Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-11
General News summary.


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if they had not made the arrest Cambridge
law students should not visit May fairs in Rox-
bury to which they have not been invited.
MGDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Otis Allen, the well known lumber dealer of
Lowell, is at present near the head waters OF
the Merrimack experimenting his annual
drive of logs, amounting this year to some
| 100000 feet. He employs about one hun
dred men, many OF them red shirts from the
| PenobsCot.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Carey's cotton mill at North Bellingham
suspended operations last week. Pearce's
cotton mill will also close operations soon.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
| Capt Frank Eliot, of the ll4th Pennsylva-
mia regiment, severely wounded and taken
prisoner on Monday, May 4, is a brother OF
Hon. T. d. Eliot Of New Bedford.
Sylvanus Sanford stone cutter, who died
recently at Fall River, was most essentially a
miser. BY working constantly, spending
only trihng sum for dress, and nothing for
amusement, he accumulated, during the
course of fifty years, the sum of $4,000. He
was too economical to marry. The only lux
ury which he would allow himself was a quart
of rum daily, which he is said to have drank
regularly for several years past
| MARTuAs VINEYARD.
A fisherman at Edgartown, last year, hooked
halbut, which he thought weighed about a
hundred pounds, and which escaped, carry
ing off the hook and also part of the line.
| During the past week the same person in the
same boat, caught the same fish, with the
| hook still in its mouth, and what is very sing
ular, the wound in his mouth had healed,
although the hook was rusted. The fish was
this time judged to weigh one hundred and
thirty pounds.
| HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The citizens of Springfield have invested
| $685., 900 in the tye-twenty bonds. The
banking, Insurance. and other institutions,
have taken S232,O00 ana private citizens
have subscribed about 100000
MAISE.
Five men were black-eyed and floored a
Bath, few days since, by a Young man from
Edgecomb, who had got stirred up by hearing
them talk against the loyal side.
The I'd regiment is expected home on or
about the 2Sth, their term of service expiring
with that date.
Lewiston has gained 1900 in population
since 1860, 1t now numbers 500.
Josiah II. Drummond of Portland has been
elected grand master of the grand free mason
lodge of the state Wood sells at Portland
for 50 a cord. The net loss by fires at Port
| ldllu' last ear. was only NZJZO.
| A cold bloOded, brutal murder was COM
mitted in Phillips, Wednesday afternoon, the
| 9th. The sheep belonging to Jeremiah Tuck
having trespassed a number Of times upon the
land Of Jesse Wright Jr., the two men got
into an alteration about the matter. Mr..
Wright who is Il quarresOme man, became
greatly enraged He said, Il have had trou-
bic enough with you and will put an end to
1t now" Raising his gun, which he had with
him, he took deliberate aim, and shot Mr.
Tuck through the heart. The deed was done
in the presence of Mr.. Tuck's wife. Wright
made his escape. Mr.. Tuck was about 60
years old, and a very inoffensivc man. Wright
is about 30 years old.
VERMONT.
daily night and day line of steamers is
now running on Lake Champlain between
Whitehall, Burlington and Rouse's Point.
Hardlng's wooden factory, at Winooski, has
been partially destroyed by fire. Loss about
10000, which is insured in Boston.
A secessionist named Stone, a Vermonter
by BIRTH but for some time resident of At
lanta, Georgia, has been arrested in st. AL
bans and sent to Fort Lafayette.
The Nershire copper mine is successfully
worked, and bids fair to equal the best mines
of Cornwall. 1t has vein of copper ore av-
eraging y feet in thickness, from which over
20l9 tons of ore were raised and sold in 1862.
Excavations have been made to the depth of
over 500 feet along the vein of ore, which con-
tinually increases in quality as it is penetra-
ted.
CONNECTICUT.
Harriet Park Of Canterbury. just died of
ovarian dropsy, was found to have 81 pounds
or over II gallons of water in her abdomen,
and a tumor, which, with the ovarian sack,
weighed l2 pounds.
The hospital for soldiers at New Haven is
now capable of accommodating $50 patients;
763 were received prior to the LIST of April, of
whom 81 remain, and of these about $40 are
Connecticut men. There have been but 80
deaths, which, when we consider the shattered
condition in which many were received, may
be regarded as a small number.
The schooner Caleb Wright was sunk in
the river at Hartford Thursday evening
marriage is noticed in the Danhury
Times, in which the happy pair are unusually
explicit in stating their position. They say;
''No cards, no receptions, no wedding tour
1t might have been expressed more tersely by
two words ''No funds
AT about noon on Friday, the Sth, one Dan
lei Regain, who was employed in the loading
room of the Whtneyyile gun manufactory,
was amusing himself by throwing gunpowder
into an open stove, in order to see it flash. 1t
flashed so much, finally, that it set off a lot of
loaded guns, the balls in which went into Re
gan's head. The verdict of the jury was
THAT the said Daniel Regan came to his
death, to the best of our knowledge and be-
lief, by carelessness in the use of gunpowder,
in his own hands"
RHODE ISLAND.
About two hundred men are at work upon
the new factory of Edward Harris, at Woon-
so cket.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Mr.. Helper, the author of ''the Impending
Crisis" and United States consul at Buenos
Ayres, brought his matrimonial affairs to a
crisis March 18TH He married Miss Mary
Rodriguez. She is native of Buenos Ayres,
but was educated in New York. and has many
acquaintances in the United States She is
beautiful, accomplished and rich. The happy
pair proceeded at once to the splendid coun-
try residence of the brides father. In the
management of his extensive estates, the old
gentleman will doubtless find his son-in-law
an efficient helper.
A soldier, in fit of delirum tremens, on
the Belletontaine (Ind.) railroad attacked
lady passenger on the train with a knife,
wounding her severely. a military officer,
coming to her rescue, received a frightful
cash across his right cheek. The superin-
tendent of the road was MORALLY stabbed in
the abdomen, and the conductor was also Sc
riously cut The lady, whose wound is a ter
rible one across the breast, will probably rot
recover.
Rather unexpected was the reply of the ur-
chin, who, on being arraigned for playing