Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-25
General news SUMMARY
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

for Huntington hall in that city. 1t was orig
molly built for the Handel and Hayden sucie-
ty at Il cost Of $4,000.
Sergeant Plunkctt Of the Twenty first, Wis
tied the State House on Thursday, and was,
of course, cordially received. He will be at
Boston Merchants Exchange to-day and will
have the tattered banner that he rescued with
him.
teamster named John Cruise, has been
obliged to give bail for four hundred dollars
for appearance for trial at the next term of
the Superior court, for wiiully obstructing
the passage of the cars OF the Metropolitan
railroad company.
Tho eldest son OF the poet Longfellow. only
is years of age, has been commissioned as
second lieutenant in the LIST Massachusetts
cavalry.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
The town OF Waltham, last Monday, APP
propriated $ll 900 to build schoolhouse to
accommodate the high school. 1t will be To-
Gated on a lot east Of the Unitarian church.
flagstaff, sixty feet high, has been raised
by the SOLDIERS National Charitable ASsoci-
alton" on the John Quincy Adams farm, in
Weston, which with the adjoining land, has
been leased for the purpose of a home for Grip
pied soldiers.
Friday morning, a Mr.. Scollay, of Edge
worth, an aged man, was struck by an engine
while crossing the track at that place, and in
stantly killed.
ESSEN COUNTY.
| The Union men Of Salem had an enthusiasts
tic meeting on Wednesday evening under the
auspices Of the loyal league. Hon. A. II.
Bullock making an eloquent and patriotic adj
dress.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
A new fort is now being erected at Clarke's
| Point, New Bedford. Ten l0-inch columbi-
ads are daily expected, and when completed
the fort will be ready for the mounting of so
guns. The work is being constructed under
the superintendent Of Capt. II. NJ Roberts,
U. S. engineers.
About IS or 100 acres Of wood land, about
three miles west of the Depot III Norton, was
burnt Thursday afternoon. Besides the
standing wood some cord wood was destroy
ed. One man, Horace Pond, lost his hat and
watch, and had his left leg badly bruised on
the calf, and his hand injured by the fire The
land burnt over belonged to benjamin With.
erell and widow Shaer.
| MAINE.
The editor OF the Aroostook Pioneer says
| that while driving through the woods recently
he saw girl about X years Of age standing
before the door Of a log house, and looking
at him very wishfully. Surprising she wanted
| something, lie reined up, when she said
''Please, Mr.. s., let me have some hairs from
your horses tail to make a ring"
| RHODE ISLAND.
The enrolment under the new militia law
has been completed in Providence, and shows
a total OF o5ll. In Cumberland the number
is 500 III Newport 1854.
The bark Sea R4nG4afrs of CIV fr46iiiI" Zanzibar.
and Capt. Dow reports that on March 2Sth. in
| lat 7 daUraaS I,r, % i.
they saw on the lee beam bark supposed to
be the Alabama, which gave chase. He had
taken the precaution to place the words
Condor Hamburg" on the stern of the Sea
Ranger, and when ne found the stranger was
| gaining on him he hoiSted fly at the nizzen
| head mast and then the Hamburg co Tors.
| whereupon the other vessel hoisted English
colors and dropped astern.
CONNECTICUT.
Mr.. Eli Tyler Of Middlebury, hung himself
on Wednesday, the 10th, and shortly after
the discovery OF his body, a man named Hayes,
neighbor, started to inform brother of Mr..
Tyler Of the fact. His horse ran and he was
thrown out, injuring his head very badly,
and he is reported to have since died.
Mr. Silas futile started on horseback TO
obtain doctor to attend Mr.. Hayes, when
his horse fell with him, breaking three of his
y
wood of WATERFOWL, a neighbor of the parties
above named, while Harvesting his horse.
was kicked by the animal and had his skull
broken in. He was injured so badly he soon
expired.
Mr.. Richard Clark, of New Milford.
killep himself by eating opium, while he
was intoxicated, last Sabbath evening. He
leaves family. Mr.. Clark formerly resided
in Waterbury,
The buildings Of 0. d. North & Co., in New
Britain, manufacturers of saddlery hardware.
were burned Thursday morning at 5 o'clock.
Loss estimated at about $50, 000-insured for
900.
The United States hospital at New Haven
has now in its charge four hundred and fiftv
wounded soldiers, all but about fifty being
Connecticut men. At the first start. men
from all narts of the country were sent there.
but now the hospital is made the home of Con,
necticut soldiers, and the medical officers
at Washington intend to send all such
wounded soldiers to that hospital in the flu
ture.
The building connected with the Eagle
Co. scythe shop in Hitchcockville in which
the grinding, polishing and finishing was done,
took fire and was entirely destroyed, Tuesday
noon. Loss about S2000-insurance Sl4OO.
MISCELLANEOUS
1t is stated in the English papers that the
able bodied young men of Ireland are leay
ing for the United States, to the number Of
fifteen hundred week, and that the emigra-
ton is likely to continue through the snm-
mer season. English writers and officials
say in their anger, that these young men 90
under the hope of ultimately liberating Ire
land from England with the aid of Ameri-
cans.
London journal of fashionable intelH-
gence thus lays down the law about popln
'Poplin is beginning to be worn, but in the
matter OF fashion in England it will be swayed
IN very great measure by the Princess of
Wales. We may without hesitation predict
that silver-grey poplin will be very fasbiona-
bic this season. 1t was this material the
princess wore on her entry into London, and
it is historical as having been ordered bv her
as pleasant surprise to her majesty whose
favorite hue it is"
The New Albany Ledger says that Mrs.
Nlagee OF Rowena, Wells county, Ind. has
presented her spouse, during the last three
| years and a half with no less than twelve
children, all of whom are alive.
Nathaniel Wolf is candidate for CONGRESS
in the Louisville district of Kentucky. He
has held various public positions. and is
san opponent of all the radical measures
of the administration, otherwise conner
head.
Two regiments of loyal men have been
raised in Arkansas third is forming.
Seven copperheads engaged in the late riot
sVah nVa 10 lid In,, H..