Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-22
General News Summary.


reported that she came to her death from con-
! gestion of the brain, caused by injuries in
! fiicted upon her head, face, and neck, by hel
husband, James C. Lowe. He has been ar.
rested on charge of murder.
/ The tickets for the reception meeting o.
! parson Brownlow in Boston, Friday evening
| are selling rapidly. Gov. Andrew will intro
duce the parSon to the audience.
Mary McCabe, prOprietress of a millinery
establishment in Boston, has been arrested
for stealing $50 worth of ribbons, flowers,
and other articles while making selections
with view to purchase, from the store Of c.
G. Prescott in Milk street.
Counterfeit one dollar notes on the BOylS-
/ ton Bank, Boston, are in circulation in Phiia-
/ delphia.
| ESSEX COUNTY.
| The Lynn Reporter says :-''Our manufac-
| turers and mechanics have rarely been more
busily occupied than at the present time.
Shoemakers, carpenters, maSonS, painters
all have their hands full at present, and there
is employment for ALL at good prices. Lynn
is just now enjoying a season of prosperity,
which we trust will long continue.
On the 10th, as Joseph Luryey was sitting
on the cross trees at work on the rigging Of a
schooner in Gloucester, he was observed to
gasp and fall forward towards the mast. A
man was dispatched aloft, and found him in
an unconscious state, having received par
alytic shock. Mr. Lurvey's leg was between
the cross-trces and masthead, and this with
his falling forward served to keep him in po-
sition till he could be rescued. Mr.. Lurvey
remained unconscious up to the hour of his
death, which took place at noon on the 10Th.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
According to a statement of the town clerk,
Il. L J., ,,I,,
iSfeHce in the town of Taunton.
BARNsrABLE COUNTY.
We learn from the Barnstahle Patriot, that
the Agricultural Hall in that town will be
ready for occupancy at the meeting of the ag
ricultural society in October, and that Gov.
Andrew will deliver the annual address.
MAINE.
A distinguished colonel of one of the Maine
regiments, says Portland paper, before leav
ing for the seat of war, had fine photographs
of himself taken and furnished copy to each
of the workmen in his employ, with which
they were very much pleased. The pleasure
was, however, marred little when at the
end of the week they found the pictures were
charged to them at twenty-five cents each.
There are so many candidates for the NOM
nation Of governor in Maine that the Bath
Times proposes to publish list of all who are
not candidates.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mr.. David Whitcher, son of Ira Whitcher
of Mortified, was run over by the cars near
''Musquito Bridge" on the 18th, and was so
injured that he survived but few hours
RHODE ISLAND.
His excellency Gov Sprague has received
q dispatch from the war department inquiring
what number of additional troops he could
send from this state, and how soon they could
be sent. The dispatch Is not positive call
for troops but merely a request for informa-
ton. An answer was promptly returned, but
no reply from the department has been re-
ceived.-Froridence Press.
CONNECTICUT.
The Bridgeport Standard mentions the
death of Henry Eaton of East Bridgeport,
who was killed by the accidental discharge OF
his pistol while he was cleaning it. The ball
from the pistol entered his heart, causing in
slant death. Mr.. Eaton was employed in the
Wheeler < Wilson sewing machue manufac-
tory, and formerly belonged in Worcester,
Mass
Governor Buckingham has invited Parson
| Brownlow to visit Norwich and deliver a lee
| tUro Ircc,I HILL.
A building connected with the gas works al
New Haven fell the goth, killing Jas. Brown
and iniuring another carpenter
rogue named James Mclaughlin has
been arrested and jailed for thirty days, at
| Norwich, for stealing coat and other articles
| from the residence of Gov. Buckingham.
Rev Giles \. Easton, rector of Trinity
Church in Norwich, has received call to the
pastorate of a church in San Francisco, and
has decided to accept the same.
a fire at Wilton, on the night of the 10th,
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occupied by c. NJ. James, together with the
post Office and all its contents, except the
town records, which were saved. Mr.. James
who slept in abe store, narrowly escaped with
his life. A keg of powder exploded during the
fire.
On the 18th of June there will be a general
convention Of the Tyron family in New Ha-
ven-delegates from fifteen of the United
States and Canada having signified their in
tention to be present
The railroad commissioners for Rhode Is
land and Connecticut are at Hartford, exam
lining into the condition of the Hartford Prov
idence and Fishkill railroad. This road is
managed by two sets of trustees, one in each
state; it is admirably constructed, but the de-
preston of business during the war has cut it
down below the paying point.
The Pratt street savings bank at Hartford,
which began on nothing in 1919, has now oveI
$4,000,000 deposits, and last year received
nearly 100000 interest money.
WAR ITEMS.
A fort Pulaski letter of May 14th record:
the death of Lieut.. Col. German Metternich
of the 10th New York volunteers under cir.
| cumstances of peculiar sadness A sergeant
| had arrested a soldier for bad conduct. The
Lieut.. Colonel stepped to the opening of his
| tent to ascertain the cause of the disturbance
as the party passed by. At that moment an
| infatuated comrade of the soldier rushed III
and struck the sergeant violent blow, push
ing him backward and forcing his bayonet
through the jugular vein of Col Metternch
who fell and Immediately expired. His wife
who has attended him through a dangerou,
illness, and who hut few weeks since had the
satisfaction of seeing her husband restored tC
health, stood by his side when the fatal stall
was given, and received him as he fell. Liuet
Col. Metternich received thorough military
education in the national school of Prussia
and in the time of the revolution fought as 4
colonel under Franz Sigel, whom he accom-
panied in exile to this country in 1919.
The rebel officers at Yorktown who are en-
| ployedin discovering and digging ont the tor.
pedoes planted there by Gen. Rains are said
to he very much displeased with their labor
PERSONAL.
Daniel S. Donelson, brigadier general. in
the confederate service, while ordering his
troops to burn other peoples cotton and rice
IN the southern states, recently sold his own
in Sumter county, Tennessee, for Yankee
gold and ''green backs. "-NdshUiHe Union.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
| saws that Gov Andrew will shortly, visit +bo,