Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-17
General News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


from head to toe. 1t is the work of com
mon miner, who wrought it from single
block of COAL which was taken out of vein
nine feet thick in one OF the coal mines in
Pennsylvania. 1t is an extraordinary speci-
men of the golfers skill, and of the anthra.
cite of our sister state, being not only highly
finished but presenting every appearance OF a
statue of solid iron.
Cmckering & Co. of Boston have Just made
their 25000th piano. Part OF their immense
factory building is now occupied for the man
utacture of breech. loading rifles; and so
from one end goes forth the soothing, refining
implements of music, and from the other the
messengers of grim war and death.
The authorities at Washington have ordered
the utmost dispatch in fitting out the vessels
at the Charlestown navy yard, to go in pur-
suit of the rebel pirates, whose recent bold
and extended operations have produced a
strong feeling throughout the mercantile
community. The United States steamer Iron
Age, which has been undergoing repairs at
Charlestown, will be sent to sea Immediately,
TO be followed by the Cambridge and others
| now at the yard.
| The National Lancers, Bostons favorite
cavalry corps, celebrated their 18th anniyer-
sary on Monday.
The Boston cricket club went up to Shell
burne Falls, and beat the club at that place by
q runs, one day last week.
Mayor Lincoln left Boston on the 9Th with
very beautiful flag for the LIST regiment. 1t
is to take the place of the colors already worn
out in the service.
William Page, three and a half years old
fell into boiler OF hot water, on the 18th,
and was so severely scalded as 10 live but a
few hours.
Lieut.. Col. De Costa, of the I'd Arkansas
Il ~.
made a raid into Mississippi, bringing off 800
blacks, 100 mules and horses, $4,000 worth of
cotton and forage and subsistence for his
whole command for four days, and making
| $4,000 clean for the government.
The Hancock house was sold by Samuel
| Hatch, Esq, at auction, on the l6th for $3.50.
| Mr.. Dalrymple the purchaser. Every
| thing appertaining to the house, with the ex
ception Of one of the front steps, was sold.
George L. Stearns, Esq, has been appoint
ed agent OF the war department to organize
| colored troops all ov the north. He begins
his labors at Philadelphia.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
H. E. Warmer, native OF Hawley, but
now of Philadelphia, will deliver the address
| before the Franklin County Agricultural fair
to be holden at Greenfield September "a and
%.
Capt. Henry NJ. Kellogg of Shelburne was
killed in hattie Vicksburg, May 20, while
leading his company to an important position
i'll the enemy's works.
The house and barn of the late Royal n,
Clark of Sunderland were destroyed by fire
on the l4th inst. Loss $780, partially in
sured.
On the 18th inst the late train from Bos.
ton over the Vermont and Massachusetts
railroad had narrow escape from serious
accident. The track at the east end of the
Connecticut river bridge was discovered to be
washed out the entire length of rail. The
| train was warned, otherwise it would have
| been pitched down the embankment into the
| river. The track was repaired the next morn
| ing.
Capt William Stevens, son of H. B. Ste
vens of Greenfield, who was wounded and
captured by the rebels at Port Hudson, two
months since, arrived home on the 18th inst.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
AT town meeting on the 18th Northamp-
ton voted to raise forthwith by taxation Sl6,-
734 and authorize the selectmen to borrow
such further sum as might be necessary, to
| discharge all obligations heretofore assumed
by the town in payment of bounties to volun-
teers.
Lieut.. j. William Smith of the 9th regi-
ment, of Hadley, arrested for deserton and
imprisoned, has since been released. and is
now on service with his regiment at Wash
ington.
John P. w. Clark, a lad of fifteen, son of
Rev. Jonas Clark formerly of Northampton,
and adopted son OF J. P. Wilson, was
| drowned while bathing near Damon's mill in
| Northampton.
Rev, George NJ. Adams, late of Conway,
was installed pastor of the North church in
| Portsmouth, n. H., on the Sd.
MAINE.
| The soldiers monument association at Ban
| gor have purchased a suitable lot at the
| Mount Hope cemetery, and will proceed to
fence and prepare the grounds this summer
for the purpose of building handsome mon
ument twenty eight feet high to the memory
of deceased soldiers.
| The Portland glass company are erecting
new works in that city.
The Portland Press says the death of the
rebel Gen. Tighlman is placed beyond doubt
| by the receipt of letter from his wife to her
relatives in that city, dated June 9TH, stating
that ''the news is too true" and that her hus-
| band is dead.
The Bangor Wing learns from all sections
of Maine that, notwithstanding the lateness of
the season up to the first of June, the grass
crop now looks very promising, and the cut
will be quite equal to an average of years.
The heavy and deep frosts of last winter kill
ed less of the grass than was anticipated.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Two children at Manchester were build
ing fire with shavings and feeding it with
fluid, when the can exploded, enveloping
both of them in flames and burning them ter.
ribly.
Mr.. Marcus Marx of Dover, has been ap-
pointed by the state agricultural society COM
missioner to the Hamburg agricultural inter-
national exhibition, which takes place in July
next.
The barn of Messrs. Joseph and Nathaniel
Johnston, in Hampton, was totally consumed
by fire on Thursday night. One valuable
horse and four cows, together with ten tons of
hay, carts, wagons, &C., were burned.
The "Nipsic" and the "Shawnut," steam
screw gunboats, were launched at Portsmouth
navy yard June 10. Work on the ''Agamen-
ticus," an iron-clad, is going on briskly. The
Nipsic was christened according to custom
immemorial, by Misses Hale and Cox; the
Shawmut, by Mrs. Wallace Hanscom, assisted
by Miss Hale, sister to the one above men
toned, and both of them daughters of Hon.
John P. Hale.
VERMONT.
In West Dover, on the 9th inst, on the
iarm Of Leonard and Ingram, there was a
large snow drift
a cont9macious copperhead of a merchant
1ailor IN 81 Adams, is being overhauled for
noncompliance with the federal excise law.