Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-20
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Daniel Welsh, Jr, Reuben &. Todd, S. NJ.
S. Pratt. and c. b. Watts are now on trial in
Boston for attempting to defraud insurance
companies They claimed to have goods
worth S47, 900 which they insured for $4,000.
In MAY last they removed $4,000 worth of
goods from the store and then on the 18th set
fire to it,
Rev Perez Mason, better known as Gath
er Mason" one of the good men of Boston,
died on Wednesday. He was SO years of
age, and leaves a wife and nine children.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
spirited meeting in behalf of the 9th
regiment was held at New Bedford on We'd
nesday evening. 1t was addressed by Rev.
w. &. jackson, Col. Maggi, VIM. Wells
Brown, c. l.. Raymond, and others. Other
meetings are to be held.
Anne Gallagher girl about twelve years
of age while playing "snap the whip in
school house yard in New Bedford, was
thrown down with great violence, and severe
ly injured.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Prof /, S. Putnam, professor of Greek in
| Dartmouth college, has been invited to a pro-
fessorShip in the theological seminary at An
dover.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A boy named VIM. Knox, u years old, was
instantly killed while playing aboutthe freight
cars in Pittsfeld on Tuesday.
James NJ. Babcock of Pittsfeld, recently
caught white weaze-(a sleepD
The gas house in Pittsficld which supplies
the villages of Pontoosuc, Taconic, and Bob
town, blew up Monday night. The build
ing was much shattered, and a man who was
in at the time escaped almost uninured.
MAINE.
The Bath Times is informed by Mr.. j. S.
Lynch, that he has discovered a vein OF plum
bago or black lead, eight inches in thickness,
and valuable specimens ofcopper, on the land
owned by Charles Donnell, in West Bath.
\ company is being formed for the purpose
of testing the value of the discovery. Mr..
Lynch thinks the lead of a good quality, and
the copper ore is from fifteen to twenty per
cent.
VERMONT.
There is a very pretty story of young
woman in Brandon, Vermont the wife of
volunteer, who went to the district school,
and side by side with the little children, per-
| severed until she learned to read and write, in
order that her correspondence with her fondly
loved husband might not pass under the eye
of some stranger in consequence of her igno
rance.
CONNECTICUT.
The editor of the Norwich Bulletin has
been treated to a serenade by some of the
copperhead fraternity compared with which
it thinks the noise made by any number of
pigs under gate would be heavenly harmony.
The editor didn't know what was the matter
with them, but he says he Thought several
times of the pous Quaker who told compa-
ny of enamored young men, who besieged
his residence in similar manner to go and
make their noise where they got their rum. D."
RHODE ISLAND.
The old ''yellow mll' in Pawtucket, from
the garnet window Of which Sam Patch used to
take such appalling leaps into the river be-
low, has been improved by the addition of an
other story to its summit.
Lieut. Beverage of the I'd Rhode Island
| regiment is evidently ashamed Of his action in
| Worcester, and tells his own story to the
Providence papers, which have become econ
WINGED that lis character is such as to make
him quite incapable of cherishing the senti-
mentS ascribed to him."
COPPERHEAD ITEMS.
Vallandgham, addressing a copperhead
meeting in Newark, n. j., the other night,
uttered the following :-''Shall the democratic
party be induced for one moment to strike
hands with those who desire to change the
purposes of the administration, and bring it
back again to a war for the Union, when the
| WHOle people unlteu cannot accomplish any
before the 18th of March, 1865? viii the war
continue that time? ('Never, never" from
all parts of the room,) Will you send your
sons again to the battlefield? (Overwhelm-
ing, enthusiastic nd unanimous cries, No,
no ? Never, neverr God forbidn Not if l
know myself.D Shall they be conscripted to
carry on this war two years more. and for the
negro? tremendous outbursts, yells, cheers,
cries Of No, nevern Let them try See
them id firstn we defy them!) But it
has been proclaimed that it never was their
(the rebels) purpose to invade the northern
states 1t is very true, if this war is kept up
battles fought, no relentng spirit, no prospect
of peace, no sound of concord to reach their
ears, they ought to be induced to make that
invasion"
''If the south need any assistance agiU
go ont and assist Them" SO said John H..
George, the copperhead candidate for con-
gress, in the winter of 1901, in the early
mutterngs of the storm of rebellion. He
has stuck to the declaration, in word and deed,
ever SINCE Concord On H. Democrat.