Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-11-30
BOSTON AND VICINITY.


G. G. Billiard was arrested in New York on
the goth, by detective Jones of Boston. on
suspicion OF being the person who passed the
counterfeit five hundred dollar bills on the
Haverhlll Bank, at several places in Boston a
short time since.
The unprecedented number of thirty.two
marriage licenses were issued at the regis
trars office in Boston, on the oath inst. The
largest number on any day previous to any
former Thanksgiving was twenty.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Joseph Gordon, employed on the Boston
and Worcester railroad, fell from the cars
near Newton, on the oath inst. and was in
stantly killed.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
little girl, four years old, named Mary
Ann Donahue, of Springfield, was burned so
severely on the oath that she died the next
day She was aplsying around bonfire,
when her clothes caught from the flames, and
all efforts to extinguish them proved unsuc-
cessful.
one OF the eastern trains on the 25th ran off
the track near the "Tutte Bend" bridge,
above Russell, and three of the cars were
badly smashed, and four or five of the braces
OF the bridge knocked out.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
ny 4'aS'd"dnuuCk company OF EaStnamp-
ton IS soon to erect another large factory,
called Tor by the increasing demand for their
goods. The building will be located near the
present office of the company.
There are now 34S patients at the lunatic
asylum in Northampton, $50 being the full
complement.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Five hundred and ninety-eight cases. in
GLIDING l5l varieties of disease, most of them
chronic, have been treated at the clinics be-
fore the class at the Berkshire medical college
during the past year.
MAINE.
1t is estimated there are about 1900 enlisted
men IN camp in Augusta. Ii is believed the
middle of December will find the quota of the
state full
VERMONT.
Hon David Crawford of Putney, raised this
year from merino buck, fleece ofwool. the
growth of fourteen months, that weighed
twenty-three pounds and sold for seventeen
dollars.
Joseph Lackey deserted from the Union
service, was captured and sentenced to be
shot, and while awaiting execution escaped
INTO Canada. reward was offered for his
capture, which Induced Mr. Duclos of St.
Adams to cross the line and make the bold
attempt Of carrying Lackey back with him.
lie got him drunk and had taken him
within eighty rods of the province line, when
party Of Canadians and secesh who had
smelled rat, overlook him, and released
the deserter
CONNECTICUT.
A son of Mr.. McStag of Central Village,
disappeared mysteriously on the night of the
I'D inst, and has not since been heard from.
1t is feared that he has been drowned in the
Moosup river.
OF the eleven hundred and twenty seven
men drafted in Hartford, one hundred and
lightweight never appeared, and ten went
into the service.
vowed EdptX Of hs GT6S bF ae nave
One hundred colorcd volunteers are now in
camp at New Haven.
The Hartford papers grow facetious over
the statement that there are only twelve hun
dred grog-shops in that pleasant village.
RHODE ISLAND.
VIM. w. Baker, of Providence, was run
over by the inward train from Boston on the
25th inst. and injured 50 severely that he died
next morning.
Patrick McWilliams, of Providence, was
arrested on the oath inst, for robbing a trunk
of $4SS, belonging to X. +. Greene. He con-
fessed his guilt and was held for trial
The Rhode Island Institute of Instruction
met at Westerly last week. Hon. Henry
Bradford of Connecticut, and others of note
addressed the meeting.
MISCELLAN EOUS.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher delivered an ad-
dress in the New York Academy of Music, on
the evening of the oath, the proceeds of
which-upwards of $4O0O-were given to the
sanitary commission.
Judge Caleb B. Smith, late secretary of the
interior, is quite ill at Indianapolis, Ind.