Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-29
General News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

state prison.
About seven hundred conscripts and sub
stituies embarked at Long Island, on board
the steamer Forest City ON the 9th inst
They will be taken to the army of the POtO-
mac. Most Of the men are from New Hamp-
shire and Maine.
Michael Malone has been arrested for taking
part in the assault on officer OStrander at
Boston, in July last, and held in $4,000 TO ap-
pear IN the police court at that place, to-day.
Ezra Gee, twenty seven years of age, a
brakeman on the Boston and Maine railroad,
had his skull fractured by coming in contact
with bridge, on the 26th inst. He was taken
TO the hospital in Boston, but survived only a
few hours
The bakery of Messrs ThurSton & Hall in
CambridgeP0rt was badly damaged by fire on
the evening Of the 9th inst.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Hon. Otis Carey, republican nominee for
the senate in the West Norfolk district, was Sc
we're inquired in consequence OF being thrown
from his carriage while driving along the road
about half mile from his residence in Fox
boro ON the 27Gh
ESSEX COUNTY.
Newburyporl landlord was astonished the
other day by on, OF his guests settling his bill
OF IS with silver money, the real rhino, and
asking Tor no premium. The same man had
SO gold piece. OF course he did not be-
long In those parts.
The oldest man in Ilaverhil, Hon. Moses
Wlngate, entered upon his 95Jh year on the
10Th inst. Mr.. Ningaic has held many offices
of honor and trust, and has been il member
of the senate. lie still retains his faculties
to remarkable degree, and is apparently in
good health.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Baptist society OF Holyoke, whose
church was recently burned, have decided to
rebuild early in the spring.
James Cahll and Michael Liby ATTEMPTED to
force an entrance into the Cabot House, Chi
c0pee, on the night of the Goth, but the board
ers at the house rallied and freely used their
pistols and shot guns, when the fellows beat a
nasty retreat. They were pursued and ar
rested.
In the suit Of Richard Escott of Springfield
against tin: estsrte tiie iate w. h. Burton of
New Ork, Escurt has recovered 81 1928 dam
ages. Several OF the leading musical critics
and composers OF New York were on the stand
as witnesses, and the trial occupied nearly
four days.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
II. A Marsh OF the Amherst Express is
quite successful in obtaining recruits at
Northampton, his number already being TWEEN
ty-hve. An uaOieached American from Am
herst, who came to enlist, found il colored
damsel, and was married in less than half an
hour when he was told about the state aid.
W. A. Burdett of Northampton, who stole
an overcoat and other articles from Porter
Bridgman of Belchertown on the 24th, was
arrested in Hadley on the Goth, and put un-
der $500 bonds by Justice Dickinson Of Bel
chertown for trial by the superior court.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Eighteen fine apple trees, owned by Caleb
L. Forbes of Buckland, were blown down du-
ring recent storm.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A couple of Piltsfield men named Prentice |
and Anthony, were arrested last week by
Deputy Marshal Childs for attempting to de- |
fraud the government, and will have their
hearing at Boston on the I'd of November.
They took dcserter, knowing him to be such,
to Poughkcepsie, N. Y, and passed him IN as
a substitute, making 500 out of the operation.
MAINE.
Lieut.. VIM. H. Smyth, 10Th U. S. infantry,
and a son of Prot. VIM. Smyth of Bowdoin
college, who has been repeatedly reported as
killed in the recent battle of Chickamauga, has
been heard from as Il prisoner in the Libby
prison in Richmond.
Rodney WitherSpoon, keeper of the Eagle |
Island light, says that recently the lighthouse
was eultIeu W SOlllC pciSOlIg WIN tAIllSulSu-
ed the lamp, also the hand lamp in his sleep
ing room, and robbed his pockets of five dol
lars, all lie had ut the time.
The HouIton Times says that Mr.. A. G.
Hunt has horse which he drove on the 23d |
to Presque Isle and back, distance of 81 |
miles, in IA l.2 hours, including all stoppages
to feed and rest.
VERMONT.
The Sd Vermont battery, Captain Start, is
nearly full one hundred and twenty.six men
have been recruited.
A great effort has been made to introduce |
bills into the legislature to amend the general |
statutes; but ii does not work very well. An
adjournment is already talked of.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Mr.. Thomas L. Breed of Weare, had
pair of oxen stolen on the night of the oath |
inst. They were stolen from pasture near
his house.
There are now between eighteen and nine |
teen hundred men employed in the various
departments at the Portsmouth navy yard,
and it is not at all probable that this mum.
Der will be diminished for some months to
come.
young man in Portsmouth has been ar.
rested for robbIng house in the town of
York, Maine, of six hundred and ten dollars,
and then setting the building on fire. He has
III now Doiu0 BOOu
Alonzo Taylor, who was stabbed by James
Felgate at Lake Village last week, has since
died.
There was tin wedding in New London
some evenings since, where it was suggested
that it would be pleasing to have another just
ten e RS from that night, and that in order to
secure one some affianced couple should step
forward aud be married. TO the surprise of
the social party lady and gentleman quietly
and gracefully emerged from the crowd, as
sumed IA conspicuous position, and were law
fully united as husband and wife. The lady
was widow.
CONNECTICUT.
The late freshet in the Wilimantic river at
Wiuimantic has caused suspension of work
on the new dam for the season.
The annual meeting of the New London
county missionary society was held at New
London on the 23d. William Williams, ESQ.,,
of Norwich, was elected president for the en-
suing year, and Gov. Buckingham one of its
vice presidents. Twenty-one foreign mis-
sionaries have been born in that county.
Gov. Buckingham has ordered an extra ses-
sion of the legislature to convene on the 4th