Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-05-04
General news summary.



BOSTON AND VICINITY.
The tenth Maine regiment passed through
Boston Friday morning, on their return to
Portland. The regiment numbers four hun
dred men. Seventy-fve men have been
killed or died of wounds during their term
of service and forty eight have died of dis
ease About two hundred and forty men
have been discharged for disability and other
causes.
Z. Davis of Lynn, charged with the muir
dor OF Mr.. Breed, and Stackpole of Bever-
| ", charged with the murder of his sister,
are now awaiting trial. The Newburyport
Herald thinks there ought to be some more
hanging.
On Fast day little boy fell into an unused
| well in Cambridge, whereupon a little girl of
ten years, with remarkable presence of mind,
| procured broom and lowered it to him. The
| little fellow chung to it Till assistance came in
| the persons of lady and gentleman, who res
cued the child.
At fair given by the ladies of Roxbury on
the evening OF Friday, the LIST, the sum of
$4,000 was realized, above expenses. The
proceeds will go to the Roxbury branch of the
sanitary commission.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The store of Moore & Field, in Lawrence,
was broken into on Wednesday night, the
29th ult., and about $1,000 worth of clothing
and other articles stolen. A small portion Of
| the goods wee subsequently found in shed.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Early Saturday morning, Mr. Howard Ford
was attacked aud gored to death by BULL his
| head and body being terribly lacerated. A
| chain fastened to the bulls horns became en-
tangled about one of Nh Ford's legs, in such
a manner as to hold the animal directly over
. l,a h,lt o4b ,,i,.tiV, md bafor ba
could be disengaged it was found necessary
to shoot him. Mr.. Ford was 80 years old.
The bull had been attached for debt, and Mr..
Ford was privately taking away his animal
when he was gored.
On Thursday night, S0th ult, the apothe-
cary shop OF c c. johnson, the ink and pol
I-i--f --s - 70. 81 49, L. 1res0is0ENi,
| the dentistry rooms of DIR. French, and the
| dwelling house of John Breister, in Quincy,
were each visited by burglars, but the occu-
| pants have missed nothing.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
B. +. Towards store in Wareham was en-
tered on Wednesday night, the 22d, and
robbed of about $500 worth of goods The
same night Burgess drug store was robbed of
a number OF fancy articles, and E. n. Thomp-
son lost carriage robe. Wareham seems to
be bad place generally. The same week
with the above robberies an Irishman in town
was knocked down and robbed of $751; also
Simeon Morse's hen roosts were invaded.
| BRISTOL COUNTY.
| Taunton cannot "keep a hotel.' The Taun.
| ton house is to be closed, and the furniture is
| under the hammer.
| The late big operations of the Old Colony
| and Fall River railroad company in buying
| OIL its rivals in a proposed rival line to New
| York, quite rovOlutionizes things down that
| way. 1t will now go on and hurry up its own
| extension to Newport, and there form its june
ton with the Bay state line of steamers to
| New York. The cars will probably be run
ming to Newport in three months. The Digh-
| ton and Somerset road, which was to give
| Fall River "a new railroad to Boston, via
Taunton, is not to be built; and Fall River
resigns itself to going without the New York
| boats.
One or more companies are being formed
in New Bedford for the purpose of working
| the copper mines in Canada.
There have been eighteen fires in New Bed
ford, during the year ending May l.
| Mr.. Andrew Slocum, and a lad by the name
of John Bessee, of Sconticut Neck, one day
last week, killed five wild geese, weighing so
pounds.
A gentleman at Tiverton Four Corners,
Wednesday morning, killed three wild geese
on the wing at one shot.
| BARNSTABLE COUNTY.
| John B. Holway, father OF James w. and
Ezra L. Holway, his sons, all of East Sand
wich, were bound over on the Both ult., by
James b. Croker, Esq, trial justice, Var
mouth Port, to answer at the September term
of the superior court in Barnstabe county, to
the charge of numbering Isaiah y. Wright on
the 10th Of January.
| The Sandwich Advocate says that parties in
| that town have bought and hired several thou
sand pine trees, intending to tap them the
| present season for turpentine. At $50 per
barrel, it is thought the enterprise may prove
| remunerative.
| HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The fare on the Hartford and New Haven
| railroad has been raised, SO that ticket from
| Springfield to New Haven now costs 81 80.
A son of Michael Meagher of the 10Th regi-
ment, lad nine years of age, was drownedin
the Chicopee river on Thursday. He with
other boys was fishing on the north side of the
river near Chapins saw mill, and fell into the
stream His body was recovered a few min
utes afterwards and two or three physicians
called, but all efforts to bring life back were
| fruitless.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Israel r. Dickinson of Northampton re.
ceived dispatch Friday morning stating that
his son, VIM. Dickinson, who is an engineer
| Oh AeOlnC anu w dtSIlOWu DdU
fallen from his engine and was seriously in
jured. An unusual number Of accidents have
occurred to the family. Williams brother,
Luther Dickinson, was thrown from his en-
CINE a few years since near Holyoke and
killed; his father, Israel R. Dickinson, lost an
arm by having it broken while shacklng a
car in Northampton, and his grandfather, Jo-
siah Dickinson, was caught between two cars
and seriously injured, which fastened his
death.
| BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
A little daughter of Chester B. Stickles of
Washington, was burned to death on Sunday
morning, the 18th ult.
Humphrey Anthony of South Adams, in
his 95th year, laid a rod of stone wall one day
last week. A smart old gentleman. Widow
| Mebitable Potter of South Adams completed
her Tooth year on Tuesday last, and makes
| her own bed. That's more than some sixteen
year old females do in these days.
The Great Darlington Courier, in men,
tioning her readings in London, speaks of
Fanny Kemble as "Mrs. Kemble who former
lv lived in Lenox" This Is almost EQUAL the