Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-18
General News summary.

BOSTON AND VICINITY.
i John w. LIE Barnes of Boston, has been
r appointed as a commissioner of enrolment
under the Consumption act for the third dis
trict
Two young ladies of Oberlin, Ohio, are
collecting funds towards the purchase of a
. flag to be presented by the colored ladies of
the north to the t1fty-fcurth Massachusetts
l regiment.
In the superior court the jury in the case
of Hiram Whitman, ct al, petitioners, VS..
Boston and Maine railroad company. which
has been on trial for the third time, rendered
a verdict of Sl4,950 81 damages in favor of
the plaintiffs.
ESSEX COUNTY.
In the case of Horace b. Davis of Lynn,
charged with the murder of Mr.. Breed, and
recently on trial before the supreme court of
Salem, the jury were unable to agree, and
stood ten in favor of a verdict of murder in
the first degree and two for acquittal on the
ground of insanity. The accused was recon-
mitted for another trial.
| The James steam cotton mill, in Newbury-
port, has earned in the last twelve months,
within ten thousand dollars of its entire capt.
tai. In five years it has earned one hundred
and eighty per cent, end divided among its
stockholders one hundred and thirty-seven
per cent. The Bartlett steam mills in the
! shilS plaCS, HIS ueCldreu Il dividend OF UYe
per cent, which makes fifteen per cent in the
last six months.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Mountain House, nasty hole, partly
i'll Hancock and partly in Lebanon, and so
I partly in New 1Ork and partly in Massachu-
sets, has been cleaned out by seh-apponted
moral guardians of the neighborhood. Its in
= mates were driven away, its bar ripped out,
J and general demolition dealt around. Beyond
-, < -
. | tice.
Thomas Allen of Pttsfeld pays the govern
, ment an average of So day in the use of rev.
: | enue stamps.
y John c. Parker of Pittsfeld caught a 9 ga
! pound trout in the river at Cheshire, on Mon
day, the largest yet reported from Berkshire.
n BARNsrABLE COUNTY.
j Ths Cape Cod Republican in tbap ntti s fe4}f
Dennis, and his wife, about sixteen years ago
and Joined the Mormons, taking to himself
~ another wife, WHO bore him six children
" Leaving them about three months since he re-
X turned to Dennis, and his former wife, who
u received him kindly and administered to him
in his last sickness.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Rev. Mr.. Stetson, the domestic missionary,
in his annual report, makes the startling an
nouncment thatthere are five hundred drunken
women in the town of Taunton, and the Re-
publican says he knows what he states.
Job NJ. Leonard, Robert b. Thomas John
Tidd, Lyman Davis, Daniel Phillips, Lewis
Edison and Clarissa Davis, all of Somerset
have been arraigned in Taunton, charged by
Albert Green with destroyiIg his property
with clubs, slaves, stones" &c.,which means
that he kept miserable liquor nuisance, and
they summarily abated it.
mad dog was killed in Norton, on Friday,
after making somewhat extensive raid among
the dogs in town.
10 MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
q A dividend of four dollars per share free
;. of government tax, has been declared to the
stockholders of the Nashua and Lowell rail-
) road company.
Y The herd of cattle belonging to w. P.
y Childs of Waltham, which had been appraised
L. at 1920, and taken possession of by the state
}. commissioners previously, were slaughtered
d Friday. The cattle consisted of twenty-four
cows and heiferS. 1t is not now pretended
> that more than five of them had the pleuro
pneumonia; and we doubt the correctness of
: even this pretension.
d Milton Parker was accidentally shot and
g killed, in Hopknton, on the 9th inst, while
h taking down his gun to shoot hawk.
,. HAMPDEN COUNTY
!. The Palmer Jouranal says a number of
girls from Maine came to work in the mill at
:. Three Rivers few days before it was burned
y down. they were accompanied by board
II ing house keeper, and they all had got
cleverly settled when the disaster occurred
r The disappointment to them was a severe
D one.
:. The one hundredth anniversary of the in
, corporation oft the town of Wilbraham occurs
on the seventeenth of June next and the
:, occasion will be celebrated by the citizens
with appropriate ceremonies. Rev Rufus b.
d Stebbins, ID. D., will deliver an address on the
@ occasion.
a An old appropriation bill in the city of
IS Springfield has come to light among the an
O. cient documents now being overhaued by the
% city clerk, which presents some curious fea-
) lures. The whole amount of appropriations
for the year Q770) was EGO, of which E4O
were for schools, E40 for ''support of We
c poor" f35 for the ''hire of bulls" and el2 for
n contingent expenses. Jonathan Bartlett, "for
n perambulation," received grant of shil-
:. lings John Miller, for assisting in laying out
highways, shillings; Dr. Chauncey Brewer,
:. a grant of shiings; Lieut.. Luke Bliss, II
y shillings; Edward Pynchon, (town clerk J
FL; Major Benjamin Day, CHS account" FL
: and shillings; and number of others re-
ceived similar grants
Mrs. Wilbur Lamson of Chester 20 years
old, committed suicide on the 9Th by taking
laudanum. No cause is assigned.
+ NEW HAMPSHIRE.
/ Mrs. Sarah Pumpton was killed, Friday
Il evening, near Manchester, by railway train
q from Portsmouth. She was walking on the
track and did not leave it when the train APP
preached
j. Rev. Samuel Stewart has been ordained
e as pastor of the Unitarian church in Nashua.
h Sermon by Rev. w. r. Alger of Boston.
CONNECTICUT.
- DR.. H. A. Grant of Enfield has resigned his
II seat in the legislature, because of his appoint
T. ment as surgeon under the conscription law.
The Quinebaug Manufacturing Co. at Kill
lingly are building an addition to their stone
IS mill, which will give room for 100 additional
10 looms.
Y The amount received into the treasury of
v the state school fund during the year ending
4 March 81 was $l37,993, exceeding the sum
received the previous year by $6907. The
II number of children who are this year entitled
IS to the benefit Of the income of the fund is in
Q Hartford county 81 1854, New Haven county
= %, 1872, New LandOn county 1903, Fairfield
1906, Litchfeld 11,748, Windham 8404,