Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-24
General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSION AND VICINITY.
Rev. James Coyle, of st. James Roman
Catholic church, in Boston, died on the 2lst
inst, from exposure while in the performance
of his spiritual duties among the conscrpts on
Long Island He was a native of the north
of Ireland, and received his classical educa-
tion at Rome.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A great mass meeting was held in SPRING
field on the evening of the 22d, for the benefit
of the christian commission. Rev. Henry
Powers of Mittineague and Rev. Geo. Min
gins of Philadelphia addressed the meeting.
The collection which followed Melted the
handsome sum of $455.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
A teachers institute was held at Greenfield
last week, ending on the 10th. 1t was under
the auspices of the board of education, and
proved IA perfect success. Three hundred
teachers were present. Lectures were deliv-
cred by Hon. Joseph White, Rev. b. e. Nor
throp, Mr.. Tenney, Prof. Russell, Lowell
Mason, Charles Northend, Mr. Dickinson and
Miss Mitchell, teachers in the Westfield nor
NAL school, and by Mr.. Adams, secretary of
the Vermont board of education.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Counterfeit fives on the Adams bank, North
Adams, have been put in circulation. The
general appearance OF the bill is good and
well calculated to deceive.
CONNECTICUT.
Among the new counterfeits published last
week in Boston, was one on the New Haven
Bank, COnn.,-Unes, imitation. Vignette, a
sailor seated on a barrel, with spy-glass, look
ing at vessels at sea; female portrait to the
right.
RHODE ISLAND.
On the evening of the 10th, according to
the Providence Press, the mansion of the
mother OF senator Sprague was the scene of
one of the most superb affairs that ever graced
the city of Providence. 1t was a reception
party in honor of the bride and bridegroom
Young Oh chard street was orientally iluhin-
ated, and the music, and banquet, and ALL
was in style of regal munticence. Wealth
and fashion held high carnival in the city of
Roger Williams.
The American Horse Nail company in Prov
ldence have invented steam spading machine
which will do the work Of fifteen yoke of cat
tie, requiring only a man and boy to operate
It, 1t consumes one fourth of cord of wood
day.
Samuel ID. Wheaton, senior member of the
firm of Wheaton & Whitford, of Providence,
died on the Dist nit. He was for many years
president Of the Phoenix Bank, and was a
member of the General Assembly from Prov
ldence for several years.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The sum of $500 has been appropriated by
the authorities at Louisville, Kentucky, for
the purpose Of purchasing fuel for the poor
of the city.
A remarkable petriticaton of an entire tree
was lately discovered in the Baltimore mine,
at Wi.kesbarre, Pennsylvania, by the miners,
while blasting for coal. The piece of trunk
taken out weighs five thousand pounds, and
still there remain the roots and the top of the
tree embedded in the coal. There are also to
be found in the same mine petrificati ms If
the cactus and other plants peculiar to a trop-
ical climate.
well known modiste has been in the habit
of purchasing in Paris Honton laces worth n
hundred dollars per yard, trimming her old
dresses Herewith, and passing them through
the New York custom house as a part Of her
wearing apparel. The pleasant little opera
ton was repeated for the last time the other
day. and the qneenly looking lady drew her
check for $4,000 to settle arrearages ut the
custom house.
Secretary Chase a few days ago offered
proposals to several bank note companies to
print the two year legal tender notes. The
companies declining to accept his terms, Mr..
Chase Immediately ordered the notes to be
printed in the department at Washington
their number will be four hundred millions.