Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-06-04
General News summary.

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nys wharf some days since, died at the hos.
pital May 81.
The Tombs on the Sd June contained sixty
one prisoners, about two-thirls of whom were
females.
A discharged soldier of the goth regiment,
who lost leg in battle at Antietam, and who
had formerly been employed at Hallett & Da-
Wis pianotorte works, Boston, not having re-
ceived any of his pay from the government
has been handsomely supported by his fellow
workmen.
MIDDLESEX COUNTY.
Louis B. Richardson and Mrs. Sarah B.
Page were arrested, day or two since, for
conveying instruments into the Lowell Jail,
by the use of which the prisoners could make
their escape. Mrs. Page has a son in iail.
awaiting trial on charge of attempted high
way robbery at Chelmsford, few months
since.
John Mason was fonnd dead in his bed, at
Lowell, on the 3lst ult., having died, it is al
legged, from wounds inflicted at the hands of
his daughter in law, during quarrel on Fri
day.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Prof. Egbert C. Smythe, of Bowdoin Col
lege, Maine, succeeds Rev Dr. Shedd in the
vacant professorship IN Andover Theological
Institution.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The army worm which did so much dam
age in Bristol county last year, have again
made their appearance in large numbers.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
A wealthy citizen of the town of Randolph
died about week ago, and was buried the
day following his decease. At the time of
burial sweat was noticed on the forehead of
the corpse, but no special interest was felt on
the subject until during the following night
when some members of the family became ex-
ceedingly distressed for fear their relation had
been buried before life was extinct Accord.
ingly the next morning the body was carefully
exhumed and taken back to the house again,
and at last accounts it remained there; no
further evidence of life and but little more of
death being vouchsafed to the baffled and al
tllcted family.
The New Bedford Standard of the I'd inst,
says that the Eliot Light Guards Company f.
3D. regment) Captain Hurlbut, and the Me-
chanic Infantry Company G. to be command
ed by Lieutenant Briggs, have enlisted in
General Fosters regiment of heavy artillery.
PLYMOUTH COUNTY.
Eleazer G. Sherman of Plymouth has been
reappointed member of the board of bank
commissioners.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The Holyokc paper company is turning out
about twenty-five hundred pounds of paper per
day.
The new wooden mill of N. Kingsbury &
Co., Of Hartford, will be in full operation at
Holyoke in about two months. The mill is
four stories high, and will give employment
to about one hundred hands, thus making it
the largest wooden mill in Hampden county.
Chas. B. Prescott has been appointed post
master at Holyoke.
A. &. Tannatt, the patriarch and father of
journalism in Springfield, died on the 10Th
ult., at the age OF 60.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY,.
Edward V. Foster, foreman of the forging
shop of the Bay State mills at Florence, had
been working ''drop,' hammer weighing
three to four hundred pounds, which falls
about three feet upon a die with two sharp
projections, when he stopped to blow off some
dirt which had collected upon the die, and
brought his head directly under the hammer,
which just then he accidentally made to fall.
A large part of his scalp was torn off, and his
recovery is doubtful
Isaac Sheldon, the blind boy about whose
guardianship there have been protracted law
suits, died at Whately on the 30th ult.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The St. James (Episcopal) society of
Greenfield has purchased, for $2700, the
Hooker Leavitt estate, and intend to make it
parsonage. The barn on the place, in which
were stored Rev. S. r. Joness library, pic
lures and household furniture, was burned,
with its contents. on the afternoon of the Both
ult Rev. Mr.. Jones's loss was $4,000; in
sured for $2500.
A man in Sunderland says be has five ducks
which laid seven eggs one day and eight the
next. Probably they are relatives of old
Grimes's poultry.
young lad Of Lyman Thompson lately
killed six crows at one shot, at North Heath,
making in all twenty -four he has killed this
spring. That boy has done something to
crow over.
The income of the Portland, Saco, and
Portsmouth railroad, last year, from all
sources, was $283, 1856, and the expenditures,
including dividends and taxes, $205, 703-
leaving surplus of $77 1872"
The Portland Courier says that George B.
Moore, Esq, who has been for some months
employed as one of the editors of the Argus,
has taken the editorial chair of the Advertiser,
and is supposed to have entire charge of its
columns.
Edward H. Bailey of Dixmont, Me-, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself on the 10Th
ult. Recent misfortunes had unsettled his
mind.
The 73d annual convention of the Protes-
tant Episcopal church, diocese of Vermont,
began Its sessions in Burlington, June I'd.
CONNECTICUT.
Inc amount off travel on the Hartford horse
railroad is so great that more cars will have
to be put on to meet the pressure.
An elderly man named Chester Lewis was
run over by the cars near Bristol, June 1st,
and instantly killed, his head being severed
from his body. The accident was caused by
his own carelessness in trying to cross the
track.
| 1t is reported from fort Trumbull that the
reprieve of the deserter. Warren Whitmarsh,