Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-10-14
General News Summary.


| DOS4ON AND VICINITY.
David S. Saunders, the convict in the house
OF correction, who assaulted officer Thomas
4. Parker on the 2Sth of August last with in
tent TO kill, has been sentenced to fifteen wears
| hard labor in the state prison after the expira-
ton Of his present sentence in the house of
| correction.
The British steamer Caledonia, which went
ashore on Cape Cod nearly year ago, and
which was subsequently abandoned and sold
as she lay on the beach to Messrs +. Nicker-
son & Co. of Boston for $4,000, was ioated
of OH the morning OF the 18th and lowed to
Boston. The owners will realize handsome
sum out of the operation.
Mrs. Gen. John c. Fremont is still stopping
at her residence at Nahant, and the gallant
general himself is or was there few DAYS
since. They express themselves delighted
with their newly purchased residence on that
pleasant peninsula.
young man named John A. Hammond.
formerly caulker in the Charlestown navy
yard, and recently employed at the yard at
Portsmouth, n. H., committed suicide on the
10th inst, by cutting his throat. He had
been several days sick with a fever, but appar-
entity sane, and no cause is therefore assigned
for the sad act.
MIDDLEsEX COUNTY.
The foundation Tor brick building. to be
used as prison at the navy yard, Charleston,
for offenders sentenced by naval court mar
tals, has just been laid. The building will he
about 60 by 30 feet.
Mr.. o. r. Clark of Winchester is the re.
publican candidate for senator in the fifth
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ESSEX COUNTY.
The death OF Benjamin F. Newhall, one of
the most prominent citizens of Essex county,
pPn rad nj
18th inst.
A barn at Sangus, belonging to John r.
Taine, was destroyed by fire on the 18th inst
Twelve tons of hay were also destroyed.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
Henry Holden, Jr., of Taunton, committed
to the house Of correction upon a sentence of
the superior court, in December last, for an
assault and battery, has been pardoned by the
governor. Holden is in the last stages of
consumption.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
Some burglars attempted to enter the resi-
dence OF Nicholas Hill at Chicopee Falls on
the night of the 9Th inst, but became alarmed
at something and fled, leaving all their imple-
ments behind. Two or three suspicious look
ing persons have been seen lately around the
| premises.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
-Four bushels of double apples-two on
stem-gfew this season on a tree in Lenox.
FRANKLIN COUNTY.
The postofice formerly called Zoar. in
Charlemont, has been discontinued by the
postofice department, the postmaster hav-
ing neglected to make his quarterly return
for five quarters All mail matter directed
to Zoar postoffice is now opened and distrlb-
uted at the Charlemont postoffice.
Dea. Charles J. j. Ingersoll, who died at
Greenfield on the 18th inst, was connected
with the press for long time, entering at the
age Of sixteen as an apprentice in the Green
field Gazette office, and continuing to be con-
nected with that business up to the time of his
death. He was editor of four different papers
during his life.
The Springfield Republican says that the
man who is nominated at the Franklin county
senatorial convention on The I4th, at Green
helu' VIII have to be sound and strong on the
tunnel as that is the principal thing looked
H. W. Houghton of Greenfield, has CON-