Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-07-02

| BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The Boston Traveller understands, that the
| Harvard faculty have placed firm veto on
boating rivalry between Harvard and Yale,
and that the only leniency on the part of the
| faculty towards such members of Harvard, as
! shall participate in any contest with Yale will
/ be immediate expulsion. This interdict is
| probably owing to the ill-feeling engendered
at their last match at Worcester, when some
of the members of the respective colleges
dispensed good fellowship with blows.
| c. w. Cartwright, president Of the Manu-
| facturers' Insurance Company, has resigned
his Office after being connected with the in
stitution for the period Of 81 years. The
stockholders voted him a donation of $4,000.
The Cadets will return from fort Warren
to-day. They will march to the State House,
where they will be received by the governor
and staff, and after a parade on the common
will proceed to their armory and be mustered
out of service. The company recruited at
Salem will perform garrison duty at the fort.
| The Boston directory for 1862 shows IL
| slight decrease of names from the preceding
year. The number last year was sc, 1888, and
this year it is 1913. This is to be account
ed for by absentees in the army.
A new City Hall is to be erected in Boston
at a cost Of 100000.
MIDDLESEN COUNTY.
The number Of children in Lowell, between
| five and fifteen years of age, is 1872.
Charles E. Wise of Lowell, formerly a
clerk for the Boston and Lowell railroad cor
| poraton, has received an appointment as
clerk Of the Panama railroad, and is to be
stationed at Aspinwall.
Rev J. Il. RankinS of st. Adams, VT, has
received unanimous call to the pastorate of
| tho Animation pburpb and SnniatH in
Lowell.
J. J. Fonterieve, for many years a member
of Halls Boston Brass Band was thrown
froma carriage in Stoneham on the 18th ult.,
and received injuries from which he died the
next morning.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The c0ronerS jury in the case of John Bull
| lock, found dead near Freetown, with marks
of violence upon his body, have rendered
verdict charging Obed Reynolds Of Freetown
with having inflicted the wounds which caused
Bulock's death. The New Bedford Standard
says that OF thirty-fve witnesses, belonging to
Frectown, examined before the coroners jury,
only seven could write their names.
VERMONT.
The barn, shed, stock, hay, and farming
tools of Rev. George Putnam, of West Alba
ny, were burned on the evening of the 9th.
Partially insured.
DIR. W. e. Blood, formerly of Bradford,
lately of Enfield, N. H., cut his own throat
and died in the highway at Bennington, on the
oath ult. He was Il man Of ability, and no
cause is known for his self-murder.
A special meeting of the Vermont Histori-
cal Society will be held at Bratteboro' on
Wednesday, July 10th.
CONNECTICUT.
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Hezekiah Hall of Wallingford, was drowned
on the 18th ult., while bathing.
SharpS rifle company of Hartford received
an order from government for 400, 900 cart
ridges and primers at 3.45 the afternoon of
| the'29th ult., and they were sent by the night
| train.
| New London people have held a meeting,
passed a resolution, and appointed a commit
| tee to take action relative to securing a navy
yard at that harbor
PERSONAL.
Mrs. Elvina Elet, wife of the late Col. Ell
let, died in Philadelphia on the 29th ult., in
the 46th year of her age. She was the daugh-
ter of the late Judge Daniel of Virginia, and
brother Of the present Judge Daniel on the
same bench. She has had four children, all
of whom are now living. She was present at
the death of her husband, i'll Cairo, Ill. Her
death has resulted from no disease, being
mainly from pure exhaustion and grief.
The New York Sun asserts that Gen. Scott
reached that city on the 2Sth ult., en- route
for Washington.
Ex-president Pierce is at the residence of
ex-senator Fish at West Point, New Y ork.
Mrs. General Fremont is at Oyster Bay
New York, and will be joined there by Gen.
| Fremont
WAR ITEMS.
At Camp Reno, Roanoke Island, the sol
diers have formed a ''Zouave Dramatic and
| Minstrel Club" The proceeds Of their per-
| tormances, which now amount to nearly $780,
go to the aid of wounded comrades.
The Pennsylvania reserve corps sent to
Mcclellan, is $1,000 strong, instead of 5000,
as reported. The Harrisburg Telegraph adds
that it is better equipped, better drilled and
armed than any similar number of men in the
army of the Potomac.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
writing from Meadow Bluff, Va, says the
rebels expect to regain the Kanawha valley,
and push on into Ohio. This is learned from
intercepted letters. The enemy are known
to be gathering large amounts of supplies and
troops at certain points in Tennessee and Vir-
| ginia, evidently with some such purpose in
| view.
A meeting Of French residents in New
York is to be held early in July, to protest
against French interference with the affairs
Of this country.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mayor Hatch of Cincinnati was recently
found by a policeman struggling PROSTATE on
the sidewalk with bookseller Of that city.
| Both were conveyed to the police headquar-
tiers to give an account of their breach Of the
| peace.
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