Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1863-04-16
General News SUMMARY



While the train on the Gloucester branch
railroad was rounding curve near Manches-
ter, Tuesday evening, a deaf and dumb man,
named John lillian, who was walking on the
track, was run over, losing a leg and an arm,
and sustaining internal injuries.
BRISTOL COUNTY.
The Congregational churches in the vicini-
ty of New Bedford are holding an ecclesiasti-
cal council, to see why letters of disiniSsion
from the Trinitarian church in that city should
not be granted to John Hastings and his wife.
They stopped going to church after fast day
last year, when the pastor preached a pro-
slavery sermon ''thanking God it had not yet
become a military necessity to emancipate
the slaves" &c. The church refused them
letters.
Sylvanus Sanford of Fall River, while tax
ing walk on Bedford street, Monday, was
seized with sudden illness, fell to the pave
ment and instantly expired.
BARNsTABLE COUNTY.
The Barnstable Patriot of the l4th says that
Henry H. Crocker of New York-late of the
firm of Croker & Sturgis of Boston, which
failed in 1857, at the time owing the Barnsta-
BILE Savings Institution the sum of $900-ast
week sent the treasurer of that institution
$ll00, being the full amount of the debt with
interest.
The vote in seven towns in Barnstable
county upon the repeal of the two years
amendment stood as follows Yeas l03, nays
10.
HAMPDEN COUNTY.
The little daughter of John Flanagan of
Chicopee was burned to death Sunday even
ing her clothes taking fire during the absence
of her parents at church. She was nine years
old.
Miss Anna Dickinson, who has added great
| ly to her fame in the Connecticut valley,
speaks tonight for the ladies soldiers aid So
| ciety in Springfield.
BERKSHIRE COUNTY.
John w. Rowland of Pittstield, the default
ing quartermaster, has been arrested, and is
now in the old capitol prison at Washington.
| Col. Baker, provost marshal of the war de-
partment, traced him from Pittsfield to Hya-
cinth, Lower Canada. After innumerable
ruses, he was brought over to the United
States, where he could be arrested-he sup
posing all the while that he was on his way to
Halifax to take the steamer to Europe. The
whole of the money ($l6,500) has been re-
covered.
VERMONT.
Two young men, George Eager and Fred
erick Johnson of Middlebury, were drowned
last Saturday evening at New Haven, in the
| New Haven river.
CoNNECTI CUT.
The ,Gilliat house," $50 called in Ash
ford, was destroyed by fire Monday night. 1t
was formerly owned by Alexander Duncan,
Esq, of Providence, and was the finest house
in town.
The Hartford Courant says 1.-THE house
in Village street, wherein the 'Wits O. Hart
ford" were wont to gather in the days of John
Trumbull, the author of McFingall, where
Joel Barlow, General Humphreys, Jeremiah
| Wadsworth, and men of that stamp, lived in
Hartford, is being demolished to make room
for handsome residence for Mr.. Seth j.
Marsh, the city surveyor. Judge Trumbull
moved from that house when he left Hartford
to die in what was then considered the ex-
IRENE western wild of Detroit"
One of the members ofthe 2lst Connecticut
regiment, who enlisted from Windham coun-
ty, and had served as chief clerk at the head
quarters of the third brigade, has been arrest
ed for robbing the mail. He had hundreds of
stolen dollars in greenbacks, in his pockets
that had been taken frem purloined letters
Rowland was on a spree at the time he was
arrested.
RHODE ISLAND.
While a worthy husbandman in Cruston
was celebrating the Sumter anniversary last
Saturday, and burning little powder on his
own account among the lodges that fortify his
hillside, premature blast lifted the patriotic
cannonier about 80 feet above his base of OPP
erations. and dropped him so careless among
the rocks that for time it was questionable
! whether he had not given up the field without