Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-01-08
General News Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


The Adams Express company have just had
completed two fine steamships, which will
convey freight and passengers to Newbern,
Beaufort, and Port Royal. Their names are
the ''Mary Sanford" and Augusta Dinsmore"
of $50 tons each. The interior constr action
of these magnificent vessels is of the most ell
| egant workmanship. These same steamers
| will convey the United States mail.
| CITY IIarr ntraItors for taking down the old
| Tuesday. The city messenger and his assist
ants are busily engaged in packing up docu-
ments, plans, books OF record, &C., for stor-
| age or removal to Mechanics Hall, the head
quarters of the city government during the
erection of the new City Hall.
Forty thousand letters from New Orleans,
Port Royal, and Newbern, were received at
the Boston post Office Wednesday morning.
The New England soldiers now at the south
are literally an army Of letter writers.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Mrs. Coburn of West Newton gave birth to-
boy in the cars of the Worcester railroad at
the depot in Boston on Monday evening. The
mother and child were sent home under tie
attentions of the officers of the corporation.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
In New Bedford, on Monday, the bells of
the city were rung an hour, and one hundred
guns fired at the northeast &C rner of Summer
and North streets by the New Bedford Light
Artillery, in honor of the presidents proca-
nation.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Benjamin Hamblen OF Dorchester is sup
posed to have poisoned his wife on Sunday
last, and in the midst of the investigations
which followed her tragic fate he shot himself
with a pistol. They had three children.
The unfortunate affair has created no little
excitement in Dorchester.
Henry q. Brown has been arrested in Ded-
ham, on charge of poisoning his wife and chill
dren, by putting some unknown drug into
their food: Brown pleads mot guilty"
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
There is to be meeting of all the Metho-
dist ministers in the Springfield district, in all
from 20 to 30. at the Methodist church in
northampton, on the 9th and 2Sth inst The
special object of the meeting is to promote the
general welfare of the church and society.
MAINE.
The Portland Advertiser says that Lieut.
Carpenter, vino was arrested and imprisoned
at Augusta on suspicion Of having embezzled
the government funds, has had an adjustment
OF his accounts, and been discharged
CONNECTICUT.
AT the adjutant generals office in Connec-
tlcut a complete list of the Connecticut regi-
ments, from the LIST to the 2Sth, has been pub.
lished.
The late clearing out of old garrets has
brought to light many curious and some valu-
able documents. Nineteen numbers of vol.
l, No. l to 10 of the Impartial Herald,
weekly paper published at Suffield, by II. &
.. Farnsworth, in 1881, has been found bv
the editor of the Courant. They had been
sold with other old papers to be sent to the
paper mill.
PERSONAL.
Dr. w. u. Stevenson, the handsome Young
author of thirteen months in the rebel ar.
my has been lecturing before the young la.
dies of Mount Holyoke semicary
Gottschalk. the pianist, is reported as very
sick, and his concerts in St. Louis have been
postponed in consequence.
MISS Adelaide Phillips, who was expected
home in the Etna, will remain in Europe an
other season, having made very favorable
engagement.
MISCELLANEOUS.
One jeweler in New York sold $4,000
worth of Christmas presents. Army CON
tractors and their wives spend money with a
fearful looseness.
According to the latest French authorities,
the hair OF the Partisan ladies is to be worn
powdered during the present season and rolled
up In high puffs or waves from the side of the
head.
Rev. W. H. Claiming preached an eloquent
discourse in Washington the first Sunday of
the new year, upon the presidents proclama-
ton. "rhe proclamation" he said, "signi-
fed justice to all men. IL might have been
that God might have inspired him-as 1t often
has done men-to make him the organ and
utterer Of higher words than ever he, himself,
knew Of The word justice had been spoken.
1t was the beginning of the renovation of all
relations Of society throughout this republic