Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-01
General News summary.


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| Mr.. George Washburn, who is under APP
pointment as missionary to Constantinople,
was ordained on the 29th ult., by an ecclesas.
teal council assembled for the purpose at
Middeboro'.
Mr. Isaac Hitler, of Mattaposett has raised
bunch of 10 stalks of rye, all from one ker-
mel of seed.
Lazell and Perkins, of Bridgewater, are
making gun from wrought iron, which will
weigh, when completed, about seventeen tons.
1t is forged solid in an octagOnal form, with
the cavity bored out thirteen inches in diam
eter, and will be hoped with strong bands of
iron put on by hydraulic pressure. The lathe
ON which the metal is being turned is one Of
the largest in the world.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The organization Of home guard at South
Adams is contemplated, and sixty -four
Springfield muskets have been purchased.
The new trOtting park in Pittstield cost
$4,000. 1t embraces twenty-five acres.
The half-naked fellow that has been fright
ening people between South Adams and Savoy,
probably an escaped lunatic, was drafted, but
has run away.
A chap who was drawing wood a few days
ago near Three Mill Hiil," in Great Bar
rington, took up his lines and what he sup
posed to be his whip but it proved to be a
stretched out beside the reins. He didn't
hold it great while, but killed it without be-
ing hurt by it. Another of about the same
length was killed near the same place on the
18th ult.
New gas street lamps are being introduced
in Pittsfield. The gas company furnish the
| posts and lamps at price cost, and gas at $l2
year
A little son of Charles E. Streeter of North
| Adams fell from a tree nearly forty feet in the
dry bed of the river, striking upon the rocks
beneath, and seriously tracturing his skull
He expired the next morning.
Francis & Clary, machiniSts, of Pittsfeld,
have contracts for furnishing engines for three
of the new iron-clad vessels now building for
the government.
The proposed reception of the 49th regi-
ment at Pttstield comprises a procession, sa-
Lutte, bell-rihging, music, collation., and an adj
dress Of welcome by S. w. Bowerman. Gra-
ham A. Root of Sheffield is to be chief mar
shall of the day. Mrs. Gen. Banks, who is
stopping at New Lebanon Springs, n. Y, has
signihed her intention to be present.
The old glass works at Berkshire village,
Lanesboro, are to he torn down and new build
| ings erected on the site.
At the recent sitting of the Superior court
at LenoX, james L. Petit, for rape, was SEN
fenced to one day solitary confinement, and
| the remainder of life at hard labor in the state
prison.
| BRISTOL COUNTY.
son of Michael Feeley, living in Taun-
| ton, had his right arm fractured on the 18th,
while at play with another boy
Large numbers of good sized bass are being
caught from the Fairhaven bridge and vicni-
ty.
At New Bedford, Capt. Allen, orderly SER
geant Chllds, and three priyates, of the sixth
company of heavy artillery, met with an i'm.
promptu drenching while sailing down the
harbor to fort Taber on the Both their boat
being suddenly uptet by squall of wind
Fortunately boat from schooner came to
the rescue.
MlDDLESEX COUNTY.
lady in Lowell has full grown pink lily
of the Amaryllis species which came forth as
a sprout from the earth on Sunday and the
flower spread open early on Wednesday
morning. The height OF flower and stalk is
nine inches.
wag in Lowell inquiries whether peuro-
pneumonia is ever cause OF exemption from
the milk men He says he has seen every 9TH
er curious disease named but that one in the
list.
The number of marriage certificates issued
by the city clerk of Cambridge, during the
first six months Of this year, was lib, showing
no diminutiOn.
MAINE.
Ship building is increasing greatly all along
the coast of Maine.
Fort Popham, at the mouth of the Kenne-
bee river, now i'll the process of construction,
when completed, will be manned with &c
guns. Some already in position are 100
pound rifle cannon.
Prof. Henry, of the Smithsonian Institution
has presented Bowdoin College a beautiful
collection of shells, 3O5 in number made by
Admiral Wilkes, when in the exploring expe-
dition.
The prize for defamation in the Sophie
more class, Bowdoin College, was awarded on
the 28th ult., to John Bradbury Cotton,
Lewiston, Me-, and David Augustus Eaton,
Yellow Springs, Ohio.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
One man was exempted in Springfield on
the S0th ult, on account of e chronic lip-
tudio," and another for chronic periostitis
of tibia." 1t is to be hoped that the poor fell
lows havn't got it very bad, but there's no
telling what the liptudio and tibia may do
when they get well seated,
VERMONT.
Jonathan Shepard, one of the Oldest inhab-
itants of Montpelier, died on the 26th ult in
the Cpd year of his age. He settled in Mont
pelier in 1888.
RHODE ISLAND.
Two men from South Kingstown, who were
members of the I'd Rhode Island regiment,
and deserted at the first battle of Bull Run,
March 2lst, 1861, recently gave themselves
up to Marshal Chadsey of Providence. Upon
deserving they Immediately enlisted in the
navy for two years, where they served their