Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-11-17
General News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The governor with the advice of the coun-
Gil, has appointed Henry f. French of Cam
bridge, assistant district attorney for the
county of Suffolk, in place of Augustus o.
Brewster, removed.
The number of aliens in active service, and
of those persons not within the limit of ages
specified for military duty, has been found to
be nearly fifteen hundred in Boston.
There have been rs deaths in Boston dur
ing the past week SO males and AZ females.
Friday forenoon, while Mr.. Richard Lang,
sergeant of police at the sixth station, (South
Boston,, was on cunning expedition in Mil
ton, his gun was accidentally discharged, the
charge entering the left side of his abdomen,
and passing through, came out under his right
arm. Although assistance was promptly rem
dered and all was done for his relief that could
be, he fingered until about six o'clock the
same evening He leaves widow and four
children.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Gloucester Advertiser says flake it
all in all, the mackerel fishing season, now so
near its close, has been quite successful.
The majority of the vessels have brought in
good fares, and the recent advance in prices
will add much to the net proceeds of the sea-
sons work.
The diptheria is quite prevalent in Glouces-
ter.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
VIM. II. Potter hired horse and carriage
at John c. Smiths stable, in New Bedford
Friday, and drove the animal so hard and
long, that it dropped dead in the traces.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Berkshire County Eagle says that
Keith alias Mason, the murderer, has been
bailed out of the Lenox Jail by his father
he having given ten thousand dollar bonds.
The father resides in Albany land is quite
wealthy, and probably he will pay the bonds
and the murderer will escape unpublished.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
All the cotton mills in Palmer are running
now, though not at their full extent.
MAINE.
In Cape Elizabeth, last week. boy about
thirteen years of age, deliberately killed lad
three years of age, by pushing him into the
water. Walter Jordan, the murdered boy,
was son of Scott d. Jordan keeper of the
poor house and town farm. The murderer is
a boy named Isaac Smith, an inmate of the
poor house.
CONNECTICUT.
The Norwich Bulletin has increased the
price of its single copies to three cents, and
says it will soon be obliged to make an adj
vance Ill tue price 10 regular SuDSCTlDerS.
A man from Stafford recently put up at the
American House in Hartford, and on going to
bed blew out the gas and went to sleep. 1t
came near being his last The room was
soon filled with gas, and when the man was
found by one of the boarders at midnight, he
was black in the face and nearly sutfocated.
He revived, however, when the room became
ventilated.
Edwin Gayitt, a well-known citizen of Nor
witch, died suddenly on Friday morning, after
an illness of few hours.
RHODE ISLAND.
A little son of Patrick Walpole, in East
Greenwich, fell backward into Il vessel of hot
water, Friday, and was so severely scalded as
to cause his death.
Personal.
Rev. George II. Hepworth of Boston, has
been appointed chaplain of the 4Tth regiment
WAR ITEMS.
The 42d regiment, Col. Burrill; 50th, Col
Messers, and the SD Col. Greenleaf, now at
Readville, Bedford and Greenfield, are under
orders to move to New York on Wednesday
next, to join Gen. Banks's column there.
MISCELLANEOUS.
After having had golden age. a silver age,
and an iron age, we are now in the midst Of
the mucil-age.