Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-20
tseneraI News Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


| The 44th regiment were mustered out of
service on the 18th. They Immediately dis
| persed and returned to their homes.
Only fifty recruits are needed to fill the
I --'>'~l''.4f4o UHanuIer OF Brookline has
been appointed assistant United States treas
urer at Boston, in place of Col Lincoln, de-
ceased. lie Is well known in Boston. and
| was member OF the famous peace conven-
ton, held at Washington, before the breaking
out of hostilities.
| MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
A lad named Henry Cutter recently shot a
splendid American eagle, whose extended
wings measured six feet and one inch near
Captains island, in Cambridge.
At the meeting of the overseers of Harvard
College, on the 18th, Rev. Oliver Stearns.
ID. D., was confirmed as professor of pulpit
elocutlon and pastoral care, to take the title
and perform the duties Of lecturer on christ
ian theology; Calvin Ellis, M D., as adjunct
professor on the theory and practice of phys
lc; George Grosvenor Tarbell, as proctor;
and Il. c. f. krauss as instructor in German,
he president also communicated the cleo
ton of DIR. Walcott Gibbs as Rumford pro-
| fessor, to be attached to the chemical depart-
ment OF the Lawrence scientific school,
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
The orators from the Alexandrian society.
for the social union exhibition at Amherst col
lege, are as follows Nathan Harrington.
Paxton; +. E. Sturgess, Augusta, Me; II.
M. Tenney, Concord, N. H.; W. w. TYLER,
Amherst; collegian, E. S. 1 owne, Chicopee.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
IL ne LaneSboro glass works company have
got in stock of 100000 tons of hard coal
which they will substitute for wood in their
manufacture.
Dr. &. Wright has been appointed postmas-
ter IN Lee, in place Of Nathan Gibbs, removed,
Great Darlington will celebrate the 4th bv
a horse exhibition, with $3.50 in premiums, on
the Agricultural grounds, and the 'St. Peters,
Will receive the Lee "Hibernians' for IA good
time the same day.
The legislative tunnel committee on the
10th visited the railroad route from Greenfield
to North Adams.
j. Proper and Harmon Winche!l, both of
North Egremont, were a few days since ar
rested at East Lee by sheriff M. H. Pease.
for housebreaking and stealing at Otis When
they were committed they were both recog-
nlZed as deserterS from the 10Th regiment, and
had before been arrested and taken back to
the regiment, from which they had since es-
capped.
The Pittsfeld Eagle says that 1879 pounds
of stone were found in a bale of cotton at the
Pontoosuc wooden factory.
MAINE.
Ship building is carried on quite extensive
ly In Pembroke this season. Messrs. Russell
are building two vessels Of nearly three hum
dred tons each. Messrs. j. Wilder & Co.
have just completed barque of three hun-
dred tons. Wadsworth & Son are building
barque of four hundred and fifty tons, and RI
carter mas just commenced the building of a
vessel OF seven hundred tons for a firm in
New York. There is great difficulty in oh
tanning men to work in the ship yards and the
wages are very high.
Mr.. Amariah Goodwin of Alfred, who COM
pleted his Tooth birthday on the 18th of Feb
ruary, and who is of revolutionary fame, has
during the past winter sawed all the wood re-
CURED for the family. Two years ago, his
wife passed away, at the advanced age of "a
years. Three years his descendants numbered
10 children, II grandchildren, ITO great
grandchildren, and ID reat-great-grandchiId-
rem. They are in the states of Maine. New
Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Massa-
chusetts, Ohio, Indiana Illinois, Wisconsin.
Minnesota, Kentucky, Virginia, and Califor
mia.
a party Of the U. S. coast survey, is now
employed In surveying Portland harbor, after
which It will survey the harbor of Rockland.
The house and barn owned by Joshua Ea-
ton, in Alfred, were entirely consumed by fire
on the 10Th inst.
As an evidence of business activity in PORT
land, j. B. Brown & Sons, of the sugar
works, have nearly 1900 hogsheads on their