Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-07
GemeraI vows summary


1t Is affirmed on high authority that the cit
! liens Of Boston were only saved from the rid
icule of having Fitz John Porter invited to
receive an ovation at Faneuil Hall, by the re-
monstrauces of one of the most eminent men
in the state, himself friend of General Por-
! ter, but who was sensible Of the gross impro-
priety of honoring an officer in his position,
Rev. Robert Collyer has received Il very
urgent call to Music Hall, Boston, TO be set
tied over the twenty eighth Congregational
society (late Theodore Parker's); but he has
declined it from his strong attachment to his
society in Chicago, and interest in the great
western cause.
Gideon Currier, a witness in case recent
! ly tried before the superior court in Boston,
was fined, yesterday, 500 and costs, for re-
marking to one of the jurymen that lit was
arascally case or something to that effect.
ESSEN COUNTY.
There are lying in Gloucester harbor some
fifty sail of fine vessels, manned by four hun
dred men-about to sail for the cod and hall
but fisheries on Georges Banks, The calam-
tiles which befel the Gloucester fishermen
last winter, in the loss of vessels and lives on
these shoals, have not diminished the zeal Of
these hardy adveturers.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Miss Davis skating partner, on the pretty
ponds in South Abingdon, one day last week,
was assisting the young lady, when his skate
caught IN her hoop skirt threw him, broke his
nose, put his shoulder out of joint, and gave
Miss Davis severe fall also. Moral wear
Quakers.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
On Thursday last man named Whittredge,
| by trade Il jeweler, residing on Meeting House
| Hill, in Dorchester, committed suicide by
hanging. He had a family consisting of a
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months he has been unable to obtain employ
ment, and for weeks, it is said, the family has
lived on nothing but Indian meal On the
day of his death there was neither food nor
fuel in the house. The children have been
attending school, very scantily supplied with
| clothing. The deceased was about 80 years
of age, and has resided in Dorchester many
years He was formerly in comfortable cir
cumstances, and was probably too high spirit
ed to make known the destitute condition of
his family.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Camp Hooker at Lakeyille, has been closed
mp and abandoned-the spare effects having
been removed to Readville. The parolled
| prisoners who were there have gone to the
| dreary den at Annapolis
The Flour Mill Company of New Bedford
has determined to increase their capital stock
| rom SJUOUO TO SlZO,UOU.
The editor of the Taunton Gazette suggests
that there should be statute of limitation
| against the early marriages of army widows.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The president has Internationally pardoned
| Joseph S. Hewins, of FALMOUTH, who was
some menths ago convicted and imprisoned
| for the robbery of money belonging to the
! Falmouth bank.
| RHODE ISLAND.
The first Smithfeld association for the de-
| lection of thieves was organized in 1893, and
is still looking sharp after rogues. Its lead
ing officers for 1868 are as follows President,
Spencer Mowry; vice president, Edward
Hotchkiss; clerk and treasurer, Thomas A.
Paine; collector, Cyrus Arnold.
MAINE.
Mrs. L. D. Fills of Gorham died few DAYS
since, under strange and sad circumstances
She had been for several weeks under special
religious impressions, resulting, as her friends
thought in her conversion. The day follow
ing, however, she became violently insane,
and continued raving maniac for two days,
when she fell into deep sleep, out of which
she was never again reused.
The steam boiler used in the tannery of
Milliken & Shaw, in Alton, collapsed its fiues
on Monday last, instantly killing the second
engineer, Frank Howe, and injuring the first
are no hopes 0S q s ec 90 The
gineers were at the time repairing steam
pipe, and permitted the water to get too low
IN the boiler, causing the flues to collapse the
moment they started the supply pipe.
The Belfast journal vouches for the follow
ing a gentleman of this city had at one time
in his employ an Irishman possessed of good
deal more zeal than knowledge. His employ
er gave him key one morning with direct
ions to ego to the post office and get the con-
tents of forty" Pat vanished, but presently
came back with pockets, hat, and hands filled
with miscellaneous collection of mail matter
and the explanatiOn-"I couldn't open forty,
sir, but L opened all l could, and here they
bel"
| CONNECTICUT.
Revivals are in progress among the Baptist
of Ashford and Wallingford and the churches
of that denomination are receiving large ac-
QUESTIONS.
The steamer State of Maine has been char.
tered by the government and is to be with
| drawn from the Sound route to New York
| The steamer City Of New York is the only
| boat left on the line-making three trips a
| week.
Mr.. Franklin Harvey of North Colebrook,
has three brothers and nine nephews in the
army, and the only son he had capable of do
| ing military duty enlisted, and died after be-
ing mustered in.
DR.. John w. Hooker, formerly professor of
the physical department in Amherst college,
but recently of New Haven, died in Norwich
on Tuesday last.
Gen. Kimberly, recently deceased at New
Haven, gave $4,000 to the State General Hos
pital Society, and $500 to the West Haven
Ecclesiastical Congregational Society, in the
town of Orange.
The Hartford Courant published, day or
two since, half column of highly original po-
etry, in which there were sprinkled several
lines in italics, conveying sentiments said to
be given in ''Sanscrit," but which upon anal
ysis yield strong circumstantial evidence that
they are more Confederate than Sanscrit.
The italc lines, read Backwards, were as fol-
lows -
80 bless our brave cOniederates, Lord
Scourge with thy wrath the Yankee horde
Help Lee, Bragg, Jackson, j ohnston Joe,
TO give them fits in Dixie, o!
Bring Nincompoop theTirst, down fiat,
And all his crew, old Nat Banks too,
And every low-born Yankee rat!'
The Courant gracefully ''owped up" by
saying it all came from its being unaccus-
toned to the ways of the wicked. The docu-
ment in question was mailed at New Orleans,