Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-25
General vows Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Benjamin T. rockingham, the class orator
at Cambridge last week, is IL grandson of the
late Hon. Benjamin Thompson of Charles
town, formerly NJ. C. from the old fourth dis
trict.
public monument is to be erected in
Lowell to the memory of L. C. Ladd and A.
o. Whitney, who fell in Baltimore April 10,
1861. The state has appropriated two thou
sand dollars, and the city of Lowell an addi-
tional two thousand. The memorial is to be
of granite or marble, and stand in some pub
lie place in Lowell approved by the governor
and city council.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Two boys of IL and l3 years, attending a
private school in New Bedford, having been
Il little rogueish. concluded to take furlough
About noon on Sunday last, they started for
their homes in Roxbury, where they arrived
the next afternoon, having travelled the entire
distance on the highways. Ii these urchins
will travel on the road to learning as vigor-
ously, they will be great men before long.
turtle was found a few days ago on the
farm of William Allen in Westport, with the
initials of Weston Allen, Humphrey Allen
and David Allen, cut on its she'll There was
one date Ill; the la figure undeciphera-
ble-and one of 1887. The same turtle was
found on the same farm about twelve years
ago.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Last week Hon. I. F. Plunkett of Pitts
field, together with several other gentlemen,
spent two or three days in fishing for blue fish
at Marion, catching about twelve hundred
pounds. This is the largest ''catch' that was
ever made at that place. The lieutenant gov
ernor of the peoples party got plurality /;
being much more fortunate now than last fall,
when he undertook to be fisher of men
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
new iron bridge, costing $500, is to be
erected near Cyrus Miller's, in Hadenvlle.
Lyman Cole of Northampton, caught l20
trout on Thursday afternoon, after two
o'clock.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The horse exhibition at Great Darlington
on the Fourth promises to be very success
full affair. Premiums amounting in all to
$3.50 are offered for the fastest trotters, both
single and double teams, as well as for the
best roadsters and farm horses.
FRANKLIN COUNTY
The sexton, or some one else in order to
improve the tone Of the bell on st. James
church, Greenfield, put in wooden tongue.
The improvement was SO apparent that the
old tongue was replaced before the afternoon
service, Sunday.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
John Webster, u member of the last and
also of the present legislature, died at Kings
ton on tine 18th.
The Armstrong, n. H., gun factory sent off
thefirst lot of the Springfield rfled muskets
last week. They are now making them at the
rate of about 1000 Il month, At the end of
two months they will be able to make 100 a
day.
The city government of Manchester have
appropriated $500 for the celebration of the
4th of July.
A woman in an intoxicated condition was
run over by the cars near Raymond's station.
onthe 22d inst, and instantly killed.
MAINE.
Among the letters containing applications
for enlistment in the LIST Maine cavalry, is
one from man in Peru, who wrote that he
''wanted to enlist in the LIST Maine cavalry to
ride bosses | suppose"
The city expenditures of Portland for the
current year are estimated at $3.50. 900
Printing, advertising and stationery amount
to $4,000.
Moses bennett was found dead in the
woods at Brunswick on the 10Th, where he
had been for load of wood. He was 6S wears
of age.
Portland is pressing the matter of building
dry dock.
Mr.. Robert Pennel of Brunswick, has a
wild goose in his yard, which he caught on
account Of her having crippled wing
The Maine 18th, whose time was nearly up,
have determined to stay and assist in the
present emergency.
The number of persons in Portland liable to
do military duty is 1928, about 300 more than
was returned last year,
On the 10th the bodies of two men, named
Plummer and Kimbal, were taken from
the flume at the saw mill at Augusta, Me.
They had both been missing for some time
past.
VERMONT.
The Burlington Times says The reason
Col Sawyers name is not mentioned among
the cavalry officers that distinguished them
selves is probably owing to the fact that he
does not distinguish himself.
CONNECTICUT.
The legislative committee on education ia
vor the maintenance of the state normal
school, against which there is strong preu-
dice
The horse cars at Hartford carried $500
passengers on the goth.
tug laden with POO tons of coal for the
Hartford and New Haven railroad, sunk in
deep water on Stratford, on the 22d.
George ID. Deming of Berlin, on the 18th,
killed a nine year old rattlesnake, which
measured four feet four inches long, seven
inches round, and had six rattles.
The number of pupils in the deaf and dumb
asylum at Hartford, last year, was 253. OF
this number Maine sent 49, New Hampshire
IL, Vermont "a, Massachusetts 90, Rhode ISL
and 10, and Connecticut A. The institution
is in very iourishing condition.
new telegraph office has been established
at Milford.
RHODE ISLAND.
Six entire companies of the First Rhode
Island cavalry, are reported to have arrived
in safety.
Mrs. Lincoln and son are expected at New
port in few weeks.
Providence enrolls 1882 names.
The municipal committee of Providence,
have invited Rev. j. G Adams of the Second
Uniyersalist church, TO deliver the. Grafton,
and Charles A. Barnard, pupil of the Prov
idence High School, to read the Declaration
of Independence ON the Fourth of July.
A man by the name of Barker, employed
in the construction of the new mills at Vans.
kuck, had both arms badly broken by fall
from staging on the 23d.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The forts encircling Richmond are twenty
three in number, mounting in the aggregate
two hundred and ninety three guns.
The commissioner of internal revenue has
decided that donations received by clergymen
and marriage and other fees, are taxable I'M
der the revenue law.
young woman in New Orleans shot fell
low for asking her if she would marry him.