Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-08-11
General News Summary.


General News Summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
One thousand cOnscripts left the camp at
Long Islaud on the Sth, in the steamer DEMO-
lay for Alexandria, Va, where they are to be
distributed among Massachusetts regiments
in the Potomac army.
A boy twelve years of age fell from the mast
of vessel in the harbor on the 9th inst, dis
locating his neck and causing almost Instant
death.
Patrick Sweeney was arrested on the 9th for
being engaged in the riot on the Nth of July,
and in default of bail in the sum of $1,000 was
committed.
John West was arrested on the 9Th in Bos-
ton on charge Of assaulting an enrolling off
Ger, and was held in $4,000 for his appearance
at an examination on the l4th.
On account of the absence. OF the governor
from Boston, no military commissions have
been issued at the state house during the past
week.
Major Gen. Howard is on brict visit to
New England. He was at the Revere House,
Boston, on the 9th, and on the 10Th took the
morning train for Portland.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Quite series of fires occurred in Cam
bridge, on the Sth, involving a loss of $3.50.
Alexander Mckenney, one of the oldest
thieves and burglars in Cambridge, was tried
before the police court in that city, on the
10th. He was sentenced to the house Of cor
rection, in which institution he has spent most
of his time during the last four years.
A man named McKeague, plumber, be-
longing in Boston, fell upon the track of the
Lynn horse railroad, on the Sth by careIessy
off IA ha1 nf
terribly crushed. He was taken to a hospital,
where the fractured arm was amputated
Andrew Anderson was knocked down in
Cambridge by u butchers wagon, on the Sth,
and seriously if not fatally injured.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
There was prize fight in Springfield on
Sunday. The affair ended by one of the
party giving the other Il stunning blow in
the eye, which very nearly eXtinguishcd that
organ.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
An attempt was made, on the 9th, to burn
the building at Greenfield, occupied us a gov
eminent storeh0use and rs the quarters fer
substitutes before they are sent to Long Isl
and. Five of the substitutes were arrested
and placed in Jail, and every effort is being
made to ascertain who set the fire.
The town of New Ashlield, the smallest in
population in the STATE with one hundred and
nineiyflve inhabitants by the last census has
sent no less than eighteen soldiers to the war,
being nearly one to every ten of the whole
population Of the town, men, women and chill
dren.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The number Of houses in Pittsiicld is 1856
horses $50, COWS l269, sheep 1865, acres o.
land taxed 23,962.
tbrna ypar aid 6auubtpr nf r tl5tdrntI
of North Adams fell into the lloosac. and wa.
carried over the dam without being seen
The river was dragged for long distance
end more than three hours atlerwarl she was
discovered an eighth of Il mile below She
was taken ont with her wet clothes iycring
her head, more smothrrcd than Strangied hy
water, was in short time r, susctatCd, and Is
now as well as though no a, C dent had hap
pened to her.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Intelligence has been received of the death
of Capt. 5. Judson Alexander of the 9th
New Hampshire volunteers. lie died of fever
near Vicksburg. The deceased officer was a
member of the last graduating class of Dart
mouth College.
VERMONT.
While about seventy men were at work or
the 9th, in the marble quarry at West Ru;
head gave way and fell down about fifty feet,
killing one man, Frank Donelly Immediately,
and injuring three others.
CONNECTICUT.
A fellow with numerous aliases was arrested
at Hartford on the 9TH for passing counterfeit
money, after he had tried to pass himself us
a substitute. Undoubtedly deserter.
The colorcd population of Hartford cele-
brated on the 7th the anniversary of the
emancipation Of slaves in the West Indies
Thomas Roper, a workman in Colts armo-
ry, Hartford, was robbed of $25 ON the 9TH by
a party of three or four roughs, who first
called him ed abolitionst.;'
The Norwalk horse railroad is completed,
and the cars will run in few days.
Some Irish highwaymen ran the gate at
Tomlnson's bridge, New Haven, on the 9th
and on the East Haven road assaulted and
abused most shamefully several men whom
they met. Although the rutIians demanded
money, it is not known they got any.
On the 9th fire broke out in one of the
barns of George Woodruff, in Pennington,
which destroyed four large barns, filled with
hay and grain, and one cow-house before its
ravages were stopped. Loss about $4,000.
The man who gave his name as Thomas
johnson, and passed counterfeit money on the
9TH in Hartford, has confessed his name to be
4. p. Smith, and that he is a descrter from
the naval service.
W. II. Painter was found drowned near
Yellow Mill bridge, Bridgeport, on the 9th.
As his watch and several hundred dollars were
found on his person, his death is believed to
be accidental.
RHODE ISLAND.
Seventy three substitutes were sent from
Providence to Boston on the 9Th inst. Two
substitutes saved their transportation by dig
ging out o! the barracks the night before,
leaving their soldier clothes behind them.
Seven deserterS were spotted among the
substitutes at the barracks in Providence on
tie Sth, before the detachment went off.
Work on the Old Colony and Newport rail
road is progressing rapidly in Fall River, and
from the bridge to Portsmouth Cove the track
is gravelled and completed. The permanent
rails are laid the whole distance across the
island, and in about two weeks the locomotive
will reach this end of the line, as it advances
only as fast as the road bed is completed.
About tie middle of October the road will be
opened through to Boston.
A young man named Quirk, was killed in
Bristol on the 3lst, in the POkanoket mill, by
being entanglcd in a belt, which carried him
around the shaft.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Savannah Republican says few DAYS
since an individual in that city paid four hun
dred dollars in confederate money for a $40
gold piece.
The Fort Wayne (Indiana) Gazette says
a copperhead in that place declares that he
is opposed to the draft "because every dem
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