Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-02-06
General News Summary
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

Two brothers, a few weeks since, proposing
to take jaunt from Boston to Newbern, to
see their army friends, invested five thousand
dollars in manufacturing stocks before their
departure, hoping to pay their expenses by
the advance in price during their absence.
On their return in three weeks, they sold out
and pockcted one thousand six hundred dollars
profits
The members of the Boston common coun-
Gil, who know how the hospitality" of the city
dffuses itself whenever it has a reasonable ex-
cuse, voted to extend tito General Mcclellan.
The aldermen, however, blocked their game
and refused to concur. One of the aldermen
took occasion to rebuke the spirit which man
ilests spite toward the government by affected
Qualifications of that officer.
The gallant Colonel Cross of the fifth New
Hampshire regiment, is at the Parker House.
Boston, seriously i'll. He has been at home
recovering from his wounds, and was again
en- route for the army, when he was taken
sick.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
DR.. BENJAMIN Osgood died in Westford. on
the lst inst, at the advanced age of eighty
two years and ten months. He commenced
practice as a physician at Littleton, in 1916,
nearly half century ago, and held during
that period a respectable rank in his profess
sion, and the good will Of the people among
whom he practised.
7. Pearson, Esq, a prominent member of
the Middlesex bar, has been commissioned as
captain in the fifteenth Massachusetts battery.
This company was recruited in Lowell, and is
now at fort Warren 1t will be sent to New
Orleans early next week.
Hosea Jewell of Cambridge died very sud-
denly in tine cars between Cambridge and Bos-
"Wednesday aftnrnoOO He had held
various honorable positions in Cambridge, and
at the time of his death was one of the alder
men of the city, and deputy sheriff for Mid
dleseX county.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The Newburyport Herald tells the story of
young woman in that section who, con-
WINGED of the death of her husband in a recent
battle, put on mourning, drew the bounty
money of the deceased and then engaged her
self to be married to another defender of his
country. The wedding day was appointed,
the gifts made, and everything ready, when
the startling news came that she was no
widow, her unreasonable first having had the
audacity to be taken prisoner instead of being
shot, and to return from Richmond alive and
well!
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mrs. Ruth Russell of New Bedford now
matron at the Seminary Hospital at George
town, d. c., has been offered an appointment
as assistant to Mrs. Gen. Lander, who has un-
dertaken the organization of the female de-
partment at Hilton Head.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
While young lawyer of Manchester was
on his way home, Tuesday evening, the Their
mometer standing at zero, and the streets
almost deserted for the night-he was met by
man and woman who wished him to marry
them. He suggested in vain that it was late
and rather cold and that they would do better
to call i'll the morning; but the candidates
were resolved, and married they were on the
spot-the city fountain witnessing the cere-
mony, and still singing its monotonous tune
as the parties went on theirway rejoicing