Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-10-13

BOSTON AND VICINITY.

! lZlng the party IN Boston In the insolvency
court room.
AT the present time there are about twenty
| prisoners in fort Warren; the most of them
arrested for political Offences. The most
| prominent of these are mayor Brown and
marshal Kane of Baltimore. They have all
| given their parole, and are allowed to stroll
about the fort and over the island pretty much
as they please. Some of them have been of
fered their discharge upon their taking the
oath OF allegiance, but this they decline to do.
| There have been sc deaths in Boston during
the past week-4S males and 80 females.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
AT Reading, on Wednesday last, Mrs. Reu-
ben Nichols, while at work about the stove in
her kitchen, accidentally set fire to the clothes
on her person, and was so badly burned that
she survived but few hours.
ESSEX COUNTY.
We have often heard of ''smiling abund-
ance" as applied to the fruits of autumn; but
we now have a laughing, roaring, riotous
abundance. The Newburyport Herald informs
us that "a twig, foot and a half long, can be
seen at our office, on which are eighteen good
sized apples. There seems to be hardly space
enough for an additional apple, if we could
conceive it possible for so small limb to con-
vey the necessary aim, MT"
| Friday, Francis Scott, much esteemed cit
izen Of Saugus, and the proprietor of one of
the flannel mills at Saugus Centre, was thrown
from wagon by his horse springing suddenly,
and seriously injured. The physician who
attends him thinks he will not recover.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The Plymouth Memorial states that Charles
Nelson Of that town has raised this year, from
half an acre of land, fifty barrels of cranber-
ries, and has given the refusal of them to Il
gentleman for $ll barrel.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
There is considerable excitement in New
Bedford, in consequence of the reported cap
ture Of ship Ocemulgee, of Edgartown, and
| four other whalers, Sept. 9TH, off Flores, West
ern Islands. meeting Of merchants and
ship owners was Immediately called, and
| resolution passed, calling upon the insurance
companies of the city to confer together and
unite upon some mode Of insuring vessels
| against capture The Ocmulgee was insured,
but not against capture.
The New Bedford Mercury of Saturday
| says :-''Mayor Wightman of Boston was in
town yesterday. We understand he claims
| all the men from Boston who have enlisted in
this city and received our bounty, as making
| up her quota instead of ours. Fortunately
most of the men enlisted IN this city were res
idents.'
Miss Phebe Lapham, aged seventy three
years, hung herself, Friday, in barn near
her house in Dartmouth.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The 46th regiment at camp Banks, Spring
field, has been organized by the choice of the
following officers of the post George Bow
Ter of Westield, colonel; w. S. Shurtletf of
Springfield, lieutenant colonel; and L. b.
Walkley of Westfield, major. Rev. Mr.. Cor
ham OF Holy0ke, was unanimously elected
chaplain. He was a private in the Holyoke
company.
A fire broke out Friday morning in the
wooden building on Main street, Springfield,
owned by d. W. Barnes, and occupied by H.
Adams dye-house, j. C.. Drake, painter,
and Mrs. Carney, saloon keeper. Mr.. Barnes
was insured for $500, which will repair the
damage to the building; II. Adams, loss
$1,000, insured for 500. The stock of Mrs.
Carney and j. c. Drake was badly damaged
by water.
The police court record of Springfield for
the year ending Sept. 80, has just been pub
lished. The whole number Of cases has been
S39. The prevailing complaints were for
drunkenness and assault and battery, and
other offenses arising directly or indirectly
from the excessive use of liquors. There
have been four prosecutions for engaging in
the liquor traffic illegally, half dozen for
keeping houses of ill-fame and seven for for
nicaton. There has been but single case of
murder, and only one of burglary.
The wife of Samuel r. Bond living in the
eastern part of Palmer, has caused the arrest
Of Patrick Sheridan, on a charge of having
committed gross outrage upon her. Sheri-
dan came TO the house while she was alone,
and used extreme violence in the preparation
of the crime.
a Wilbraham man, who attended the social
reunion of the American Board in Spring
field, Wednesday evening, had his pocket
picked of 500.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Housatonic railroad telegraph line, for
a number of years completed between Pitts
field and Great Darlington, is being extended
south to Bridgeport and New York. The
poles are up all the way down, and the wire
more than half the way. New offices are to
be opened at Canaan Falls Village, Merwins-
vile, and Newtown.
The terrible and fatal disease of diptheria
is prevailing to fearful extent in many of
the towns in South Berkshire. In Great Bar
rington, Egremont, and Sheffield, several FAM
lilies have been rendered sad and desolate by
its ravages. The throat swells to a fearful
size, and the sufferers choke to death.
MAINE.
The Bath Sentinel gives list of seven ships
of about 1000 tons each, now on the stocks or
already launched in that city, besides side
wheel steamer which Messrs. Larrabee & AL
len are building for government, and also the
propeller "City of Bath" built by Oliver
| Moses, Esq, to run between Bath and Bos-
ton in connection with the Androscoggin rail-
| road.
A man named Asa Turner has been arrest
ed in Brookline for resisting the draft, and in
various ways showing hostility to the govern
ment. lie was carried to Augusta and put in
Jail.
Many fires have occurred lately in Calais,
and vicinity, by which unoccupied houses and
barns have been destroyed The papers say
these are the work Of incendiaries, and com
plain that the place is infested with Il set of
outlaws who need looking after. The city
government has offered reward for the in
cendiaries
The Lewiston Journal says that the Andros-
coggin and Bates mills are both at work on
army duck producing about fifteen thousand
yards per diem. The Pepperell, at Bidde-
ford, Is also making ten thousand yards daily,
Inc contracts are immense. Tents are want
ing both for old troops and new.
CONNECTICUT.
new Hall of Records building has ust
Deen completed in New Haven. The journal
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