of sacriIege
and indecency upon the bible. hymn books,
pulpit and furniture of the church. y reward
OF 500 is offered for their detection.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
Martin L. Keen OF Sandwich, a glass blow.
er, died very suddenly on the l4th inst.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
John Forrest of Great Darlington, a one
armed man, has felled and cut into cord-w God
for the Berkshire Wooden Company, rs cords
of wood during the past winter Besides this,
he has pitched the wood down the mountain
side, and is now engaged i'll ping it up. This
is commeGdable industry under difficulties.
MAINE.
Mr.. P. Fl. Thompson of Topsham, had an
OK die on the 81 inst, having been very sick
for several days previous to his death Upon
opening him piece OF wire three inches
long, and of the diameter OF the ordinary
knitting needle, was found in his heart.
Charles E. Bean, formerly connected with
the Bangor Courier, is now in Gen. WiglalPs
rebel staff, near Fredericksburg, Va.
1t is reported that lin ore has beeen found
in Paris, Oxford county. The specimen
found was five pounds in weight, and the
largest ever found on this continent. Several
small specimens have also been found in the
came place.
The house of Deacon Samuel Roberts, in
Alfred, took fire on the nj ght OF the 18th inst,
and was wholly consumed. The loss is $3.50,
which is partially insured.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mrs. John G. FoSs OF Stratford, committed
suicide on the 18Th inst. by drowning herself
in the river, within half mile of her resi-.
dence. She leaves wife and two children.
The cause assigned for the act is temporary
insanity.
CONNECTICUT.
A. B. Dyer has been detected in stealing
goods from the freight ware house at the
Westerly station on the Providence and Stou-
ington railroad. Mr.. Dyer belonged to the
firm Of Dyer & Co, dealers in paper stock at
Westerly, and enjoyed the confidence OF the
railway authorities to such an extent, that he
had free run of the premises on account of
his heavy freighting business Dyer has con-
tessed a series OF robberies to the amount of
six or seven thousand dollars. He is now at
large on bail.
In Hartford, the 10th, barn and portion
OF rope walk the property of Abner Church.
were destroyed by fire Ten horses, kept in
tue barn by various persons, were burned TO
death
Rev. H. G PATTERSON, formerly in business
IN hartford, and for some years past an Epis.
copal clergymen in Texas, arrived in Hartford
the 10th inst, from the south lie paid in
New Orleans 1923 dollars of southern money
for 100 dollars in gold. The treasury notes Of
the United States of America commanded 80
to 4O per cent premium, as compared with
their own treasury notes. Mr.. b. represents
that there are thousands of Union men in the
city OF New Orleans, and scattered all through
the south, who will yet show themselves as
friends of the Union.
The New London Chronicle says, that the
mail train from Boston, when near Kingston,
X. l., ON the night of the 18th inst, came in
contact with three large rocks OF about five
hundred weight each, placed upon the track
by some evil minded persons. The force OF
the collision completely demolished the pilot
OF the locomotive, but fortunately did 10 other
damage.
Rev. Mr.. Burnett, late of Lyme, now SUD
plying the Baptist church at Tarifville. met
severe loss on the 18th. His goods had
just reached him, and the boxes containing
his library, 1000 volumes, worth SI50Ol were
burnt IN shed where they had been tempor-
arilv placed no insurance.
The oldest person in Connecticut is prob.
ably colored man nicknamed cold Murray -
who was born on Long Island in l745 the
year OF the Pretenders great rebellion in Great
Britain. He will be III years old in May.
Prince Lewis, former resident of Wolcolt.
vile, was hung as spy at Richmond, re-
Gently.
WAR ITEMS.
The Richmond Examiner learns that the
expenditures of the confederate government
are at the rate OF two or three millions a day.
and there is weekly addition of that sum 10
the currency. The money, not the strength,