Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-09

BOSTON AND VICINITY.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
There are 1913 inmates at the Suffolk iail
ia for non-payment of fines. There are
now about HOO men on board the receiving
ship Ohio, at the Charlestown navy yard.
From fifteen to twenty are received daily.
There will be a draft of about FIVE hundred
made from this number within a few weeks,
800 of whom are to put on board the TicOn-
derOga, II on the Acacia, and Ill ON the Pc
quot.
The Bromfeld street Methodist church was
burned early on Tuesday morning, Dec. s.
The ten steam fire engines by the greatest ex-
ertion saved the surrounding buildings The
whole roof of the church fell at four O'Clock
with a great crash. The walls stand firm.
The organ was destroyed, and, though the in
terror is mass OF guins, the great pulpit BIZ
Bile remained unscorehed. 1t was built and
dedicated in 1906.
There are now eight or nine hundred new
volunteers at the Long Island rendezvous.
On the 18th, l0l men were received from New
Hampshire.
The Boston Post tells of mail bag which
contained bitten sour apple coming from a
post office near by, where a pretty postmiS-
tress presdes. The route agent addressed his
return package Of letters ''to the postmistress
who sent the sour apple, but left the taste of
her own s,eeet lips on the outside" She will
be likely to cut that fellow after this.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Micajah Burrill the oldest man in Lynn,
died on the Sth, aged So.
Hon. George W. Jackman, Jr., has been
nominated as the citizens candidate for mayor
of Newburyport. Mr.. Currier, nominated on
the 4th, declines to run.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Rev. DIR. Eddy, of the First church. North.
L ~ ii
the Pearl street church, Hartford, Conn, with
a salary of $500.
Two Buekland turkeys, weighing twenty
two pounds each, were sold in northampton
for Thanksgiving dinners.
A barn at Bechertown belonging to ].
Burke, was burnt on the 4th, and two cows
with it.
A splendid meteor was seen at Belcher-
town, on the might Of the 4th.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
There was murder in one of the public
streets of North Adams, on the 4th Alonzo
i. Gardner, fast young man and villain, Sc
duced the wife of VIM. Shadduck The guilty
party were met by the aggrievad husband, and
an alteration ensued. Mr.. Siladduck threw
Gardner, who, while down, stabbed Shadduek
so that he died in a few hours. Mrs S. is a
reckless and fascinating woman, aged twenty
eight.
MAINE.
At the meeting of the stockholders of the
Somerset and Kennebec railroad, held in Au-
gusta on the 9TH, it was voted to lease the S.
and X, road for a term of twenty years at an
annual rental of $4,000.
Vice President Hamlin has taken his family
to Washington, and keeps house.
Tue total value of foreign exports from
Portland last week amounted to $l45,336 80.
VERMONT.
Volunteering appears to be going on in
Vermont with success that promises a COM
pletion of the quota previous to Jan. 5.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The dwelling house of Rev. w. L. Gaylord
of Fitzwilliam, was destroyed by fire on the
LIST inst.
A Mr.. Hersey of Tuftonborough, since the
second week in October, besides attending
to the labors of the farm, and writing more or
less for the press, has caught and sold minks
enough to come to the sum of over forty dol
lars.
CONNECTICUT.
A squad of sixty soldiers were sent on the
18th from the knight Hospital to their respec-
tive regiments in the field
A barn belonging to John Benham of Gro
ton, was destroyed by fire, together with its
contents on the 9th, involving a heavy loss
Prof. Love, the magician, who recently
eloped with married woman, Mrs. Edward
Jilison of Norwich has ''settled" by enlisting
in the army.
The train from Hartford to Springfield on
the evening Of the 9th, encountered a loose
brace on the bridge at Windsor Locks in such
manner that nearly all the car windows ON
one side of the train were broken. A few of
the passengers were slightly scratched.
RHODE ISLAND.
DIR. Mercer, resident of Louisiana, and
notorious as practical sympathzer with Sc
cession, offered donation OF $50 to the city
of Newport, to procure Thanksgiving din
ner to the poor, and the authorities refused to
accept it.
Thomas Lawler, young man employed on
Hon. Edward Harris's new mill, at Woon-
socket fell from the fourth story to the wheel
pit, on the 9th, and was instantly killed.