Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-12-04
New England News summary.
BOSTON AND VICINITY.
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BOSTON AND VICINITY.
Lieut.. L0ngfellow of the LIST Mass. cavalry
was severely wounded in the face, at Mount
Hope Church, on the 9th ult. His father,
Il. W. Longfellow, left Cambridge on the LIST
inst, for Washington.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
Inc Essex company, at Lawrence, are to
sell at auction their central mill site, in that
city, on the 18th. 1t is the only mill site now
remaining unOccupied upon the whole length
of the canal.
Rev. Rufus 2. Stebbins, d. D., has resign
ed the pastoral care of the Unitarian church
in Wobnrn.
ESSEX COUNTY.
Nearly one half (l20) of the quota of Lynn,
on the 100000 call, had enlisted up to the I'd
inst.
A barn belonging to Mr.. Terence Farmer,
West Lynn, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the lst, together with a horse, COW,
harnesses, Sc.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Everybody has seen buffalo robes and a
large diversity of other robes, but man in
Agawam is making cat robe, ruthlessly
slaughtering all the innocent felines he can
beg or buy for the purpose.
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY.
Seventy five hapless ours have recently
suffered the extreme penalty of the law at
Northampton, because their owners neglected
to get them licensed; and two hundred and
eighty eight more live with collars round their
necks.
Ezra p. Sawyer of Easthampton, manager
of the Nashawannuck manufac turing COM
pany, invited all the children of his employees
to his house on Thanksgiving afternoon and
gave them good dinner, and something sub
stantial to carry home in the shape of hat,
tippet, or pair Of mittens.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
Geo. II. Babcock of Lenox, was thrown
from lead of sleighs on the Both ult, by his
horses taking fright, and received broken
shoulder, besides sustaining severe internal
injuries.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Ira Abercrombie of Greenfield has been
chosen president of the Franklin County
Bank, in that town, IN place of Henry W.
Cushman Of Bernardston, deceased
The Congregational societies in Franklin
county contributed the past year, and received
by legacies, for benevolent purposes, SILL
63975
+. IL. Williams of Sunderland has a Dur
ham cow, four years old, which gave in seven
days 2S7 pounds of milk, or Al pounds per
day, from which was made II pounds and 2
ounces of butter, or 2 pounds ounces and
81 per day, which was sold for % cents per
pound.
The PenobScot river at Bangor is frozen.
The shngle, clothing and cardng mills at
Whitefield, owned by Messrs Partridge &
Gardiner, was consumed by fire on the 18th
uit
On the evening of the Cd inst, the great
bugbecr of ghost, which has haunted one of
the sugar houses in Portland for some time
since, was brought to close, by the shooting
of splendid white screech owl, measuring
five feet six inches from tip to tip of his
wings.
Counterfeit twos on the Peoples Bank,
Derby Line, have made their appearance, but
they are so badly executed as not to be very
likely to deceive.
An effort will be made to obtain the sword
of Ethan Allen, that it may be placed in the
state cabinet or the rooms of the Vermont
Historical Society. 1t was in the possession
of his daughter-in-law who died recently at
Lamont, Mich.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Private Robert johnson of Co. c., 10th New
Hampshire regiment for sleeping on his post,
has been dishonorably dismissed from the SER
vice by court martial recently, held at Ports
mouth, Va, and sentenced to be imprisoned
two years at hard labor; also private VIM.
Johnson Co. c, of the same regiment, a sub
stitute, who deserted in October has been dis
honorably discharged from the service and
sentenced to be confined at hard labor for ten
years.
Mr.. Elliot c.. Badger of Warner, on the
Both ult., fell down pair of stairs in his
duallinU nd WaS Eillo1
On the 9th ult., barn belonging to Moses
Brown, in the norherly portion of Wolfboro,
was consumed by fire, together with about
forty tons of hay. 1t caught from tobacco
pipe.
Two soldiers from Co. f, 10th New Hamp-
shire regiment, were shot for deserton at Nor
folk, Va, on the 28th ult. Their names were
Feter Donnelly and John Finn, who deserted
on the 10Th Of September, and were recaptur-
ed on the 9th of the same MONTH
mn CONNECTICUT.
The friends of Prof. Thomas A. Thatcher
celeOrated the twenty-fifth anniversary Of his
connection with Yale College, on the LIST.
Inc people in Stafford would like to be
heve the Hartford Times story, that the quota
OF the town has been filled with forty. three
negroes, but unfortunately the facts won,t adj
init of it. ~
An old man named Robert Ferre fell down
stairs at Middletown, one day last week. and
cut his head SO badly that he lied next dav of
his injuries.
The governmentpaid 1000 for the steam
er Sarah ). b. Carey, lately Withdrawn from
the Hartford and Sag Harbor line