Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-18
General News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

gance, but bringing with it Il history OF heroic
deeds which have been achieved under ITS
folds The city has voted $500 for the pur-
chase ola new flag for the regiment.
The fifth and the Concord street Universal
ist societies are to unite. Rev. Thomas b.
ThayeriS to be pastor, and Rev. Sumner Ell
lis is to be called as a colleague. The united
societies will occupy the Shawmut avenue
Church possession of which will be had in
few months.
Col, WIN. Brown, the assistant adjutant
general of this state, died Monday afternoon,
Feb l6, at his residence in Boston after an i'll
ness OF Il few weeks, at the age Of 50. He
has been in the adjutant generals Office since
the year 1851.
MDDLESEX COUNTY.
All those who deal in liquor in Somerville,
10 in number, have united in signing pledge
to sell no more in violation of the law after
the 10Th inst. under penalty of immediate
prosecution. This result was mainly secured
by the personal exertions of Capt. Henry A.
Snow, chairman of the board of SCectmen,
acting under a vote of the town. The move.
ment against the traffic was begun last sum-
mcr by the religious societies.
E>SEN COUNTY.
Capt, Joseph Hodges, respected and ven
cradle citizen Of Salcu was killed by being
struck by the engine of the train from Bos-
ton IS he was imprudenJly passing over
railroad bridge.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
The dweliug hOuse OF David Crosby, in
Canuouviile, Natapoisett. was entirely con-
sumed by fire Monday morning. with its
contents. The FIRE brvke out about three OF
tour O'Clock in the morning, and the family
barely escaped with their lives. Loss one
thousand dollars.
During the year 1862, % births. mar
riages and p deaths were recorded in the
town Of Mattaposett.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The whole number of births in Taunton dur
ing the past year is 365; whole number of
marriages, l59; whole number of deaths, 305.
A barn in New Bedford, occupied by Lewis
Hathaway, has been burnt. together with a
buggy, two sleighS, several harnesses, a ton
of hay and a lot of grain. A horse valued at
$3.50 was so badly burned that it was neces-
sary to kill him. No insurance. The fire
was the work of an incendiary.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The Conway academy, a fine nearly new
building, was destroyed by fire on the 18th inst,
about halt-past l o'clock A. NJ, together with
all the books of the scholars. The building
was insuredin the IIousatonic Mutual of Berk-
shire county for $780, The value of the
The term of the school would have closed in
about two weeks
Imla X. Brown of BernardstOn slaughtered
on the 9th inst a half-blood Chester county
hog, aged II months l week, which weighed,
after hanging ten hours, 1852 pounds. This
hog consumed while fatting 500 bushels of
grain, consisting of One-half corn, one fourth
buckwheat and one fourth oats-at cost of
so cents per hushel for corn, 60 cents for
buckwheat, and 80 cents for oats. The aver
age cost Of this grain, while fatting, amounted
to S36.25. Value of the hog when killed, at
cents per pound, S52.64.
MAINE.
The schooner Froic, Capt NJ cCarty on
the passage from Belfast for Boston was
burned last Thursday, Feb. u. She had
cargo of hay and potatoes, which with the
vessel was owned by Capt. j. IL. Anderson.
Loss about $4,000.
The Passamaquoddy Indians number about
400 and the PenObscots about 500; the state
| this year appropuates for the former $3.50,
and for the latter $463l.
The fur trade at Bethel has been pretty
| hrlsk TINS winter. One man has collected
| Sl2OO worth, and foxes are very plenty.
The Belfast Journal, which is rabid in its
] opposition to the government, having put up
the name Of Gen. Mcclellan for president in
1864, the Machias Republican suggests that it
should put up the name OF Fitz John Porter
for race president.
At latest accounts the Sth and 9th Maine
regiments were at Port Royal, the 18th at
yorktown, the 18th and l4th at Baton Rouge,
the 18th and 18th at Pensacola, Fla, the 18th
is guarding the Long Bridge near Washing
ton, the 10Th is on the Mississippi and the
rest are In the grand army of the Potomac.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
In the church at East Canaan, n. H., on
the 18th ult,, at the moment Rev. Mr.. Baron,
a Uniyersalist minister, rose from the sofa to
pronounce the benediction, the chimney,
weighing perhaps a ton, fell through the
ceiling, and crushed through the sofa down to
the ground, crushing the bible. Mr.. Baron
was hit by some of the splinters and frag-
ments, but escaped with his life.
VERMONT.
The population of the state liable to do mil
| itary duty is 1905
new stage route has been established be-
tween Irasburgh and Montpelier.
The number of students at the University
OF Vermont, Burlington, is reduced to thirty,
| on account OF the absence Of young men at
the war. The rayages of diptheria in the
| northern counties of the state during the past
year, were terrible In Lyndon, with pop
ulation of 1900, $50 died-nearly every case
Of diptheria. Whole families were swept
away.
CONNECTICUT.
barn in New Milford, belonging to Chas.
Noble, was destroyed by fire on Sunday, the
9Th inst, together with two buildings belong
ing to Mr.. Lum, of the New England house,
and to Hiram and George Noble.
Mr.. Odell was drowned in the river in
Hotchkissville, Woodbury., on the 9TH inst,
by falling into the water while attempting to
secure some flood wood. He leaves wife
and four children.
RHODE ISLAND.
New bank bills in Rhode Island are orna-
mented with fine portrait of Gen. Burnside.
His honest phiz will make the promises to pay
good as gold in any market, says the Boston
Post.
Our Westerly correspondent sends us a
piece of the wood of Commodore Perry's YES
sci, which was wrecked on Watch Hill reef
hfy-two years ago, and specimen of the
smrting stripes which were on the vessel that
was sunk eleven years ago. The wood is