Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-07-29
General News summary



this country but few weeks, was robbed OF
500 gold Ave franc pieces in Boston, on the
25th, by poor scamp whom he had engaged
rs interpreter.
Henry Mclaughlin was arrested in Boston
on the 9th, charged with being engaged with
others in assaultng officers Wnship ana
Frost on the l4th inst. He was held in $40,
00O for trial.
Two fellows named Clayton and Ryan, had
fight in Boston on the 9th about the pay
ment of hack hire. Ryan got the best OF the
fight, and sat down in his own room to supper,
when Mrs Margaret Clayton went in and
broke heavy plate and sugar bowl over his
head, inhictng severe wounds, from which
| it sfeared he will not recover.
Capt. Herman Flagg of the schooner Con-
stitution, lying at North-end wharf, Boston,
fell overheard on the 9th inst, and was
| drowned.
In the U. S. commissioners court, on the
| eth. William Cook was charged with pre-
SEEMING to an officer to the United States
false writing in support of an alleged claim
against the United States. Cook was held in
the sum of 1900 for trial
NORFOLK COUNTY.
A lad climbing over II ledge of rocks in
Roxbury, the other day, saw something bright
in cavity, which proved to be a piece of
silver money. Further search brought to
| light twenty-five more pieces-shillngs, six
pences, threepences end twopences all of the
Massachusetts ''Pine tree" coinage of 1862.
The boy sold the collection for 500.
During the six months ending July lst, the
city clerk of RoXbury issued 104 marriage
certificates.
The Roxbury city government has voted to
| give the same aid to the families and depen-
dents of those who may be drafted, as is now
afforded to the families and dependents of the
| volunteers.
| BRISTOL COUNTY.
The work of building the wharf of the New
Bedford copper company is well under way,
nearly all the piles being already driven.
The revenue cutter which has been ordered
to New Bedford has arrived from Newbern.
The Fall River journal states that of 26
inhabitants of Steep Brook Village, enrolled
in the first class militia, % were drawn.
Six out of sixteen substitutes for persons in
Taunton escaped on the afternoon of the 25th
inst, but they were all retaken before the
next morning. One of the slippery fellows
was substitute broker.
The dwelling house Of John Rountree, at
| Hopewell, was struck by lightning on the Goth
inst. There were seven persons in the house,
one of whom was knocked down, but none
| seriously injured.
An ecclesiastical council has recommended
that the connection between Rev. II, w. Par
ker and the North Congregational church in
| New Bedford be dissolved in pursuance of a
| request from the former.
| BARNSTABLE COUNTY.
| The grounds at the new campmeeting grove
in Yarmouth, have been greatly improved,
and will be in perfect order by the time
| NnIf for fla ,,,,, A.,
gust Sd.
| HAMPDEN COUNTY.
A Kentuckian who works at the water
shops, Springfield, and who takes no pains to
suppress his sympathy with the south, got
handsomely spotted the other day by an
| indignant patriot who couldn't stand it any
longer" Its a pity every copperhead couldn't
get his just dues.
A counterfeit ten on the John Hancock
bank in Springfield, has made its appearance
at Utica, N. Y, and is said to be an excellent
imitation of the genuine.
The shop on Central street, near Maple,
| owned and occupied by 10 RI IL D. =
| been sold to Hartford firm for S9,5OO. 1t
will soon be used for the manufacture Oh per-
0ussio" . G.' number of names in the Spring
| field directory for 1863, is about 6,400, and
recOning at the acknowledged rate of four per-
sons to each name, the population at this time
Is 25,6O0, which is probably less than the real
| number.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
| An Irish conScript from Lee, who was COM
ing to Springfield on the 9th, for examine
ton, while standing on the platform of car
as the train passed through the bridge a short
distance from Beckett, was struck by the
bridge and knocked off from the train. His
Sbouliar ho1l1 bod
badly bruised, but he was alive on Monday
night with fair prospect that he would re-
main So
MAINE.
Hutchinson, who was under sentence of
death for desertion, escaped from fort Preble
on the 24th, by slipping his irons and escaping
to the woods. AT last accounts he had not
heen caught
The diptheria has been prevailing to an
alarming extent in Goldsboro Its ravages
there have not been confined to children
Among the victims are persons of mature
age.
The ship Speedwel, of Portland, Just ar
rived from CrOnstadt, was struck by lightning
when in Light House Channel, and had her
foremost, foretopmast and foretopgallant mast
split.
a Dahlgren gun, weig ing seventeen tons,
was cast at the Portland Iron Company's
works on the oath. 1t was the largest piece
Of ordnance ever cast at that establishment.
Rev. Edward Halves, Congregationalist,
Waterville; Rev. VIM. X. Kelton, Baptist,
Waterville; Rev. Ebenezer Bean, Congre-
gationalist, Gray; Rev. G. w. Ballou, Meth
odist Poland; Rev. C. II. Carlton, Baptist,
New Gloucester, and Rev. C. w. Blackman,
Methodist, Portland, are among the clergy
men honored by the draft in Maine thus far.
VERMONT.
A fellow by the name Of Hurd was arrested
in Waterbury VT, on the 10th inst, for living
with another mans wife.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Professor Samuel G. Brown of Dartmouth
college has been transferred from the profess
orship Of rhetoric and bellies lettres, in that
institution, to that of intellectual philosophy,
which was vacated two years since by the de-
cease of Prof Long. There are two other
professorships vacant.
Two large barns and a shed situated near
South Lyndeboro' Village, owned by John
and Frank Fletcher of Greenfield, were en-
tirely consumed, with their contents, on the
26th inst.
CONNECTICUT.
The following prizes for defamation have
recently been awarded in the Sophomore
class, Yale College: First divison-lstp prize,
Joseph A. Bent, New Ipswich, n. H.. I'd
prize, &. w. Brown, West Killingly, CT; Sd
prize, j. f. Allen, Pittsfeld, Mass. Second
dYlson-lst prize, j. IL. Isham, New Haven,
Vt; "a prize, G. Kimberly, New Haven, Ct;
Sd prize. J. w. Ewell, Byield Mass. Third
dlvlsiOn-lst prize s s Martin, New Haven.