Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-03

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
On the LIST inst, us the brig r. w. Packer
was going down the harb0r on the way to sea,
four of the crew Inutinied, and arming
themselves with clubs and knives, defied
the officers. A signal of distress was raised,
and the nutineers were taken off by the har-
Dor police. They were taken before U. s.
Commissioner Hallett, who held them in
$1,000 each for trial.
Five hogs belonging to Mr.. Nathan Mower
of the Relay House, Nahant, and kept at that
place, were poisoned on the 25th ut, proba-
bly, by giving them arsenic Another case Of
hog poisoning has occurred at Woodend.
The annual meeting Of the Massachusetts
School for Idiotic and Feeble Youth was held
at Boston on the LIST inst. Two hundred and
eighty-six pupils have been admitted to this
institution since 1851. There are at present
seventy six members Of the school; forty
| three males and thirty three females. Sixty
| eight are beneficiaries Of the commonweal tn
and eight are private pupils.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
On the 25th ult., Maurice Uennessey of
| Holliston was stabbed three times near the
heart and instantly killed. by one Patrick
Kanaly, who lad had some trouble in beer
saloon. The murderer fled, but WAS suliSc-
| quently captured and sent to jall to await the
action Of the grand jury.
An Irishwoman named Connors, about fifty
years OF age, was run over by train OF cars
near Lowell on the % inst, while walking on
the track OF the Boston and Lowell road, and
| injured so badly that She lived but a short time.
| ESSEX COUNTY.
Mr.. Edward Downing of Lynnfield commit
ted suicide by hanging himself in his barn on
| the 10Th ult He was 5o years old, and leaves
Il wife and children.
The new ship Longwood now lying at the
City wharf, Newburyport, is numbered seven
ty-one on the list Of the builder, Mr.. John Cur
rier, making up total OF $4,000 tons of yes
sells that have come from his hands within the
past thirty-one years.
The case OF john II. Brown against the
Lynn and Boston horse railroad company for
damages received by him in October 1861,
has been settled; the company paving Brown
three thousand dollars, and also the court ex-
| penses.
| Two subscriptions, says the Newburyport
Herald, toward the library building of that
city, have been received from residents of
Boston, who were born there. One gentle
man has given five hundred dollars, and the
other $3.50
BRISTOL COUNTY.
| While Mr. j. 7. Clifford, an employee Of
| the Taunton Locomotive Works, on the LIST,
was engaged in planning an engine frame, his
left leg wcs caught in the jaw Of the frame
and drawn under the cross head of the planer.
1t was found necessary to amputate the limb
| below the knees but he lived only four hours
after the operation.
The New Bedford Mercury says that at the
coming session of the legislature an attempt
will be made to erect those of the Elizabeth
Islands now included in Chilmark into new
| township to be called ''Monohansett" 1t also
suggests that the proposed town should be
called ''Gasnold' after the old navigator, in
stead of giving honor to the little island.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
John Cummings, an intelligent and patri-
otto citizen of Ware, was drafted but was eX-
empted, as he was the only son OF widow.
One evening last week, without consultation
with his friends, he started tor Springfield
and Immediately enlisted in the 9th regl-
ment, and is now serving his country in Vir-
gnia.
The three-story building at the Northamp-
ton lower mills, owned by Silas ID. Clark, was
.'squashed' by the weight of 5000 bushels
of corn stored in it, and fell into the river on
the LIST inst. If none OF the corn can be
| saved the total loss on the building and its
contents will not be less than SS000
| NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Ciaremont Eagle says that on the oath
nit. as Mr.. Thornton Towne, residing on
Green Mountain, was leading home a COW,