Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-12
General News SUMMARY.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

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A. IL. Woods, mate OF the ship Sue2, was
examined On the lth on the charge Of assault
ing Cornelius b. Simmons on shpbonrd with
dangerous weapon. Simmons disappeared
on the evening OF the assault in June last, and
there are suspicious of loul play on the part
of the mate and captain, who are believed to
have thrown him overheard. The mate was
held for trial.
The will of the late Andrew J. Allen, who
died recently at Boston, directs thar his real
estate be Sold and the proceeds funded, the
interest to be applied to the payment Of annu-
tiles. and the surplus to be added to the prin-
cipal, and on the decease OF all the annui-
tants the principal is to 90 to the lefty of Bos-
ton, as residuary legatees, upon the same
terms, and for the same purposes that the
Feanklin fund was given" The Franklin
fund was left for the benefit OF poor mechan-
les The estate is estimated to be worth
500, 0O0.
MlDDLESEX COUNTY.
o. Paige Of Lowell, has been sentenced to
state prison for six years for highway robbery.
He wayad and fired at Mr.. John w. Ward
OF Chelmsford, last January, some Of the shot
passing through Mr.. Wards clothing.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Mr. Benz Drew, of Farhaven, raised this
season a turnip which weighed twenty-one
pounds.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
In the seventh school district of Uawley,
containing but sixty Inhabitants, are living
thirteen persons upwards of seventy years of
age, whose united ages amount to 1927 years,
the average being seyenty-eight and d half.
1t is entirely Il farming community, and they
are living within radius of 200 rods.
MAINE.
The wooden buildings on Front street,
Bath, were destroyed by fire on the evening
of the Sth. The fire took in a cigar manutac-
tory.
Mr.. L. j, Risech of Portland, while remoy-
ing some headstones from the cemetery at
that place, on the 9Th, was struck on the tenn
pie by one of the stones falling upon him,
which caused his almost instant death.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Portsmouth Chronicle says IA lady in
neighborng town has lately given birth to
two girls and three boys, and two each Of both
sexes are alive.
VERMONT.
Charles Clarence, who stole watch and
horse in Johnson few weeks since. broke
Jail at Hydepark, on the night of the It'll inst,
and is now at large.
Montpelier has the finest system of graded
is three stories high, having spacious hall in
the upper one, and eight or nine school rooms
in the other TWO stories. There are nearly
400 scholars Of all grades in attendance,
about 80 OF whom are in the high school.
4 committee of the Vermont legislature, to
which was referred bill giving the soldiers
the privilege of voting while absent from the
state, have made a report, in which they aver
that such act would be in violation of the
state constitution, which prescribes the time,
place and manner of voting, and explicitly
declares that tine ballots must be delivered in
person to the constable within the respective
towns.
CoNNECTICUT.
There are now near two hundred and five
boys in the State Reform School at West Nler-
iden.
George Cooper's house at East Haven, was
robbed on the 9th of several articles of con-
siderable value, by man and woman who
represented themselves as very poor and
begged for food.
Touro Hall in Hartford, is to be made into
first class theater by an outlay Of eight
thousand dollars.
At St. Johns (Episcopal) church at Hart
ford, was introduced on the 8th the respon-
sive singing of two separate choirs. 1t is
now employed with great effect in the old
world.
The first national bank at Hartford is or
Sdn1Eed, ana luts Capitol OF I.>s,,Ired
thousand dollars, with the privilege to in
crease it to million. Ii will go into opera.
ton in short time.