Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-21
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The fourth battalion and cadet regiment
will go into camp at Readville in few days.
Each of the four new Boston regiments or
| ganiZing for nine months is to receive $4,000
from the city fathers.
The secretary of state now receives about
one hundred applications per day for pass
| ports from the state. Among those to whom
passes were granted Monday, were Hon. Ca
leb Gushing and Hon. George T. Curtis.
A large consignment of cotton from Mem
| phis, Tenn, arrived in Boston Monday via
| Grand Trunk railroad
1t is estimated that nearly 1000 volunteers
for three years have been obtained in Boston,
chiefly for the old regiments. About fourteen
hundred bounties had been paid Tuesday
night.
Mayor Wightman having refused to enroll
the militia of Boston in accordance with the
order of the governor, it is understood that
his excellency has notified the assessors to
make new enrolment las directed by the
war department and the laws of congress.
William Bond alias Brown was arrested in
one of the National theatre saloons in Boston,
Tuesday, for passing counterfeit items" on
the National bank, Providence, with which he
had done heavy business.
There has been established in Boston an
institution under the name of the discharged
| soldiers home of the old Bay State" designed
to provide temporary relief for sick and disa-
bled soldiers, discharged from service with in
sufficient means to help themselves. Hon. j,
Il. Goodrich is president.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The New Bedford Standard tells of little
girl at Smith Mills in that city who presented
to the soldiers relief society in that place last
Saturday, twenty-four handkerchiefs nicely
hemmed, washed and ironed, the result of one
weeks labor.
They had big war meeting in New Bed
ford on Monday when it was resolved that if
there was any failure in that city's making up
its quota it would be chargeable to the rich
men of New Bedford not coming forward
with their money.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Several towns in New Hampshire are visit
ed by disease called securing" which at
tacks horses suddenly, reduces them quickly,
causes suppression of urine swelling of the
body, and, in some cases, terminates in death.
Within three weeks. some noble animals, in
Tamworth, Pittsfield, and other places, have
died from this disease.
The rush to the White Mountains has been
very great this season. One day last week
there were over two hundred persons on the
summit Of Mount Washington.
RHODE ISLAND.
The pernicious system Of offering extrava-
giant bOunties has served to retard enlistments
in Rhode Island. And special session of the
general assembly will be held in Providence
next Tuesday, to take into consideration the
difficulties in which the system of bounties has
involved the state, and to provide a remedy.
w. Eugene Thayer is the subject of
pleasant notice by the Providence Post, which
will interest his friends in Worcester. He
gave an organ entertainment at one of the
Providence churches on Monday performing
the following programme :-"Chrous, from
Huguenots; Bach'S Melodious, q minor
fugue; Turkish March; Bachs Tuccata and
Fugue, minor; Pastorale, from LIST Sonata :
Fantasia Cd minor) and Canzonetta; Bach's
great G minor fugue; Marche Heroique'"
The Press says ''his fugue playing was par
tcularly fine, and we were quite surprised at
the rapid execution and the distinctness with
which the subjects were rendered" 1t also
says Mr.. ThayerS own compositions were
greatly admired
Sylvanus DevereauX, Il lad some ten or
twelve years of age, in Central Falls, lost his
life, Tuesday afternoon, in most distress
ing manner. He was standing in the black
smiths shop of Mr.. VIM Bartlett, directly OPP
posite the ledge where men were engaged in
blasting when piece of stone penetrated the
roof, falling upon him with such force as to
mangle him in horrid manner.
CONNECTICUT.
The great French frigate Guerrero is now
in New London harbOr.
Henry Bedent shot an eagle at Pouuetan-
mock Coye on Monday The bird measured
nine feet across from the tips of his wings,
and weighed fifteen pounds.
WAR ITEMS.
One of the letters seized on board the Mag
nolia, which attempted to run the blockade at
| Charleston, was from Mr.. Ward, formerly
minister to China, to his wife in Paris which
| gave long and explicit account of affairs in
| Richmond. 1t admits that that the cause of
the confederacy is lost and that the battles
before Richmond, though disastrous to the
federal army, were exceedingly disastrous to
the rebels. He estimates the number Of con-
federate wounded in those battles at fifteen
thousand.
1t is asserted that the 18th Massachusetts,
regiment at the battle of Cedar Mountain I'M
fixed their bayonets, and carried their arms at
the trail, thereby deprving the enemy Of the
sight Of the gistening steel, which, in the
cases of the regiments before and behind them
served as bright target for rebels
MISCELLANEOUS.
Two young chaps, mere boys, one of them
of the tender age of eighty-two, and the other
ten years younger, residing at Gaburtsville
N. Y, got into dispute the other day about
the process of drafting, and warmed up SO
that finally the frisky chaps came to blows and
a clinch. Seventy-two broke pitcher over
the head of eighty-twO, and was obliged to pay
$50 fine for the same. When they arrive at
years of discretion they will feel ashamed of
these juvenile indiscretions.
In New York there are Is parks and squares
comprising 1905 acres. In London, the eight
parks contain Gl72 acres; the Prater in Wen
ma, 1905 Phoenix Park in Dublin, 20O0; the
Bots de Boulogne 2l5S; and the Versailles
Garden 3000-both in Paris.
In Moravia there is a man living, a peasant,
who is l47 years Of age, and is still hale and
hearty. He was formerly soldier, and re-
married at the age of 90. He lives on milk
and potatoes.
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