Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-03-09


General News summary.
BOSTON AID VICINITY.
Charles Poole, clerk of the water commits
sioners. was struck by paralysis in his office
on Friday morning, and died in two hours.
He was city clerk for ten years --lS5l to 1861
and discharged his duties with rare fidelity.
a fire which broke out in the Photographic
rooms Of Caase 4 Getchel on Friday night
damaged their stock and apparatus to tho
amount Of from $4,000 to $4,000. The pho
tograrh rooms of NJ. S. Cahil and l.. H.
Hale, and the iewelry stock of George b.
Adams were alsc considerably injured by fire
and water.
MtDpLEsEX COUNTY.
The South Reading bank was broken into
Friday night, but the burglars were frightened
by the approach of the Waterman just as they
were operating on the inner safe. They fled,
leaving their tools in the bank Its the third
unsuccessful attempt to rob it Of IFS treasure.
Rev. Henry c. Graves Of Charlestown has
been appointed chaplain OF the 47th Massa-
chuSettS regiment, at New Orleans, in place
of Rev. George II. Hepworth Of Boston, who
has been commissioned lieutenant in the lst
Louisiana (colored) regiment.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Messrs. Augustine Heard, ST., and John
tives and citizens of Ipswich, but who are
now resident in China, or connected with the
mercantile house OF Augustine Heard & Co.,
in that country, have given the sum of Sl0,-
900 for the relief of soldiers in the United
States service from that town, or their fami-
lies, whom the casualties Of war place in need
of help.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
Sylvester Bliss OF RoXbury, for the past
twenty years editor of the Advent Herald. died
in that city on Friday last, at the age OF forty
nine years
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
There lives in Conway man in his one
hundredth year, who was converted and united
with the church in Westbor0ugh eighty years
ago. when the father Of DR.. Judson, the cele-
brated missionary, was its pastor.
MAINE.
The store Of Arcy 4 HoXe, in Brewer was
destroyed by an incendiary fire, Thursday
morning, with all its contents. Loss $1,000
partially insured.
There are now sixty men at work on fort
Popham, at the mouth of the Kennebec, and
| in a mouth of the hennebec, and in q month
or two the number will be increased to one
! hundred and fifty or two hundred. This fort
which will have forty embraSures, will be a
| formidable fertilization, and completely COM
mand the narrow entrance of the Kcnncbcc.
Jane Thurston of Portland adyeftises that
| she has plan by which the rebellion may be
closed, and all the states united, in six
months. She asks five hundred dollars for
| the secret.
a fine granite elevator, with an engine Of
| forty horse power, has been erected in Port
land. 1t contains thirty-tiye grain bins,
which will hold about 1875, 900 bushels.
CONNECTICuT.
Rev. Mr.. Beadle of Hartford has received Il
call to the pastorate Of the Richmond street
| Congregational church of Providence.
The copperheads laud Col. Seymour, be-
cause he fought against MeXicans, but oppose
| Gov. Buckingham, because he Is in favor of
a war against traitors.
Messrs. j. NJ. Huntington & Co.. of Nor
witch, have procured a screw steamer, the
Whirlwind, for their line to the West Indies.
The valuable homestead of the late Norman
Porter Of Berlin, with some two thousand
acres of land, has been purchased by the Hart
manufacturing company of that place, for be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000.
MISCELLANEOUS
General Cassius M. Clay has been renomi-
mated as3W'trdt secretary Seward urges his
confirmation.
Congress did not pass the various bills for
the admission OF new states which came be-
| fore it at the close OF the session. Nevada,
| Colorado and Nebraska were candidates for
admission, but the house refused to suspend
the rules to consider the bills. after they had
passed the senate.
| Large quantities of tea have been discoy-
! cred growing wild in PENNSYLVANIA, and an
| Incorporated society is to be formed in Phia-
| dephIa, to superintend its cultivation and
sale
''Chaplain" C. w. Dennison, who was
dropped from the army rolls for going TO Eu-
rope without leave, turns up as chaplain of the
relief ship George Griswold, and as such has
made speech in Liverpool.
1t Is said that General Rosseau has re-
ceiyed authority to raise ten regiments of
mounted infantry to operate against Forrest
Morgan, and the other guerilla chiefs in the
west.
Nine thousand pounds of lint and bandages
have been collected in Frankfort, Germany.
and forwarded to this country for wounded
Union soldiers.
The riot in Detroit last Friday, was qucled
by tine military after twenty or thirty buildings
had been burned and several persons had
been Killed and large number wounded.
Two men arrived at New York on Satur-
day, from HaYana, bringing $4,000 IN gold.
the proceeds Of i cargo Of Africans which they
lad landed in Cuba.
The Prince Of Wales is to he married on
the 10th inst, and hundreds who have formed
matrimonial alliances in England intend to
initiate the example of their future sovereign.
1t Is estimated that over five thousand mar
rlages will be solemnized on that day.
merchant in New York, advertising fora
boy, adds Lads who part their hair in the
middle need not apply"