Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-02-15
GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Six companies OF the eighth New Hamp-
| shire regiment left Fort independence, yester-
| day, for Ship Island in the E. W. Farley
| The other four companies viii leave in a few
| days.
| They have been having some tiGe music in
| Boston this winter, and to night Mr. Ter
| rahm's orchestra announce a programme
| which, among many other good things, in,
cludes Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, the
overures TO Der Frieschulz and William Tell,
and the Turkish March from Beethoven's
Ruins of Athens. 1t makes one wish there
was midnight train from Boston when such
concerts are announced.
Two accomplished New York pfckpockets,
armed with sharp knives tor cutting ladies'
dresses, rode about in the omnibusses and
horse cars in Boston, yesterday and had
picked out of various pockets Sl20. when two
keen-eyed Boston detectives nabbed them and
clapped them into the lookup.
OF the $50 members OF the present egisla-
ture 2O7 were born in Massachusetts. Their
callings are about in the common way, 80 be.
ing farmers, 80 lawyers, 81 merchants and
traders, Is manufactures, rlergymen, 8
gentlemen, editors, and l journalist
MlDDLEsEx COUNTY.
The Rev. Daniel March, pastor of the new
Orthodox church, Woburn, has asked for his
dismissal, having accepted call from church
in Philadelphia.
HAMPDES COUNTY.
Tie Methodist church in Chicopee was ru-
lleu ou Anutsu"y. AN immense weight OF
snow anu ICE on the ROOF crushed through
niaA'Gs s T wreck OF TOOL moor pews, YES
uy' &C. me oFlCk walls OF the basement
81 tot ecu Uut""II Ane organ was locateu
""1er tne lower anu may possibly be saved.
Rev. DIR. Foster of West Springfield had a
donation visit Of some account this week
A"o hunureu aoiars IN money and barrel
Vi llour were solle OF Tie results
WV. MAINE.
as" ~ " hitter son OF Ooadiah winter,
" very ,iAeiy youeg man. nineteen years OF age,
hu"s .iuIst"' Ias' SATURDAY, at ills Iatners
mouse, III vienna.
PoTton OF Mussey row. on Middle
stFte', EoItahu lncIuuing the small music
I nan leil IN frIda! morning III consequence OF
nc "e,s"' VI Sno" Oh tle rool-lhe walls
&oo'e Tue secoHd story iaiihg INTO Tie street.
NO one injured
CONNECTICUT:
ne ne" war steamer now building at Mys'
nc Is 10 DC lauhcheu to'lay. her IRON armor
ehFelopeS Tue vessel completely, two feet be-
~" 5ne water me, Inc longitudinal IRON bars
are 81 ihches timex, ana are ioYe-taiied logeth-
ef 50 tilat not DOT Is Vlsible. She Will be
Hg9ed as q brlganIine and carry eighteen guns.
$3.50 - 80 N'''it'A'se''J ~ Az ais
oVtii year, modelled from lie BY i. b Ives,
scu ptor well known in Hartford now residing
al home, has been presented to the library OF
ale College. The bust now stands by the
sue OF Ives much admired bust Of president
Day, ana an equally excellent one Of the late
Kew. DIR. Taylor
RHODE ISLAND.
new counterfeit nYts on the Bank OF Amer
ic1 III FFoVluehce' an imitation OF the genuine
oliI' are IN circulation. The engrayer's name
is under the cashiers, in the genuine bill it is
under tlie president IN the lover rightp
The Woonsocket Patriot makes tue sad an
nouheement OF the death OF Mrs. Mary y.
h.eHey OF thar village. Her husband was
Killed at the battle CT Bun Kun, and her con
stltution, naturally frail broke down under the
dow An infant child only is LEFT OF the little
family
Ahey continue to rejoice in Providence
over the splendid victory won by the Burn
s s eAPeuItloh; AT noon, yesterday, Gov.
Sprague ordered salute OF one hundred guns
ufed py me ninth battery the bells were
rum; the New England cavalry paradel, and
me general Assembly took a recess.
Small poX is prevalent in Pawucket.
WAR ITEMS.
The schooner Gypsy, which was cut Off by
the steamer New London, while attempting to
get oil from Biloxi, was laden with cotton, and
'he Sle", wien llley louUu luty could not es
cape, sci her on lire but the crew of the New
london, after twenty two hours bard labor,
succeeded IN extinguishing the fire aud saving
III bales OF cotton.
The Stephen Hart rebel vessel just
brought into New York, is a very valuable
prize. She was taken by a boat from the U.
,. steamship Supply, near Key West, and is
Loaded with 3oO tons OF war materials, incud-
ing rlfed cannon rifles, shells, powder, sc.
Or. hayes, the Arctic explorer, has tender
ed his services to the government, in any ca
paclty they may need him.
Inc Nashville Union says that the confed-
crates nave no rear OF the federal coups
detal. We guess, however, says Prentice,
they have salutary apprehension OF our
ochoe9tS d'eucre
MISCELLANEOUS
1t IS reported that "a high English official"
recently arrived IN New York from London,
anu that he put up at quiet hotel in Brook
Ign, and for several weeks daily visited the
navy yarn aItetwaras inspecting fort Hamil-
ton' lort CoiuIious' lort RIchmGnd, and other
important military posts, and then returning
by steamer to Europe He is believed to have
been British spy.
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