Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-05-02

BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Wednesday evening, young female at
tempted to poison herself, and afterwards
hang herself in Cambridge. The unfortunate
woman said she was induced 10 leave school
at Holy oke about Is months since by man
named Harry Webster, and go with him to
Providence, where they were married, and
that they have boarded in Boston since then
Some time since, she says, her husband de-
serted her, and has been living recently with
his mother in Cambridge His wife learned
that he formed an improper intimacy with
woman in Boston, and to all her cntreaties to
leave this person he had turned a deaf ear.
Under these circumstances she declares that
she does not wish to live, and so made the
two attempts on her life. Arrangements are
being made to send her to her parents who
are respectable people living in Maine.
The ship Ilavelock recently sailed from
Boston with upwards OF Thousand tons OF
ice on board. bound for New O.Itans AnJtk-
er vessel will soon follow with eight hundred
tons. TIE arrival OF these yes sels witl he
hailed with great satisfaction by the residents
OF that city.
HIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Rev. j. p. Cleveland of Lowell has been
commissioned as chaplain Of the Both Massa
chusetts regiment.
a new mill is 10 be built in the yard of the
Middlesex company at Lowell, in place OF one
Of the original "llurd mills" so called, The
new mill is to be four stories high, and twelve
leet wider than the old one.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
T l., Wakefield has been duly appointed
and commissioned as master in chancery III
and for the county of Norfolk
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Taunton oil cloth company was formed
in the spring of 1857, for the purpose of max.
ing enamelled cloth. The capital stock is
S25 900. The company annually manufac.
lures about 100000 yards of enameed goods
at a value Of 900.
Ira G.. Pierce of New Bedford recently shot
cat owl. His owlship was a large specimen,
measuring four feet from tip 10 tip
In Mansfield, the Both uIt., the building
owned and in part occupied by Sherman, Ca
| prom, 4 Williams, jewelers. was destroyed by
fire. Loss about $4,000; insurance on build
ing, $1,000; on stock and tools, $500. The
building was also occupied by Smith s. Cod
ding, jewellers, whose loss was $500, and W.
& w. +, Boyd, patent winker manufacturers /;
loss 5000, both uninsured. The fire was the
work Of an incendiary.
NANTUCKET COUNTY.
Through the agency of Mr.. Elliot of the
first district. Nantucket is TO have a daily
mail.
George W: Macy has been appointed by the
governor and council, Justice of the peace
for the county Of Nantucket.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
last young man in East Lougmeadow has
forged his fathers name on the back of tive
promlssory notes, one OF $500 and one o
$500, and thus endorsed the notes were dis
counted at two banks in Springfield. The Tor
ger has not been arrested.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
, The maple sugar crop in Plainfeld this
year will be- very light, owing 70 the grea
depth Of snow and its late continuance. A
:. similar cause lessons this luxury in many por
tions of New England.
Mrs. Edwin Cowes Of Belchortown recent
ly had very painful swelling on one OF her
limbs and on an incisiOn being made. a need
lie was extracted entire, which she supposes
must have been swallowed about ten years
ago.
a dlsgraceful outrage was committed at the
Amherst college on the 18th nit. A member
OF the freshman class, who had for some rea
son incurred the displeasure ofthe sophomores
was seized in the street, and thrown into the
pond on the common, and received such in
iuries as to require assistance to reach hi,
room. The rlngleaders in the affair hay,
been discovered, and several will probably BE-
expelled.
NEW HAMPsHIRE
On the 18th ult, in HinsdSlc, DIR. B. Kit
fridge, after harnesSing his horse, went int,
. the house, sat down, and Immediately died.
VERMONT.
A land slide at WOOdiOrd on the 18th ut.
swept some two acres Of ground down int,
the highway, and completely filled up III,
road; heavy trees were cut down aud shiyere,
In the resistess mass
Alonzo Rogers plead guilty at Rutland, t,
the charge Of burgariOusly entering the Stor,
of S. +. Page Of Brandon, last winter, anc
was sentenced to the state prison for eighteen
months.
Mrs. Davis Stone Of Bennington exhibits
sample Of cotton, raised by herself from tn,
seed. II IL Of the finest texture, very white
and Just ~ good as that raised in Dixie.
RHODE ISLAND.
There are in Rhode Island twenty tlrc,
Methodist churches, six Of which are in Prov
idence, With an aggregate membership o.
1856 The Methodist population of the state
10 estimated ~ upwards Of 10000 These
twenty.three churches own nineteen church
edifces worth 100000 also six parsonages
! worth SIS 200 The average salary of The