Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-05
General News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.

huston AND NIIlNlI1
MIR. James Hoton of Brighton, who died
Wednesday, the Goth, aged G3, left the largest
portion of his estate to the Seamen's Bethel of
Boston. After the payment of various lega-
cies, the residue, which it is supposed will not
be less than 100000, Is devoted to this OBJ
ject Mr.. llolton was never married
The Back Bay commissioners have taken
possession of the mildam bridge, and tolls
are beng collected as heretofore.
Three soldiers, named Webster, Wise, and
Smith, who have several times broken open
the sutlery establishments ut fort Warren,
have been arrested and brought up to the city
for examination.
An eel % inches long and ID inches in
circumference was found on Saturday, in a
Cochituate water pipe in IL store on Long
Wharf.
The private sales of real estate in Boston,
last week, amounted to 1925, 900. The city
of Boston made one sale of land on CONNER
cial street, amounting to $4,000.
On Saturday forenoon, a little boy named
! Burke, six years Of age, while playing upon a
mudscow at Tudor's wharf, Charlestown was
accidentally pushed into the water. and before
assistance could be rendered was drowned.
\ telegraph dispatch from Lieut.. Colonel
! Batchelder, announces the death OF Captain
George Bush, of the 18th Massachusetts vol
unteers, who was killed Thursday afternoon
/ by a chance shot from Il rifed cannon, which
| also proved fatal to Lieut.. Cordwell of West
/ boro. Captain Bush was for several years an
active member of the Boston light infantry,
| and subsequently was a lieutenant IN the City
| Guards under Captain Leonard. He went
out as second lieutenant was promoted to
first lieutenant, during six battles commanded
/ the company, and was but recently promoted
to captain.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The store of Messrs. Moore & Field, in
! Lawrence, was broken into on Wednesday
| night last and about 5 800 worth OF clothing
and other articles stolen.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
! 1t appears that Taunton can keep hotel
reports to the contrary Notwithstanding. The
hotel property has passed into the hands of
| several business men, who will continue it as
first class house, with the probability that
Elias A. Morse, Esq, will be landlord.
| "Later."-The following paragraph frem the
| Taunton Gazette puts the matter where it
was, last, before THE proposed plan of a
hotel under the management of Mr.. L. A.
Morse OF this town. has been given up-to be
resumed when the Dighton and Somerset rail-
road is completed"
The Taunton people seem not to he very
well pleased with the transfer of the charter Of
| the Dighton and Somerset railroad to the Old
/ Colony and Newport road. The Republican
says the sale was effected by Messrs. Richard
and jefferson Borden, who own controlling
! interest, without the consent or knowledge of
| any of the other stockholders in either the
| Bay State steamboat company or the Dighton
| and Somerset railroad company. These gen.
temen pocket large sum by the transaction.
! The Republican thinks the matter Will not end
here. The public good requires the Dgh-
| ton and Somerset road to be built, and its
completion is only postponed, not prevented.
EnliStmentS for the heavy artillery for coast
defence are going on rapidly in New Bedford.
Lieut. Allen, recruiting officer there, now has
eighty names.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The house of Samuel Hinsdale OF Green
| field was entered Friday night, and some
eight hundred dollars worth of property, in
Guiding S120 in money, was stolen. No trace
| of the thief
The fourteenth annual cattle show and
fair of the Franklin county agricultural So
ciety will be held at Greenfield, on the oath
and 2jth of September. The list of premi-
ums has been published and is as complete and
liberal as ever.
Shingles, the lawful currency of Aroostook,
were never so high as now.
a merchants exchange is to be established
in Bangor.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Portsmouth correspondent of the Elk
eter Ballot says the navy yard there ought to
have more government jobs. 1t now obtains
only such as ''slop over" from the Charles
town yard.
A. P. Balch of Hanover has, in connection
with one or two gentlemen, taken contract
on the Marietta and Cincinnati railroad, in
Ohio, amounting to a million and half of
dollars. They advertise for one thousand
laborers, promising steady employment for
two years at one dollar twenty-five cents per
day.
Charles Gates of Lebanon, has full blood
| Spanish merino buck, upon which is a fleece
| thought to weigh twenty-five pounds. He
has been offered and refused $500 for the an
imal.
The census Of Nashua Just taken, gives a
population of 5000, of whom 1884 are males
and 457l females. This shows decrease of
POLO since 1860, when the population was
| l0,065.
CONNECTICUT
Two young men named Edward Cotton and
| Edward Evarts the former of whom has been
iii the army, were arrested few days since at
No. 444 Broadway New York, by the propri
| SlOF u me nOtGl du NlllIOru conn, Willcn was
recently robbed of lot of clothing and jewel
ry. The young rascals had taken their booty
to New York and sold it for thirty-three dol
lars. They were enjoying their ill-gotten
gains in low concert saloon when arrested.
The New Haven Journal says they were mere
youths, needed a mothers advice, and only
took the things ''as boyish frolic.' They
probably sold them as boyish frolic also,
but it is kind of frolic that usually ends in
Jail.
Captain Fowler, who holds naval COM
mission under the rebels, and was recently
captured by one of our bockading steamers
while attempting to land near Sabine Pass, is
native of Guilford, and brother of the late
Sergeant Richard H. Fowler who fell fight
ing for his country at the first battle of Fred
erickSburg.
In the course Of a suit now under trial in
New Haven, in which James f. Babcock, re-
Gently editor of the Palladium, claims $40
for stone delivered to Samuel Il. Dickson,
certain unpleasant facts relating to a certain
gas company, in which Mr.. Babcock was one
Of the principal directors, have come to light.
1t appears that New York is not the only city
where corporators manage to feather their
own nests pretty well in getting up public
enterprises"
The ferry boat Union, intended for the
Shore Line railroad, at the Connecticut river
crossing, successfully launched at Fair
Haven on the I'd. She is 100 feet long, 1000
tons burthen, and has space for three tracks