Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-09
General News Summary.


While man named Collagan was crossing
a vacant lot on Second street, South Boston,
on the 9TH, he was attached ly Il vicious cow
and so much injured that his lite is dispaired
of.
VIM. G.. Cooley of Boston was brought be
fore commissioner Hallett on the Sth, on the
charge of making tale papers in regard to hi,
age, and thus defrauding the government. As
the papers were at Newburn, and could not bC
received here in less than two weeks, the
case was continued until the 22d.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
The honorary degree of A. NJ was confer
red by Dartmouth College, at its recent com
mencement, on Rev Isaac Smith of Foxboro
Mass.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The small pox continues to prevail to con
siderable extent in Charlestown. In one Dor
ton of the city there are no less than thirty OF
forty cases, and in single family as many az
four are Frustrated at once. 1t is said the
disease has been spread considerably by hold
ing ''wakes" over the dead bodies.
Constable Rogers of Boston has caused CON
siderable commotion in Cambridgeport, by the
forcible abduction of little girl from heI
mother, in her own house. The of7icer was
accompanied by the father, who has had some
is now pending in court.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Rev. William j. Potter of New Bedford,
who has been drawn for a soldier, preached
his farewell discourse in the Unitarian church
on the 9Th inst.
BARNSTABLE COUNTY.
AT the Superior Court for Barnstable coun.
ty, last week, Mr.. Samuel L. Soper was or
dered, by the verdict of jury, to pay the
sum of 500 to Miss Christie Kemp for SLAM
dering her character.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A monument is being erected in England,
by English gentlemen, to the memory of John
Hampden, from whom Hampden county Dor.
rows its name. 1t consists of a stone obelsk
eight feet high, surmounted by a Maltese
cross, and bearing the following inscription
''For these lands in Stoke Vaudeville, John
Hampden was assessed in twenty shillings
ship money, levied by command of the king,
without authority of law, the 4th of August,
1885. By resisting the claim of the king in
legal strife he upheld the rights of the people
under the law, and became entitled to grateful
remembrance. His work on earth ended af-
ter the conflict of Chalgrove Field, the 18th
of June, 1913, and he rests in Great Hampden
church..
railroad collision occurred at Springfield
on the 18th. One baggage car was somewhat
spoiled and one of the engines nearly used up.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
James S. Hodge of Wilbraham, a drummer
in the 9th regiment going home on fur
Tough, attempted to cross the railroad in
Springfield on the 9TH inst, and was run over
by train of cars and instantly killed.
Stephen Murphy of Springfield was arrest.
ed on the 18th inst. for beating his wife to
death. His two sons were arrested for wit
nesses. One of them said that the father
threatened to kill him if he told of the affair.
Murphy was drunk when he did it.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Rev. O. Tracy, the pastor Of the Baptist
church in Greenfield, died very suddenly OF
apoplexy on the 9th inst, at the age of six
ty-iye. He was highly esteemed not only in
his own congregation, by the whole commu
nifty.
Capt. A. B. Long, of the gid regiment, OF
Greenfield, has specimen of the salt found
at New Iberia, La. 1t is of excellent quality
ana transparent as glass.
MAINE.
Winfield S. Norcross of Monmouth. anC
James Wharf of Madison, were before judy,
ware at Bath, Me-, on the Sd inst, charged
WIN oostructng the progress of the draft a
augusta ny engaging in u conspiracy to de
fraud the government. Each pleaded guilty
and on account of some mitigating eircum
stances Norcross was sentenced TO nav S30O
and Wharf $500, and stand committed unti
the same is paid. That's it. Put if TO th
copperheads!
Gen. Whiddon, of Calais, long known i,
Maine as prominent democrat, has takei
the stump in favor of Judge Cony, the Uniot
candidate for governor. Among the Unior