Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-09-01
General News summary.
BOsroN AND VICINITY.

One company will be stationed at fort Spinola,
two at fort Macon, and one at fort Totten.
Col. Frankie will accompany the troops for
the purpose of locating them, and then return
to engage in enlisting the other two. There
are four hundred men already enlisted in the
second battalion, and one hundred and fifty
in the third.
John Mead, on the 29th inst, made a muir.
derous assault upon Dennis Devine of Bos-
ton, stabbing him with knife upon the inner
side of the right thigh 1t was intended for
deadly result, which happily turned out other
wise. Mead has been arrested and will be
! tried for assault with intent to kill.
1 The British steamer Cronstadt, which has
recently been engaged in running the south
ern blockade, was brought into Boston on the
Both ult. She was captured by the Rhode
Island while on the passage from Whining
ton, n. c., to Nassau, N. p, and will prove
very valuable prize to her captorS. Her
cargo consists OF six hundred bales of cotton,
four hundred barrels turpentine, and six hun
dred boxes of tobacco. The vessel and cargo
are probably worth about two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. The Cronstadt is an
iron propeller steamer, and halls from Hull,
England.
The United States naval hospital at Chelsea
is undergoing enlargement and repairs, by
which its capacity will be increased to accom-
modate two hundred patients, or more than
double its former number. 1t will be sup
piled with Cochituate water, and be heated by
steam in the winter.
NORFOLK COUNTY.
On the Both, the barn on the estate of the
late Henry Thaxter, bingham, was set on
fire and entirely destroyed, together with the
outbuildings, six tons of hay, and two car
riages.
ESSEX COUNTY.
The valuation of property in Lawrence THU
year is $l0,Sl2, 5lS. The rate of taxation is
| $l1 20on $1,000.
MIDDLEsEx COUNTY.
On the 3lst ult the large barn and slaugh-
ter house of Horace w. Baxter, near the cen
tire of Brighton, were destroyed by fire, prob
ably from carelessness of some men loading
beet for market. Loss about $3000-partially
insured.
A lad named George Norton about twelve
wears of age, was run over by the New
burypOrt train for Boston, on the Maine rail-
road, at East SOmerville, on the 29th ulL., and
instantly killed.
DUKES COUNTY.
In EdgartOwn, with Il population of 1000,
there are eighty pianos.
The governor and his party, after a pleas
ant visit to Martha's Vineyard, started on the
18th for Nantucket, in the revenue cutter
| Agassiz.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
Martin Crohan of Heath, on the Goth, was
| bound over in the sum of one thousand dol
| lars, upon charge of assault with intent to
| commit rape upon Dinah Underwood of Heath.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
The Housatonic railroad has declared div.
idend OF four dollars per share, free of gov
| eminent tax.
Charles H. Balch, recent graduate of Har-
ward college, was drowned at Salisbury beach,
while bathing, on the 2Sth. He was a son of
VIM. Balch, Esq, Of Newburyport
A girl by the name of Fessenden, residing
| in East Madison, attempted to commit suicide
| few days since by cutting her throat.
Over one thousand bushels of blueberries
have been gathered on Granite Mountain on
the borders of Sebec Lake, the present sea-
SON..
CONNECTICUT.
A girl in Norwich, who was cylinder stuffy,'
was told by her father that if she went to Prov
idence with lady acquaintance of hers, new
| er to enter tlfe house. She went, and did as
directed on her return, and soon after mar
| ried a man to whom she was perfectly indif-
ferent, "just out of spite" Her father hear
| ing what had happened and coming to his
senses, hunted her up and found her in des-
! titute situation. She is said to be perfectly
| satisfied with this ''bit of zeal life
| The city expenses of Bridgeport last year
| were SlS,529. The number Of fires and the
number of arrests for crime have both been
| remarkably small.
The suit OF Hitchcock VS., Beach, which has
been hanging on the Litchfield county supe-
rior court docket for the past two years, was
settled last week by the payment of $500
cash to the plaintiff and balance of $1,000 on
| mortgage.
The Rockville branch railroad has proved
more successful than anticipated. Some
two hundred passengers are daily carried over
the road.
| A two pound black fish caught a bull head
| in his mouth, in the Connecticut river near
| Hartford, and the bull head used his prongs
to so good advantage that the black-fish could
| neither eat him nor get away from him; and
after day or two the latter was found dead,
with the bul-head sticking across his mouth
not only alive, but full of energy and ready
| for another adventure.
Three men from New Haven assaulted in
his own house John Edgar of Orange and his
wife. knocking both of them down with "a
Ratchet, and robbing the house of few arti-
Giles. The police were investigating the affair
the next day, and entered the house of one of
the men, who at the same time vacated by the
back door, plunging into Causeway creek.
| The officer followed and captured him,
swimming into the middle of the stream to it,
where another officer Joined him, making il
remarkably moist trio.
In case on trial in the superior court at
Hartford motion to erase from the docket
was made because no revenue stamp was af-
| fixed to the Justices certificate on the copy,
but the bubble didn't work
The funeral of commander G. w. Rodgers,
| of the iron clad Kaatskll, killed during the
| bombardment of fort Sumter, took place at
| New London on the 2Sth Among the distin-
| guished persons present were Gen. McClel-
Ian, Gov. Buckingham, Capt. j. C Worden,
| U. s. N, Commodore Ringold, U. S. senator
| Foster, and large number of army officers,
masonic organizations, and battalion of reg
| uars from fort Trumbull. The coffin was
borne to the chancel by eight sailors from the
frigate Sabine.
| RHODE ISLAND.
a man in getting into the Providence and
Central Falls stage few days since, put his
foot through lady's hoop skirt in trying to
extricate himself he put the released foot
through the hoops of another lady. He then
gave up in despair, calling out, "Hello, drv-
er, hold on hold on l thought was get
ting into stage; but l find I'm in coopers
shop" Here the laugh came in again, on the
other side
John Locke of Warren, committed suicide
on the 29th ult., by taking n half teasoonfuI