Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-26
General News Summary



Hon. Thomas Russell of Boston, will deliv-
CT an Grafton at Harwich, Mass, on the 4th of
July.
An alarm of fire was given in Boston yes
| terday with the sanction of the committee OF
| the fire department. for the purpose Of afford
| ing the delegation from the city council of
| Cincinnati an opportunity of witnessing the
celebrity with which the fire apparatus can be
concentrated at one point, through the agency
of the Geographic fire alarm. The tiremen
were not aware of this arrangement. The
alarm called out five steamers, four hose car
| riages, and one hook and ladder carriage.
| From the first sound of the alarm until the
arrival of the first apparatus in the square was
three minutes thirty seconds, and the last
reached the square in Just seven minutes from
the time the bell first sounded.
| A meeting of merchants and underwriters
of Boston was held at the Office of the China
mutual insurance company on Thursday, to
consider what action should be taken by them
in view of the ravages now being committed
on American commerce by the rebel piratical
cruisers. A committee was appointed to take
the whole charge of the subject; to raise funds
and appropriate the same as they might see fit.
A paper was put in circulation for the purpose
of raising money to offer reward for the
capture of the Tacony or any other pratical
craft, and the sum of upwards of four thou
sand dollars was obtained. 1t is proposed to
forthwith equip the fine schooner Thomas
Woodward of Gloucester Capt. John H.
Welch, which has lately made voyage to
Surinam and back in ffty-four days, and send
her out on the errand above referred to, the
armament and equipments being furnished at
the Charlestown navy yard, in accordance
with express orders from the secretary of the
navy.
p. A. Gilmore of Boston has been commits
stoned by Gov. Andrew as general recruiting
agent for the state for all musicians for the
various Massachusetts regiments.
MlDDLEsEx COUNTY.
Sergeant John Everett Ames of the 9th reg
iment, who was severely injured in the Balti-
more riot on the 18th of April, 1861, died at
Lowell on the 22d. He was SO years of age.
letter received in Charleston from the
9TH regiment states that Gen. Foster had ten
dered to the government the services of all the
nine months troops in his department, and the
9th were ordered to report to Gen. Dix at fort
Monroe; but upon arriving at that post Gen.
Dix ordered the regiment to Boston to be mus.
tered out
young son of Mr.. D. E. Coffin of Newton
Corner was instantly killed on the evening of
the 22d, while crossing the track at the depot
at that place, just as the train in which his
father was coming home reached the station.
The swine keeping excitement in Cambridge
has ended by the action of the city government
in passing an order allowing each person Ito
the number of a hundred who had petitioned
the city fathers to keep swine, the privilege
of keeping upon their premises two porkttes
each
ESSEX COUNTY.
X. r. Endicott, representative from Bever-
ly in the general court, has presented to that
town his salary $4,000 for the benefit of the
public library
BRISTOL COUNTY.
e. strawberries have been grown in New Bed
ioru tnat measure four and quarter inches |
IN circumstances. One man expects to pick |
from two to three thousand boxes, this sea.
party OF three gentlemen from New Bed.
ford, day or two since, found ovsy s.var