Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-06
General NEWS summary.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The case of Capt. James A. Crowel, for
alleged beating and wounding Antonio Lead,
on board ship Arnolda, was heard on the 9th
inst, and resulted in holding the defendant in
$1,000 for his appearance before the U. S.
district court ON the second Tuesday in Sep
TENDER.
Ten thousand dollars were subscribed in
Boston on the 4th inst, to the enlistment fund
for raising fifty thousand colored troops.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Another of the ancient landmarks of Salem
is disappearing The old house once the res
idence of Dea. Hunt, built in 1901, is being de-
m0lished
The young ladies who were bathing near
Bass Rock, Gloucester, on the Sd inst. were
swept by the surf into deep water, and one of
the number, named Proctor, was drowned.
The two Others barely escaped similar
fate.
MlDDLESEX COUNTY.
Geo. c. Fletcher the well known scenic ar
fist, died at Chelmsford, Mass, ON the 30th
ult., aged about thirty years.
The veterans of Charlestown paid their an
nual visit to Chelsea beach, on the 4th They
numbered u, having lost one from their
ranks during the year, and gained ten. The
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months, making in the aggregate 2076 years
One Of the younger members proposed that
next year they bring their wives.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mr.. George Lang, who was arrested in
Taunton on the 30th ult and taken to New
York for examination, was acquitted uf the
offence charged against him, he not being the
man whose arrest was intended.
The naval school ship sloOp of war Marion.
and her tender, yacht America, arrived at
New Bedford from New London, Conn, ON
the Sd inst
The New Bedford Mercury says that
brilliant meteor was noticed in the southern
heavens on the evening Of the 4th, passing
into the southwest.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
a train OH the Western railroad met with
accident on the 4th inst, about one mile
and half east of Russell. The engine struck
a rail that was damaged at one end and in an
instant was thrown from the track, together
with the baggage and two passenger cars. In
this way the cars were dragged about one hun
dred feet, making almost II complete wreck of
the locomotive and badly damaging the pas
scnger coaches. No one was injured but the
fireman, James O'Neil, who was bruised about
the head and back, but not dangerously.
John Wells, of The court of probate ana IN
ss99lIy s,. in Ilampden county, has resigned
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Joseph Newton, ui Greenfield, has seven
times offered himself as a soldier and been
rejected on account of IL leg that has been
broken, though it does not trouble him at ALL
He has now slipped in as substitute for
drafted man, and is of for the war.
New Salem is eXullant over rhubarb leaves
twelve feet andthree inches in circumference,
and new kind OF sage the leaves OF which
measure over foot in circumference.
MAINE.
The Golfer dam ut Lewiston was partially
carried away on the 3lst ult. 1t had been
completed but few weeks, at great expense.
The amount Of lumber surveyed at Bangor
from Jan. LIST to Aug. LIST, of this year, was
S2.llS,054 feet, which WAS nearly 100000
feet more than during the same months last
year.
woman named Elliott, residing at Jack
son Brook, was committed TO jail at MacIiiaS,
few days since, charged with poisoning her
daughter-n-law with strychnine administered
in glass of rum 1t has not been fully set
tied whether her death was caused by the
stryclnne or the rum.
Machias Island, in Portland Bay, has been
selected as the place for the conscript camp in
Maine.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
A lad named John C. Hill, aged ten years,
while bathing on the Sd inst, in the river, just
above the companys saw mill, at Manchester,
n. H., was carried over the falls and drowned
A mornings ago an ctiigy of the celebrated
copperhead martyr Vallandigham, was diScov-
cred dangling from the limb of tree in the
quiet village Of ContOocook. Upon the back
ham, habemuS corpus, diabmuS aninSuS."
In Newmarket on the LIST inst, while as
sistng in taking down the brick work on the
inside of one of the stone mills in that place,
Mr. Oliver Demeritt was instantly killed.
The barn of Abner Perkins, in Pittsfield,
was struck by Lightning on the LIST inst. The
fluid broke the glass in three windows, passed |
two scaffolds with hay on them without setting |
them on fire, doing considerable damage, and |
passed to the ground in three different places.
Col. Henry c. Kent, of the 18th New Hamp-
shire regiment, has been appointed by the
sergeant-at-arms, postmaster of the United
States senate, with salary of $3.50.
CONNECTICUT.
On the LIST inst. the rain swept away $50
feet OF embankment Of the Hartford and Fish
kill railroad, near Hoadley's Station, Conn.
The men in one company of the 22d Con-
necticut gained, in the aggregate, over ton
in weight during the nine months they were
in the service. Good thing; they had better
try it again.
A beautiful monument has been executed
in marble to the memory of the late Capt.
John Griswold, Of Old Lyme, who was killed
at the battle of Antietam while bravely lead
ing his men to the conflict.
The Rockville Branch railroad is completed,
so that cars will commence running between
Rockville and Hartford on the 10Th
A gang of thieves, living in swamp near
Waterford, was broken up and one of their
number arrested on the I'd inst.
woman attempted to run away from her
husband at Hartford on the Sd inst, and had
got aboard the steamer for New York with any
quantity of trunks, bandboxes, bedding and
bundles. Irate husband arrived just as the
boat was starting-asked wife to return-wife
said she was going to New Y ork anyway-hus
band said he would keep the baggage to re-
member her by-and finally carried that part,