Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-14
General News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Windsor Smith of East Lexington, recently
discharged from the 18th Massachusetts regi-
ment, was arrested in Boston, Monday, on
the charge Of forging passes and furnishing
them to soldiers, who used them as genuine.
DIR. Charles A. Davis, for many years SUI
perintendent and physician OF the Chelsea
Marine Hospital died in Derry, n. H., on
the 10th inst, of lingering consumption
Mrs. Lydia NickerSon Brewe died in Bos-
ton Sunday morning, at the age of 80 years 6
months
Elijah Gilmore, Esq, the principal contrac-
tor on the Newport eAtention of the Old Col
ony railroad, died on the 9th inst, of pleurisy
and fever at his residence in Dorchester.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
William Varney committed suicide at the
residence of his son-in-law in Charlestown,
Sunday, by taking laudanum. Cause-tami-
ly trouble. He left Il wife from whom he had
separated
Rev. Mr.. Paige, for several years rector of
the Episcopal church in Cambridgeport, has
resigned on account of ill health and old age,
his resignation to take effect on the first Of
May.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The examination of the young man Stack
Beverly to-day. The defence set up the plea
of insanity. They say he once attempted to
commit suicide by hanging himself.
MAINE.
The city marshal of Lewiston has been do
ing Il large business in the liquor seizure
line. Warrants against twenty-five different
persons were placed in his hands, and, says
the journal, liquor was found on the premises
pf al in baf tha or
confessed that he had got wind of the move.
ment, and had made way with his liquid fire
1t is estimated that nearly 5000 gallons were
seized. The search seems to have been made
without respect to persons, for the first and
best hotel in the city was one OF the places
visited.
The great masquerade ball in Portland for
the benefit Of sick and wounded soldiers will
take place on Wednesday, the 10th inst No
tickets are sold except to those personally
known to the committee of managers, and
the company will consist of the creme de la
creme OF the city.
Seward Dill writes home from camp, where
he has been sent by the state to look alter the
Maine soldiers: Don't send mince pies !;
they make well men sick and sick men worse.
They spoil before reaching here, yet they eat
them because they are from home. Send
dried apples, dried or smoked fish, pickles,
well put up in kegs, butter, cheese, and all
kinds of dried fruit
CONNECTICUT.
In Connecticut the majorlties for members
of congress are as follows In the first dis
trict Deming (Union) has 33S majority; in
the second district, English (democraD has
1927 majority; in the third district, Branda-
gees (Union) majority is 23O4 IN the fourth
district, Hubbard (Union) has 459 majority
RHODE ISLAND.
The Providence journal publishes the fol-
lowing annual announcement from an octo-
genarian of that city =
-; Ohm b. Chace was born in Providence, I'D
Ward,) April IL, 1882, and is yet enabled through
Grace Divine, to say and to sing
"Our father God, to Thee,
Author of Liberty
To Thee sing;
Long may our land be bright
With freedoms holy light,
III Otect us by Thy might,
Great God, our King"
While the workmen in one of the mills in
Burrillville were moving machinery last Sat
urday, VIM. Kelley, the boss carder, slipped
through u hole in the floor, cut for the main
belt. His foot instantly caught between the
belt and the pulley, and he was drawn down
through the aperture and fell into the weave
room below. The bones of the hips were
fractured, and he was otherwise injured.
He died of his wounds after lingering for two
hours in a state of great suffering Proui-
deRce Press.
WAR ITEMS.
The New Orleans correspondent of the
Springfield Republican has a sharp and bitter
letter upon the administration of Gen. Banks
at New Orleans, and the signal failure of all
military operations in that department. His
failure to cooperate with admiral Farragut in
the reduction of Port Hudson, and his fear to
risk anything in field where there is so
much need of daring and gallant action, has
called down upon him the indignant re-
prOaches Of the bravest men of his command.
The civil condition is scarcely better than the
military. Men and women fill the streets
with bold and open expressions Of disloyalty;
and everywhere traitors are jubilant in the
confident expectation that Gen. Banks will
not hurt them.
MISCELLANEOUS.
OF the parties arrested for the recent rob-
berry of the Adams express company, IA in
number, were several ladies. Upon one of